Amrish Puri

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Gandhi

(1982)

Drama, History

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloo...

Runtime:

191 min

Director:

Richard Attenborough

Cast:

Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Candice Bergen, Roshan Seth, Om Puri

8.0

85%

79

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

(1984)

Action, Adventure

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Runtime:

118 min

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Cast:

Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri

7.5

84%

57

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Ghayal

(1990)

Action, Crime, Drama

Ajay Mehra leaves for Bombay in order to train to become an international boxer. On his return to New Delhi he however found that his brother Ashok Mehra is missing, he decides to make complaints at the police station but this only leads to frustration. He decides to go and search for his brother himself but still does not find him. La...

Runtime:

163 min

Cast:

Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Moushumi Chatterjee, Raj Babbar, Amrish Puri

7.7

N/A

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Ghatak

(1996)

Action, Drama

A small town in Bombay is brutally subdued by a notorious gangster named Katya and his brothers.

Runtime:

158 min

Director:

Rajkumar Santoshi

Cast:

Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Danny Denzongpa, Amrish Puri

7.3

N/A

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Shakti

(1982)

A scrupulously honest cop refuses kidnappers' demands at grave risk to the life of his son. The son is rescued but lives forever scarred by his father's willingness to sacrifice his own son for the sake of his principles. This works out to devastating effect when the son grows up to be a Mafia don, and his father is assigned the job of...

Runtime:

165 min

Director:

Ramesh Sippy

Cast:

Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee Gulzar, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

7.8

N/A

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Naseeb

(1981)

Drama

Naseeb, a story of destiny and fate, begins with a lottery ticket. A drunk who cannot pay his restaurant bill trades his recently purchased ticket with a waiter. Naseeb becomes a poignant story about love, friendship, sacrifice, deceit, revenge and above all, destiny.

Runtime:

197 min

Director:

Manmohan Desai

Cast:

Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Rishi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Reena Roy

7.2

N/A

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Chori Chori Chupke Chupke

(2001)

Drama, Romance

Raj and Priya are newly married. Priya is heavy with children, but due to unexpected circumstances, she loses her child and is unable to conceive again. Enter Madhoo, a prostitute who is willing to become surrogate mother for the couple. Their relationship becomes entangled with love triangle when Madhoo falls in love with Raj.

Runtime:

160 min

5.4

N/A

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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

(1995)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under th...

Runtime:

190 min

Director:

Aditya Chopra

Cast:

Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Anupam Kher

8.1

100%

N/A

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Diljale

(1996)

Action, Drama, Romance

Captain Ranvir is assigned the task of apprehending two terrorists named Shaka and Dara. Upon arrival in the region, he meets with and falls in love with Radhika, the daughter of Rajasaheb, who also is a Mantri. The latter approves of him, and arranges his wedding with his daughter. Before the engagement could take place, Ranvir finds ...

Runtime:

160 min

Director:

Harry Baweja

Cast:

Ajay Devgan, Sonali Bendre, Amrish Puri, Parmeet Sethi, Madhoo

5.7

N/A

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Hero

(1983)

Romance

Hero is the story of a criminal transforming and evolving as a good person under the influence of love. Jackie is a baddie with a heart of gold though, who has to settle scores with the area's 'Thakur' and his police officer son Sanjeev Kumar. So he opts for kidnapping their soft spot, Radha, Thakur khandaan's only daughter. Radha is g...

Runtime:

173 min

Director:

Subhash Ghai

Cast:

Sanjeev Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Amrish Puri

6.7

N/A

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Nishant

(1975)

Crime, Drama

A man whose wife is abducted seeks to have the culprits prosecuted for their crime, but no one will help him. Meanwhile, the wife—abused and berated by her abductors—cannot bring herself to face her husband.

Runtime:

136 min

Director:

Shyam Benegal

Cast:

Amrish Puri, Girish Karnad, Shabana Azmi, Anant Nag, Satyadev Dubey

7.6

N/A

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Manthan

(1976)

Drama

A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.

Runtime:

134 min

Director:

Shyam Benegal

Cast:

Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Naseeruddin Shah, Mohan Agashe

7.7

N/A

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Mohabbatein

(2000)

Drama, Romance

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

Runtime:

216 min

Director:

Aditya Chopra

Cast:

Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jimmy Shergill, Preeti Jhangiani

7.1

N/A

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Lakshya

(2004)

Action, Drama, Romance, War

An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.

Runtime:

186 min

Director:

Farhan Akhtar

Cast:

Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Sushant Singh, Om Puri

7.9

N/A

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Dayavan

(1988)

Action, Crime, Drama

A tale of near Biblical proportions, telling the story of Dayavan, a heroic do-gooder who dedicates his life to helping those less fortunate then himself.

Runtime:

174 min

6.6

N/A

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Kondaveeti Donga

(1990)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Unable to tolerate the worries of the villagers, Raja takes aid of a fairy tale hero 'Kondaveeti Donga', transforms himself into one and sets out to save the people from an evil hypnotizer Kadra.

Runtime:

151 min

7.4

N/A

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Ajooba

(1991)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

This is a story of Ajooba, the masked legend, who was treated as the only protector of the people of Baharistan. Ajooba is none other than Ali, the real heir to the kingdom of Baharistan. Unfortunately for Ali, when he was just born, his father and mother were overthrown by the evil designs of the Vazir. Ali survived as destined and wa...

Runtime:

178 min

5.0

N/A

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Police Force

(2004)

Crime, Drama

Senior police officer Pandey is called in to train a new batch of trainee officers that the Indian police force wants to recruit. He does manages to induct some sense of fair-play in these officers and gets them assign to their place of duty; but these officers will find that there real life scenario are different and must deal with th...

Runtime:

138 min

Cast:

Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon, Amrish Puri, Raj Babbar

5.0

N/A

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Badal

(2000)

Action, Crime, Romance

Badal is a victim of the 1984 riots, brought up by a terrorist. Badal aims to kill the treacherous police officer who had killed his parents and his loving sister. He takes shelter in the house of an honest police officer and falls in love with a minister's granddaughter. Will he be able to accomplish his revenge?

Runtime:

173 min

4.8

N/A

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Pardes

(1997)

Drama, Romance

Emotionally attached to his motherland, a U.S. immigrant sends his son back to India to seek a bride.

Runtime:

191 min

Director:

Subhash Ghai

Cast:

Shah Rukh Khan, Amrish Puri, Mahima Chaudhry, Apoorva Agnihotri, Apurva Agnihotri

7.0

N/A

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Mujhse Shaadi Karogi

(2004)

Comedy, Romance

Sameer, fast at losing his temper is re-located to Goa where he falls in love with Rani. But Sameer's new roommate Sunny, has some plans of his own.

Runtime:

163 min

Director:

David Dhawan

Cast:

Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Akshay Kumar

6.7

N/A

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Baadshah

(1999)

Action, Comedy

A small time detective is mistaken as a CBI agent and gets embroiled in a deadly mission to save the Chief Minister from an assassination attempt.

Runtime:

175 min

Director:

Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla

Cast:

Shah Rukh Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Amrish Puri, Rakhee Gulzar, Johnny Lever

6.9

N/A

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Mr. India

(1987)

Action, Drama, Science Fiction

A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.

Runtime:

179 min

Director:

Shekhar Kapur

Cast:

Anil Kapoor, Sridevi Kapoor, Amrish Puri

7.8

N/A

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Nayak: The Real Hero

(2001)

Action, Drama, Thriller

TV reporter Shivajirao gets a chance to be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for a day, after being challenged by incumbent Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan. After his successful one-day stint, he attempts to get back to his normal life, but it is not as easy as he thought it to be, with the lives of his near and dear ones now in danger o...

Runtime:

187 min

Director:

S. Shankar

Cast:

Anil Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever

7.8

N/A

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Sardari Begum

(1996)

Sardari Begum is a 1996 Hindi movie directed by Shyam Benegal. The film stars Kiron Kher, Amrish Puri, Rajit Kapur and Rajeshwari Sachdev. The film's lead actress Kiron Kher won the 1997 National Film Award - Special Jury Award. Rajeshwari Sachdev won the 1997 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. The music by Vanraj Bhatia...

Runtime:

135 min

6.7

N/A

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Chachi 420

(1997)

Comedy, Drama, Family

In order to see his little girl more often, a divorcee disguises himself as an old lady and gets a job as his own daughter's caretaker.

Runtime:

165 min

Director:

Kamal Haasan

Cast:

Kamal Haasan, Om Puri, Johnny Walker, Paresh Rawal, Ayesha Jhulka

7.4

N/A

Zindagi Ek Juaa

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Zindagi Ek Juaa

(1992)

After saving the life of his employer, Jagjit Singh alias JJ (Anupam Kher), Harikishan (Anil Kapoor) is promoted with a wage increase that he had only dreamt of. Anxious to please his employer Harikishan agrees to have his name changed to Harry, and does anything that he is instructed to do. Soon Harry realises that he has been aiding ...

Runtime:

174 min

Director:

Prakash Mehra

Cast:

Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Anupam Kher, Shakti Kapoor, Suresh Oberoi

5.5

N/A

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Aghaat

(1985)

Madhav Verma is an honest and straight-forward union representative at Shivalik Engineering Works. His position and effectiveness is challenged when Chhotelal is injured. Rustom Patel is the rival union leader whose methods are completely opposite to Madhav's ideals. The two unions clash on the Chhotelal's compensation issue. The c...

7.5

N/A

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Karan Arjun

(1995)

Action, Thriller

Karan and Arjun reincarnate in the different parts of the country. But the faith of their previous mother brings them together in order to avenge their death.

Runtime:

175 min

6.9

N/A

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Aitraaz

(2004)

Romance, Thriller

Aitraaz revolves around the character Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar) a successful businessman who has everything going for him, including a lovely wife (Kareena Kapoor). Just when he thinks things can't get any better, Sonia (Priyanka Chopra) - his ex-girlfriend, now the boss's wife - walks back into his life - and she wants Raj at any cost.

Runtime:

159 min

Director:

Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla, Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla

Cast:

Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal

6.6

N/A

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Oh Darling! Yeh Hai India!

(1995)

Comedy

Miss India and an aspiring actor spend a night together roaming the streets of Mumbai and unwittingly clash paths with a megalomaniacal gangster planning to take over India.

Runtime:

153 min

Director:

Ketan Mehta

Cast:

Shah Rukh Khan, Deepa Sahi, Javed Jaffrey, Anupam Kher, Amrish Puri

4.4

N/A

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Thalapathi

(1991)

Action, Crime, Drama

Surya, a courageous man who was raised in the slums, fights for the rights of the poor. However, he becomes friends with Deva who hires him as his commander and changes his life completely.

Runtime:

155 min

Director:

Mani Ratnam

Cast:

Rajinikanth, Mammootty, Arvind Swamy, Bhanupriya, Geetha

8.6

N/A

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Hulchul

(2004)

Comedy, Romance

A man and woman from feuding families each pretend to fall in love, as part of a revenge plot. Chaos ensues when their fake romance becomes a reality.

Runtime:

150 min

Director:

Priyadarshan

Cast:

Akshaye Khanna, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Arshad Warsi, Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal

7.0

N/A

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Koyla

(1997)

Action

A village girl agrees to a marriage to a king she has never met after he sends her a photograph of himself. But the man in the photograph is not the king but his most loyal slave, the handsome but mute Shankar.

Runtime:

170 min

Director:

Rakesh Roshan

Cast:

Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Amrish Puri, Ranjeet

6.3

N/A

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Taal

(1999)

Drama, Romance

On a sight-seeing road trip of India, U.K. based Manav Mehta meets Mansi, the daughter of a singer, Tarababu. He is attracted to her, and makes his attraction known. She also is attracted to him eventually. Her dad approves of Manav, and both go to Bombay to meet his family. On their arrival itself, they are shunned and treated as seco...

Runtime:

177 min

Director:

Subhash Ghai

Cast:

Anil Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

6.7

N/A

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Rishtey

(2002)

Action, Drama

Suraj Singh is a wrestler by profession and has the misfortune of falling in love with wealthy Yashpaul Chaudhary's daughter Komal. When Yashpaul learns of there relationship he arrogantly disagrees of his daughter's choice but Komal refuses to accept her dad's word and gets married to Suraj without the blessings of Yashpaul. Aggravate...

Runtime:

156 min

4.4

N/A

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Gadar: Ek Prem Katha

(2001)

Action, Drama, Romance

Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is created. The two eventually get married and have a son. The happy family, now living in Amritsar, gets the shock of their lives when Sakina learns that her father (Amrish Puri), whom she previously b...

Runtime:

170 min

7.1

N/A

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Damini

(1993)

Crime, Drama

The theme revolves around the character Damini who represents truth and innocence. After her marriage in renowned wealthy family, Damini happens to see a cruel act done by her brother-in-law. She wants the victim to get justice, but the family including her husband oppose her, which leads her to leave the house. Soon she is helped by a...

Runtime:

175 min

Director:

Rajkumar Santoshi

Cast:

Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sunny Deol, Rishi Kapoor, Tinnu Anand, Vijayendra Ghatge

7.9

N/A

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Kaalapani

(1996)

Action, Drama

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there.

Runtime:

178 min

Director:

Priyadarshan

Cast:

Mohanlal , Amrish Puri, Prabhu Ganesan, Tabu, Sreenivasan

8.3

N/A

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Jhutha Sach

(1984)

Drama

After the passing away of his wife (Sunita), Vijay brings up his two children, Bhishan and Charudatta, who want him to re-marry, and go around selecting a mother. They pick on Alka, who is a stage singer, and lives alone as a paying guest. Vijay and Alka approve of each other, get married, and go for a honey-moon. On the way back Vijay...

Cast:

Dharmendra, Rekha, Amrish Puri

6.1

N/A

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