Megastar Amitabh Bachchan who is known for his humbleness and modesty has once again shown his heart to confer his title of "Angry Young Man" to the late Sunil Dutt . He shared that to him the First Angry Young Man was played by Sunil Dutt who portrayed 'Birju' in the landmark movie " Mother India ". Sunil Dutt played the character of Birju, son of woman who single-handedly raises her children facing many hardships which is seen by younger son Birju and takes a form of a rebel in him.

' Namak Haram ' bore the seeds of the anger that was next seen in ' Zanjeer ', and the subsequent titling of the epithet 'Angry Young Man' by the media, wrote Big B on his Facebook page. But the first impactful depiction or the birth of the so called 'Angry Young Man' was designed by Mehboob Khan in ' Mother India ', where the character Birju played so brilliantly by Sunil Dutt , was depicted, he wrote further.