by Connie Haham
amar akbar anthony
Year: l977 (Colour)
Producer: Manmohan Desai
Story: Mrs.J.M.Desai
Screenplay: Prayag Raj
Scenario: K.K. Shukla
Dialogue: Kadar Khan
Lyrics Anand Bakshi
Music: Laxmikant Pyarelal
Camera: Peter Pereira
Dance: Kamal
Cast: Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Shabana Azmi, Parveen Babi,Nirupa Roy, Jeevan, Pran, Mukri, Yusuf, Hercules, Nasir Hussain, Protima Devi,Master Ravi,Master Bittu, Baby Shabia, Madhumati, Nadira, Helen, Ranjeet
See Chapter 2 devoted to the film.
suhaag
Year: l979 (Colour)
Producer: Prakash Trehan and Subhash Sharma
Story idea: Late Mrs. J.M. Desai
Story: Prayag Raj
Screenplay: K.K. Shukla
Dialogue: Kadar Khan
Lyrics Anand Bakshi
Music: Laxmikant Pyarelal
Camera: V. Durga Prashad
Dance: Kamal and Suresh Bhatt
Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Parveen Babi, Nirupa Roy, Amjad Khan, Ranjeet, Kadar Khan, Jeevan, Jagdish Raj, Hercules, Komila Wirk, Krishan Dhawan
At the opening of Suhaag Durga (Nirupa Roy) bears twin sons, but the corrupt Vikram Singh (Amjad Khan) refuses to acknowledge his children and banishes all three. In the city one of Durga’s sons is stolen, sold to a beggar chief (Jeevan). As an adult Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) loves alcohol, the goddess Durga and Basanti (Rekha), a dancing girl in a nearby courtesan parlour. The other son, Kishan, fed on milk and his mother’s love, becomes a respectable policeman (Shashi Kapoor). In the course of his duty, Kishan meets Anu (Parveen Babi). The two young women, Anu and Basanti, it soon transpires, are sisters. Kishan and Amit become friends and when Kishan is blinded by the now notorious gangster Vikram Singh, Amit follows Kishan’s advice and joins the police force in order to give chase to the man he cannot guess is his own father. After learning that they are brothers, Amit and Kishan bravely save their father’s life. He in turn finally recognizes his wife and sons and gives his eyes to the blinded Kishan.
naseeb
Year: l981 (Colour)
Producer: Manmohan Desai
Story idea: Late Smt. J.M. Desai
Story: Prayag Raj
Screenplay: K.K. Shukla
Scenario: K.B. Pathak
Dialogue: Kadar Khan
Lyrics Anand Bakshi
Music: Laxmikant Pyarelal
Camera: Jal Mistry
Dance: Kamal
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Hema Malini, Kim, Reena Roy, Amjad Khan, Prem Chopra, Kadar Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Pran, Jeevan, Shobha Khote, Amrish Puri, Mukri, Yusuf Khan, Lalita Pawar, Dulari, Jagdish Raj, Meena Rai, Ekram, Abbas Muntajir
A winning lottery ticket leads to deadly enmity among four friends. Namdev (Pran) is framed for murder and then apparently killed. Ms. Gomes (Lalita Pawar) raises his two sons John and Sunny along with her daughter Julie. The adult John Jani Janardhan (Amitabh Bachchan) becomes a waiter at the 5-star restaurant that Raghu (Kadar Khan) and Damu (Amjad Khan) have opened with the lottery money. John boxes after hours to put his brother Sunny (Rishi Kapoor) through school. Damu’s son Vicki (Shatrughan Sinha) has remained John’s best friend. After many trials, John, Sunny and Vicki find love with Miss Asha (Hema Malini) Kim (Kim) and Julie (Reena Roy). Namdev returns to India, where he joins his sons and Vicki in a final fight, defeating the treacherous Raghu and international criminal Don (Amrish Puri) in a burning revolving restaurant.
desh premee
Year: l982 (Colour)
Producer: Subhash Desai
Story: Prayag Raj
Screenplay: K.B. Pathak
Dialogue: Kadar Khan
Lyrics Anand Bakshi
Music: Laxmikant Pyarelal
Camera: Peter Pereira
Dance: Kamal, P. L. Raj
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan (in a double role), Hema Malini, Sharmila Tagore, Navin Nischol, Parveen Babi, Shammi Kapoor, Uttam Kumar, Premnath, Parikshat Sahani, Kadar Khan, Prem Chopra, Amjad Khan, Jeevan
See Chapter 10: Serious Undertones
Self-Sacrificing or Self-Seeking
coolie
Year: l983 (Colour)
Producer: Ketan M. Desai Desai
Executive Producer: Manmohan Desai
Director: Prayag Raj and Manmohan Desai
Story: Prayag Raj
Additional Story: Pushpa Raj Sharma
Screenplay: K.K. Shukla
Dialogue: Kadar Khan
Lyrics Anand Bakshi
Music: Laxmikant Pyarelal
Camera: Peter Pereira
Dance: Kamal
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Shoma Anand, Suresh Oberoi, Kadar Khan, Om Shivpuri, Satyan Kappu, Nilu Phule, Goga, Puneet Issar, Mukri, Shobha Khote, Kishan Dhawan, Ashalata, Tun Tun, Sajjan, Sheik,Vilas Rakte, C.S. Dubey, Sulochana Monkar, Prem Sagar, Sunil Dhawan, Master Ravi, Master Nadeem, Baby Shabana, Baby Sadia, Amrish Puri, Chandrashekhar
See Chapter 3 devoted to the film.
mard
Year: l985 (Colour)
Producer: Manmohan Desai
Executive Producer: Ketan M. Desai
Director: Manmohan Desai
Story: Prayag Raj
Additional Story: Pushpa Raj Sharma
Screenplay: K.K. Shukla
Dialogue: Inder Raj Anand
Additional Dialogue: Anil Nagrath and Sohel Don
Lyrics: Rajinder Krishen, Prayag Raj, Indivar
Music: Anu Malik
Camera: Peter Pereira
Dance: Kamal
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Amrita Singh, Nirupa Roy, Dara Singh, Prem Chopra, Goga Kapoor, Kamal Kapoor, Bob Christo, Manek, Satyan Kappu, Seema Deo, Helena, Dan Dhanoa, Kirti Kumar, Christopher, Joginder,Wonder Dog Moti
India is under the British yoke. When the people protest General Dyer’s (Kamal Kapoor) looting of the country’s treasures, they are massacred. Raja Azaad Singh (Dara Singh) heroically impedes the British theft. Azaad Singh’s wife Durga (Nirupa Roy) bears a son; Azaad Singh carves the name Mard (man) on the baby’s chest. The Anglo-Indian doctor Hari (Prem Chopra) helps the British to capture Azaad Singh and to dispossess him of his kingdom. In the resulting turmoil, Durga is separated from her baby and finds herself mute. The child is adopted by a kindly couple. Azaad Singh is sentenced to life in prison. The British award Doctor Hari a castle and a lucrative position in return for his services.
Twenty years later the doctor’s spoiled daughter Ruby (Amrita Singh) and Raju ‘tangewala’—Mard—(Amitabh Bachchan) fall in love, thus angering Ruby’s father’s, whose choice for her is Danny (Dan Dhanoa), General Dyer’s son. In Danny’s slave labour camp Durga and her husband are reunited. Raju and his father must battle the villains in order to liberate all from the camp.
gangaa jamunaa saraswathi
Year: l988 (Colour)
Producer: S. Raamanathan
Director: Manmohan Desai
Screenplay: K.K. Shukla
Dialogue: Kadar Khan
Lyrics: Prayag Raj, Indivar
Music: Anu Malik
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jaya Pradha, Meenakshi Seshadri, Nirupa Roy, Amrish Puri
Thakur Hansraj (Amrish Puri) is a jealous brother and uncle who renders his sister (Nirupa Roy) a widow and takes control of her property. Young Gangaa vows revenge. An adult, Gangaa (Amitabh Bachchan) rides his red truck to the rescue of the dancing girl Saraswathi (Jaya Pradha), who falls in love with Gangaa, who, in turn, falls in love with Jamunaa (Meenakshi Seshadri). Meanwhile, Shankar Qawal (Mithun Chakraborty) is smitten by Jamunaa, not realizing that she is the same woman that his friend Gangaa loves. Jamunaa, pregnant with Gangaa’s child, is rejected by her community but befriended by Saraswathi who delivers the baby. Gangaa, Jamunaa and baby Munna are brie
fly reunited before a bomb planted on a bridge sends the family into the river below. Gangaa saves Munna but believes his wife dead. Shankar finds Jamunaa as she washes ashore, amnesiac. Just as she is ready to marry Shankar, her memory returns. A final showdown with Thakur sees Gangaa suspended above a pit of crocodiles. The cobra that Gangaa has earlier protected comes to his rescue. Shankar and Saraswathi die sacrificing their lives for Jamunaa and Gangaa who are reunited.
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