Amar Akbar Anthony

Masti, Masala, Comedy, Drama - sab kuch toh hai iss movie main. So, what's such a movie called? Classic.


Story: This story is about Kishanlal (Pran) and his family. Kishanlal is released from jail and is dishearted, shocked to find how his ex-master Robert (Jeevan) has never taken care of his family despite Kishanlal being loyal and taken the blame and punishment for latter's deeds. Robert, on the other hand, insults Kishanlal to make matters worse which evokes Kishanlal to rob Robert of some of his riches.

Kishanlal's wife, Bharati (Nirupa Roy), tries to commit suicide to free her husband of more worries, leaving behind their three sons - Amar, Raju and Chotu. Her attempt proves to be futile as fate had something else stored in for her and she turns blind. While trying to escape the bad goons chasing for Robert's goods, Kishanlal has an accident that makes everyone think that he's dead. Another turn of luck and that his three sons are separated too and lost in the big world.

Amar, Raju and Chotu grow up to be Amar, Akbar and Anthony respectively. Amar (Vinod Khanna) is raised by a Hindu police inspector, while Anthony (Amitabh Bachchan) is raised by a Christian priest and Akbar (Rishi Kapoor) is raised by a Muslim tailor.

Now, this is one movie which is not at all deficit of 'kahaani main twist'. Kishanlal kidnaps Robert's daughter and raises her as Jenny (Parveen Babi). Another reason for Robert to seek vendetta from Kishanlal.

Anthony and Jenny paint the town red, while Akbar is head over heels in love with Salma (Neetu Singh) and Amar finds his soulmate in Laxmi (Shabani Azmi). Each love story has its own villain. Zebisko (Yusuf Khan) wants to marry Jenny and won't stand Anthony a second. Salma's father, Taiyyab Ali (Mukri), finds Akbar not so perfect for his daugher. And then, we have Laxmi's step brother Ranjeet (Ranjeet) who molests Laxmi and is jailed by Amar.

Disclosing anything beyond this would be an awful crime. :) It's a Hindi movie and so all ends well as all separated ones reunite.

However, this blog does call for quoting certain popular moments. Or should I say, THE CLASSIC MOMENTS.

* What do I think of when I need to start a song with 'Ma' in Antakshari???
Think, think, think... :D



* Talk about how one should apply dettol on their wounds, then have a dekko here.

* If you feel desolated about losing a conversation/fight with someone with scoreboard of 2 vs 10, you gotta know that this is THE life saving dialogue video from 9th minute.

Something that has always amazed me is the pace of some of these classic movies. There are so many twists and turns. And some of the masterpieces (like this one) have taken every care to make sure that every scene is connected logically and that there's a reason for everything that happens. For example, does it matter what profession does the hero/heroine belong to? Not really, as seen in majority of the movies. Consider Neetu Singh's character in AAA: She's a doctor. And that's for just one purpose: she's the one to overhear Jeevan identify Nirupa Roy as Pran's wife.

Manmohan Desai, the director of this movie did repeat the very same formula after a gap of 4 years - Naseeb. A hard core AAA fan can easily call Naseeb a passe'. However, Naseeb did purvey the famous 'John Johnny Janardhan' number.

Besides making sure that his movie has twists and turns, nothing new to proffer and a cast full of stars - Manmohan Desai also made sure to convey a point that India is a secular country.

The movie had music composed by Laxmikanth Pyarelal. The music department gets a 4.0 rating as well. Now the songs are popular and well known till to-date.

That's all from your very own think-M for now. Happy reading!

think M Rating: 4.0/5.0