Ranked #33 of 100
Amar Akbar Anthony
अमर अकबर एंथनी · 1977
Three brothers separated at birth are raised Hindu, Muslim and Christian, and reunite via a blood transfusion staged like a miracle.
- Director
- Manmohan Desai
- Year
- 1977
- Genre
- Action · Comedy
- Cast
- Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh
Why it's at number 33
Manmohan Desai's lost-and-found masala at maximum voltage — and a genuinely radical secular fantasy.
Three brothers separated at birth are raised Hindu, Muslim and Christian, and reunite via a blood transfusion staged like a miracle.
Amar Akbar Anthony sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Manmohan Desai.
- Released in 1977, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Action, Comedy.
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