Amitabh Bachchan Movies

This is an early film in the career of the multitalented Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan. Bachchan plays Subeer, a pop singer who dominates India's music scene. He meets Uma (Jaya Bhaduri), a country girl with a beautiful singing voice. Subeer brings Uma back to the city and makes her a star. However, tensions grow as Uma's career begins to overshadow that of Subeer. The film supplies plenty of the melodrama and music that are popular with Indian audiences. ~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, All Movie Guide

This Hindi action-drama stars Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay Dinanath Chahuan, a man whose moral father was murdered by the local mobsters. When Vijay reaches adulthood, he himself gets involved in the criminal underworld and ruthlessly rises through the ranks with the sole purpose of getting even with the boss who had his father killed. This violent and melodramatic film is epic in length and is one of Bachchan's most highly respected dramatic roles. ~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, All Movie Guide

Released after censorship restrictions were lifted by a more liberal Indian government, Amar Akbar Anthony indulged audiences in a story with loose morals and visual excitement. The Chinese box of a narrative is essentially a comedy of errors concerning three brothers, Amar, Akbar, and Anthony. Abandoned in a park by their father, the three are raised separately and without knowledge of each other. By coincidence they all find themselves giving blood to a woman in a hospital and events stemming from this encounter bring them together. All three meet women who they fall in love with, but when their father, who unbeknownst to them has become a successful smuggler, kidnaps one of the women, all three become implicated in the struggle for her release. At the end of the film, the identities of the three are revealed, the police reveal that the smuggler is their father, and they manage to defeat a variety of criminal elements. The film closes with the brothers reunited, driving off into the sunset with their women.

~ Brian Whitener, All Movie Guide

Directed by Honey Irani, Armaan centers around Dr. Siddharth Sinha's (Amitabh Bachchan) effort to build a state-of-the-art hospital that would provide treatment to any patient, regardless of race, caste, or financial status. His son, Dr. Akash Sinha (Anil Kapoor), is initially determined to help his father reach his goal, but his priorities change after finding himself caught in a complicated love triangle. Eventually, Dr. Akash must choose between the woman that he loves and his father's dream. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide

A young boy befriends a kindly ghost after moving with his family into a new house and not realizing that it is haunted. Banku and his family had no idea that their new home was already occupied, and at first Boothnath thought the family was attempting to take away his home. After a failed attempt at frightening the family away, Boothnath realizes that they wish him no harm and strikes up a close friendship with young Banku. This is the story of a boy and his ghost, inseparable friends who share the joy of the good times, and always help each other through the bad times. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Indian filmmaker Kaizad Gustad directs the big-budget crime heist movie Boom, starring supermodels Katrina Kaif and Padma Lakshmi. The story involves a group of fashion models who decide to take on the criminal underworld in a fight to acquire stolen diamonds. Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, and Gulshan Grover play the gangsters. Bo Derek appears in a scene reminiscent of her work in 10 (1979). Like Gustad's previous film Bombay Boys, the dialogue in Boom is spoken in a combination of Hindi and English. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

A man in the autumn of his years finds love with a woman three decades his junior in this romantic comedy-drama. Buddha Gupta (Amitabh Bachchan) is a man in his mid-Sixties who has devoted his life to running the most celebrated Indian restaurant in London. Buddha puts his professional life before his personal needs, and has only two close companions -- his mother (Zohra Sehgal), who lives with him and still bosses him around, and a young girl (Swini Khara) who is suffering from a terminal illness. One evening at his restaurant, Buddha encounters a customer who has the nerve to send back a dish, saying it isn't spicy enough, and he meets Nina Verma (Tabu), an attractive and self-assured woman in her thirties who refuses to be intimidated by the restaurateur's reputation. While their first meeting is less than cheerful, fate keeps bringing Buddha and Tina together, and in time they realize they've fallen in love and decide to get married. When Tina learns her father Omprakash (Paresh Rawal) is in the hospital after a heart attack, she flies to India with her fiancé in tow; Buddha, who is several years older than Omprakash, tries to break the news of the coming nuptials to him by asking the father for Tina's hand in marriage. Buddha's respect for tradition leads to a difficult situation when Omprakash refuses to give permission for the May-December lovers to wed. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Director Shah Krishna compiled this compelling documentary of Indian cinema after spending two years searching through film archives from all over the world. Included are films from the turn of the 20th century through the 1970s to illustrate various schools of filmmaking and the historical progression of the art form. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide