How Bollywood's bad men have aged

The Bollywood villain dates back to before India's independence. Brut looks at how the antagonist has evolved with the times...

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00:00Oli Re Oli, now it's your turn Oli

00:31Who are you? What is your status?

00:35How dare you!

00:37In the 1950s, black market, you know, your black marketing,

00:42like your footpath, in such films, black market,

00:46robbery, all this was shown.

00:48More people will die, there some of our company's people will become less.

01:00Shoot me, Sardar!

01:11And I am waiting for you here.

01:19Your principles, your ideals.

01:22In the 1970s, the anti-hero Amitabh Bachchan, the angry young man,

01:25or my own people.

01:27Because it's been 20 years since Swadhindra.

01:30After that, what happened? After 20 years of freedom, what happened in the country?

01:32Nothing is happening.

01:34Everywhere is a mess.

01:36Without doing the wrong thing, there can be no right thing.

01:38My name is Prem. Prem Chopra.

01:57Mogambo, Khushoor.

02:24I love you.

02:27I love you.

02:36Son, you won't be able to do it.

02:39What used to happen earlier, the hero is very good and the villain is very bad.

02:42There was a maturity in the movies after the 2000s.

02:45That villain and hero are given equal opportunities.

02:48And this also runs close to the great characters.

02:51That neither is anyone very good, nor is anyone very bad.

02:53Wow!