Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography: PIYA KA GHAR

 Directed by: Basu Chatterjee
Produced by: Rajshri Productions
Written by: Basu Chatterjee (dialogue), Vasant P. Kale (story)
Starring: Jaya Bhaduri, Anil Dhawan, Paintal, Amitabh Bachchan (Guest Appearance)
Music by: Laxmikant Pyarelal
Cinematography: K. K. Mahajan
Release dates: 1972
Language: Hindi
Remake of: Mumbaicha Jawai (Marathi)

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DRISHYAM: Worth watching atleast once

Directed by: Nishikant Kamat
Produced by: Kumar Mangat Pathak, Ajit Andhare, Abhishek Pathak
Written by: Upendra Sidhaye
Story by: Jeethu Joseph
Starring: Ajay Devgn, Shriya Saran, Tabu, Rajat Kapoor
Music by: Vishal Bhardwaj
Background Score: Sameer Phatarpekar
Cinematography: Avinash Arun
Edited by: Aarif Sheikh
Production company: Panorama Studios
Distributed by: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release dates: 31 July 2015
Language: Hindi

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Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography - BANSI BIRJU

BANSI BIRJU (1972)

Director: Prakash Verma

Writers: Aziz Quaisi

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Anwar Ali, Ramesh Bhatia, Ramesh Deo and others..

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Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography - SANJOG

Released: 1971

Director: S.S. Balan

Cast: Mala Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan, Aruna Irani, Madan Puri, Nasir Hussain, Johnny Walker, Keshto Mukherjee, Ramesh Deo, and others

Plot: Mohan (Amitabh Bachchan) and Asha (Mala Sinha) are in love with each other, and eventually marry each other in a private temple. Circumstances separate the couple, and Mohan marries Seema (Aruna Irani) and has two children. Mohan is employed with the local municipality. After 10 years, there is a new Collector coming to town, and that person is Asha, who will take over this position, and will be Mohan's boss.

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Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography: Pyar Ki Kahani

Pyar Ki Kahani (1971)

Director: Ravikant Nagaich

Writers:  Vishwamitter Adil (dialogue), Anand Bakshi (lyrics)

Cast: Tanuja, Amitabh Bachchan, Mala Sinha, Farida Jalal, Anil Dhawan, Mukri, Paintal, Gulshan Bawra, and others…

Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography: GUDDI

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Writers: Gulzar (story), Hrishikesh Mukherjee (screenplay) ...

Cast: Dharmendra, Jaya Bhaduri, Sumita Sanyal, Utpal Dutt, Vijay Sharma, Samit Bhanja, A.K. Hangal, Asrani, Keshto Mukherjee, Lalita Kumari, Ashok Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Pran, Om Prakash, Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Dilip Kumar, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Navin Nischol, Mala Sinha, Shatrughan Sinha and others

There are many guest appearances of many actors, one of them is Amitabh Bachchan.

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Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography: RESHAMA AUR SHERA

Director: Sunil Dutt

Writer: S. Ali Raza

Cast: Waheeda Rehman, Sunil Dutt, Rakhee Gulzar, Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Ranjeet, Sanjay Dutt, Amrish Puri and others...

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Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography: ANAND

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Writers: Hrishikesh Mukherjee (screenplay) and Gulzar (screenplay)

Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Sumita Sanyal, Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo, Lalita Pawar, Durga Khote, Dara Singh

Amitabh won Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for this role.

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Must Watch Movies ... 11

101. The General's Daughter - English (1999)

Director: Simon West

Writers: Cristopher Bertolini, Nelson DeMille (Novel)

Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton Leslie Stefanson and others

102. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 – English (2010)

Director: David Yates

Writers: Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling (Novel)

Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, Ralph Fiennes and others

103. Mumbai Pune Mumbai - Marathi (2010)

Director: Satish Rajwade

Writers: Satish Rajwade, Parag Kulkarni

Stars: Swanil Joshi, Mukta Barve

104. Pandharichi Wari – Marathi (1988)

Director: Ramakant Kavrekar

Stars: Jayashree Gadkar, Raja Gosavi, Ashok Saraf, and others

105. Saransh - Hindi (1984)

Director: Mahesh Bhatt

Writers: Mahesh Bhatt

Stars: Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Soni RaZdan and others

106. Die Hard With Vengeance – English (1995)

Director: John MacTiernan

Writers: Johnathan Hensleigh, Roderick Thorp

Stars: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel Jackson and others

107. Die Hard 4.0 – English (2007)

Director:Len Wiseman

Writers:Mark Bomback

Stars: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Mary Elizabeth Winestead and others

108. Jerry Maguire - English (1996)

Director: Cameron Crowe

Writers: Cameron Crowe

Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Rene Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'connell, Regina King, and others

109. My Cousin Vinny- English (1992)

Director: Jonathan Lynn

Writers: Dale Launer

Stars: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, and others

110. The Hangover – English (2009)

Director:Todd Phillips

Writer: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore

Stars: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifiankis, Justin Bartha, Heather Grahm and others

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Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography ...... 10

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Dum Maro Dum

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Rohan Sippy
Language: Hindi
Story: Shridhar Raghavan
Star Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Prateik Babbar, Aaditya Pancholi, Rana Daggubati, Mariah Gomes, Govind Namdeo, Deepika Padukone, Anaitha Nair, Vidya Balan
Music: Pritam
Dum Maro Dum is a movie set in Goa. In the movie Goa became capital of drugs in India because of greedy politicians and businessmen. So CM of Goa appoints ACP Vishnu Kamath played by Abhishek Bachchan to hunt down all the drug mafia. Lorsa Biscuita aka Biscuit played by Aditya Pancholi is the main drug dealer in that area. Biscuita uses needy youngsters for drug trafficking. One of such innocent boys is Lorry played by Prateik Babbar who wants to follow his girlfriend to US for higher education. But Police trap him and charge him for drug trafficking. His well wisher Joki played by Rana Daggubati tries his best to get him out of it. ACP Kamath has to find Michael Barbusa, an invisible man who runs this racket through Biscuit. How Kamath does complete his job with the help of Joki and Lorry forms the rest of the story.
Dum Maro Dum is good thriller. Definitely it is not unwatchable. Very well narrated and directed story and well enacted too by most of the actors. Music by Pritam enhanced the movie experience. It has the oomph we associate with Goa. Abhishek Bachchan yet again managed to amaze me with his singing ability. Deepika Padukone in item number was hot.
Aditya Pancholi as a villain did good job. But it left me wanting for little more. I strongly feel Bollywood today missing yesteryears villains like Pran, Amjad Khan or Amrish Puri. Bipasha was almost wasted in the movie. Her role is almost forgettable. Climax of the movie was also little disappointing. Other than that Rohan Sippy did commendable job.
If I have to rate this movie I will give 7 out of 10.

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Patiala House

Genre: Drama

Director: Nikhil Advani

Language: Hindi

Story: Nikhil Advani

Dialogues: Ancita Dutt Guptan

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Hard Kaur, Tinnu Anand, Prem Chopra and others

If any movie could fit in the genre of Drama, it’s got to be “Patiala House”. Akshay Kumar played Gattu in this movie. He is a man who has watched his dreams die and restrained himself from going for his dreams. The movie revolves around the conflict Gattu and his father played by Rishi Kapoor, who lives in London’s Southall area but could never absorb into his adopted country. And prime reason for this was various racial attacks on him and his family. He stood against these racial attacks which results him being jailed for violence against ‘goras’. So he now hates them with such a passion that it is now only motto in his life. So when his son got an opportunity to play for England cricket team, he does not allow him. And his son Gattu gave up his dreams for his father’s sake and live dejected life for years. But his silence affects the other members in his big joint family. They have to kill their dreams as well. Till the character played by Anushka Sharma came into Gattu’s life. She makes Gattu go for his dreams once more. But how will his father react to that?
Frankly apart from Anushka Sharma I could say anything good about this movie. Logic evades me throughout the movie. I can understand a comedy movie being illogical but movie in the genre of Drama needs some logic. Anyway this movie was lot better than Nikhil Advani’s recent movies.

If I have to rate this movie I will give it 5 out of 10.

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JHOOTHA HI SAHI

Movie Review “Jhootha Hi Sahi” (2010)

Genre: Romantic comedy

Director: Abbas Tyrewala

Language: Hindi

Star Cast: John Abrahm, R. Madhavan, Pakhi, Raghu Ram, Manasi Scott, Anaitha Nair, Nandana Sen, Alishka Varde and others.

After hugely successful JAANE TU YA JAANE NA, Abbas Tyrewala comes up with one more romantic comedy JHOOTHA HI SAHI. It is refreshing than our regular romantic movies.

It is a story of Siddharth played by John Abraham who runs an Indian bookshop in London. I like the name of this bookshop - 'Kagaz Ke Phool', innovative and apt name for bookshop. This shop is co-owned by his Pakistani friend Omar played by MTV Rodies fame Raghu Ram. Siddharth has a girlfriend name Krutika played by Manasi Scott, who is very dominating. One night, Siddharth starts getting calls from unknown people who are attempting to commit suicide. He later comes to know that his number was mistakenly printed on fliers of an Indian emergency suicide helpline. Now, it's upon him to answer and help callers who want to end their lives. Bizarre isn’t it, but that’s how we meet Mishka played by Pakhi, who wants to attempt suicide because her boyfriend left her. Obviously Siddharth comforts her and stops her from committing suicide. In the process they became very close phone friend. Siddharth knows her name, but Mishka doesn't know his. So when they meet Siddharth recognizes her but not Mishka. With the help of his friendship with Mishka on the phone, Siddharth manages to woo Mishka. But what will happens when Siddharth’s girlfriend will find out? What if Mishka’s boyfriend comes back? What will happen when mishka knows the truth? Will that endanger their friendship too?

You will find it through some drama and some comedy. But I would have like to see some more drama and specially comedy. Abbas Tyrewalla did good job but there was much more scope to explore the script and situations. As for the actors John Abrahm did his best but I think he could not do enough justice to the character. Same goes for Pakhi. Stand out actor in this movie was undoubtedly Raghu Ram. He did it with ease, it seemed like he was not acting but playing himself.

If I have to rate this movie I will give it 6 out of 10.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Amitabh Bachchan's Filmography ............ Part 6

51.Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978)
Directed by Prakash Mehra
Produced by Prakash Mehra
Written by Vijay Kaul (screenplay), Kader Khan (dialogue)
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee Gulzar, Rekha, Vinod Khanna, Goga Kapoor, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Ranjeet
Amitabh nominated for, Filmfare Best Actor Award.

52.Cinema Cinema (1979)
Director: Krishna Shah
Writer: Krishna Shah (writer)
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Dharmendra, Hema Malini

 

53.Ahsaas (1979)
Director: Surindara Suri
Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Simi Garewal, Rakesh Bedi, Amjad Khan, Bindu, Simple Kapadia, Sunder, Dina Pathak, Kiran Vairale, Parvez, Shammi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan in guest appearance.

 

54.The Great Gambler (1979)
Director: Shakti Samanta
Writers: Ranjan Bose (screenplay), Vrajendra Gaur (dialogue)
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh, Prem Chopra, Utpal Dutt, Madan Puri, Om Shivpuri, Iftekhar, Helen, Madhu Malhotra

55.Gol Maal (1979)
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Produced by N.C Sippy
Written by Sachin Bhowmick
Cast: Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami, David, Deven Verma, Dina Pathak, Om Prakash, Keshto Mukherjee, Manju Singh, Shubha Khote, Yunus Parvez, Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh made special appearance in movie as himself.

56.Jurmana (1979)
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Writers: Bimal Dutta
Cast: Vinod Mehra, Rakhee Gulzar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shreeram Lagoo, A.K. Hangal, Asrani, Farida Jalal, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, and others

57.Manzil (1979)
Director: Basu Chatterjee
Writers: Ashish Burman, Manohar Shyam Joshi
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Moushumi Chatterjee, Rakesh Pandey, Satyendra Kapoor, A.K. Hangal, Urmila Bhatt, C.S. Dubey, Praveen Paul, Lalita Pawar, Shreeram Lagoo

 

58.Mr. Natwarlal (1979)
Director: Rakesh Kumar
Writers: Gyandev Agnihotri (story), Kader Khan (dialogue)
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Ajit, Kader Khan, Rajni Sharma, Indrani Mukherjee, Satyendra Kapoor, Iftekhar, Yunus Parvez, Veeru Devgan
Amitabh was nominated for, Filmfare Best Actor Award & Filmfare Best Male Playback Award

 

59.Kaala Patthar (1979)
Director: Yash Chopra
Writers: Javed Akhtar, Salim Khan
Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Neetu Singh, Parveen Babi, Parikshat Sahni, Prem Chopra, Romesh Sharma, Poonam Dhillon, Manmohan Krishna, Madan Puri.
Nominated for, Filmfare Best Actor Award

60.Suhaag (1979)
Director: Manmohan Desai
Writers: Kader Khan (dialogue), Prayag Raj (story)
Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Parveen Babi, Nirupa Roy, Ranjeet, Kader Khan, Amjad Khan, Jeevan

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Lafangey Parindey

Movie Review “Lafangey Parindey” (2010)

Genre: Romance

Director: Pradip Sarkar

Language: Hindi

Star Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Deepika Padukone and others

Banner: Yash Raj

“Lafangey Parindey” is one catchy name for any movie but sadly the movie could not live up to its title. This movie is set in the chawls of Mumbai. So we find all that happens in slums and already seen on screen many times in this movie also.

This movie is a story of One-shot Nandu (played by Neil Nitin Mukesh) who is a local fighter of Tilak Wadi. He always fights his opponents blindfolded so naturally takes lot of thrashing. But he is a Hero so in the end one deadly blow from him and the opponent is knocked down. These fights is his way of earn his food. Then there is Pinky Palkar (played by Deepika Padukone), who is ambitious and hates her surrounding at Tilak Wadi. She’s a talented dancer and has the dream of winning a talent show with her roller-skating skills. Then one accident entangles their life together. An accident caused by Nandu which made Pinky blind and crashed all her dream. So out of guilt Nandu decides to help Pinky to achieve her dream and start to train her. While this training they start to love each other. But what will happen when Pinky knows the truth? Will her dream ever come true?

There are some cool stunts on bikes, some funny and witty lines. I love the child actor with slang and witty lines. He was the best thing about this movie. Neil Nitin Mukesh is good, Deepika look beautiful; acting could have been bit better. Pradip Sarkar has lost a tack a little after ‘Parinita’. Actually this does not seem like his type of movie.

If I have to rate this movie I will give it 5 out of 10.

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Must Watch Movies .......... Part 8

71. Natrang - Marathi (2010)

Director: Ravi Jadhav

Writer:Ravi Jadhav (ScreenPlay), Dr. Anand Yadav (Novel)

Music: Ajay - Atul

Genre: Drama, Musical, Social
Cast:Atul Kulkarni, Sonalee Kulkarni, Vibhavari Deshpande, Kishor Kadam, Priya Berde, and others

watch it for Atul Kulakarni's acting, Sonalee Kulakarni's beauty and Ajay-Atul's Music.......

72. Checkmate - Marathi (2008)

Director, Writer and Cinematographer: Sanjay Jadhav
Producer: Kanchan Satpute, Chandrashekhar Mahamunj
Genre: Mystery, comedy
Cast: Ankush Chaudhari, Sanjay Narvekar, Swapnil Joshi, Rahul Mehendale, Vinay Apte, Anand Abhankar, Sonali Khare and others

Music: Sunil Kaushik

One of the best films in Marathi in technical aspects.......

73. Jogwa - Marathi (2009)

Director: Rajiv Patil

Producer: Shripal Morakhia

Music: Ajay - Atul

Genre: Drama, Social

Cast: Upendra Limaye, Mukta Barve, Vinay Apte, Kishor Kadam, Aditi Deshpande, Priya Berde, Pramod Pawar, Amita Khopkar, Prashant Patil, Chinmay Mandlekar and Others........

74. Harishchandrachi Factory- Marathi (2010)

Director & Writer: Paresh Mokashi

Producer: Ronnie Screwalla, Smiti Kanodia, Paresh Mokashi
Genre: Bigraphical, Drama
Cast: Nandu Madhav, Vibhavari Deshpande, Mohit Gokhale, Atharva Karve, Dilip Joglekar, Ketan Karande, Sandip Pathak and Others

Music: Narendra Bhide

Watch how movie business started in India..

75. Agneepath – Hindi (1990)

Director: Mukul Anand
Writers: Kader Khan (Dilogues), Santosh Saroj (Screenply)
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Madhavi, Neelam, Danny Denzongpa, Alok Nath, Rohini Hattangadi, Tinnu Anand, Vikram Gokhale, Archana Puran Singh, Sharat Saxena, and others

76. A Mighty Heart- English (2007)

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writers:John Orloff (ScreenPlay), Mariane Pearl (Book)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Irfan Khan and others

77. Mystic River – English (2003)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Brian Helgeland
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Crime
Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney and others........

78. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone – English (2001)

Director: Chris Columbus

Producer: David Heyman

Writer: Steve Kloves (ScreenPlay), J.K. Rowling (Novel)
Genre: Children, Magic, Thriller
Cast: Daniel Redcliff, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Ian Hart and Others........

79. Righteous Kill – English (2008)

Director: Jon Avnet

Writer: Russel Gewirtz

Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg and others........

80. The Da Vinci Code – English (2006)

Director: Ron Howard

Writer: Akiva Goldsman, Dan Brown (Novel)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, History,
Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian Mckellen, Alfred Mollina, Paul Bettany and others.......

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