Abhimaan

A famous singer persuades the woman he marries to perform as well. She is soon better loved than he is; his career slips while hers rises, and what is between them turns from love into a reckoning. The title means pride, and Hrishikesh Mukherjee tells it without producing a villain, simply through a man who cannot bear his own diminishment. Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan married in the year the film came out, and that closeness is visible on screen. The story is said to have taken its cue from the lives of the singer Kishore Kumar and his first wife, Ruma Ghosh. S. D. Burman’s songs are what the film is best remembered for, and Jaya Bachchan won the Filmfare award for best actress in the part.