Actor Amitabh Bachchan Calls Sunil Dutt The Original 'Angry Young Man'

Actor Amitabh Bachchan, who earned the tag of Angry Young Man for the kind of roles he took up in 70s, believes that the first actor to hold the title is not him but Sunil Dutt, who portrayed an angry Birju in the 1957 film Mother India.

"Namak Haraam bore seeds of the anger that was next seen in Zanjeer, and the subsequent titling of the epithet Angry Young Man by the media," Bachchan wrote on his official Facebook page.

He added, "But I have always believed that the first powerful depiction or in a sense the birth of the so called Angry Young Man, was designed by Mehboob Saheb (Mehboob Khan) in Mother India, where the character Birju, played so brilliantly by Sunil Dutt, was depicted."