Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Indian Hindi-language masala film directed and produced by Manmohan Desai and written by Kader Khan. Released in India on 27 May 1977, the film stars an ensemble cast of Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh, Shabana Azmi, Nirupa Roy and Pran. The plot focuses on three brothers separated in childhood who are adopted by families of different religions; Hinduism, Islam and Christianity. They grow up to be a police officer, a qawwali singer and the owner of a country bar, respectively.

The soundtrack album was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi. The film was released on 27 May 1977 and earned ₹155 million (US$17.69 million) at the Indian box office, becoming the highest-grossing Indian film of that year, alongside Dharam Veer and Hum Kisise Kum Naheen.

Religious resistance got to be a point of interest subject in Bollywood masala movies, building on the masala equation spearheaded a few a long time prior by Nasir Hussain's Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973). Amar Akbar Anthony moreover had a enduring affect on pop culture with its catchy tunes, quotable one-liners, and the character of Anthony Gonsalves (played by Bachchan). It won a few grants at the 25th Filmfare Grants, counting Best Performing artist, Best Music Executive and Best Altering. It was afterward revamped in Tamil as Shankar Salim Simon (1978), in Telugu as Slam Robert Rahim (1980), and in Malayalam as John Jaffer Janardhanan (1982). In Pakistan, the film was informally changed in Punjabi as Akbar Amar Anthony (1978).

Plot

On 15 August 1955, the lower middle-class Kishanlal is released from jail after taking the fault for a lethal hit-and-run mischance committed by the unfeeling wrongdoing ruler Robert, for whom he utilized to work as a chauffeur. In spite of Robert's affirmation that his family's welfare will be taken care of, Kishanlal returns domestic to discover his spouse Bharati enduring from tuberculosis and their three newborn child children malnourished. Rankled, Kishanlal storms off to Robert's chateau and asks for his help and compensation, but is pitilessly mortified and rebuked by Robert. A vindictive Kishanlal raises a battle with Robert's pack, but is constrained to run for his life in one of Robert's cars stacked with snuck gold bullion whereas being sought after by Robert's men. After arriving back domestic, Kishanlal finds his children deserted by Bharati with a suicide note expressing that she is unwilling to be a burden on him and has in this manner run absent from domestic to conclusion her life. Kishanlal picks up his children and employments Robert's car as a getaway vehicle to surge to the Borivali National Stop to dodge capture. Whereas there, he clears out his children beneath the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in his most seasoned son's care and drives off to lead Robert's cohorts absent from them some time recently being assumed dead by both Robert's cohorts and the police in the following red hot car accident.

In the interim, the three children have been isolated - the most seasoned one, Amar, having been thumped down by the car driven by Robert's cohorts, is embraced by the Hindu Police Director Khanna; the center one Anthony, falling snoozing exterior a adjacent Catholic church with Bharati's suicide note in hand, is taken in by the large-hearted Christian cleric Father Gonsalves; and the most youthful child Raju, cleared out beneath the statue in the stop, is picked up by a kind Muslim tailor Darji Ilahabadi. Somewhere else, Bharati is struck dazzle by a falling department in the storm as divine discipline for clearing out her children behind. She is afterward protected and dropped off domestic on the way by Mr. Ilahabadi, in spite of the fact that she is incapable to recognize Raju due to her daze locate. Kishanlal, having gotten away the searing car mishap, returns with Robert's carried gold bullion in look of his children, as it were to discover the stop purge and his children gone, much to his distraught.

22 years later, Bharati, presently a blossom dealer, is a hit-and-run casualty exterior a church and is hurried by Anthony, who is the bootlegging Robin Hood of the neighborhood, to a private healing center. At the clinic, Raju, renamed as Akbar and a well known qawwali artist, is active romancing Dr. Salma Ali, whose grouchy father Taiyyab Ali opposes of their relationship. Amar, as a police reviewer, too arrives at the clinic to check on the mishap case, and all three men give blood at the same time to Bharati. Afterward on, Amar, following down a interstate burglary case, comes over Lakshmi, who is being constrained by her injurious stepmother and rough stepbrother Ranjeet, to act as a small-time cheat whereas she is taking care of her elderly, wheelchair-bound grandma. Amar salvages Lakshmi by capturing her stepmother and advertising asylum to her and her grandmother.

Elsewhere, Kishanlal is presently a affluent wrongdoing ruler as he utilized the stolen gold bullion to drive Robert's wrongdoing syndicate out of trade and constrain a jobless Robert to work for him whereas taking in Robert's girl Jenny as his possess and sending over her to thinks about overseas. In any case, Kishanlal and his cohorts are constrained to clear their stacking dock struck by the police. The resulting chaos result in Robert getting away with another shipment of Kishanlal's snuck gold bullion and shooting Director Khanna non-fatally in the handle. Utilizing the unused carried gold bullion, Robert recaptures his previous position as wrongdoing master and extreme to recover Jenny and slaughter Kishanlal for pulverizing his trade; indeed contracting Ranjeet taking after his mother's capture. At the same time, Jenny returns after completing her ponders overseas, and Anthony falls head over heels in adore with her amid a church sermon on Easter Sunday. After enduring from a minor head damage whereas getting away from Robert, Bharati marvelously recaptures her visual perception at a celebration regarding the Sai Baba of Shirdi that is facilitated by Akbar, whom she continues to distinguish as Raju from his childhood photo at domestic, much obliged to Mr. Ilahabadi's update of having experienced Bharati prior amid her department mishap. At the same time, Akbar spares Salma and Taiyyab from a house fire orchestrated by a few whores who were coercing Taiyyab. A thankful Taiyyab gives his gifts to Akbar and Salma's relationship and this occasion leads both Akbar and Amar to learn that they are brothers and that Kishanlal and Bharati are their parents.

However, things take a extreme turn when Kishanlal is double-crossed by one of his bodyguards Zebisco, who captures Jenny and offers her out to Robert in trade of her hand in marriage. Father Gonsalves and Lakshmi seen the capturing, but Lakshmi closes up being seized by Ranjeet whereas Father Gonsalves closes up being killed by Robert. After learning around Father Gonsalves' passing, Anthony rapidly finds that both Kishanlal and Bharati are his guardians and that Amar and Akbar are his brothers. The three brothers are at that point decided to make Robert pay for his wrongdoings, so they separately mask themselves as a one-man band, an elderly tailor and a catholic cleric and succeed in entering his chateau, went with by Salma, who helps Lakshmi and Jenny in getting away. The three brothers at that point uncover themselves and beat up Robert, Zebisco, Ranjeet and all the remaining cohorts up some time recently having them all captured and sent to jail for their wrongdoings. In any case, Bharati is troubled to learn that Kishanlal is sent back to jail for his past wrongdoings, but the last mentioned guarantees to her that their family is rejoined once once more, which is the as it were thing that things to him; Administrator Khanna (who has recuperated from his wounds) briefly discharges Kishanlal so that he can share a embrace with his children. The film closes with the three brothers driving blissfully with their adored ones in the sunset.

Cast
Vinod Khanna as Amar Khanna, the eldest
Rishi Kapoor as Akbar Ilahabadi, the youngest
Amitabh Bachchan as Anthony Gonsalves, the middle one
Parveen Babi as Jenny
Shabana Azmi as Lakshmi
Neetu Singh as Salma
Nirupa Roy as Bharati
Pran as Kishanlal
Supporting
Jeevan as Robert
Yusuf Khan as Zebisco (Jenny's bodyguard)
Mukri as Taiyyab Ali (Salma's father)
Nazir Hussain as Father Gonsalves (Anthony's adoptive father)
Kamal Kapoor as Superintendent Khanna (Amar's adoptive father)
Hercules as Raghu
Shivraj as Mr. Ilahabadi (Akbar's adoptive father)
Prathima Devi as Lakshmi's grandmother
Moolchand as Pedro (Robert's friend)
Special appearance
Helen as Fake Jenny
Nadira as Lakshmi's stepmother
Madhumati
Ranjeet as Ranjeet (Lakshmi's stepbrother)