- Actors: Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Parveen Babi
- Directors: Manmohan Desai
- Writers: K.K. Shukla, Kader Khan, Prayag Raj, Pushpa Sharma, Smt. Jeevanprabha M. Desai
- Producers: Manmohan Desai, Subhash Desai
- Format: PAL
- Language Hindi
- Subtitles: English
- Region: All Regions
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Tip Top
- DVD Release Date: 21 Jan 2002
- Run Time: 184 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00008IAQY
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: Hindi ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SYNOPSIS: 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.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A wonderfully cheesy Hindi film from the late 1970s when flares were in vogue and disco ruled the roost. Even now some 20 years on, this film still holds its own and is as charming now as it was then but with the added bonus of subtitles to help those people along whose Hindi is somewhat scratchy…
This is a typical Hindi film with a zillion songs, lots of fancy dance routines along with the usual flimsy plot following the fate of three young brothers who find themselves being raised as a Hindu, Muslim and Christian respectively when they are separated from each other after their father goes on the run from the police and their mother disappears.
“Amar, Akbar, Anthony” is a film with no genre whatsoever; it is a drama, comedy, adventure, musical and love story all rolled into one, with the actors and actresses singing and dancing their way through a series of impossible events that culminate in everyone getting their girl, and the mother and father being reunited after 20 years apart. Who says you can’t have happy ending in 20th century films????
This is escapism in its literal sense but it is great fun to watch and you will soon find yourself booing the baddies and cheering on the goodies. Oh yes this film has goodies and baddies, kidnapped girls (who happen to be very beautiful) and heroic rescues from burning buildings, the odd miracle or two, along with a forced marriage, one funeral, an act of vengeance and a delightful scene of riding off into the sunset that will have you laughing and cheering from beginning to end.
With an excellent cast of characters playing the lead roles, all you can do is sit back, pop open a bag of pakoras and much your way through Hindi movie heaven…
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I am afraid that while the film itself is deservedly a classic, the quality of the Tip Top Entertainment DVD copy I received was very bad indeed, more like a high-compression DVX than DVD quality. The supplier tells me that:
"some of [Tip Top's] older titles are simply transferred from VHS onto DVD as to digiatally remaster an old film is quite expensive and has only been done so with a few Bollywood titles to date. Such remastered films are also alot more expensive in retail."
Be prepared to enjoy the film but to be frustrated by the presentation.
"some of [Tip Top's] older titles are simply transferred from VHS onto DVD as to digiatally remaster an old film is quite expensive and has only been done so with a few Bollywood titles to date. Such remastered films are also alot more expensive in retail."
Be prepared to enjoy the film but to be frustrated by the presentation.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A wonderfully cheesy Hindi film from the late 1970s when flares were in vogue and disco ruled the roost. Even now some 20 years on, this film still holds its own and is as charming now as it was then but with the added bonus of subtitles to help those people along whose Hindi is somewhat scratchy...
This is a typical Hindi film with a zillion songs, lots of fancy dance routines along with the usual flimsy plot following the fate of three young brothers who find themselves being raised as a Hindu, Muslim and Christian respectively when they are separated from each other after their father goes on the run from the police and their mother disappears.
"Amar, Akbar, Anthony" is a film with no genre whatsoever; it is a drama, comedy, adventure, musical and love story all rolled into one, with the actors and actresses singing and dancing their way through a series of impossible events that culminate in everyone getting their girl, and the mother and father being reunited after 20 years apart. Who says you can't have happy ending in 20th century films????
This is escapism in its literal sense but it is great fun to watch and you will soon find yourself booing the baddies and cheering on the goodies. Oh yes this film has goodies and baddies, kidnapped girls (who happen to be very beautiful) and heroic rescues from burning buildings, the odd miracle or two, along with a forced marriage, one funeral, an act of vengeance and a delightful scene of riding off into the sunset that will have you laughing and cheering from beginning to end.
With an excellent cast of characters playing the lead roles, all you can do is sit back, pop open a bag of pakoras and much your way through Hindi movie heaven...
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