Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)

Director:

Manmohan Desai

Writers:

Smt. Jeevanprabha M. Desai (story)
Kader Khan (dialogue)
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Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama | Family

Plot:

Three brothers are separated and united after many years - one is brought up a Hindu, another a Muslim and the last (and most memorable) a Christian. Hilarity and adventure ensues.

Plot Keywords:

Muslim | Hindu | Accident | Christian | Brother

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Vinod Khanna	...	Inspector Amar Khanna
Rishi Kapoor	...	Akbar Ilhabadi / Raju
Amitabh Bachchan	...	Anthony Gonzalves
Neetu Singh	...	Dr. Salma Ali
Parveen Babi	...	Jenny
Shabana Azmi	...	Laxmi
Nirupa Roy	...	Bharati
Pran	...	Kishanlal
Jeevan	...	Robert
Yusuf Khan	...	Zebisko (as Yusuf)
Mukri	...	Taiyyab Ali
Nasir Hussain	...	Catholic Priest
Kamal Kapoor	...	Superintendant Khanna
Hercules	...	Zebisko
Shivraj	...	Mr. Ilahabadi
Pratima Devi		(as Protima Devi)
Moolchand		(as Mulchand)
Master Bittoo	...	Young Amar (as Master Bittu)
Master Ravi	...	Young Anthony
Sabina	...	Young Jenny (as Baby Sabina)
Master Tito	...	Young Akbar
Helen	...	Fake Daughter At Airport (Guest Appearance)
Nadira	...	Stepmother (Guest Appearance)
Madhumati	...	Bijli (Guest Appearance)
Ranjeet	...	Ranjeet (Guest Appearance)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gulshan	...	Havaldar (uncredited)

Directed by
Manmohan Desai

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Smt. Jeevanprabha M. Desai		story (as Mrs J.M. Desai)
Kader Khan		dialogue
Prayag Raj		screenplay
Pushpa Sharma		story idea (as Pushpraj Sharma)
K.K. Shukla		scenario

Produced by
Manmohan Desai	....	producer
Subhash Desai	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar		(as Laxmikant-Pyarelal)
Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma		(as Laxmikant-Pyarelal)

Cinematography by
Peter Pereira

Film Editing by
Kamlakar Karkhanis		(as Kamalakar)

Art Direction by
A. Rangaraj		(as A. Rangraj)

Makeup Department
Mohan Mishra	....	assistant makeup artist
Govind Pawar	....	makeup artist
Ramchandra Shinde	....	assistant makeup artist (as Ramchandra)

Production Management
S. Munir	....	production manager
Sakharam Sonavane	....	production manager (as Sakharam)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Danny Desai	....	assistant director
Ketan Desai	....	assistant director
Raju Kapadia	....	second unit director
Latif Khan	....	second unit director (as Abdul Latif Khan)
Naresh Sharma	....	assistant director
Sunil Sikand	....	second unit director
Rajesh Varma	....	second unit director (as Rajesh Verma)

Art Department
Shankar Chougle	....	assistant art director (as Chowgle)
Suresh Sawant	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
P.V. Bawdekar	....	assistant sound
D.B. Dalvi	....	assistant sound
Mangesh Desai	....	sound re-recordist
Kuldeep Singh	....	audiographer
Kuldip Sood	....	associate re-recordist (as Kuldeep Sood)

Special Effects by
Kirit Kumar	....	titles designer: G.D. Art
Ramesh Meer	....	special effects
Peter Pereira	....	special effects

Stunts
Ravi Khanna	....	action composer
Nishan Singh	....	fight assistant (as Nishan)

Camera and Electrical Department
Augustine	....	spot boy
Tapan Basu	....	assistant camera (as Tapan)
V. Durga Prasad	....	camera operator: second unit (as V. Durgaprasad)
Sudhin Majumdar	....	camera operator: second unit
Arun Mistry	....	assistant camera (as Arun)
Nagina	....	spot boy
Y.R. Reddy	....	camera operator (as Reddy)
S. Rehman	....	assistant camera (as Rehman)
Kadak Singh	....	spot boy
Vasant	....	spot boy

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Leena Daru	....	wardrobe
Manak	....	assistant dress (as Manek)
Eknath Nakhle	....	dress assistant (as Eknath)
Mani J. Rabadi	....	wardrobe (as Mani Rabadi)
Narayan Rao	....	dress (as Late Narayan Rao)
Ratan	....	assistant dress

Editorial Department
Suresh Gangar	....	chief assistant editor (as Suresh Ganger)
Tulshi Ghimirey	....	assistant editor (as Tulshi KR. Ghimirey)
Lawrence Rodrigues	....	color consultant (as L. Rodriques)

Music Department
D.O. Bhansali	....	song recordist
Gorakh	....	assistant music
Mahendra Kapoor	....	playback singer
Kishore Kumar	....	playback singer
Lata Mangeshkar	....	playback singer
Mukesh	....	playback singer (as Late Mukesh)
Mohammad Rafi	....	playback singer (as Mohamed Rafi)
Ramanlal	....	associate song recordist
Shashikant	....	assistant music
Shailendra Singh	....	playback singer

Transportation Department
Sunder Singh	....	driver
Tulsiram	....	driver
Vithal	....	driver

Other crew
Anil	....	crowd control
Babloo	....	crowd control
Sujata Bakshi	....	dance assistant (as Sujata)
Bhupendra Balkrishna	....	production assistant
Brij Chopra	....	production controller
Ashok Desai	....	general manager
Pradeep Desai	....	release publicist
I. Fernandes	....	accountant
Gangadhar	....	office boy
Pramod Joshi	....	accountant
Kamal Kumar	....	choreographer (as Kamal)
Harish Kumar Mehra	....	public relations officer (as Harishkumar Mehra)
Anil Nagrath	....	associate director
Rakesh	....	crowd control
Suryakant Sanas	....	office boy (as Suryakant)
G.N. Shah	....	financial advisor
Suresh	....	crowd control
Vibhakar	....	office boy

Thanks
Chetan Thakur	....	acknowledgment (as Shri Chetan Thakur)

Production Companies

• Hirawat Jain and Company
• M.K.D. Films Combine (as M.K.D. Films)
• Manmohan Films

Distributors

• Digital Entertainment (DEI) (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• Eros Entertainment (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd. (2002) (worldwide) (DVD)
• Tip Top Entertainment (TTE) (2002) (UK) (DVD) (as Tip Top Video)

Special Effects

• G.D. Art (titles)

Other Companies

• Don Bosco School, The, Wadala  acknowledgement
• Kachins  wardrobe
• Lekhraj & Co.  junior artists supplier
• Mount Mary Church, The, Bandra  acknowledgement
• Polydor  records on
• Sarvodaya Studios  stills
• Studio Diwakar  publicity design (as Diwakar)
• Super Tailors  wardrobe

Runtime:

184 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

India:U

Filming Locations:

Kamalistan Studios, Andheri, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Hirawat Jain and Company

Trivia:

The line, "sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated with the exuberance of your own verbosity" that is spoken by Anthony when he emerges from the Easter egg is an almost exact quotation from a speech given by Benjamin Disraeli in 1878. Disraeli (who was referring to W.E. Gladstone) used the word "inebriated" rather than "intoxicated".

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the adult Akbar is first seen in the movie at the hospital, he refers to Salma by the actress' real-life name, Neetu.

Quotes:

Anthony Gonzalves: You know the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the hemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Eena Meena Deeka (1994)

Soundtrack:

Taiyyab Ali

They don't make movies like this anymore

Amar , Akbar, Anthony whenever I hear any of those three names I think of one of the greatest movies I've seen. I'm 15 minutes into the movie and I'm already in tears, I couldn't believe a movie like this had so much impact at the first 15-20 minutes. This movie was all around a good movie and is a must see. It starts out with a poor male & female who have three children and the poor man is in trouble seeking out some way to get money for his wife's sickness plus food for his children. When he goes to Robert he begs and the emotion he put into that movie was so heavy you could feel the pain the poor man was going trough. Robert was actual one of those guys that made me say "Just kill this guy already". Usually I like negative rolls and support the negative rolls but Robert was doing a amazing job. The poor man escapes from the sharp claws from Robert he leaves with a car which was filled with gold. He stops by his house to find a "sucide" letter from his wife so he takes his kids and drives off to somewhere then put's his kids in some random park. The bad guys start chasing him so Robert tries to lose em but get's tied up in a car accident which he survived I must say that was a very fake part in the movie but every movie has a flaw eh? Oh well anyways he finds the gold which surprisingly isn't burned and runs around the street with it trying to avoid the cops. He goes to the park to see that his kids are nowhere to be found he starts yelling Aman..? He dosen't yell the other two names so it's him screaming AMAN! Akbar was raised by a Muslim by the time he found the child he was going to drive home but to see Akbar's mom in the street then the Muslim guy takes her to her home but she's blind! She has no idea she is in present with one of her kids. Anthony faints at a local church and Amar was found by a police officer. All three of them grew up with pride of there religion so here we are somewhat 20 years later.

The mom loses bunch of blood then is rushed to her hospital but what the kids don't know is that they are brothers and they really don't know there real mother nor does the mother know her kids due to her being blind. So Amar, Akbar , and Anthony all end up at the same place in the hospital because they have the same blood type of there mother(NO DUH!!!) so they donate blood all to there mom then here comes the opening cerdits with a very touching song. We get to the journey of the three young men and we find out that Akbar & Anthony are very close(Well at least in the first half) so anyways Anthony always refers to the old woman as his mother and so do the other two I think. Anthony also calls Akbar & Amar as his brothers but let's get back to there real dad it seems his the evil guy now LMFAO! But Robert get's away with bunch of gold and Anthony somehow helps him out for a little bit in the movie but what happens? Will Robert regain control of money and power again? Will Amar, Akbar, Anthony find the truth? Will the mom ever be able to see her children again? Watch the blockbuster to find out.

Also the girl who fell in love with Amar did horrible acting at first she said she stole money because there family was poor but she looked like she was giving false information(worst crying in a movie I've seen) I wouldn't believe her no matter what but it turns out she told the truth. I was shocked..