Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography (1st Inning)

01. SAAT HINDUSTANI
Genre : Social - Patriotic
Release Date : 07 November 1969
Role Type : Main Lead
Character : Anwar Ali (a Shayar from Bihar)
Opposite Cast : -

Co-Actors : Utpal Dutt, Anwar Ali, Jalal Agha, Irshad Ali, Madhu, Shehnaaz

Supporting Cast : A.K. Hangal, Dina Pathak etc.

Lyrics : Kaifi Azmi
Music : J.P. Kaushik
Writer-Producer-Director : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Flop
Running Score : -
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 0 /10

Trivia : Amitabh Bachchan won the National Film Award for Best New Face of the year.

02. ANAND
Genre : Social Drama
Release Date : 22 January 1971
Role Type : Central Supporting Role
Character : Dr. Bhaskar Banerjee aka Babu Moshay (a Doctor)
Opposite Cast : Sumitra Sanyal
Star in Main Lead : Rajesh Khanna

Supporting Cast : Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo, Johny Walker, Lalita Pawar, Durga Khote, Dara Singh, Asit Sen etc.

Written By : (Story) Hrishikesh Mukherjee

(Screenplay) D.N. Mukherjee, Gulzar, Bimal Dutta and Hrishikesh Mukherjee

(Dialogue) Gulzar

Lyrics : Yogesh and Gulzar
Music : Salil Choudhury
Producers : N.C. Sippy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee for 'Rupam Chitra'
Director : Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8.5 / 10

Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Trivia : It was inspired by Akira Kurusowa's  Japanese film 'Ikiru' (1952).

# Amitabh Bachchan received his first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Remakes : Jaya-Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Mili' (1975) (Hindi- Female Version) / Vida Parayam Munpe (1981) (Malayalam) starring Prem Nazir.

03. PYAR KI KAHANI
Genre : Romantic- Family
Release Date : 14 May 1971
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Ram Chand (a Peon)
Opposite Cast : Tanuja
Central Supporting Cast : Anil Dhawan, Farida Jalal
Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, MadhuChanda, Bipin Gupta, Agha etc.
Written By : (Story) Based on Tamil Hit ' Kai Kodutha Deivam'
(Dialogue) Vishwamitter Adil
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Sundarlal Nahata and P. Doondy
Director : Ravikant Nagaich
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Semi Hit
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 /10

04. PARWANA
Genre : Romantic-Thriller
Release Date : 09 July 1971
Role Type : Central Main Lead (in a grey shade Title Role)
Character : Kumar Sen (an Artist)
Opposite Cast : Yogita Bali
Central Supporting Star Cast : Navin Nischol
Star in a Special Role : Shatrughan Sinha

Supporting Cast : Om Prakash, Laxmi Chhaya, Lalita Pawar, Abhi Bhattacharya, Asit Sen, Helen, Vikram Gokhale etc

Written By : (Story) Madhusudan
(Screenplay-Dialogue) Agha Jani Kashmiri
Lyrics : Kaifi Azmi
Music : Madan Mohan
Producer : R.L. Suri and Jay Pawar
Director : Jyoti Swaroop
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Losing
Running Score : Bronze Jubilee (50+ Days)
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10

05. RESHMA AUR SHERA
Genre : Romantic-Family-Social-Revenge Drama
Release Date : 23 July 1971
Role Type : Short Special Role
Character : Chhotu (Shera's younger brother, a dumb)
Opposite Cast : -
Stars in Main Lead : Sunil Dutt (as Shera), Waheeda Rehman (as Reshma)
Co-Stars in a Supporting Role : Vinod Khanna, Raakhee

Supporting Cast : K.N. Singh, Jayant, Ranjeet, Amrish Puri, Naval Kumar, Dulari, Padma Khanna, Sudhir etc with Master Sanjay Dutt.

Written By : Ali Raza
Lyrics : Rajendra Krishan, Udhav Kumar, Neeraj and Balkavi Bairagi
Music : Jaidev
Producer-Director : Sunil Dutt for 'Ajanta Arts'
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Disaster
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 1 / 10
Running Score : -

Trivia : 'Reshma Aur Shera' was selected as Indian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film- Academy Award 1971 and nominated for the Golden Bear at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.

# All newcomer actors from its star-cast, like Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Raakhee, Ranjeet, Amrish Puri and Sanjay Dutt became top stars in later years.

06. SANJOG
Genre : Social-Family
Release Date : 25 February 1972
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Mohan (a Clerk in a local municipality)
Opposite Cast : Mala Sinha and Aruna Irani

Supporting Cast : Nazir Hussain, Madan Puri, Johny Walker, Sulochana, Ramesh Deo, Keshto Mukherjee etc.

Written By : (Story) Joseph Anandan
(Dialogue) Pt. Mukhram Sharma
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer-Director : S.S. Balan for 'Gemini Productions'
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Flop
Running Score : Bronze Jubilee (50+ Days)
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10

Trivia : It was Bachchan's first Sunday movie telecast on 'Doordarshan' in 1983, there was a curfew like situation on roads during its broadcast.

07. BOMBAY TO GOA
Genre : Comedy-Thriller
Release Date : 03 March 1972
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Ravi Kumar  (a Lover)
Opposite Cast : Aruna Irani

Supporting Cast : Shatrughan Sinha, Mahmood, Kishor Kumar, Anwar Ali, Nazir Hussain, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Lalita Pawar , Agha etc.

Written By : (Story) Usalai Somanathan
(Dialogue) Rajinder Krishan
Lyrics : Rajinder Krishan
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Presenter : Mahmood
Producer : N.C. Sippy
Director : S. Ramanathan
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Hit
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 9 /10

08. EK NAZAR
Genre : Social - Romantic
Release Date : 28 July 1972
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Manmohan Akash Tyagi  (a Shayar)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Bhaduri (first time)

Supporting Cast : Raza Murad (Debut), Nadira, Manmohan Krishna, Tarun Bose, Asit Sen etc.

Lyrics : Majrooh Sultanpuri
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Anil Khanna and A.C. Diwan
Writer-Director : B.R. Ishara
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Average
Running Score : Bronze Jubilee (50+ Days)
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 3 /10

09. BANSI BIRJU
Genre : Realistic-Social-Romantic
Release Date : 01 September 1972
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Birju  (a Villager)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Bhaduri

Supporting Cast : Anwar Ali, Ramesh Deo, K.N. Singh, Nigar Sultana, Rajan Haksar, Yunus Parvez etc.

Written By : (Story - Dialogue) Aziz Quaisi
Lyrics : Yogesh
Music : Vijay Raghav Rao
Producer-Director : Prakash Verma
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Flop
Running Score : -
Critic Rating : 2 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 0 /10

10. RAASTE KA PATTHAR
Genre : Social Drama
Release Date : 01 December 1972
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)

Character : Jai Shankar Rai  (General Executive in an Advertising Agency)

Opposite Cast : Neeta Khayani (Debut)

Central Supporting Star Cast : Shatrughan Sinha, Laxmi Chhaya, Prem Chopra

Supporting Cast : Asit Sen, Satyen Kappoo, Chand Usmani, Viju Khote etc

Written By : (Screenplay) Jayant Dharmadhikari
(Dialogue) Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Lekhraj Khosla and Bolu Khosla
Director : Mukul Dutt
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Flop
Running Score : -
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 6 /10

Trivia : It was inspired by 1960s Hollywood Hit 'The Apartment'. In 2007, Director Anurag Basu adopted this concept for his movie 'Life In a... METRO' for the part of Sharman Joshi, Kangna Ranaut and K.K. Menon's love triangle.

11. BANDHE HAATH
Genre : Social-Thriller
Release Date : 26 January 1973
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Double Role as Look-alike)
Character : Shyamu (a Thief) / Deepak (a Writer and Poet)
Opposite Cast : Mumtaz and Kumud Chhugani

Supporting Cast : Ajit, Madan Puri, Ranjeet, Anjana, Sardar Akhtar, Asit Sen Pinchoo Kapoor etc.

Dialogue :  Qamar Jalalabadi
Lyrics : Majrooh Sultanpuri
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Writer-Producer : O.P. Ralhan
Director : O.P. Goyle
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Losing
Running Score : Bronze Jubilee (50+ Days)
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10

Trivia : It was a remake of Ashok Kumar-Mumtaj Shanti starrer 1943 ATBB film 'Kismat' and A.B.'s first Double Role movie.

12. ZANJEER
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 11 May 1973
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay Khanna (Police Inspector)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Bhaduri

Supporting Cast : Pran (as Sher Khan), Ajit, Om Prakash, Iftekhar, Satyen Kappoo, Bindu (as Mona Darling), Keshto Mukherjee M. Rajan, Ram Sethi etc.

Written By :  Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Gulshan Bawra
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer-Director : Prakash Mehra
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster
ROI Label : Phenomenon Hit
Running Score : Allindia Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / 75+ Weeks in few centers
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 /10

Records : The film became 2nd Highest Basic Grosser of that time in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List, after 'Mughal-E-Azam' and 'Bobby'.
# 2nd Highest Grossing and Top ROI Hit Movie of the year 1973 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# One of the Greatest Commercial Indian Hit films in Soviet Union and Gulf countries.

Trivia : It was Prakash Mehra's first venture as a Producer.

# After its phenomenon success the movie started the trend of action films in Bollywood and pioneered Amitabh Bachchan's new image as a 'Angry Young Man'.

# Its song 'Yaari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi...' sung by Manna Dey, topped the 1973 Annual list of Ameen Sayani's count-down show Binaca Geet Mala on 'Radio Ceylon'.

Official Remakes : Zanjeer (2013) (Hindi) starring Ram Charan, Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt (as Sher Khan), Prakash Raj, Mahi Gill / Ram Charan, Priyanka Chopra, Prakash Raj, Sri Hari (as Sher Khan) starrer 'Toofan' (2013) (Telugu)

13. GEHRI CHAAL
Genre : Suspense-Thriller
Release Date : 01 June 1973
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Ratan (a Bank Officer)
Opposite Cast : -
Co-Stars : Jeetendra, Hema Malini
Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, Bindu, P. Jairaj etc.
Dialogue-Lyrics : Rajinder Krishan
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Writer-Producer-Director : C.V. Sridhar for 'Chitralaya Films'
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Below Average / Plus
Running Score : -
Critic Rating : 2.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 4 /10
Trivia : It was the only film where Amitabh Bachchan shared the screen-space with Jeetendra.

14. ABHIMAAN
Genre : Musical-Family Drama
Release Date : 27 July 1973
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Subir Kumar (a Star Singer)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Bachchan
Supporting Cast : Asrani, Bindu, Durga Khote, A.K. Hangal, David, Master Raju etc.
Written By : (Screenplay) Nabendu Ghosh
(Dialogue) Rajendra Singh Bedi
Lyrics : Majrooh Sultanpuri
Music : Sachin Dev Burman
Producer : Pawan Kumar and Sushila Kamat for 'Amiya Chitra'
Writer-Director : Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 /10

Running Score : Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in few centres

Trivia : This film was very popular in Sri Lanka more than in India and was screened continuously for 590 days in the same cinema, 'Empire'- Colombo.

15. SAUDAGAR
Genre : Realistic Social-Family Drama
Release Date : 26 October 1973
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Moti (a Gud Trader)
Opposite Cast : Nutan and Padma Khanna
Supporting Cast : Trilok Kapoor, Murad, Leela Mishra, C.S. Dubey etc.
Written By : (Story) Based on Bengali Short Story 'RAS', written by Narendranath Mitra
(Screenplay) Sudhendu Roy
(Dialogue) P.L. Santoshi
Lyrics-Music : Ravindra Jain
Producer : Tarachand Barjatya for 'Rajshri Productions'
Director : Sudhendu Roy
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Average
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 6 /10
Running Score : -

Trivia : It was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 46th Academy Awards, but didn't receive a nomination.

16. NAMAK HARAAM
Genre : Social Drama
Release Date : 23 November 1973
Role Type : Central Supporting Role
Character : Vicky aka Vikram Maharaj (an Arrogant son of an industrialist)
Opposite Cast : Simi Garewal
Stars in Main Lead : Rajesh Khanna (as Somu aka Chandar- an Union Leader) and Rekha

Supporting Cast : Om Shivpuri, A.K. Hangal, Asrani, Raza Murad, Durga Khote, Manmohan, Jayshree T. etc.

Written By : (Story) Hrishikesh Mukherjee
(Screenplay) D.N. Mukherjee and Gulzar
(Dialogue) Gulzar
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producers : Jayendra Pandya, Raja Ram and Satish Wagle
Director : Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 / 10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Trivia : It was inspired by Hollywood classic 'Becket' (1964).

# Amitabh Bachchan received his 2nd Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.

# However, Rajesh Khanna also made his role memorable with an instinctive performance, Amitabh got more compliment from viewers and critics than him. Rajesh was completely overshadowed by Angry young man. In an interview he also said that, 'Someone has come to replace my stardom.'

Remakes : Sivaji Ganeshan and Gemini Ganeshan starrer 'Unakkaga Naan' (1976) (Tamil) / Anguram (1982) (Malayalam) starring Prem Nazir.

17. KASAUTI
Genre : Women's Oriented Social Drama
Release Date : 09 August 1974
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Amitabh Sharma (an Educated Taxi Driver)
Opposite Cast : Hema Malini (first time)

Supporting Cast : Pran, Bharat Bhushan, Abhi Bhattacharya, Sonia Sahni, Ramesh Deo, Satyen Kappoo, Sulochana, Bipin Gupta, Murad, Sapru, Ram Sethi etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Suhrid Kar
(Dialogue) Satish Bhatnagar
Lyrics : Varma Mallik, Indivar, Anand Bakshi
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer-Director : Arabind Sen
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 6 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Allindia Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

18. BENAAM
Genre : Suspense-Thriller
Release Date : 18 October 1974
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Amit Srivastava (a General Manager in a Private firm)
Opposite Cast : Moushumi Chatterjee

Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, Satyen Kappoo, Iftekhar, Madan Puri, Helen, Dhumal, Sapru, Shubha Khote, Jagdish Raj, Viju Khote, Sharat Saxena, Tun Tun, Narinder Chanchal, Master Raju etc.

Written By : (Screenplay) Narinder Bedi and Jayant Dharmadhikari
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Majrooh Sultanpuri
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Ranjit Virk
Writer-Director : Narinder Bedi
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 / 10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ weeks)
Remake : Thirugu Baana (1983) (Kannada)

19. ROTI KAPADA AUR MAKAAN
Genre : Social Drama
Release Date : 18 October 1974
Role Type : Short Special Role
Character : Vijay (an Army Officer)
Opposite Cast : -
Stars in Main Lead : Manoj Kumar, Zeenat Aman
Stars in a Supporting Role : Shashi Kapoor, Moushumi Chatterjee

Supporting Cast : Dheeraj Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Prem Nath, Madan Puri, Aruna Irani, Sulochana, Krishan Dhawan, Manmohan, Raza Murad, Agha, Asit Sen, C.S. Dubey, Meena T. etc.

Lyrics : Santosh Anand and Varma Malik
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Writer-Producer-Director : Manoj Kumar for 'VIP Films'
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster
ROI Label : Mega Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 / 10

Running Score : Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks)  / Allindia Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks)

Records : Top Basic Grosser for few months in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List, whose Box-Office Collections were equal to 'Bobby' and 'Mughal-E-Azam'.

# Highest Grossing and Biggest ROI Hit Movie of 1974.

# Biggest Opening and first 4 weeks Collections of the year.

# In Delhi-Up, CP-CI and Punjab territory it broke all previous records and did bumper business.

# One of the Most Expensive Films of that time.

Trivia : The trend of Multi-Starrer films became synonym of success in 70s and 80s, when it registered a nationwide grand success.

 # After, Sharmila Tagore's disavowal, Manoj Kumar wanted to launch Smita Patil in main lead, who was a famous 'Doordarshan' news-reader that time, but she refused the offer, because she was not interested to be an actress in those days, Then he signed Zeenat Aman.

# Veeru Devgan started his career as an Action-director with this film.

# Its song 'Mehangayi maar gayi..' sung by Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, Narendra Chanchal and Jani Babu Qawwal, topped the 1973 Annual list of Ameen Sayani's count-down show Binaca Geet Mala on 'Radio Ceylon'.

Remake : Sobhan Babu, Rajnikanth, Vijayashanti starrer 'Jeevana Porata' (1986) (Telugu)

20. MAJBOOR
Genre : Suspense-Thriller
Release Date : 06 December 1974
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Ravi Khanna (a Brain Tumor Patient)
Opposite Cast : Parveen Babi (first time)

Supporting Cast : Pran, Farida Jalal, Satyen Kappoo, Iftekhar, Sulochna, Rehman, Sapru, Sajjan, Murad, Jagdish Raj, Mac Mohan, Master Alankar etc.

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Premji
Director : Ravi Tandon
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Allindia Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

Remakes : Director K. Raghavendra Rao's 'Raja' (1976) (Telugu) / Sivaji Ganeshan, Rajnikanth starrer 'Naan Vazhavaippen' (1979) (Tamil) / Naseeb No Khel (1982) (Gujrati) / Ee Kaikalil (1986) (Malayalam).

21. DEEWAAR
Genre : Action-Thriller-Family Drama
Release Date : 24 January 1975
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay Verma (a Dockyard Coolie, who becomes a Smuggler)
Opposite Cast : Parveen Babi
Central Supporting Star Cast : Shashi Kapoor, Neetu Singh

Supporting Cast : Nirupa Roy, Madan Puri, Iftekhar, Satyen Kappoo, Manmohan Krishna, Yunus Parvez, A.K. Hangal, Sapru, Kamal Kapoor, Jagdish Raj, Sudhir, Aruna Irani, Master Alankar, Master Raju etc.

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Sahir Ludhianvi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Gulshan Rai for 'Trimurti Films'
Director : Yash Chopra
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster
ROI Label : Phenomenon Hit
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10

Running Score : Allindia Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks) in Metro Cities.
Records : It broke all the previous box-office records and became Top Highest Basic Grosser for few months  in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List, before release of  'Sholay'.
# 2nd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1975 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.
# Year's 2nd Biggest Opening Collections.

Trivia : Amitabh Bachchan had become extremely popular after the success of 'Zanjeer' (1973) and 'Majboor' (1974), hence there was immense craze for 'Deewaar'. The fans had lined up from Marine Drive till 'Minerva' (Mumbai) at the premiere of the film. The sheer frenzy surrounding the movie completely caught everyone off guard as no one had ever foreseen this kind of mob hysteria.

 # It was a blend of Mehboob Khan's 'Mother India' (1957) and Dilip Kumar starrer 'Gunga Jumna' (1957) and was loosely inspired by real life story of gangster Haji Mastan.

 # After the success of this film, the value of film writers sky-rocketed thanks to Salim-Javed and they soon were being paid as highly as some actors at the time.

 # 'Deewaar' received the Filmfare Best Movie Award of 1975 in addition to six other 'Filmfare Awards'.

Remakes : N.T. Ramarao starrer 'Magaadu' (1976) (Telugu) / Rajnikanth starrer 'Thee' (1981) (Tamil) / Mammooty starrer 'Nathi Muthal Nathi Vare' (1983) (Malayalam).

22. ZAMEER
Genre : Action-Romantic Drama
Release Date : 21 March 1975
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Baadal (a Fraudulent & a Lover)
Opposite Cast : Saira Banu
Central Supporting Star Cast : Shammi Kapoor (First film in old avatar), Indrani Mukherjee
Star in a Special Role : Vinod Khanna
Supporting Cast : Madan Puri, Ramesh Deo, Jagdish Raj, Master Alankar etc.
Written By : (Story) C.J. Pavri
(Screenplay) B.R. Films Story Department
(Dialogue) Akhtar-Ul-Iman
Lyrics : Sahir Ludhianvi
Music : Sapan Chakraborty
Producer : B.R. Chopra for 'BR Films'
Director : Ravi Chopra (Debut)
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 2.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Trivia : Despite poor reviews, it was 3rd Super Success of Amitabh Bachchan in a same year.

# The movie was inspired by Dev Anand, Suchitra Sen starrer Hit movie 'Bambai Ka Baboo' (1960).

23. CHUPKE CHUPKE
Genre : Comedy Drama
Release Date : 11 April 1975
Role Type : Central Supporting Role
Character : Sukumar Sinha (a Hindi Professor)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Bachchan
Stars in Main Lead : Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore

Supporting Cast : Om Prakash, Usha Kiran, David, Asrani, Lily Chakravarty, Keshto Mukherjee, Master Bittoo etc.

Written By : (Story) Upendra Nath Ganguly
(Screenplay) D.N. Mukherjee and Gulzar
(Dialogue) Gulzar
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Sachin Dev Burman
Producers : N.C. Sippy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee for 'Rupam Chitra'
Director : Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 / 10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / 35+ Weeks at few centers.

Trivia : It was a remake of  Uttam Kumar, Madhabi Mukherjee starrer Bengali comedy film 'Chhadmabeshi' (1971).

# According to IMDB,  in 1980 February, during the solar eclipse, 'Chupke Chupke' was broadcasted on India's National channel 'Doordarshan', with the purpose to encourage people to stay inside and not venture out and look at the eclipse with the naked eye. Because, Viewing a solar eclipse with the naked eye causes damage to the eyes.

24. MILI
Genre : Emotional Drama
Release Date : 20 June 1975
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Shekhar Dayal (a Depressed Drunkard)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Bachchan (in Title Role)

Supporting Cast : Ashok Kumar, Usha Kiran, Aruna Irani, Shubha Khote, Suresh Chatwal, Asrani etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Bimal Dutta
(Dialogue) Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza
Lyrics : Yogesh
Music : Sachin Dev Burman
Producer : N.C. Sippy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee for 'Rupam Chitra'
Director : Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Above Average
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose :  6 /10
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

Trivia : Film's basic idea was inspired by one of Hrishi da's greatest movie 'Anand' starring Rajesh Khanna.

# It was last film composed by the great Sachin Dev Burman.
Remake : Jaya Sudha starrer 'Jyothi' (1976) (Telugu)

25. SHOLAY
Genre : Action-Adventure-Comedy-Romance
Release Date : 15 August 1975
Role Type : Second Main Lead
Character : Jai aka Jaidev (a Small-time Crook)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Bachchan (as Radha- a widow)

Co-Stars : Dharmendra (as Veeru), Hema Malini (as Basanti), Sanjeev Kumar (as Thakur Baldev Singh), Amjad Khan (as Gabbar Singh)

Supporting Cast : Satyen Kappoo (as Ramlal), Jagdeep (as Soorma Bhopali), Asrani (as Jailor), A.K. Hangal (as Imaam Saab), Leela Mishra (as Mausi), Viju Khote (as Kaalia), Mac Mohan (as Sambha), Keshto Mukherjee, Iftekhar, Om Shipuri, P. Jairaj, Geeta Siddharth, Sachin, Master Alankar etc with Jalal Agha and Helen (in Mehbooba... song)

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : G.P. Sippy for 'Sippy Films'
Director : Ramesh Sippy
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster / Mile-Stone Block Buster
ROI Label : Phenomenon Hit
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose :  10 /10

Running Score : Allindia Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) / Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks) and Titanium Jubilee (150+ Weeks) in some territories / 265+ weeks in Mumbai / More than 25 years continuously in different  theatres.

Records : Top Highest Grossing Movie Of  Throughout History in Bollywood's Life Time Record Breaking Hit-List by inflation adjusted figures till now.

# Top Highest Grossing Movie Of The Decade Of 1970s.

# Top Highest Basic Grosser for 19 Years since August 1975 to August 1994 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# It Currently holds the record as India's 2nd Longest Running Movie. It was shown continuously for 286 weeks ( over 5 years ) in  'Minerva Theatre'- Mumbai and was the 'Longest Running Indian Movie' until 2001.

# First film in the History of Indian Cinema to celebrate a 'Silver jubilee' (25 consecutive weeks) at over 100 theaters and 'Golden jubilees' (50 consecutive weeks) at over 60 theaters across India.

# Ran with 100% BOC until its 'Silver Jubilee week' continuously.

# Bollywood's First Movie with 4 Track Stereo Phonic Sound and 70 mm camera work.

# Bollywood's Most Expensive Film of that time.

# First television broadcast of this epic in 1995, generated TRP of  65 which is 3rd highest ever rating by huge margin of any 'TV programme' till date after the record TRP of Epic series Ramanand Sagar's 'Ramayan' (1987) and B.R. Chopra's  'Mahabharat' (1988).

# It was one of the Greatest Hit Indian Movie in China, Russia, Gulf countries, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.

Trivia : 'Sholay' was declared as Film of the Millennium by BBC India in 1999.

# It was ranked 1st in the British Film Institute's 2002 poll of  'Top 10 Indian Films of Alltime'.

# In 2005, the judges of the 50th annual Filmfare Awards named it the Best Film of 50 Years.

# It ran for five years at 'Minerva theatre'- Mumbai and was only discontinued because of Ramesh Sippy's next magnum opus 'Shaan'.

# It started a new trend of Multi-Starrer-Masala movies in Bollywood.

# In its rerun in 1980s, the distributor price was doubled. Its tickets were priceless, being blacked at outrageous prices. At some theaters, the queue to ticket counters stretched more than a kilometer.

# On 15 August 1996 on 21st anniversary of the film 'Sholay' was screened on 'Doordarshan' for the first time on that day in many parts of the country the streets were almost empty while the film was going on television.

# The film was re-released in 3D format on 3 January 2014.

Remakes : Rajkumar Santoshi's 'China Gate' (1999) / Aamir Khan's 'Mela' (2000) / Amitabh Bachchan (as main villain) starrer 'Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag' (2007)

Unofficial Sequel : Ramgarh Ke Sholay (1991) starring Amzad Khan (as Gabbar Singh) with duplicates of Amitabh Bachchan (Vijay Saxena), Dev Anand (Kishor Bhanushali), Anil Kapoor (Anand Kumar) and Govinda (Navin Rathod).

Parody Remake : Kanti Shah's 'Duplicate Sholay' (2002)

26. FARAAR
Genre : Emotional-Crime-Thriller
Release Date : 21 November 1975
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Raj aka Rajesh (a Painter and a Absconding Prisoner)
Opposite Cast : Sharmila Tagore
Central Supporting Star Cast : Sanjeev Kumar

Supporting Cast : Sulochana, Sapru, Murad, Rajan Haksar, Sajjan, Agha, Bhagwan Dada, Master Raju etc.

Written By : (Story-Dialogue) Gulzar
(Screenplay) Madhusudan Kalekar / Partho Mukherjee
Lyrics : Rajendra Krishan
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer : Alankar Chitra
Director : Shankar Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Average
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10
Running Score : Bronze Jubilee (50+ Days)

Trivia : It was India's first movie with two endings. One Raj gets shot by police and dies and in other one Raj gets shot by police but is taken to hospital before taken to prison.

# It was Inspired by the Hollywood Hit 'Signpost To Murder' (1964).

Remake : Priyadarshan's 'Parayanumvayya Parayathirikkanumvayya' (1985) starring Mammooty.

27. KABHI KABHIE
Genre : Soft Romantic-Family Drama
Release Date : 06 February 1976
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Amit aka Amit Malhotra (a Shayar / Owner of a construction company )
Opposite Cast : Waheeda Rehman and Raakhee (first time)
Co-Stars : Shashi Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Naseem (Debut)
Supporting Cast : Parikshit Sahni, Simi Garewal, Deven Verma, Iftekhar etc.
Written By : (Story) Pamela Chopra
(Screenplay-Dialogue) Sagar Sarhadi
Lyrics : Sahir Ludhianvi
Music : Khayyam
Producer-Director : Yash Chopra for 'Yashraj Films'
Grossing Verdict : Mega Block Buster
ROI Label : Mega Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose :  7.5 /10

Running Score : Allindia Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks) in Metro Cities.

Records : 5th Highest Basic Grosser for a year in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Top Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1976 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# Year's Most Expensive Movie with 2nd Biggest Opening.

Trivia : It led to the reinvention of Amitabh Bachchan as a romantic hero.

# Its song 'Kabhi kabhie mere dil mein khayal aata hai..' sung by Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar, topped the 1976 Annual list of Ameen Sayani's count-down show Binaca Geet Mala on 'Radio Ceylon'.

28. HERA PHERI
Genre : Action-Comedy
Release Date : 24 September 1976
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay (a Con-artist )
Opposite Cast : Saira Banu
Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Vinod Khanna, Sulakshana Pandit

Supporting Cast : Dr. Shree Ram Lagoo, Pinchoo Kapoor, P. Jairaj, Urmila Bhatt, Yunus Parvez, Mac Mohan, Ram Sethi etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Vijay Kaul
(Dialogue) Satish Bhatnagar
Lyrics : Anjaan and Indeevar
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer : Satyendra Pal for 'Chaudhuri Enterprises'
Director : Prakash Mehra
Grossing Verdict : Super Block Buster
ROI Label : Bumper / Smash Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose :  8.5 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)
Record : 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1976.

29. DO ANJAANE
Genre : Family-Thriller
Release Date : 12 November 1976
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Single Role with 2 Characters)
Character : Amit Roy / Naresh Dutta (a middle class Office Emplyoee / a Film Producer )
Opposite Cast : Rekha (first time)

Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, Utpal Dutt, Pradeep Kumar, Urmila Bhatt, Abhi Bhattacharya, Lalita Pawar, Anup Kumar, Jagdeep, Master Lucky, Master Laddoo etc with Mithun Chakraborty (as an Extra-Artist).

Written By : (Story) Nihar Ranjan Gupta
(Screenplay) Nabendu Ghosh
(Dialogue) Shafeeq Ansari
Lyrics : Anjaan and Varma Mallik
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer : Tony for 'Navjeevan Films'
Director : Dulal Guha
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 4.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

30. ADALAT
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 07 January 1977
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Double Role as Father-Son)

Character :  Dharma aka Thakur Dharam Chand (an Honest Villager, who becomes Smuggler) / Raju (Son of Dharma)

Opposite Cast : Waheeda Rehman / Neetu Singh

Supporting Cast : Kader Khan, Anwar Hussain, M. Rajan, Sujeet Kumar, Heena Kausar, Pinchoo Kapoor, Viju Khote, K.N. Singh, Sapru etc.

Dialogue : Kader Khan
Lyrics : Gulshan Bawra
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer : A.K. Nadiadwala
Writer-Director : Narinder Bedi
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Bumper / Smash Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

31. IMMAAN DHARAM
Genre : Philosophical-Action Drama
Release Date : 21 January 1977
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Ahmad Raza (a Moc-Witness)
Opposite Cast : Helen
Co-Stars : Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Rekha, Aparna Sen

Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri, Dr. Shree Ram Lagoo, Om Shivpuri, Pinchu Kapoor, Satyen Kappoo, Utpal Dutt, Sajjan, Sudhir, Mac Mohan, Jagdish Raj, C.S. Dubey etc.

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Premji
Director : Desh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Disaster
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 4 /10
Running Score : -

Trivia : It was one of the Most Expensive Film and Biggest Disaster of that time, which was sold on a record price for per territory.

# Amitabh Bachchan's only disaster movie, written by Salim-Javed.

# Helen's only movie as leading lady opposite Amitabh.

32. KHOON PASINA
Genre : Action-Comedy
Release Date : 28 January 1977
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Shiva aka Tiger (a Macho man and a Local Criminal)
Opposite Cast : Rekha
Star in a Special Supporting Role : Vinod Khanna

Supporting Cast : Nirupa Roy, Ranjeet, Kader Khan, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Bharat Bhushan, Helen, Mac Mohan, Yunus Parvez, Sunder etc

Written By : (Story) Rakesh Kumar
(Screenplay) K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Presenter : Prakash Mehra
Producer : Babboo Mehra
Director : Rakesh Kumar (Debut)
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Bumper / Smash Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Remakes : N.T. Ramarao, Rajnikanth starrer 'Tiger' (1979) (Telugu) / Rajnikanth starrer 'Siva' (1989) (Tamil)

33. ALAAP
Genre : Musical-Family Drama
Release Date : 15 April 1977
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Alok Prasad (a Devoted Classical Singer)
Opposite Cast : Rekha
Star in a Guest Role : Sanjeev Kumar

Supporting Cast : Om Prakash, Chhaya Devi, Asrani, Manmohan Krishna, Farida Jalal, Yunus Parvez, A.K. Hangal, Master Ravi etc.

Written By : (Story Idea) Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
(Screenplay) Bimal Dutta
(Dialogue) Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza
Lyrics : Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan (Koi gata main so jata..) / Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza
Music : Jaidev
Producer : N.C. Sippy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee for 'Rupam Chitra'
Story Developer-Director : Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Flop
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose :  2 /10
Running Score : -
Trivia : It was Amitabh Bachchan's Biggest Flop in his Super Stardom period (1973-1994).

34. AMAR AKBAR ANTHONY
Genre : Action-Comedy-Romance
Release Date : 27 May 1977
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Anthony Gonsalvies (a Tough and naughty guy )
Opposite Cast : Parveen Babi

Co-Stars : Vinod Khanna (as Amar), Rishi Kapoor (as Akbar Allahabadi), Shabana Azmi, Neetu Singh

Supporting Cast : Pran, Nirupa Roy, Jeevan (Double Role), Nazir Hussain, Ranjeet, Mukri (as Tayyab Ali), Nadira, Helen, Kamal Kapoor, Master Tito, Master Bittoo, Master Ravi (as young Anthony) etc.

Written By : (Story Idea) Pushpraj Sharma
(Story) Mrs. J.M. Desai
(Screenplay / Scenario) Prayag Raaj / K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer-Director : Manmohan Desai for 'M.K.D. Films'
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster
ROI Label : Phenomenon Hit
Critic Rating : 4.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 /10
Running Score : Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks) / Allindia Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks)

Records : 5th Highest Grossing Movie of Throughout History in Bollywood's Life Time Record Breaking Hit-List by inflation adjusted figures till now.

# 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the Decade of 1970s after 'Sholay' and 'MKS'.

# 2nd Highest Basic Grosser for 18 Months Since May 1977 to October 1978 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Top Highest Grossing and Biggest ROI Hit Movie of the year 1977 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List, that celebrated 'Silver Jubilees' on 9 screens in Bombay alone.

# It celebrated a 'Silver jubilee' (25 consecutive weeks) at over 100 theaters and 'Golden jubilees' (50 consecutive weeks) at over 50 theaters across India.

# The film holds the 2nd Biggest opening note of more than 150 % in throughout history.

# Biggest Hit Indian Film in Overseas of that time, it broke the box-office records of 'Bobby' in many countries. When the movie released it was a huge hit in West Indies.

Trivia : Amitabh Bachchan received his 3rd Filmfare Trophy and first Best Actor Award for his outstanding performance as Anthony Gonsalves, which was the main highlight of the movie.

# It was Manmohan Desai's first attempt as a Producer.

Remakes : Shankar Salim Simon (1978) (Tamil) / Ram Robert Rahim (1980) (Telugu) / John Jaffar Janardan (1982) (Malayalam)

35. PARVARISH
Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy
Release Date : 21 October 1977
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Amit (a Police Inspector)
Opposite Cast : Neetu Singh
Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Indrani Mukherjee
Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan, Kader Khan (Special Role), Heena Kausar, Chand Usmani, Dev Kumar, Ram Sethi, Tom Alter, Master Tito (as young Amit), Master Ratan etc
Written By : (Story) Mrs. J.M. Desai
(Screenplay / Scenario) Prayag Raaj / K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Majrooh Sultanpuri
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : A.A. Nadiadwala
Director : Manmohan Desai
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 10th Highest Basic Grosser for a year in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1977, which opened with a Bumper Collections and ran with packed houses in coming weeks.

Trivia : It was the first project signed by Amitabh Bachchan with Manmohan Desai.
# The film was one of four Big Hits of director Manmohan Deasi in a same year.
Remake : Sunny Deol, Chunky Pandey, Neelam Starrer Pehlaj Nihlani's 'Paap Ki Duniya' (1988)

36. GANGA KI SAUGANDH
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 10 February 1978
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Jeeva (a Naive Young Villager, who becomes a Decoit)
Opposite Cast : Rekha

Supporting Cast : Pran, Amjad Khan, Jeevan, Anwar Hussain, Satyen Kappoo, Achala Sachdev, Sulochana, Bindu, Iftekhar, Jagdeep, Mukri,Farida Jalal, Anju Mahendru, I.S. Johar, Murad, Mac Mohan  etc.

Written By : (Story) Santosh Vyas
(Screenplay) Nabendu Ghosh
(Dialogue) Wajahat Mirza
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer-Director : Sultan Ahmad
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

37. KASME VAADE
Genre : Action-Comedy-Romance
Release Date : 21 April 1978
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Double Role as Look-alike)
Character : Amit (a Professor) / Shankar (a Car-Thief)
Opposite Cast : Raakhee
Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Randhir Kapoor, Neetu Singh
Star in a Guest Role : Rekha (in the song, 'Pyar ke rang se...')
Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan, Vijayendra Ghatge, Sharat Saxena etc
Written By : (Story-Screeplay) Mirza Brothers
(Humayun-Mahrukh-Shahrukh Mirza)
(Dialogue) Madan Joshi
Lyrics : Gulshan Bawra
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer-Director : Ramesh Behl for 'Rose Movies'
Grossing Verdict : Semi Block Buster
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 6.5 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)
Trivia : It was first directorial venture of Ramesh Behl.

Remake : Rajnikanth, Khushboo (Debut) starrer 'Dharmathin Thalaivan' (1988) (Tamil)

38. BESHARAM
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 28 April 1978
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role) (Single Role with 2 Characters)
Character : Ram Kumar ( a Simple Honest Young Man) aka Prince Chandra Shekhar
Opposite Cast : Sharmila Tagore

Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan, Nirupa Roy, Iftekhar, A.K. Hangal, Deven Verma, Bindu, Jayshree T., Imtiaz, Dhumal, Jagdeesh Raj, Urmila Bhatt, Helen, Gopi Krishna etc

Written By : (Screeplay) Nirupama
(Dialogue) Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza and Nayyar Jehan
Lyrics : Yogesh
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer-Director : Deven Verma for 'Navaratna Films'
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 6 /10
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)
Trivia : It was completed earlier but the release was delayed due to censor problems.

39. TRISHUL
Genre : Action-Thriller-Family-Revenge Drama
Release Date : 05 May 1978
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay (a Brave young man & an Indrustlist )
Opposite Cast : Raakhee
Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Sanjeev Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini,
Stars in a Special Role : Waheeda Rehman, Poonam Dhillon (Debut), Sachin

Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, Geeta Siddharth, Iftekhar,Yunus Parvez, Manmohan Krishna, Shetty etc

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Sahir Ludhianvi
Music : Khayyam
Producer : Gulshan Rai for 'Trimurti Films'
Director : Yash Chopra
Grossing Verdict : Mega Block Buster
ROI Label : Mega Hit
Critic Rating : 4.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 /10
Running Score : Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) / Allindia Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks)

Records : 4th Highest Basic Grosser for 3 years in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# 2nd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1978 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# Year's 2nd Biggest Opening and 4 weeks Collections with more than 100 %.

# Most Expensive Movie of 1978.

Trivia : Dilip Kumar was originally offered the role played by Sanjeev Kumar but turned it down, although Sanjeev Kumar was actually several months younger than Shashi Kapoor, he played the role of his father.

Remakes : Meen (1980) (Malayalam) / Kamal Haasan (Double Role) starrer 'Kadal Meengal' (1981) (Tamil) / Rajnikanth starrer 'Mr. Bharath' (1986) (Tamil)

40. DON
Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy
Release Date : 12 May 1978
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role) (Double Role as Look-alike)
Character : Don (an International Criminal) / Vijay (Lookalike of Don)
Opposite Cast : Zeenat Aman

Supporting Cast : Pran, Iftekhar, Om Shivpuri, Satyen Kappoo, Kamal Kapoor, Helen, Mac Mohan, Jadeesh Raj, Aparna Choudhary, Pinchu Kapoor, P. Jairaj, Shetty, Master Alankar, Baby Bilkish etc

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Anjaan and Indeevar
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer : Nariman A. Irani
Director : Chandra Barot
Grossing Verdict : Mega Block Buster
ROI Label : Phenomenon Hit
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 /10

Running Score : Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks) / Allindia Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) at many centres

Records : 5th Highest Basic Grosser for 3 years in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# 3rd Highest Grossing and Biggest ROI Hit Movie of the year 1978 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# A slow-starter movie, which registered 100-120 % collections from 2nd to 6th week allover India.

Trivia : It was Mega Star Amitabh Bachchan's 2nd Bumper and 4th continuous success of back to back releases in consecutive 4 weeks, which proves the Super Star power of Big-B in his Super Stardom Era.

# This is among those rare Bollywood films, which were released without any advertisement and promotion, that's why it opened with very low collections, but by the strong positive mouth publicity, the collections broke many box-office records in all centres in coming weeks.

# Amitabh Bachchan received his 4th Filmfare Trophy and 2nd Best Actor Award for his iconic and remarkable performances in this film.

# Though the film was in making for four years, it was the friendly relations  and great source of producer Nariman A. Irani, which helped him to make a standard movie with all the 'super grade' cast and crew on a limited budget.

# Although, Amitabh played a main lead in the film, Pran was paid more money than him, because of producer Nariman A. Irani's untimely death and to settle his debts, Amitabh and Zeenat charged nothing for their roles until its success, according to their promise.

# The script did not even have a name, it was rejected by Dev Anand, Prakash Mehra and Jeetendra.

# The song 'Khaike Paan Banaraswala...' sung by Kishor Kumar was originally written for the Dev Anand starrer 'Banarasi Babu' (1973), It was shot after completion of shooting to balance the action-packed pace of the movie on the suggestion of actor Manoj Kumar. 

  It topped the 1979 Annual list of Ameen Sayani's count-down show Binaca Geet Mala on 'Radio Ceylon'.

Hindi Remakes : Jeetendra starrer 'Dav Pech' (1989) / Vinod Khanna starrer 'Humshakal' (1992) / Rekha starrer "Madam X' (1994) (Female version)

Official Hindi Remake : Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra starrer Farhan Akhtar's 'Don' (2006)

Regional Remakes : 'Yugandhar' starring N.T. Ramarao, Jaya Sudha (1979) (Telugu) / Rajnikanth, Helen starrer 'Billa' (1980) (Tamil) / Mohanlal starrer 'Shobaraj' (1986) (Malayalam) / Alexander (1994) (Kannada) / Ajith Kumar's 'Billa' (2007) (Tamil) / Prabhas, Anushka Shetty starrer 'Billa' (2009) (Telugu) / Ravi Kishan, Nagma starrer 'Don' (2010) (Bhojpuri)

Hollywood Remake : The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)

41. MUQADDAR KA SIKANDAR
Genre : Action-Romance-Comedy
Release Date : 27 October 1978
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Sikandar (a Brave-honest-alchoholic young man and a disconsolate lover )
Opposite Cast : Raakhee (as Kaamna memsaab) and Rekha (as Zohrabai)
Star in a Central Supporting Role : Vinod Khanna

Supporting Cast : Dr. Shree Ram Lagoo, Nirupa Roy, Amjad Khan (as Dilawar), Kader Khan (as Fakir Darvesh Baba), Ranjeet, Madhu Malini, Ram Sethi (as Pyarelal Awara), Sulochana, Manmohan Krishna, P. Jairaj, Goga Kapoor, Master Mayur (as young Sikandar), Baby Shalu etc.

Written By : (Story) Laxmikant Sharma
(Screenplay) Vijay Kaul
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer-Director : Prakash Mehra
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster
ROI Label : Phenomenon Hit
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 9 /10

Running Score : Titanium Jubilee (150+ Weeks) / Allindia Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) at many centres.

Records : 4th Highest Grossing Movie of Throughout History in Bollywood's Life Time Record Breaking Hit-List by inflation adjusted figures till now.

# 2nd Highest Grossing Movie of the Decade of 1970s after 'Sholay'.

# 2nd Highest Basic Grosser for 18 Months Since October 1978 to May 1981 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Top Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1978 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# The film holds the Biggest opening note of more than 165-200 % in throughout history.

# Highest Grossing Indian Movie in UK and USA of that time.

Trivia : At the time of the film's release, people used to stand in queues, waiting endlessly to buy the film's tickets. Sometimes the crowds slept in front of the cinema halls overnight in their wait for the tickets. Amitabh Bachchann was the biggest sensation of that time and this film was his 6th continuous and 3rd Big Block Buster success in the same year.

# The film was a blend of Raj Kapoor's 'Sangam' and Bimal Roy's 'Devdas'.

# After seeing Amitabh's unbelievable dominance and astonishing worldwide popularity French director François Truffaut called him a One-Man Industry and media enthroned

Remakes : Krishnam Raju, Jaya Sudha, Chiranjeevi starrer 'Prema Tarangalu' (1980) (Telugu) / Sivaji Ganeshan, Sri Priya, Madhavi starrer 'Amara Kaaviyam' (1981) (Tamil)

42. THE GREAT GAMBLER
Genre : Action-Suspense-Thriller
Release Date : 06 April 1979
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role) (Double Role as Look-alike)
Character : Jai (an Expert Gambler) / Vijay (a Police Officer)
Opposite Cast : Zeenat Aman /  Neetu Singh

Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, Madan Puri, Utpal Dutt, Iftekhar, Om Shivpuri, Helen, Sujit Kumar, Jagdeesh Raj, Roopesh Kumar etc.

Written By : (Story) Based on Vikramaditya's Novel
(Developed by) C.J. Pavri
(Screenplay / Scenario) Ranjan Bose / Shakti Samanta
(Dialogue) Vrajendra Gaur
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : C.V.K. Shastri
Director : Shakti Samanta
Grossing Verdict : Territorial Block Buster at Mumbai Circuit
ROI Label : Semi Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Allindia Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

Trivia : The film collected a record opening figure in all over India.

# In its 2nd release, it has attained a cult status with the Bumper response by the audience in 80s.

# When it was released, because of its english title, many thought this is an english movie. Later the film was re-released and advertised as SABSE BADA JUARI, even on the posters were shown like that and did very well than before.

# Initially, the film was launched in 1967 with Shammi Kapoor in the lead. It was to be shot in New York. Then, director Shakti Samanta changed his mind and launched 'Aradhana' with Rajesh Khanna. 10 years later he decided to restart the film with Amitabh , but this time shooting it in the Middle East and Europe.

# This film had high production costs with a significant portions of it being shot in international locations including Cairo, Lisbon, Venice and Rome with in India many scenes were shot in Goa. 'The Great Gambler' has been widely appreciated for its action, direction and excellent cinematography.

43. JURMANA
Genre : Women's Oriented Family Drama-Thriller
Release Date : 11 May 1979
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Inder Saxena (a Building Contractor and a playboy)
Opposite Cast : Raakhee
Star in a Central Supporting Role : Vinod Mehra

Supporting Cast : Dr. Shree Ram Lagoo, Farida Jalal, Asrani, A.K. Hangal, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Yunus Parvez etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Bimal Dutta
(Dialogue) Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Debesh Ghosh for 'Shri Lokenath Chitramandir'
Director : Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Above Average
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 4 /10
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

44. MANZIL
Genre : Realistic Social-Drama
Release Date : 25 May 1979
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Ajay Chandra (a Career Conscious Dreamer )
Opposite Cast : Moushumi Chatterjee

Supporting Cast : Rakesh Pandey, Lalita Pawar, A.K. Hangal, Dr. Shree Ram Lagoo, Satyen Kappoo, Urmila Bhatt, Anwar Ali, Sunder etc.

Written By : (Story) Ashish Burman
(Screenplay-Dialogue) Basu Chatterjee
Lyrics : Yogesh
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Raj Prakash, Jay Pawar, Rajeev Suri for 'Ambika Chitra'
Director : Basu Chatterjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Average
Critic Rating : 4.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 6 /10
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

Trivia : The film was inspired by Mrinal Sen's Bengali Hit 'Akash Kusum' (1965) starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Aparna Sen.

# It was long in the making and signed by Amitabh Bachchan years prior when he was yet to find stardom.

45. MR. NATWARLAL
Genre : Action-Adventure-Comedy
Release Date : 08 June 1979
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Natwar (a Thug and a Brave Young Man )
Opposite Cast : Rekha

Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Ajit, Indrani Mukherjee, Rajni Sharma, Satyen Kappoo, Iftekhar, Yunus Parvez, Master Laddoo, Master Ravi, Master Bittoo etc with a tigress Bharati.

Written By : (Story) Gyandev Agnihotri
(Screenplay) Rakesh Kumar
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rajesh Roshan
Producer : Tony for 'Navjeevan Films'
Director : Rakesh Kumar
Grossing Verdict : Super Block Buster
ROI Label : Bumper / Smash Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8.5 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 7th Highest Basic Grosser for next 2 years in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# 2nd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1979 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List after 'Suhaag'.

Trivia : Getting Amitabh Bachchan to sing was a gimmick that was tried for the first time in this movie. In 1976 'Kabhi Kabhi' earlier had Amitabh use spoken verse within a melodic song, but this was the first time he sang in a movie. 'Mere paas aao mere doston...' which became an extremely popular number among listners, specially among children.

# The other main highlight of the film was its outstanding cinematography by Fali Mistry, shot in Beerwah, Jammu and Kashmir and a real fight sequence between Mr. Bachchan and the tigress Bharati.

46. KAALA PATTHAR
Genre : Action-Adventure-Thriller
Release Date : 24 August 1979
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay aka Vijay Pal Singh (a Coal Miner and Disgraced Merchant Navy Captain )
Opposite Cast : Raakhee
Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh
Stars in Guest Role : Sanjeev Kumar, Poonam Dhillon, Romesh Sharma

Supporting Cast : Parikshit Sahni, Prem Chopra, Yunus Parvez, Manmohan Krishna, Satyen Kappoo,  Geeta Siddharth, Madan Puri (Guest), Suresh Oberoi (Guest), Iftekhar, Sudha Chopra, Mac Mohan, Jagdeesh Raj etc.

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Sahir Ludhianvi
Music : Rajesh Roshan
Producer-Director : Yash Chopra for 'Yashraj Films'
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Hit
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 8th Highest Basic Grosser for next 2 years in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List, with equal Grossing figure of  'Jaani Dushman'.

# 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1979 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List after 'Suhaag' and 'Mr. Natwarlal'.

# Biggest Multi-Starrer, One of the Most Expensive movie of 1970s, which was sold on a record price.

# Although, it earned only a HIT status, broke many previous records on Box-office.

# It opened with a Historical Opening Collections after MKS and AAA.

# The film got a big craze in overseas with a tremendous response.

Trivia : This film was inspired by a real coal mine disaster known as 'Chashala Mining Disaster' happened on 27th December 1975 near Dhanbad, Jharkhand that killed 372 miners.

47. SUHAAG
Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy-Romance
Release Date : 16 November 1979
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Amit (a Petty Criminal Alcoholic, who later becomes a Police Inspector )
Opposite Cast : Rekha
Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi

Supporting Cast : Nirupa Roy, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Ranjeet, Jeevan, Jagdeesh Raj, M. Rajan, Master Ratan, Master Tito etc.

Written By : (Story) Prayag Raaj
(Screenplay) K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Subhash Desai
Director : Manmohan Desai
Grossing Verdict : Super Block Buster
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) at few centres.

Records : 6th Highest Basic Grosser for next 2 years in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Top Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1979 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# It did a Phenomenon business in UK and USA. That time Amitabh Bachchan was a Biggest Sensational Indian Super Star among Overseas film-lovers.

Trivia : Initially, director Manmohan Desai wanted to cast Rajesh Khanna in Shashi Kapoor's role, but he was not agree to share the screen-space as a second lead actor, with his contemporary rival.

Remake : Satyam Shivam (1981) (Telugu) starring N.T. Ramarao, A. Nageshwara Rao, Sri Devi and Rati Agnihotri.

48. DO AUR DO PAANCH
Genre : Comedy + Action-Romance
Release Date : 08 February 1980
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay (a Petty Burglar / a Sport Teacher)
Opposite Cast : Parveen Babi
Co-Stars : Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini

Supporting Cast : Dr. Shree Ram Lagoo, Kader Khan, Lalita Pawar, Sajjan, Om Prakash (Special Role), Yunus Parvez, Ram Sethi, Jagdeesh Raj, T.P. Jain, Goga Kapoor, Aarti, Master Bittoo etc.

Written By : (Story) Gyandev Agnihotri
(Screenplay) Sachin Bhowmick
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Rajesh Roshan
Producer : C. Dhandayuthapani
Director : Rakesh Kumar
Grossing Verdict : Semi Block Buster
ROI Label : Average
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose :  9.5 /10
Running Score :  Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / 35+ Weeks at 'Sheila Theatre' (Delhi)

Trivia : Amitabh Bachchan. received a record payment for this movie in 1978 and  became India's Highest Paid Actor (until 2000 continuously).

# Though the film got an Average recovery on investment, It was one of the Biggest grossers of year 1980, with the Bumper opening and first 2 weeks collections. It celebrated 'Silver Jubilee' on more than 50 screens all over India.

49. DOSTANA
Genre : Action-Romance
Release Date : 17 October 1980
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay Verma (a Police Officer)
Opposite Cast : Zeenat Aman
Star in a Central Supporting Role : Shatrughan Sinha

Supporting Cast : Pran, Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri, Helen, Iftekhar, Sajjan, Paintal, Yunus Parvez, Jagdeesh Raj, Mac Mohan, Sudhir, K.N. Singh, Jagirdar, Goga Kapoor etc.

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Yash Johar for 'Dharma Productions'
Director : Raj Khosla
Grossing Verdict : Semi Block Buster
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose :  8 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Record : 4th Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1980 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

Trivia : It was 'Dharma Productions' first venture and director Raj Khosla's last Box-Office success.

Remakes : Kamal Haasan, Madhavi starrer 'Sattam'  (Tamil) and 'Snehabandham' (Malayalam) (1983)

50. RAM BALRAM
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 28 November 1980
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Balram (a Police Inspector)
Opposite Cast : Rekha
Co-Stars : Dharmendra (as Ram), Zeenat Aman

Supporting Cast : Ajit, Amjad Khan, Prem Chopra, Helen, Urmila Bhatt, Utpal Dutt, Sujit Kumar, Bharat Kapoor, Nazneen (Special Role) etc.

Written By : (Screenplay) Kamleshwar and Vijay Anand
(Dialogue) Kamleshwar
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Tito for 'Navjeevan Films'
Writer-Director : Vijay Anand
Grossing Verdict : Semi Block Buster
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 2.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)
Record : 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1980 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

Trivia : It received a thunder responses allover India by the audience in its initial weeks and ran with 100% collections until 4th week.

# It was last film cinemtographed by Fali Mistry and last standard work by director Vijay Anand.

51. SHAAN
Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy
Release Date : 12 December 1980
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay Kumar (a Naughty Con and Brave Young Man)
Opposite Cast : Parveen Babi
Co-Stars : Shashi Kapoor, Raakhee, Bindiya Goswami

Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Sunil Dutt, Shatrughan Sinha, Kulbhushan Kharbanda (as Shakaal)

Supporting Cast : Mazhar Khan (as Abdul), Johny Walker, Sujit Kumar, Yunus Parvez, Viju Khote, Mac Mohan, Sudhir, Dilip Tahil, Sudhir Pandey, Sharat Saxena, Goga Kapoor etc with Padmini Kapila, Bindu and Helen (in Guest Roles).

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : G.P. Sippy
Director : Ramesh Sippy
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Semi Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 9.5 /10
Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 10th Highest Basic Grosser for few months in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Top Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1980 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List. (Because, it  was released in almost end of the year and ran most of the weeks in next year, so placed on this rank in 1981. That's why many film-trade magazines consider Feroz Khan's 'Qurbani' to be 'Top Highest Grossing Movie' of the year 1980, which is not really correct.)

# It broke the record opening note of 'Kaala Patthar' and 'Qurbani'.

# Most Expensive Film of the decade of 1980s.

# Only movie, which was sold on the historical price of  Rs. 1 Crore per territory in the decade of 1980s, until the release of 'Toofan'.

# In its re-run, got the cult status and became more beneficial for distributors.

Trivia : The film was re-released in Digital format in April 2005 to mark 'Silver Jubilee year' of the release.

# The film was set and partially filmed on the english island lying in the Bristol Channel, 'Steep Holm'.

#  Parveen Babi suffered her first nervous breakdown on the sets of this film, when she completed to shoot of the song "Pyar karnewale..."

# Initial Star Cast : Dharmendra (for the character played by A.B.), Amitabh Bachchan (for the character played by Shashi Kapoor), Vinod Khanna ,(for the character played by Shatrughan Sinha), Hema Malini (for the character played by Parveen Babi.), Praveen Babi.(for the character played by Bindiya Goswami), Sanjeev Kumar (for the character played by Mazhar Khan) with Sunil Dutt and Raakhee.

52. BARSAAT KI EK RAAT
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 20 February 1981
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Abhijeet Roy (a Police Inspector)
Opposite Cast : Raakhee

Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan (as Kaaliram), Utpal Dutt, Abhi Bhattacharya, Prema Narayan, Asit Sen, Sujit Kumar, Chandrashekhar etc.

Written By : (Story) Based on Shaktipad Rajguru's Begali novel ' Anusandhan'
(Screenplay) Shaktipad Rajguru and Shakti Samanta
(Dialogue) Kamleshwar
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer-Director : Shakti Samanta
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in West Bengal

Record : The film was filmed in 2 languages Hindi and Bengali with same cast and crew and the Bengali version was the Biggest Opener and Top Grossing Movie of Alltime for a number of years, which was sold on a record distribution price.

Trivia : However, Hindi audience appreciated it less than expected, its collections were significantly larger than many other big successful films.

Bengali Version : Anusandhan (1981) starring Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee.

53. NASEEB
Genre : Action-Comedy-Romance
Release Date : 27 March 1981 (Only in Mumbai for Trial Run)
Regular Release Date : 01 May 1981
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Johny aka John Jaani Janardan  (a Waiter in a Hotel and Amateur Boxer)
Opposite Cast : Hema Malini

Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Shatrughan Sinha, Rishi Kapoor, Reena Roy, Kim

Stars in a Guest Role : (in the song, 'John jaani janardan...' sung by Md. Rafi) Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna, Randhir Kapoor, Rakesh Roshan, Vijay Arora, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha, Sharmila Tagore, Simi Garewal, Indrani Mukherjee, Bindu, Prema Narayan and Simple Kapadia.

Supporting Cast : Pran, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Prem Chopra, Shakti Kapoor, Jeevan, Amrish Puri, Om Shivpuri, Lalita Pawar, Mukri, Shubha Khote, Viju Khote, Jagdeesh Raj, Sunder, Master Tito (as young Johny) etc.

Written By : (Story) Prayag Raaj
(Screenplay) K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer-Director : Manmohan Desai for 'M.K.D. Films'
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 /10

Running Score : Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) /  Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in many centres

Records : 7th Highest Grossing Movie of Throughout History in Bollywood's Life Time Record Breaking Hit-List by inflation adjusted figures till now.

# 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the Decade of 1980s.

# 2nd Highest Basic Grosser for 2 & half years Since May 1981 to December 1983 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Top Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1981 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# Year's Biggest Opening and first 2 weeks Collections with full houses allover.

# 2nd Most Expensive Film of the decade of 1980s, after Ramesh Sippy's 'Shaan'.

# One of the Biggest Multi-starrer of the Decade.

# Record Earner in UK, USA and Middle East.

Trivia : The film was apparently the first film whose trailer was shown on 'Doordarshan' prior to release.

# 'Hum Kisise Kum Nahin' (1977) fame actress Kajal Kiran was first offered to play the role opposite Rishi Kapoor, but she missed the opportunity because of her unprofessional attitudes, then gorgeous actress Kim replaced her.

Remakes : Sivaji Ganeshan, Sri Devi starrer 'Sandhippu' (1983) (Tamil) / 'Trimurtulu' (1987) (Telugu) starring Venkatesh

54. LAAWARIS
Genre : Action-Comedy-Romance-Emotion
Release Date : 22 May 1981
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Heera  (a Tapori and a Honest Brave Young Man)
Opposite Cast : Zeenat Aman
Star in a Special Role : Raakhee

Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan, Ranjeet, Dr. Shri Ram Lagoo, Suresh Oberoi, Preeti Sapru, Bindu, Jeevan, Om Prakash, Satyen Kappoo, Madhu Malini, Padmini Kapila, Ram Sethi, Yunus Parvez, Mukri, Manorama, Master Mayur, Baby Khushboo etc.

Written By : (Story) Din Dayal Sharma
(Screenplay) Din Dayal Sharma, Shashi Bhushan and Prakash Mehra
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer-Director : Prakash Mehra
Grossing Verdict : Mega Block Buster
ROI Label : Phenomenon Hit
Critic Rating : 4.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 /10

Running Score : Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks) /  Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in many centres

Records : 5th Highest Basic Grosser for 2 & half years Since May 1981 to December 1983 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1981 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List, which opened with a Phenomenon 120-130 % opening collections and broke first 4 weeks BOC records of Shaan, Naseeb and Kranti.

Trivia : Its song 'Mere angne mein tumhara kya kaam hai..' sung by Amitabh Bachchan, topped the 1981 Annual list of Ameen Sayani's count-down show Binaca Geet Mala on 'Radio Ceylon'.

# This movie proved to be the giant gold mine for black marketers among all releases in that year.

# After film's release, groups of eunuchs celebrate Mega Star's birthday with full affection on 11th October in almost every cities in India, every year

Remakes : N.T. Ramarao, Jaya Sudha starrer 'Naa Desam' (1982) (Telugu) / 'Panakkaran' (1990) (Tamil) starring Rajnikanth, Gouthami.

55. SILSILA
Genre : Soft Romantic-Family Drama
Release Date : 14 August 1981
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Amit Malhotra  (a Writer and Stage Performer)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Bachchan and Rekha

Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar

Supporting Cast : Deven Verma, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sudha Chopra, Sushma Seth etc.

Written By : (Story) Mrs. Preeti Bedi
(Screenplay) Sagar Sarhadi and Yash Chopra
(Dialogue) Sagar Sarhadi

Lyrics : Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan (Rang barse...) / Javed Akhtar / Nida Fazli /  Hasan Kamal / Rajendra Krishan

Music : Shiv-Hari (Debut)
Producer-Director : Yash Chopra for 'Yashraj Films'
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Below Average / Plus
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

Records : Sold on a 3rd Highest Distribution Price after 'Shaan' and 'Naseeb'.

# Most Watched Movie on Home-Video in early 80s.

Trivia : Although, its performance was less than expected, it earned more than double money on box-office compared to many hits of that year.

#  The film has gained a strong cult following and is today considered a classic in its treatment and a most beautiful creation of 'Yashraj Films'.

# Its song 'Rang barse bheege chunar wali..' sung by Amitabh Bachchan, written by his father and a great Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan, holds the top rank in the chart as most popular filmi Holi song, even after 3 decades of its release.

# Legendary classical artists Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma and Hari Prasad Chaurasia (Shiv-Hari) made their debut as the film music composer with Alltime Chartbuster Soundtracks of this film.

# Its Music album has a very special and beautiful song number, 'Yeh kahaan aa gaye hum..' which shows the superb chemistry of India's two phenomenons Lata Mangeshkar and Amitabh Bachchan.

# The film is also very special for writer Javed Akhtar, who started his career as a lyricist from this, with the song ' Dekha ek khwab toh yeh silsile huye...'

# It is remembered as the last movie of Rekha-Amitabh's magical combination.

# In 1981, Mega Star Amitabh Bachchan became a singing sensation with the most popular Top 3 songs of the year- Mere angne mein... (Laawaris), Chal mere bhai... (Naseeb) and Rang barse... (Silsila). Coincidentally, he shared the mic with two giants of filmi music Lataji and Md. Rafi, in the same year for 'Silsila' and 'Naseeb' respectively.

56. YAARANA
Genre : Action-Comedy-Music
Release Date : 23 October 1981
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Kishan  (a Villager, who becomes a Star Singer)
Opposite Cast : Neetu Singh
Star in a Special Role : Tanuja

Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Ranjeet, Jeevan, Aruna Irani, Bharat Bhushan, Lalita Pawar, Sulochana, Yunus Parvez, Ram Sethi, Master Bittoo etc.

Written By : (Story) Gyandev Agnihotri
(Screenplay) Vijay Kaul
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Rajesh Roshan
Producer : H.A. Nadiadwala
Director : Rakesh Kumar
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Trivia : Amitabh Bachchan.had the distribution rights of Mumbai territory for this one year late release, which proved to be a beneficial deal for him.

# Due to Neetu Singh's unavailability, her voice was dubbed by Rekha in few scenes.

57. KAALIA
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 25 December 1981
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Kallu aka Kaalia  (an Innocent, who becomes a Smuggler)
Opposite Cast : Parveen Babi
Star in a Special Role : Asha Parekh

Supporting Cast : Pran, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan (Special Role), K.N. Singh, Sudhir, Sajjan, Murad, Jagdeep, Yunus Parvez, Ram Sethi, Bob Christo, Baby Geeta, Baby Khushboo etc.

Written By : (Story) Tinnu Anand
(Screenplay) Santosh-Taher and Tinnu Anand
(Dialogue) Inder Raj Anand
Lyrics : Majrooh Sultanpuri
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Iqbal Singh
Director : Tinnu Anand
Grossing Verdict : Territorial Block Buster at Mumbai and Delhi Circuits
ROI Label : Mega Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 /10

Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) in most part of the India

Records : It crossed Rs. 1 Crore, a Benchmark figure of that time, in Mumbai and Delhi circuits, which embarrassed those critics, who had given negative reviews to the film .

Trivia : After 'Sholay' and 'Deewaar', 'Kaalia' was next in the row, whose dialogues became more popular than songs and were sold like a hot cake on audio cassettes.

Remake : Huliyaada Kaala (1984) (Kannada) starring Tiger Prabhakar

58. SATTE PE SATTA
Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy
Release Date : 22 January 1982
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Double Role as Look-alike)
Character : Ravi Anand (an Unsophisticated Guy) / Babu (a Contract Killer)
Opposite Cast : Hema Malini / Ranjeeta
Stars in a Guest Role : Sarika, Vijayendra Ghatge

Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan, Kanwaljeet Singh, Sachin, Shakti Kapoor, Paintal, Sudhir, Vimal Sahu, Asha Sachdev, Rajni Sharma, Prema Narayan, Madhu Malhotra, Aradhana, Shobhini Singh, Kalpana Iyer, Mac Mohan, Goga Kapoor etc.

Written By : (Story) Jyoti Swaroop
(Screenplay) Jyoti Swaroop and Satish Bhatnagar
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Gulshan Bawra
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Romu N. Sippy
Director : Raj N. Sippy
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee  / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in metro cities.
Records : Biggest Opening Collections in first 4 Months of the year 1982.  .

Trivia : The film was inspired by Hollywood Hit 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' (1954).

# Initial Star Cast : Rekha (for the character played by Hema Malini), Mithun Chakraborty (for the character played by Kanwaljeet Singh), Zahira (for the character played by Ranjeeta).

# In 2009, director Soham Shah announced to frame up its remake with Sanjay Dutt and Karisma Kapoor, but due to some obstacles in pre-production work and Sanjay Dutt's imprisonment the film got shelved.

59. BEMISAL
Genre : Social-Thriller
Release Date : 05 March 1982
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Double Role as Brothers)
Character : Dr. Sudheer Roy (a Doctor) / Adheer Roy (a Psychiatric Patient )
Opposite Cast : Raakhee
Star in a Central Supporting Role : Vinod Mehra

Supporting Cast : Deven Verma, Aruna Irani, Sheetal, Om Shivpuri, A.K. Hangal, Asit Sen, Pratima Devi, Goga Kapoor, Master Mayur, Baby Khushboo etc.

Written By : (Story) based on a Bengali novel by Ashutosh Mukherjee

(Adaptation) D.N. Mukherjee
(Screenplay) Sachin Bhowmick
(Dialogue) Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Debesh Ghosh for 'Shri Lokenath Chitramandir'
Director : Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Below Average / Plus
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10
Running Score : Bronze Jubilee (50+ Days)

Trivia : It was 6th and last release of Amitabh Bachchan with his favourite director Hrishikesh Mukherjee. After its release the same team came together again to work for the next 2 projects, titled 'Auqaat' and 'Gulli Danda', the 2nd one was based on Munshi Premchand's Short Hindi Story, but due to Amitabh's famous accident both films went into the cool box.

# The film was a remake of Uttam Kumar's Bengali classic 'Ami Se O Shakha' (1975).

# Initial Star Cast : Reena Roy (for the character played by Raakhee), Danny Denzongpa (for the character played by Vinod Mehra), Prem Chopra (in a special role).

60. DESH PREMEE
Genre : Social-Thriller
Release Date : 26 March 1982
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Double Role as Father-Son)

Character : Master Deena Nath (a Freedom Fighter and Patriot) / Raju (a Con-artist )

Opposite Cast : Sharmila Tagore / Hema Malini

Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Navin Nischol, Parveen Babi
Stars in a Special Role : Shammi Kapoor and Uttam Kumar

Supporting Cast : Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Prem Nath, Prem Chopra, Parikshit Sahni, Jeevan, Jagdish Raj, Master Ravi, Master Bittoo etc.

Written By : (Story) Prayag Raaj
(Screenplay) K.B. Pathak
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Subhash Desai
Director : Manmohan Desai
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Hit
Critic Rating : 2.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 /10

Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in Maharashtra and South India.

Trivia : Although, the movie was badly criticized by film analysts, it ran with packed houses for a month and successfully celebrated its 'Silver Jubilee' week in many territories.

# In early 1990s, it got a huge success on box-office in its re-run.

# It was 3rd release in a row of Amitabh Bachchan's double role movies in a same year.

# Its title track 'Mere desh premiyon..' is the last song, sung by Md. Rafi, before his death, for the Mega Star.

# Initial Star Cast : Rajesh Khanna replaced by Jeetendra replaced by Shatrughan Sinha replaced by Vinod Khanna (for the character played by Navin Nischol), Moushumi Chatterjee (for the character played by Parveen Babi), Sivaji Ganeshan (for the character played by Prem Nath)

61. NAMAK HALAAL
Genre : Comedy-Thriller
Release Date : 30 April 1982
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Arjun Singh (a Honest Bellboy)
Opposite Cast : Smita Patil

Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Waheeda Rehman

Supporting Cast : Om Prakash (as Daddu), Ranjeet, Satyen Kappoo, Suresh Oberoi (in a Special Role), Ram Sethi, Ashalata, Viju Khote, Kamal Kapoor, Chandra Shekhar, Dev Kumar, Dinesh Hingoo, Bob Christo etc.

Written By : (Story) Prakash Mehra
(Screenplay) Laxmikant Sharma
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Bappi Lahiri
Producer : Satyendra Pal for 'Chaudhry Enterprises'
Director : Prakash Mehra
Grossing Verdict : Super Block Buster
ROI Label : Bumper / Smash Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 /10

Running Score : Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in many territories / Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) in Metro Cities

Records : 6th Highest Basic Grosser for 1 & half year Since May 1982 to December 1983 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Top Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1982 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.
# Year's Biggest Collections in first month of release.

Trivia : 'Namak Halaal' was the last release before Amitabh's famous accident on the sets of 'Coolie'.

# One of the most versatile actresses of Indian Cinema, Art movie's big star Smita Patil made her  debut in commercial cinema by this mega budget project.

# Raj Babbar was the original choice for the character played by Shashi Kapoor, but on the advice of distributors, Prakash Mehra changed his decision.

# It was also dubbed in Bhojpuri with the title 'Babua Khiladi Dadua Anari', which was released in 2005.

Remakes : Mohan Babu starrer 'Bhale Ramudu' (1984) (Telugu) / Rajnikanth, Sarath Babu, Amala starrer 'Velaikaran' (1986) (Tamil)

62. KHUD-DAAR
Genre : Comedy-Thriller-Emotion
Release Date : 30 July 1982
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character :  Govind Srivastava aka Chhotu Ustaad (a Taxi-Driver)
Opposite Cast : Parveen Babi

Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Sanjeev Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Bindiya Goswami,Tanuja

Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, Mahmood, A.K. Hangal, Ramesh Dev, Pinchoo Kapoor, Satyen Kappoo, Madhu Malini, Kalpana Iyer, Raza Murad, Shammi, Master Raju (as Young Govind), Master Ravi etc.

Written By : Kader Khan
Lyrics : Majrooh Sultanpuri
Music : Rajesh Roshan
Producer : F.K. Rattonsey and Anwar Ali
Director : Ravi Tandon
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) at many centers

Records : 10th Highest Basic Grosser for a year in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# 2nd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1982 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

Trivia : The film was released after 4 days of Amitabh Bachchan's life-threatening accident on the sets of 'Coolie' in Bangalore.

# It ran with packed houses for many weeks allover India, until the release of 'Shakti'.

# Its song 'Angrezi mein kehte hain I love you...' sung by Kishor Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar, topped the 1982 Annual list of Ameen Sayani's count-down show Binaca Geet Mala on 'Radio Ceylon'.

# According to sources, Rekha was first offered to play the Parveen Babi's role.

Remakes : Rajnikanth, Ramya Krishnan, Sivaji Ganeshan starrer 'Padikkadhavan' (1985) (Tamil) / Sobhan Babu starrer 'Driver Babu' (1986) (Telugu)

63. SHAKTI
Genre : Action-Thriller-Family Drama
Release Date : 01 October 1982
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Vijay Kumar (a Rebellious Young Man, involved in illegal business)
Opposite Cast : Smita Patil
Co-Stars : Dilip Kumar, Raakhee

Supporting Cast : Ashok Kumar (Guest Role), Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Vikas Anand, Jagdish Raj, Chandrashekhar, Sharat Saxena, Sudhir Pandey, Dalip Tahil, Satish Shah, Master Ravi (as Young Vijay) etc with Anil Kapoor (in a Guest Role as Vijay's Son).

Written By : Salim-Javed
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Mushir Riaz for 'MR Productions Private Limited'
Director : Ramesh Sippy
Grossing Verdict : Semi Block Buster
ROI Label : Semi Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 4 /10

Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in big cities.

Records : 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1982 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# Allindia Biggest Opening and first week Collections of the year.

# Most Awaited and Expensive Movie of the year, which was sold on a Record Distribution Price.

Trivia : Two titans of Indian Cinema Tragedy King Dilip Kumar and Mega Star Amitabh Bachchan were starred together for the first and last time.

# Although, 'Kranti' had already been released, 'Shakti' is known as Dilip Kumar's comeback project after his 5 years long hiatus, which he had signed first.

# It was the last movie written by writer duo Salim-Javed for their lucky mascot Amitabh Bachchan.

# Surprisingly, Amitabh's mother's role was played by Raakhee, with whom he had played as a hero in many films before its release.

# Initially, Neetu Singh was signed opposite Amitabh, but because of delay to start and her decision to take retirement, Smita Patil replaced her.

# Raj Babbar was the original choice to play the Vijay Kumar's character, but it was the second time when film-makers decided to drop him from a Smita Patil starrer movie to collect a lot more money.

# The film had 3 Biggest Super Stars from 3 different generations together- Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar and Ashok Kumar.

# Its basic concept was inspired by Ashok Kumar starrer Block Buster Hit 'Sangram' (1950).

Similar Hindi Movies : Jeetendra (Double Role), Hema Malini, Rati Agnihotri starrer 'Farz Aur Kanoon' (1982) / Mithun Chakraborty (Double Role), Shilpa Shirodkar starrer 'Swarg Yahaan Narak Yahaan' (1991)

64. NASTIK
Genre : Action Drama
Release Date : 18 February 1983
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Shankar (a Thief)
Opposite Cast : Hema Malini
Stars in a Special Role : Sarika

Supporting Cast :  Pran, Amjad Khan, Deven Verma, Jayshree T., Reeta Bhaduri, Bharat Bhushan, Nalini Jaywant, Madan Puri, Lalita Pawar, Kamal Kapoor, Viju Khote, Shammi, Bhagwan, Bob Christo, Tom Alter, Master Raju (as Young Shankar) etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Sachin Bhowmick
(Dialogue) Ehsan Rizvi
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer : Vinod Doshi
Director : Pramod Chakravorty
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Semi Hit
Critic Rating : 2.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 /10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Trivia : It was the first release after Mega star's coming back to home from hospital.

# In early 1990s, it started a new trend in Indian film market to re-release an old film with a new title, when received a tremendous response on box-office with a different title 'ADHARMI' during its re-release. It was a unique experimental idea for all Indian film-producers, which proved to be profitable for everyone.

# Due to production obstacles and changes in original script and female star-cast, it took a long time to make and release.

# Initially, Reena Roy and Kim were signed for the roles played by Hema Malini and Sarika.

65. ANDHAA KAANOON
Genre : Action-Thriller-Revenge Drama
Release Date : 08 April 1983
Role Type : Central Special Role

Character : Jaan Nisar Akhtar Khan (a Forest Officer, an Innocent Prisoner)

Opposite Cast : Madhavi (first time)

Stars in Main Lead : Hema Malini, Rajnikanth (Bollywood Debut), Reena Roy

Supporting Cast : Pran, Prem Chopra, Danny Denzongpa, Amrish Puri, Om Shivpuri, Madan Puri, Sulochana, Agha, Asrani, Gautami, Master Harish etc with Dharmendra (Guest Role).

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Shobha Chandrasekhar
(Dialogue) Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : A. Poornachandra Rao for 'Lakshmi Productions (P.) Ltd'
Director : T. Rama Rao
Grossing Verdict : Super Block Buster
ROI Label : Bumper / Smash Hit
Critic Rating : 4.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 / 10

Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 7th Highest Basic Grosser for 9 months Since April 1983 to December 1983 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# 2nd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1983 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

Trivia : It was an official remake of Tamil Hit 'Sattam Oru Iruttarai' (1981), which was also remade in Telugu as 'Chattanniki Kallu Levu' (1981) starring Chiranjeevi, Kannada as 'Nayaya Ellide' (1982) starring Shankar Nag and Malayalam as  'Mattuvin Chattangale' (1982).

  In Malyalam version Jaan Nisar Akhtar Khan's character was portrayed by Telugu Super Star Kamal Haasan.

# Film's main highlight was Amitabh Bachchan's illustrious performance and a court-room scene, where he kills Amrish Puri.

66. MAHAAN
Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy
Release Date : 29 April 1983
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Triple Role as Father-Sons)

Character : Amit aka Rana Ranveer (a Lawyer) / Shankar (a Police Inspector) / Guru (a Theatre Actor)

Opposite Cast : Waheeda Rehman / Parveen Babi / Zeenat Aman

Supporting Cast : Ashok Kumar, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Aruna Irani, Mukri, Urmila Bhatt, Nandita Thakur, Pinchoo Kapoor, Sujit Kumar  etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Prayag Raaj and K.K. Shukla

(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer : Satyanarayana & Suryanarayana
Director : S. Ramanathan
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Semi Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 9 /10

Running Score : Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in South territories

Records : 10th Highest Basic Grosser for 8 months Since May 1983 to December 1983 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1983 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# It was the Biggest Opener and Most Awaited movie of 1983, before the release of 'Coolie'

# Most Expensive Movie of the year.

# Record Earner in West Bengal, South India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

# In 2009, it generated year's Highest TRP of any film telecast on television, when premiered on 'Sony TV'.

Trivia : The film was a remake of Super Hit Kannada movie 'Shankar-Guru' (1978) starring Dr. Rajkumar, but in this remake version the concept of a 'Triple-Role' was rare for Indian audiences.

#  Though it received a 'Semi Hit' verdict by film experts, its collections were more than double, compared to all 'Big Hits' of the year 1983 like, Himmatwala, Souten, Avataar, Betaab, Hero, Justice Choudhury and Mawaali, except 'Coolie' and 'Andhaa Kanoon'.

# Although, the audience had seen Parveen Babi and Zeenat Aman's onscreen chemistry a year ago in 'Ashanti', 'Mahaan' was the very first movie signed together by Bollywood's these two most sexiest ladies of that time, which was another highlight of the film, along with Amitabh Bachchan's Triple Role and an extraordinary chartbuster music composed by R.D. Burman.

# According to IMDB, Hema Malini shot for some days, but due to her pregnancy, Parveen Babi replaced her, which became Parveen's last screen-presence with her lucky co-star Amitabh.

67. PUKAR
Genre : Patriotic-Action Drama
Release Date : 18 November 1983
Role Type : Central Main Lead

Character : Ramdas aka Ronnie (Malcontent against patriots and Supremo of an area)

Opposite Cast : Zeenat Aman

Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Randhir Kapoor, Tina Munim

Supporting Cast : Prem Chopra, Dr. Shri Ram Lagoo, Om Shivpuri, Satyen Kappoo, Chand Usmani, Shubha Khote, P. Jairaj, Pinchoo Kapoor, Sujit Kumar, Sudhir Dalvi, Sharat Saxena, Viju Khote, Pratima Devi,  Sudha Chopra, Master Asit (as Young Ronnie), Baby Zeenat etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) G.R. Kamath
(Dialogue) Madan Joshi
Lyrics : Gulshan Bawra
Music : Rahul Dev Burman
Producer-Director : Ramesh Behl for 'Rose Movies'
Grossing Verdict : Semi Block Buster
ROI Label : Above Average
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 /10

Running Score : Allindia Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days) / Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) in Metro cities and West Bengal including 'Opera Theatre- Calcutta'

Records : 5th Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1983 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# 3rd Biggest Opener and Most Awaited movie of 1983.

Trivia : The film was released 2 weeks before 'Coolie', so suffered at ticket-window, but was coverage at long run.

# Despite it earned an 'Above Average' success on Box-office, its collections were much bigger than many 'Big Hits' of that year like, Souten, Avataar, Betaab, Hero, Justice Choudhury and Mawaali.

# It was Zeenat Aman's last movie opposite Amitabh as lead actress.

# The movie is specially remebered for Amitabh Bachchan's one of the finest performances and superbly played a negative role by him.

68. COOLIE
Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy-Social Drama
Release Date : 02 December 1983
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character :  Iqbaal (a Railway Coolie)
Opposite Cast : Rati Agnihotri

Stars in a Central Supporting Role : Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor, Shoma Anand

Supporting Cast : Kader Khan (as Zafar Khan), Nilu Phule (as Iqbaal's Mama), Satyen Kappoo, Om Shivpuri, Suresh Oberoi, Goga Kapoor, Puneet Issar, Mukri, Shubha Khote, Chandra Shekhar, Sajjan, Master Ravi (as Young Iqbaal) etc with Amrish Puri (Guest Role).

Written By : (Story) Prayag Raaj
(Screenplay) K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Ketan M. Desai for 'M.K.D. Films'
Directors : Manmohan Desai and Prayag Raaj
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster
ROI Label : Bumper / Smash Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 9.5 /10

Running Score : Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in many territories / Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) in Metro Cities / Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks) in Maharashtra

Records : 6th Highest Grossing Movie Of  Throughout History in Bollywood's Life Time Record Breaking Hit-List by inflation adjusted figures till now.

# Top Highest Grossing Movie Of The Decade Of 1980s and the year 1983.

# 2nd Highest Basic Grosser for more than 6 Years since December 1983 to Early 1990 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Biggest Opening and first week Collections of the year with a record 120-130%, continued 100% BOC allindia for first 6 straight weeks.

# Biggest Hit Indian Movie of that time in UAE, Middle East, Africa and Europe for a number of years.

Remark : Many film-trade experts declare 'Maine Pyar Kiya' as the 'Highest Grossing Movie' of 1980s, but it is not fair, because MPK was released on 29th December 1989 (3 days before end of the decade) and earned all the success in 1990, so in the right way 'Coolie' is the real conqueror of this title.

Trivia : The film had become famous and much more awaited long before its release, when Amitabh Bachchan was critically injured on 26th July 1982, during filming a fight scene with new comer Puneet Issar at university campus in Bangalore.

  His accident received a world-wide coverage and hit the headlines in UK, something unheard of at the time and many Indians prayed in temples, mosques, churches and gurudwara. They offered to sacrifice their own limbs to save him. It shows his unbelievable stardom in that era. This kind of extreme level popularity neither had ever seen before, nor has ever seen later for any film-star in throughout history of Bollywood.

# Its tickets were sold on double to tenfold prices in black market, while its video-piracy was also at the peak.

# After release of this film railway coolie staff every year celebrates Amitabh's birthday with the full of reverence on 11th October in almost every cities in India.

69. INQUILAAB
Genre : Political-Action-Thriller
Release Date : 27 January 1984
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character :  Amarnath (an Honest A.C.P. who joins politics as a Chief Minister)
Opposite Cast : Sri Devi (first time)

Supporting Cast : Kader Khan, Utpal Dutt, Ranjeet, Shakti Kapoor, Iftekhar, Shafi Inamdar, Satyen Kappoo, Pinchoo Kapoor, C.S. Dubey, T.P. Jain, Ram Mohan, Viju Khote, Jagdish Raj, Nirupa Roy (Guest Role) etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay)  M.D. Sunder
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : N. Veeraswamy for 'Sri Eshwari Productions'
Director : T. Rama Rao
Grossing Verdict : Semi Block Buster
ROI Label : Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 6 /10

Running Score : Allindia Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days) / Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) in Metro Cities.

Records : 2nd Highest Grossing Movie Of 1984, which was pushed down from the Top Rank by Amitabh's next release 'Sharaabi'.

# 2nd Biggest Opening and first 2 weeks Collections of the year, it also demolished by the Smash Opening and first month BOC of 'Sharaabi', and lost the Top Position.

# Year's Most Watched Movie on Home-Video, which ran in theatres with 95-100% BOC for an half month.

# It became a best card for distributors during its re-release in mid 1990s, when celebrated 50 days stupendous run at Majestic theatre-Calcutta, which is the historical running score for a re-released movie till now.

Trivia : Despite unfavorable reviews by film-critics, its collections were much bigger than year's Top ROI Hits like, Aaj Ki Awaz, Tohfa, and Maqsad, except Sharaabi.

# It started a new trend of Political-drama based movies in Bollywood, which was a remake of Kannada movie 'Chakravyuh' (1983).

  Two other movies inspired by the same subject, Rajesh Khanna, Shabana Azmi starrer 'Aaj Ka MLA Ram Avtaar' and Jeetentra, Zeenat Aman, Kamal Haasan starrer 'Yeh Desh' were also released in that year, but both films flopped miserably.

# Interestingly, that was a year, when Amitabh Bachchan began his political career as a MP from his birth-place Allahabad, in support of his long-time family friend Rajiv Gandhi, after the assassination of Prime-Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi in the month of October, against former Chief-Minister of Uttar Pradesh Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna and won by one of the highest victory margins (68.2% of the vote) in 'Lok Sabha General Election History'.

70. SHARAABI
Genre : Emotion-Romance-Comedy
Release Date : 18 May 1984
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)

Character :  Vicky Kapoor (a Kind hearted Multi-Millionaire Alcoholic Young Man)

Opposite Cast : Jaya Prada (first time)

Star in a Special Role : Deepak Parashar

Star in a Guest Role : Smita Patil (in the song,' Jahaan chaar yaar mil jayen...')

Supporting Cast : Pran, Om Prakash (as Munshiji), Ranjeet, Suresh Oberoi, Satyen Kappoo, Bharat Bhushan, A.K. Hangal, Pinchoo Kapoor, Chandra Shekhar, Mukri (as Natthu Lal), Vikas Anand, Mayur Verma, Huma Khan, Ashalata, C.S. Dubey, Sunder, Viju Khote, Jankidas, Rajan Haksar, Sudhir, dinesh Hingoo etc.

Written By : (Story) Prakash Mehra
(Screenplay) Laxmikant Sharma
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan and Prakash Mehra
Music : Bappi Lahiri
Producer : Satyendra Pal for 'Chaudhry Enterprises'
Director : Prakash Mehra
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 9.5 /10

Running Score : Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in many territories / Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) in Metro Cities / Platinum Jubilee (100+ Weeks) in Maharashtra.

Records : Top Highest Grossing Movie Of 1984.

# Biggest Opening Collections of the year.

# Year's Most Awaited and Expensive film.

Trivia : 'Sharaabi' was one of those very first films, which were released Allover India on same date, with the intention of controlling losses by video-piracy.

# The music record sales touched 1 million marks and earned 'Platinum Disc' for HMV.

# All the songs of its album, specially 'Inteha ho gayi intezaar ki...' and 'De de pyar de...' sung by Kishor Kumar, were intensly popular among Indian film-music lovers in UK and USA.

Remake : Nee Thanda Kanike (1985) (Kannada) starring Vishnuvardhan, Jayasudha and Girish Karnad.

71. GERAFTAAR
Genre : Action-Thriller-Revenge Drama
Release Date : 13 September 1985
Role Type : Central Special Role (Title Role)

Character : Karan Kumar Khanna (a Police Officer, a guiltless prisoner)

Opposite Cast : Madhavi

Stars in Main Lead : Kamal Haasan, Poonam Dhillon

Star in a Special Guest Role : Rajnikanth (as Inspector Hussein)

Supporting Cast : Nirupa Roy, Ranjeet, Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Aruna Irani, Satyen Kappoo, Om Shivpuri, Sharat Saxena, Tej Sapru, Jeevan, Pinchu Kapoor, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Jagdish Raj, Rabia Amin, Renu Joshi, Manik Irani, Bob Christo, Master Ravi (as Young Karan), Master Suresh (as Young Hussein) etc.

Written By : (Story) Prayag Raaj
(Screenplay) K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Indeevar
Music : Bappi Lahiri
Producers : S. Ramanathan for 'Raamraj Kala Mandir'
Director : Prayag Raaj
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8 / 10

Running Score : Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) / Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 3rd Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1985 in Bollywood's Annual Hit-List.

# 2nd Biggest Opening and first week Collections of the the year, It broke the opening records of 'Ram Teri Ganga Maili' and ran 2 straight weeks with 100% allindia and 4 consecutive weeks in Mumbai.

# Most Watched Movie on Home-Video in 1985.

# Year's Most Awaited and Expensive Film of first 10 months, which was sold on a record price.

Trivia : It was Amitabh's first release after joining politics, so public was being crazy to see their Mega Star on silver screen.

# When the anti-Amitabh people were thinking that he will never return on screen and will lose his stardom because of his political commitment and media was searching his successor as Bollywood's next Super Star, Geraftaar's spectacular success had closed all the mouths.

# One of the primus multi-starrers of alltime 'Geraftaar' had 3 Biggest Mega Stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan together from 3 different languages Hindi, Tamil and Telugu film Industry.

72. MARD
Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy-Social Drama
Release Date : 08 November 1985
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character :  Raju (a Brave Young Tangewala)
Opposite Cast : Amrita Singh (as Ruby)

Supporting Cast : Dara Singh (as Raja Azaad Singh), Nirupa Roy, Prem Chopra, Satyen Kappoo, Seema Deo, Kamal Kapoor (as General Dyer), Dan Dhanova (as Danny), Helena Luke (as Lady Helena), Bob Christo (Inspector Simon), Goga Kapoor, Manik Irani (as Zybisco), C.S. Dubey, Joginder Shally (in a Guest Role) etc with wonder dog Moti and horse Baadal.

Written By : (Story) Prayag Raaj  and Pushpa Raj Anand

(Screenplay) K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Inder Raj Anand
Lyrics : Rajinder Krishan, Prayag Raj and Indeevar
Music : Annu Malik
Producer-Director : Manmohan Desai for 'M.K.D. Films'
Grossing Verdict : All Time Block Buster
ROI Label : Bumper / Smash Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 /10

Running Score : Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in many territories / Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) in Metro Cities

Records : Top Highest Grossing Movie of the year 1985.

# 2nd Highest Grossing Movie Of The Decade Of 1980s.

# 3rd Highest Basic Grosser for more than 4 Years since November 1985 to Early 1990 in Bollywood's Alltime Record Breaking Hit-List.

# Biggest Opening and first week Collections of the year with a record 130- 140 %, which continued 100% BOC for 4 continuous weeks in allover India.

# Biggest Hit Indian Movie in Overseas of that time for a number of years.

# Longest Running (Platinum Jubilee) Indian Movie of Alltime in some countries of the Middle East and Egypt, till now.

# Most Watched 1985 Movie on Home-Video in next years.

# Most awaited and Expensive film of the year.

Trivia : Mard's premiere was held at 'Chandralok Talkies' - Allahabad, from where A.B. was elected as the 'Member of Parliament' with the highest vote count.

# It registered a phenomenon response by audience during its re-release in mid 1990s

Remake : Maaveeran (1986) (Tamil) starring Rajnikanth.

73. AAKHREE RAASTA
Genre : Emotional-Action-Thriller
Release Date : 06 June 1986
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Double Role as Father-Son)
Character :  David D'Costa (a Revenger) / Vijay (a CID Officer)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Prada / Sri Devi

Supporting Cast : Anupam Kher, Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Om Shivpuri, Bharat Kapoor, Dalip Tahil, Viju Khote etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) K. Bhagyaraj
(Dialogue) Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Presenter : T. Rama Rao
Producer : A. Poornachandra Rao for 'Lakshmi Productions (P.) Ltd'
Director : K. Bhagyaraj
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Super-Duper Hit
Critic Rating : 4 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8 / 10

Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Golden Jubilee (50+ Weeks) in South and Maharashtra.

Records : Top Highest Grossing Movie Of 1986.

# Biggest Opening and first 4 weeks Collections of the year.

# Year's Most Watched Movie on Home-Video, which ran 4 consecutive weeks on Box-office with 100 % collections in Mumbai territory.

Trivia : 'Aakhree Raasta' is still considered as Amitabh's one of the finest performances to date.

# It was a remake of Kamal Haasan, Radha and Revathi starrer Tamil Hit 'Oru Kaidhiyin Diary' (1984),  directed by P. Bharathiraja and written by K. Bhagyaraj.

# Sri Devi's voice was dubbed by Rekha. It was a second time, after 'Yaarana', when she lend her voice for female lead in Amitabh starrer.

74. SHAHENSHAH
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 12 February 1988

Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role) (Single Role with 2 Characters)

Character : Vijay Srivastava (a Police Inspector) / Shahenshah (a Costumed Crime-Fighter)

Opposite Cast : Meenakashi Sheshadri

Supporting Cast : Pran, Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri, Kader Khan, Rohini Hattangadi, Supriya Pathak, Aruna Irani, Vijayendra Ghatge (in a Guest Role), Jagdeep, Sharat Saxena, Sudhir, Yunus Parvez, Goga Kapoor, Avtaar Gill, Anjan Srivastava, Murad, Master Aftab Shivdasani (as Young Vijay) etc.

Written By : (Story) Jaya Bachchan
(Screenplay) Santosh Saroj
(Scenario-Dialogue) Inder Raj Anand
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Amar-Utpal
Producer : Tinnu Anand, Bittoo Anand and Naresh Malhotra
Director : Tinnu Anand
Grossing Verdict : Block Buster
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 9.5 / 10

Running Score : Allindia Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Diamond Jubilee (75+ Weeks) at  Mumbai circuit.

Records : Top Highest Grossing Movie Of 1988.

# Biggest Opening and first week Collections of the Decade, with a record 140-150% allover India, which continued 100% collections in 2nd week, while the film's pirated video cassettes were also in the high demand for double to triple than market price, from a day before release.

# Most Expensive film of late 80s, which was sold on Decade's 2nd Highest Distribution Price, after Ramesh Sippy's magnum-opus 'Shaan'.

Trivia : In its opening week, Amitabh's fans made a mile-long que to buy tickets. A crowed of 20,000 people began collecting tickets from 9 A.M. onwards for the first show at 'Shiela cinema'- Delhi, which was 20-30 times larger than anything anyone can remember, said the owner Ajay Kaushish. The response was historical and had shattered all advance-booking records.

# More than 100 Rs. charged for a ticket of 12 to 15 Rs, in black market.

# In Varanasi, 'Saajan cinema' had an extra show at 7 A.M. on first Sunday, that had been housefull immediately.

# 250 cinema owners across the country had protected themselves with truck-loads of sten gun-wielding policemen, against the threats given by several opposition parties.

# It was the first film, which had 2 volumes of video-cassette, because of its big length and heavy loads of commercials.

# A one minute spot on the video was reported to have cost advertisers several lakhs.

75. GANGAA JAMUNAA SARASWATHI
Genre : Action packed Family Drama
Release Date : 23 December 1988
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Ganga Prasad (a Truck-Driver)

Opposite Cast : Meenakashi Sheshadri (as Jamuna) and Jaya Prada (as Saraswathi)

Star in a Supporting Role : Mithun Chakraborty

Supporting Cast : Nirupa Roy, Amrish Puri, Bharat Bhushan, Goga Kapoor, Mahesh Anand, Jack Gaud, Chandra Shekhar, Murad, Trilok Kapoor, Mukri, Aruna Irani (in a Guest Role), Master Makrand (as Young Ganga) etc.

Written By : (Story) Prayag Raj
(Screenplay) K.K. Shukla
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Indeevar and Prayag Raj
Music : Annu Malik
Producer : S.Ramanathan for 'Raamraj Kala Mandir'
Director : Manmohan Desai
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Above Average
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 6 / 10

Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 2nd Biggest Opening and first week Collections of the year.

# Sold on 2nd Highest Distribution Price in 1988, after 'Shahenshah', with record number of 270 Prints.

Trivia : In Delhi-U.P. and Punjab centres, it registered a Bumper opening and the strong collections for a number of weeks. Specially in Allahabad and Varanasi BOC were mammoth.

# Although, the film was below average on expectations, its Nett figures were almost closer to year's top ROI hits like 'Tezaab' and 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak'.

# 50,000 legal and triple of its pirated video cassettes had flooded the market overnight from the day one, that swallowed all the expected earnings. It had to face biggest piracy threats of the whole era.

# It was last directorial venture of Manmohan Desai.

# After the grand success of 'Amar Akbar Anthony', writer Kader Khan was working on a script  for Manji, titled 'Amar Akbar Anthony- part 2', keeping the star-cast of Amitabh, Jeetendra and  Rishi Kapoor in mind. Ultimately, the project was launched with a new title 'Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi' in 1979, but because of unavailability of all leading stars, it took a long time to start and finally re-launched in 1986, but this time Jeetendra had been replaced by Mithun Chakraborty.

  Due to discordance between director Manmohan Desai and writer Kader Khan, Manji decided to change the script and made his much-hyped venture with another concept, written by Prayag Raaj, which had already been selected as a future project, called 'Hifazat', similar to Raj Kapoor's ambitious dream-project 'Henna'.

  After, using that concept for 'Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi' he gave the permission to use the title 'Hifazat' for Anil Kapoor-Madhuri Dixit starrer an upcoming untitled movie directed by Prayag Raaj.

 Because, in the final script  there was no need of Rishi Kapoor's character, so he was dropped from the film, finally.

76. TOOFAN
Genre : Super Hero Action-Thriller-Comedy Drama
Release Date : 11 August 1989

Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role) (Doble Role as Twin-Brothers)

Character : Toofan (a Man with super-power) / Shyam (a Street-Magician)

Opposite Cast : Amrita Singh / Minakshi Sheshadri

Star in a Supporting Role : Farooq Shaikh, Zarina Wahab

Star in a Supporting Role : Sonu Walia

Supporting Cast : Pran, Sushma Seth, Kamal Kapoor, Goga Kapoor, Mahesh Anand, Jack Gaud, Bharat Bhushan, Ramesh Deo, Raza Murad, Sudhir Dalvi, Chandra Shekhar, Vikas Anand, Manik Irani, Bob Christo, Jagdeep, Jagdish Raj, Master Amit Shukla (as Young Toofan and Shyam) etc.

Written By : (Story-Dialouge) Salim Khan
(Screenplay) Salim Khan and K.K. Shukla
Lyrics : Indeevar, Prayag Raaj and Gulshan Bawra
Music : Annu Malik
Producer : Manmohan Desai for 'M.K.D. Films'
Director : Ketan Desai
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Average
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8.5 / 10

Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks) / Allindia Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

Records : Biggest Opening and first week Collections of the year.

# Sold on the Highest Distribution Price of  Rs. 1.25 Crore for Mumbai territory and Rs. 1 Crore for other territories, which was little more than Shaan's benchmark figure.

# Year's Most Watched Movie on Home-Video.

Trivia : However, it failed to be a HIT, but due to 100 % Bumper opening and excellent collections of first 2 weeks, it recovered all investments of distributors.

# It was last produced film by Manmohan Desai starring Amitabh Bachchan.

# Its title track 'Aaya aaya toofan..' is the last song, sung by Kishor Kumar, before his death, for an Amitabh Bachchan's movie.

77. JAADUGAR
Genre : Philosophical-Fantasy-Thriller
Release Date : 25 August 1989
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Jaadugar Goga (a Noted Magician)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Prada

Stars in a Supporting Role : Aditya Pancholi, Amrita Singh

Supporting Cast : Pran, Amrish Puri, Bharat Bhushan, Raza Murad, Ram Sethi, Satyen Kappoo, Johny Lever, Bob Christo, C.S. Dubey, Mukri, Vikas Anand, Ram Mohan, Leena Das etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Suraj Sanim

(Dialogue) Kader Khan and Laxmikant Sharma

Lyrics : Anjaan, Javed Akhtar, K.S. Ramesh and Prakash Mehra

Music : Kalyanji-Anandji
Producer-Director : Prakash Mehra
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Disaster
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 / 10
Running Score : -

Trivia : This was the last association of Amitabh Bachchan with Prakash Mehra.

# In satellite era, it earned a smashing popularity among small-screen's viewers and was praised for its unique concept and Amitabh's performance.

# After 'Muqaddar Ka Sikandar', Prakash Mehra wanted to repeat the hottest pair of Amitabh and Vinod Khanna for his next in 1979. He had already selected a script, titled 'Ghulami'. But, after reading the script Vinod felt that the film is mocking his spritual godfather Aacharya Rajneesh. So, he rejected and walked-out, then film got shelved.

  In 1987, Prakash Mehra decided to rivive his old project under new title 'Jaadugar', with same star-cast, but Vinod Khanna was unbowed on his decision. Then Raj Babbar got the chance, but due to declining star-power, he was replaced by Mithun Chakraborty. Eventually, Mithun was also replaced by new comer Aditya Pancholi.

78. MAIN AZAAD HOON
Genre : Realistic Social-Thriller
Release Date : 15 December 1989
Role Type : Central Main Lead

Character : Azaad (a Jobless Common Man, who becomes a Public Figure)

Lead Actress: Shabana Azmi

Supporting Cast : Anupam Kher, Manohar Singh, Annu Kapoor, Raja Bundela, Sudhir Pandey, Anjan Srivastava, Ajit Vachhani, Avtaar Gill, Deepak Qazir, M.K. Raina, Javed Khan, Sachin Khedekar, Mushtaq Khan, Arun Bakshi, Johny Lever etc.

Written By : Javed Akhtar
Lyrics : Kaifi Azmi
Music : Amar-Utpal
Producer : H.A. Nadiadwala
Director : Tinnu Anand
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Flop
Critic Rating : 4.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 4 / 10
Running Score : -

Trivia : The film was launched as 'Satyam', which was an Indian adaptation of a Hollywood classic 'Meet John Doe' (1941).

# It has only one song 'Jitne baazu utne sar..'  sung by Amitabh Bachchan.

79. AGNEEPATH
Genre : Action-Crime-Thriller
Release Date : 16 February 1990
Role Type : Central Main Lead

Character : Vijay DeenaNath Chauhan (an open-handed Gangster)

Opposite Cast : Madhavi

Stars in a Supporting Role : Mithun Chakraborty (as Krishnan Iyer M.A.), Neelam

Supporting Cast : Danny Denzongpa (as Kancha Cheena), Rohini Hattangadi (as Suhasini Chauhan), Vikram Gokhale (as Commissioner M.S. Gaitonde), AlokNath (as Master DeenaNath Chauhan), Tinnu Anand, Goga Kapoor, Sharat Saxena, Archana Puran Singh, Asha Sachdev, Avtar Gill, Anjan Srivastava, Shammi, Bob Christo, Deepak Shirke, Master ManjuNath (as Young Vijay) etc with Shakti Kapoor (Guest Appearance in the song 'Alibaba...')

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Santosh Saroj
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Yash Johar for 'Dharma Productions'
Director : Mukul S. Anand
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Above Average
Critic Rating : 5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 / 10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 4th Highest Grossing Movie of 1990.

# Year's Biggest Opening and first week Collections, before release of 'Aaj Ka Arjun'.

# 3rd Most watched movie on Home-Video, after 'Aaj Ka Arjun' and 'Ghayal' in 1990.

# Most Expensive film of the year.

Trivia : It's a dramatic-interpretation of a poem, written by Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

# Due to its high distribution prices, unique treatment and Amitabh's experimental voice, it failed to collect expected figures on box-office, while the film has grown a strong cult status over the years, after receiving National Film Award for Best Actor by Amitabh Bachchan and for 'Supporting Actor' by Mithun Chakraborty.

# During its premiere week, it received a historical response in Calcutta, Pune and Mumbai

Official Hindi Remake : Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor starrer Karan Johar's 'Agneepath' (2012)

Regional Remakes : 'Sivasakthi'(1996) (Tamil / Telugu) starring Sathyaraj, Prabhu and Rambha.

80. AAJ KA ARJUN
Genre : Action-Thriller-Revenge Drama
Release Date : 10 August 1990
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)

Character : Bheema (a simple-hearted Villager, who becomes a Crime-Fighter)

Opposite Cast : Jaya Prada

Star in a Supporting Role : Radhika

Supporting Cast : Amrish Puri, Anupam Kher, Kiran Kumar, Suresh Oberoi, Preeti Sapru, Rishabh Shukla, Asrani, Junior Mehmood, Vikas Anand, Baby Guddu etc.

Written By : (Story) P. Vasu
(Screenplay) Santosh Saroj
(Dialogue) Anirudh Tiwari
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Bappi Lahiri
Producer-Director : K.C. Bokadia for 'BMB Productions'
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7.5 / 10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : 2nd Highest Grossing Movie of 1990.

# Year's Biggest Opening and first week Collections in all territories.

# Most watched movie on Home-Video in 1990.

Trivia : The film is known as K.C. Bokadia's first directorial venture and Amitabh's comeback on success-knag, after 2 years long ill-fated period. for which, he charged 12 million in remuneration and became India's first and Bollywood's only actor to be paid over ₹ 1 crore until end of 90s.

# This Hindi remake of Tamil Hit 'En Thangachi Pandichava' (1988) was initially titled 'Kaun Sune Fariyaad'.

# Its song 'Gori hain kalaaiyan...' sung by Shabbir Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar, topped the 1990 Annual list of Ameen Sayani's count-down show Binaca Geet Mala on 'Vividh Bharati'.

81. HUM
Genre : Action-Thriller-Family Drama
Release Date : 01 February 1991
Role Type : Central Main Lead

Character : Tiger aka Shekhar (a Rebellious, who turns his life as a Family-man )

Opposite Cast : Kimi Katkar (as Jumma aka Jumalina Gonsalves)

Stars in a Supporting Role : Rajnikanth, Govinda, Deepa Sahi, Shilpa Shirodkar

Supporting Cast : Danny Denzongpa (as Bakhtawar), Kader Khan (Double Role), Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor, Romesh Sharma (as Gonsalves), Deepak Shirke, Asha Sharma, Shammi, Aprajita, Shiva Rindani, Viju Khote, Baby Sanjana etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Ravi Kapoor and Mohan Kaul

(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Romesh Sharma
Director : Mukul S. Anand
Grossing Verdict : Mega Block Buster
ROI Label : Super Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 9 / 10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : Top Highest Grossing Movie of 1991.

# Year's Biggest Opening and first 2 weeks Collections in all territories.

# Most watched movie on Home-Video in 1991.

# 2nd Most Expensive movie, sold on 3rd Highest distribution price of the year.

Trivia : Amitabh Bachchan received his 5th Filmfare Trophy and 3rd Best Actor Award for his power-packed electrifying performance in this film.

# It was 3rd Bollywood film after Tinnu Anand's 'Shahenshah' and Anil Kapoor, Sunny Deol, Sri Devi starrer 'Ram Avtar', which had 2 volumes of video-cassette, because of its big length and heavy loads of commercials.

# Its song 'Jumma chumma de de...' sung by Sudesh Bhosle and Kavita Krishnamoorti, was originally recorded for Ramesh Sippy's shelved movie 'Ram Ki Seeta Shyam Ki Geeta' starring Amitabh Bachchan and Sri Devi (both stars were in Double Role). When the film stopped Mukul S. Anand made a personal request to use the song in his under-production movie 'Agneepath'. But finally, he realized that the song is more suitable for 'Hum', instead of 'Agneepath'.

   Luckily we have seen both the Super Stars Sri Devi and Amitabh dancing together on this epic tune in their Block Buster concert 'Jumma Chumma in London' in 1991. In the History of Indian cinema this is the only live concert, which was released in theaters with 70mm format on 6th May 1991.

# 'Jumma chumma de de...' had broken all previous records of music market. According to sources 30 lakhs cassettes were sold in just 20 days of album's release, and became top chartbuster in all music count-down show. Not only in India but also in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq, Middle East, UK and USA, it created global mass hysteria. But, after an objection and controversies made by a section of minorities, it was banned.

82. AJOOBA

Genre : Action-Thriller-Comedy-Fantasy-Super Hero Drama

Release Date : 12 April 1991

Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)

Character : Zafar Ali Rizwan aka Ajooba (a Prince, blessed with super-powers)

Opposite Cast : Dimple Kapadia
Stars in a Supporting Role : Rishi Kapoor, Sonam

Supporting Cast : Shammi Kapoor, Ariadna Shengelaya, Amrish Puri, Dara Singh, Saeed Jaffrey, Sushma Seth, Dalip Tahil, Tej Sapru, Tinnu Anand, Yunus Parvez, Mac Mohan, Sudhir, Rajendra Nath, Narendra Nath etc.

Written By : Prayaag Raaj, Brij Katyal and  Bhaarat B. Bhalla

Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal

Associate Producers : Kunal Kapoor and Feroz Khan

Producer : Shashi Kapoor in collaboration with 'Gorky Studios' (Moscow)

Director : Shashi Kapoor (Hindi Version) / Gennadiy Vasilev (Russion Version)

Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Disaster
Critic Rating : 2 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 10 / 10
Running Score : -
Records : Most Expensive film of that time.

Trivia : 'Ajooba' was made in two languages- Hindi and Russian. In Soviet Union it was released as 'Vozvrashcheniye Bagdadskogo Vora'. Unfortunately, both versions did not  perform well at box-office.

# Although, the film did a good business in Delhi and U.P, it suffered on ticket-windows in all other circuits, while on satellite channels it earned an excellent TRP and producers could be able to recover their investments.

# Its story was based on a folk tale of 'Arabian Nights'.

# It was the last movie produced by Shashi Kapoor, which is known as his first and only directorial venture.

# Shashi Kapoor wanted Raj Kapoor to direct this film, but because of his health problems, the wish could not be fulfilled. Then on Jaya Bachchan's advice Shashi Kapoor took the responsibility himself.

# Initially, Sri Devi and 'Pratighat' fame Sujata Mehta were offered opposite Amitabh and Rishi Kapoor, but finally Dimple Kapadia and Sonam signed the project for those roles.

83. INDRAJEET
Genre : Action-Thriller-Revenge Drama
Release Date : 02 August 1991
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Inder aka Indrajeet (a Retired Police Officer)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Prada
Stars in a Supporting Role : Kumar Gaurav, Neelam

Supporting Cast : Kader Khan, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Saeed Jaffrey, Vijayendra Ghatge, Avtar Gill, Mahesh Anand, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Sharat Saxena, Kamal Kapoor, Ajinkya Deo, Suresh Chatwal, Shagufta Ali etc.

Written By : (Story) K.V. Raju
(Screenplay) Aziz Qaisi
(Dialogue) Kader Khan
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Bappi Lahiri
Producer : Ramesh Behl for 'Rose Movies'
Director : K.V. Raju
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Hit
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 / 10
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)

Trivia : Film's distribution rights were sold on a very low price, compared to all other Amitabh starrer movies in last 10 years, because of A.B.'s old get-up and disaster result of 'Ajooba'.

# Although, the film was a 'Clean Hit' of year 1991, in later years its real figures and verdict have been suppressed by Amitabh's opponent critics, trade-journals and film-websites.

# It got genuine success allover. Specially in Mumbai, collections were superb.

# After, producer Ramesh Behl's death, this film was completed by his wife Mrs. Behl and son Goldie Behl.

# Amitabh had the distribution rights for Bombay territory, as his remuneration. Before 'Indrajeet' he had distristributed films like Don, Mr. Natwarlal, Do Aur Do Paanch, Yaarana, Kaalia, Coolie, Inquilaab, Aakhree Raasta, Shahenshah, Agneepath, Aaj Ka Arjun, Hum, Ajooba etc in this belt.

# Neelam charged nothing due to producer's death.

# It was a remake of Tiger Prabhakar's  Kannada Hit 'Bandha Muktha' (1987).

84. AKAYLA
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 08 November 1991
Role Type : Central Main Lead (Title Role)
Character : Vijay Verma (a CBI Officer)
Opposite Cast : Amrita Singh

Stars in a Supporting Role : Shashi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Minakshi Sheshadri, Aditya Pancholi, Kiran Juneja

Supporting Cast : Keith Stevenson (Double Role), Kanwaljeet Singh, Mahesh Anand, Helen, Vikram Gokhale, Mangal Dhillon, Gopi Desai, Lalit Tiwari, S.M. Zaheer etc.

Written By : Salim Khan
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Mushir Riaz for 'MR Productions Private Limited'
Director : Ramesh Sippy
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Above Average
Critic Rating : 3 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 8 / 10
Running Score : Crystal Jubilee (100+ Days)
Record : 5th Highest Grossing Movie of 1991.
# One of the Biggest opener of that year.

Trivia : It was Amitabh Bachchan's last collaboration with actor Shashi Kapoor, director Ramesh Sippy and writer Salim Khan.

# After this film Shashi Kapoor made a long distance from acting.

85. KHUDA GAWAH
Genre : Action-Romance-Family Drama
Release Date : 08 May 1992
Role Type : Central Main Lead

Character : Baadshah Khan (a Daring and Honest Pathan)

Opposite Cast : Sri Devi (Double Role) (as Benazeer / Mehandi)

Stars in a Supporting Role : Nagarjuna, Shilpa Shirodkar

Supporting Cast : Danny Denzongpa (as Khuda Bakhsh), Kiran Kumar (as Pasha), Vikram Gohale (as Jailor Ranveer Singh aka Rajpoot Khan), Bharat Kapoor, Anjana Mumtaz, Beena Banerjee, Shammi, Ali Khan, Surendra Pal, Anjan Srivastava, Deepak Shirke, Vikas Anand, Mini Tabassum, Master Imran etc.

Written By : (Story-Screenplay) Santosh Saroj
(Dialogue) Rajkumar Bedi and Santosh Saroj
Lyrics : Anand Bakshi
Music : Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Producer : Nazir Ahmad and Manoj Desai for 'Glamour Films'
Director : Mukul S. Anand
Grossing Verdict : Semi Block Buster (in India) / Block Buster (Worldwide)
ROI Label : Hit (in India) / Super Hit (Worldwide)
Critic Rating : 3.5 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 7 / 10
Running Score : Silver Jubilee (25+ Weeks)

Records : Top Highest Grossing Movie of 1992.

# Year's Biggest Opening and first 2 weeks Collections in all territories.

# One of the Greatest Bollywood Hit in abroad.

# First released film in Afgan country.

# Top Indian Hit of that time in Gulf Countries, Afganistan, Pakistan and Nepal.

# Most watched Hindi movie in the history of Afganistan.

# Most watched movie on Home-Video in 1992.

# 2nd Most Expensive movie of that era, after 'Ajooba'.

# It holds a record in India's Limca Book of Records as first Bollywood film to use Surround Sound technique.

Trivia : It was the only movie of the year 1992, whose tickets were sold on higher prices in black market.

# According to BBC report, "It ran to packed houses for 10 consecutive weeks in Kabul and still remain popular in Afgan country. The film is in great demand after the opening of cinema halls in country."

# The film was launched as 'Qaidi Number 786', but finally director Mukul S. Anand used the title from Amitabh's shelved movie 'Khuda Gawah' (1978).

# Sanjay Dutt was the original choice for the character played by south super star Nagarjuna, but after shooting some of his scenes, he felt insecure working with Mukul S. Anand and Amitabh Bachchan's team and walked out.

# Initially, Dilip Kumar's niece Shaheen was signed for the role of Inspector Heena, but because of her dates clashing with Mukul's another project 'Maha Sangram', he approached to Farah Naaz. Farah also walked out from the film, when she saw Sri Devi had a double role. Finally, Shilpa Shirodkar played that role.

# 'Khuda Gawah' was the last project signed by Amitabh Bachchan in his first inning. After 1988 he stopped signing new projects.

# After 'Indrajeet', it is Mega star's another 'Clean Hit' movie, whose trade-note and real figures have been suppressed by Amitabh's opponent critics, trade-journals and film-websites.

# Film was dubbed in Telugu for south audience.

Remake : Khuda Gawah (2007) (Pakistani TV Series on ATV) starring Arbaz Khan, Saba Qamar, Nayyar Ijaz etc.

86. INSANIYAT
Genre : Action-Thriller
Release Date : 11 March 1994
Role Type : Central Main Lead
Character : Amar Nath Singh (Superintendent of Police)
Opposite Cast : Jaya Prada

Stars in a Supporting Role : Sunny Deol, Chunky Pandey, Raveena Tandon, Sonam, Vinod Mehra

Supporting Cast : Nutan, Prem Chopra, Anupam Kher, Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Shafi Inamdar, Pallavi Joshi, Satyen Kappoo, Alok Nath, Anjana Mumtaz, Aruna Irani, Mac Mohan, Goga Kapoor, Ajit Vachhani, Rakesh Bedi, Tom Alter, Master Aftab Shivdasani (as Young Amar) etc.

Written By : Vijay Kaul
Lyrics : Anjaan
Music : Rajesh Roshan
Producer : Tito for 'Navjeevan Films'
Director : Tony
Grossing Verdict : -
ROI Label : Below Average / Plus
Critic Rating : 2 / 5 Star
Entertainment Dose : 5 / 10
Running Score : Bronze Jubilee (50+ Days)

Record : 4th Highest Grossing Movie of 1994.

# Year's Biggest Opening and first week Collections in all territories.

Trivia : Despite, this delayed release received a bumper response by audience in its first week, 2nd week was disappointing, because of weak script and poor direction.

# The film was planned in 1987 and launched in 1989, then Amitabh was signed for a guest appearance, but eventually his role became full-fledged.

# Nutan and Vinod Mehra, both stars had died before its release.

# It is remembered as Amitabh Bachchan's last released movie of  his 1st inning.

# Initial Star Cast : Sanjay Dutt (replaced by Sunny Deol), Anil Kapoor (replaced by Chunky Pandey), Kimi Katkar (replaced by Raveena Tandon), Raj Babbar (replaced by Anupam Kher) and Sonam with Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Prada, Vinod Mehra and Nutan (in guest roles).

Total- Central Main Lead Roles :  77  (Solo Movies- 35 / Title Roles- 32 / Double Roles- 10 / Triple Role- 1)  /  Second Main Lead Roles : 2  /  Central Supporting Roles :  3  /  Central Special Roles : 2 (Title Role- 1) /  Short Special Roles : 2