Ranked #41 of 100
Aakrosh
आक्रोश · 1980
A tribal man accused of killing his wife will not speak a word in his own defence, and the young lawyer must find out why.
- Director
- Govind Nihalani
- Year
- 1980
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri
Why it's at number 41
Om Puri's silence for almost the entire runtime, then the scream. Nihalani's debut.
A tribal man accused of killing his wife will not speak a word in his own defence, and the young lawyer must find out why.
Aakrosh sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Govind Nihalani — also responsible for Ardh Satya.
- Released in 1980, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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Film record Wikipedia — Aakrosh (1980) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
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