Muqaddar Ka Sikandar

Awards

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Trivia

Album

• The opening credits of the film credited just the lyricist, music director and producer, director. The end credits credited the film's writers.
• This film was remade in Telugu as "Prema Tarangalu" (1980) and in Tamil as "Amara Kaaviyam" (1981). The Hindi film "Jeet" (1996) may have been inspired by this film.[1]
• Asrani was supposed to play the role of the character Pyarelal in the film. However, he was shooting at another location at the time and could not report for this film's shooting due to heavy rains. When the film's shooting was called off for two days, Prakash Mehra panicked since he was running out of dates he had with the film's stars - Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna and Rakhee Gulzar. To prevent further delay, Mehra cast his old friend and assistant Ram Sethi in the role of Pyarelal. Although Sethi had acted in films before, this was his biggest role thus far, and he stepped up to the task admirably. Pleased with his work, Mehra even expanded his role when the film was being shot. It proved to be a breakthrough film for Ram Sethi as an actor. In fact, he came to be known as Pyarelal in the film industry, and his characters in many films were named Pyarelal.[2]

Song

• O Saathi Re Tere Bina Bhi Kya Jeena (Female) - Music director J.V. Raghuvulu used the tune of this song for the Telugu film song "O Jabili" ("Rangoon Rowdy", 1979) sung by S.P. Balasubramaniam and P. Susheela.[3]
• Pyar Zindagi Hai - This song was composed by Babla, the younger brother of Kalyanji and Anandji.[4]
• Pyar Zindagi Hai - The keyboard solo in the opening of this song was sampled from the instrumental track "Jaws" (1976) by the Argentine-American musician Lalo Schifrin. Schifrin's instrumental piece was inspired by John Williams' theme for the Hollywood film "Jaws" (1975).[5][6]
• O Saathi Re Tere Bina Bhi Kya Jeena (Male) - Kadar Khan had written a long speech for Amitabh Bachchan to deliver before this song. Amitabh was not sure if he would be able to remember the entire speech and expressed his reservations to the writer. Kadar Khan then delivered the speech in front of Bachchan to convince him. By the time he finished, Bachchan was moved to tears and ready to deliver the speech.[7]
• O Saathi Re Tere Bina Bhi Kya Jeena (Male) - The French musician Paul Mauriat recorded an instrumental cover of this song for his album "Cleopatre" (1980).

1. ^ Jeet (1996)
2. ^ Muqaddar Ka Sikandar changed my fortunes
3. ^ O Jabili (Rangoon Rowdy, 1979)
4. ^ Babla interview
5. ^ Jaws - Lalo Schifrin
6. ^ Jaws - John Williams
7. ^ Kader Khan: The writer-actor who lived with a packed auditorium in his head