AMAR AKBAR ANTHONY (1977)

Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna
Director: Manmohan Desai
Duration: 175 minutes
Released: DEI

RADIOSARGAM.COM DVD RATING:
*****

MOVIE STORY:
Amar Akbar Anthony is about three brothers who get separated at a very young age and are adopted by people with different religions. Therefore, the first brother is Hindu, the second a Muslim and the third a Christian. Whilst Amar the Hindu grows up to become a police officer, Akbar the Muslim becomes a tailor and Anthony the Christian turns into a good for nothing loafer. Each of the men also finds love in their own individual way with three beautiful women. After a series of trial and tribulations, the lost and disintegrated family reunites.

MOVIE BACKGROUND:
Amar Akbar Anthony features an all star cast including the likes of Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Pran, Parveen Babi, Shabana Azmi and Neetu Singh. It has excellent performances from the whole cast, but the highlight is undoubtedly Amitabh Bachchan, who bagged the Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1978. The film also won the award for best music thanks to the best selling soundtrack by Laxmikant Pyarelal, which included the smash hit tracks 'My Name is Anthony Gonsalves' and 'Amar Akbar Anthony'. The film instantly struck a chord with the audience, who couldn't get enough of the film's perfect mixture of laugh out loud comedy, edge of your seat action and tear jerking romance. The movie set the trend for films based on lost and found themes. A dozen odd movies were made with a similar theme after Amar Akbar Anthony struck gold at the box office, but none of them succeeded like the original.

DVD FEATURES:
Movie (with subtitle options in English)
Chapters
Songs
Dolby Digital Mono
Standard 1.33:1

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