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  • Kabhi Kabhie
  • Kabhi Kabhie review by from Liverpool, UK
    Rated - 3.0 stars run of the mill 1 July 2005
    ...hero in a spineless character and pair him opposite Waheeda Rehman takes guts. Shashi Kapoor is bubbly. Raakhee must have been in her best, appearance wise. Rishi and Neetu...   Read customer review
  • Kaala Patthar
  • Kaala Patthar review by from Liverpool, UK
    Rated - 3.0 stars Surprisingly not the routine Yash Chopra 8 March 2005
    ... Johar. The print was superb. Amitabh plays a coal miner and Rakhee a doctor, Shashi Kapoor plays an engineer and Parveen babi plays a journalist, Shatrughan Sinha plays a...   Read customer review
  • Shakespeare Wallah
  • Shakespeare Wallah review by from Hants
    Rated - 4.0 stars Quiet and unassuming... and well worth it 25 May 2004
    ... The film feels like some less frenetic A Bout De Souffle set in India - with Shashi Kapoor using several cigarettes to do a passable Jean-Paul Belmondo - although its sen...   Read customer review

Shashi Kapoor - filmography


  • Kaala Patthar on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Rakhee Gulzar,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan), an ex-naval officer who has been court martialed and dismissed from the navy, is now working in a coal mine. As penance for for an act of cowardice as the captain of a sinking ship, he eagerly faces every sign of danger and adversity in an attempt to combat his inner ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 394 members
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  • Gulliver's Travels on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Mary Steenburgen,  James Fox
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This acclaimed made-for-television version of Swift's fantasy employs an all-star cast (led by Ted Danson) and superior special effects to portray all four books in the cycle. From Lilliput and Brobdingnag to Laputa and the lands of the Struldbruggs and Houyhnhnms, Gulliver's nine-year odyssey and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 881 members
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  • Ajooba on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Dimple Kapadia,  Rishi Kapoor
    Director: Shashi Kapoor,  Gennadi Vasilyev
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 98 members
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  • Swati (1985)
    Starring: Meenakshi Shesshadri,  Sharmilla Tagore,  Madhuri Dixit
    Director: Kranthi Kumar
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The story of Sharada who was abandoned by her lover after she found out that she was pregnant . Sharada struggles to raise her daughter, Swati, but is often pushed out by other members of society. When Swati grows up she aims to get her mother married in order to give her a happy life...
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 52 members
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  • Utsav on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Rekha,  Shekhar Suman
    Director: Shashi Kapoor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    UTSAV is classical tale of love and romance set against a background of passion, intrigue and political revolution. It is a story of a passionate love between Vasantsena (Rekha), a beautiful and renowned courtesan of Ujjain and Charudatt (Shekhar Suman) a handsome and impoverished Brahmin youth.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 110 members
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  • Ghungroo (1983)
    Starring: Smita Patil,  Shashi Kapoor,  Kunal Goswami
    Director: Ram P. Sethi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    While on his deathbed, the Emperor promises that his Senapati, Vikram Singh, will be treated like his son, and he will get married to a woman from a royal family. He also asks Vikram to obey every wish and whim of his wife, Ranimaa, to which Vikram agrees to. A few moments later the emperor passes ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 16% from 3 members
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  • Heat And Dust on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Julie Christie,  Shashi Kapoor,  Christopher Cazenove
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two women, related but separated by one generation and 60 years, have parallel experiences in the evocative mystical environment of India in this period drama from producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Although a little slow-paced for some, and slightly confusing because the stories of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 677 members
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  • Vijeta (1982)
    Starring: Rekha,  Shashi Kapoor,  Kunal Kapoor
    Director: Govind Nihalani
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Angad (Kunal Kapoor) comes from a Hindu family that had pledged their eldest son to be of the Sikh religion, and accordingly Angad had adapted to the turban. He is in training to be a pilot for the Indian Air Force, and he is afraid of flying. He is attracted to Anna Verghese (Supriya Pathak), who ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 22 members
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  • Krodhi on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Zeenat Aman,  Hema Malini
    Director: Subhash Ghai
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A stylish action thriller from Subash Ghai. An ordinary, honest, non-violent man becomes a vigilante, pursued relentlessly by a police inspector. What crime or outrage could have turned this non-violent man into a killing machine?
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 65 members
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  • Swayamvar on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Sanjeev Kumar,  Moushumi Chatterjee,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: P. Sambashiva Rao
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The second wife of kind-hearted,and generous Amirchand Bhargav is Durgadevi Bhargav (Nadira), who is exactly the opposite of her late husband. She rules over her household, alongwith her brother, Makhanlal (Madan Puri), with an iron hand, and also over her step-daughter, Shanti (Vidya Sinha), who ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 56% from 35 members
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  • Shaan on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Parveen Babi,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Ramesh Sippy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    DSP Shiv Kumar (Sunil Dutt) is a diligent and honest police officer in Bombay, India. He lives with his wife (Raakhee), a son, and two wayward brothers, Ravi (Shashi Kapoor), and Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan), who are con-men, and will do anything for a quick buck. But when Shiv Kumar is killed his two ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 102 members
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  • Junoon (1979)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Jennifer Kendal,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: Shyam Benegal
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1857: the first shot is fired in the Indian mutiny against British colonisation. The bloody events which follow provide the dramatically atmospheric for this star-crossed lovers story in which Muslim rebel Javed Khan (Shashi Kapoor) develops a passionate, almost obsessive, love for Ruth (Nafisa Ali)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 68 members
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  • Suhaag on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Shashi Kapoor,  Jeevan
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A wayward husband (Amjad Khan) leaves his wife (Nirupa Roy) and their two sons. The boys are separated due to tragic circumstances and grow up in very different environments. One of them, Vijay, (Amitabh Bachchan) becomes a street-wise, small-time gangster, while the other, Ravi (Shashi Kapoor), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 27 members
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  • Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Zeenat Aman,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Raj Kapoor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Story about the life of Rupa, a village outcast who has burnt her face on one side thereby disfiguring her beauty. She is overheard by Rajeev singing in the temple. Seen only through her veil he falls in love with her and marries her. After they are married he realises the truth and leaves her. He ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 340 members
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  • Immaan Dharam on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Sanjeev Kumar,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Desh Mukherjee
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This is a story about two guys who act as mock witnesses and always hang around court to give evidence as per the requirement of the case every time. They have never believed in God but eventually they have to accept the power of God.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 70 members
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  • Kabhi Kabhie on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Rishi Kapoor,  Shashi Kapoor,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Young poet Amit and beautiful Pooja want to have a perfect future together, but Pooja bows to the wishes of her parents and marries Vijay. Amit drifts away from his poetry and tries to forget Pooja by marrying Anjali. Move forward one generation--- Pooja and Vijay's son Vicky, Pinky (Anjali's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 943 members
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  • Kabhi Kabhie - Blu-ray (1976)
    Starring: Rishi Kapoor,  Shashi Kapoor,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Young poet Amit and beautiful Pooja want to have a perfect future together, but Pooja bows to the wishes of her parents and marries Vijay. Amit drifts away from his poetry and tries to forget Pooja by marrying Anjali. Move forward one generation--- Pooja and Vijay's son Vicky, Pinky (Anjali's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 30 members
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  • Deewaar (1975)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Shashi Kapoor,  Nirupa Roy
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Two sons are brought up by their mother, when their father abandons them. One son becomes a successful underworld figure so he can provide his mother with the luxuries she never had while she raised them. But the other son decides to become a policeman splitting the family apart...
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 535 members
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  • Insaaniyat (1974)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Sujit Kumar,  Jayant
    Director: Prayag Raj
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Raghuvir is a career criminal, and one day he is arrested by the Police, tried in Court, and sentenced to a long prison term. Shortly thereafter, he breaks out of prison, goes to the Judge who sentenced him, kills him, his wife, three sons, and two daughters. The Police chase, shoot him. Wounded, ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 20% from 2 members
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  • Roti Kapada Aur Makaan on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Manoj Kumar,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Manoj Kumar
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When his father retires, it is left up to Bharat to provide for the family. When he is unable to find himself a secure job, his girlfriend Sheetal accepts a marriage proposal elsewhere. With his life collapsing around him, will the lure of crime take hold of Bharat?
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 168 members
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  • Jab Jab Phool Khile on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Nanda,  Agha
    Director: Suraj Prakash
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Rita, a sophisticated and beautiful modern girl returns to India after studying abroad. She travels to Kashmir, the paradise on earth, on a short holiday. Raja, a handsome simpleton man falls in love with her...
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 40 members
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  • Bombay Talkie on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Jennifer Kendal,  Utpal Dutt
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An early Merchant-Ivory film, BOMBAY TALKIE opens with a send-up of India's lavish musicals as dancers cavort on a giant typewriter in a hilarious production number. However, the film is mostly a sombre character study about best-selling English novelist Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal), who comes to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 188 members
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  • Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Babita,  Rajendernath
    Director: Bhappi Sonie
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Pritam (Shashi Kapoor), loving and adoring Deepali (Babita), beautiful and rich heirless; and Ajit (Prem Chopra), the slick and slimy playboy with an eye always on beautiful bodies and big bank rolls. Pritam Loves Deepali deep and true, but Deepali feels she is in love with Ajit. In a weak moment ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 11 members
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  • Raja Saab on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Nanda,  Rajindernath
    Director: Suraj Prakash
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Raju, an orphan, had a dream: he would become a Raja Saab (a rich man). Little did he know then that he would fall in love with a princess...
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 6 members
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  • Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Felicity Kendal,  Madhur Jaffrey
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director James Ivory based his black-and-white 1965 film, SHAKESPEARE WALLAH, about a struggling English troupe of Shakespearan actors touring India, on an actual theater company called Shakespeariana. Shakespeariana's director, Geoffrey Kendal; his wife, Laura Liddell; and their daughter, Felicity ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 487 members
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  • Waqt on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Sunil Dutt,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ishwar and Sumi both adore their only son, Aditya but with a difference. While Ishwar is totally blind to Adi's faults and indulges him, Sumi is well aware of his darling son's shortcomings and is always cautioning her husband not to spoil Adi so much. Adi on his part has only one obsession -- to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 218 members
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  • The Householder on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Leela Naidu,  Durga Khote
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a swami.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 44 members
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  • Prem Patra on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Sadhana,  Shashi Kapoor,  Seema
    Director: Bimal Roy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Arun, the handsome, young medico is denied his scholarship for higher studies in England because his co-student Kabita accuses him of misbehaviour. He however manages to arrange the funds for going to England and in the process is betrothed to Tara whom he has never even seen. A series of love-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 18 members
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  • Dharmputra on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Ashok Kumar,  Shashi Kapoor,  Mala Sinha
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Nawab Badruddin's dearest friend Gulshan Rai dies, it is but natural for him to take his son Amrit under his wing and for his daughter Husn Banu to consider Amrit her brother. Amrit grows up to become a doctor and is happily married to Savitri. One day the Nawab Sahib comes to Amrit for help. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 9 members
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  • Atithee on DVD
    Starring: Deven Verma,  Shabana Azmi,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Arvind Sen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When Neela's elder brother Nabendu is implicated in a wagon-breaking charge by Avinash and banished, the burden of maintaining the family falls to her. Enter Anand, a close friend of Nabendu, who comes to stay and experiences the bliss of family life for the first time and falls in love with Neela. ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 26% from 10 members
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  • Trishna on DVD
    Starring: Bindu,  Dinesh Hingoo,  Preeti Ganguly
    Director: Anil Ganguly
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dr. Sunil Gupta lives a wealthy lifestyle with his wife, Aarti. Although they have been married for several years, they do not have any children. Aarti did get pregnant once, but failed to conceive. Aarti decides to travel to take a break in their Khandala bungalow, which is also in the ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 10 members
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  • Chori Mera Kaam on DVD
    Starring: Anoop Kumar,  Ashok Kumar,  Deven Verma
    Director: Brij
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Inspector Kumar (Ashok Kumar) is a high-ranking officer in the Crime Branch. One day his elder son is kidnapped. In lieu of ransom, the kidnappers demand that Inspector Kumar withhold substantial evidence against the kidnappers. But Kumar does not comply and sacrifices his son for the sake of Law.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 9 members
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  • Fakira on DVD
    Starring: Achala Sachdev,  Aruna Irani,  Asit Sen
    Director: C. P. Dixit
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Vijay and Ajay watch helplessly as their house burns down killing their parents. They are subsequently separated, and Vijay becomes Fakira, a criminal. However, he robs the rich to provide for the poor. Chimanbhai, a criminal don, perturbed by Fakira’s thefts, recruits Toofan, a hitman to kill him. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 14 members
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  • Jaaydaad on DVD
    Starring: Anupam Kher,  Aruna Irani,  Raj Babbar
    Director: Dilip Naik
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Advocate Anjali had been betrayed in love, and as a result has become an embittered woman, hating all men. She is assigned as a public prosecutor to ensure that accused, Rajesh Srivastav, gets hanged for homicide. She succeeds, but in order to teach Rajesh a lesson. She decides to give him a sum of ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 6 members
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  • Pyar Ka Mausam on DVD
    Starring: Asha Parekh,  Asit Sen,  Bharat Bhushan
    Director: Nasir Hussain
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Shashi Kapoor woos Asha Parekh under false pretensions and the two fall in love. When Asha finds out that Shashi had been going under a false name she leaves for her home in a huff. Meanwhile Shashi finds out about his real parents - Bharat Bhushan and Nirupa Roy. His parents had been separated ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 12 members
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  • Kranti on DVD
    Starring: Dilip Kumar,  Manjo Kumar,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Manoj Kumar
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The British did not give India its independence on a silver platter. Independence was the result of a long and bloody battle. Kranti is the story of how two men became soliders in that battle...
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 99 members
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  • Haaena Maan Jayegi on DVD
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Babita,  Johnny Walker
    Director: Prakash Mehra
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Kamal (Shashi Kapoor) and Archana (Babita) are in love with each other and are to marry soon. Shortly after their marriage, Kamal is called to the front as war has broken out. While preparing for war be meets with Rakesh (also shashi Kapoor) his look-alike. Rakesh plans to kill Kamal and take his ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 14 members
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  • Prem Kahani on DVD
    Starring: Rajesh Khanna,  Rajesh khanna,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Raj Khosla
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rajesh, one of three, has to make a choice between his heart's yearnings and his culturally imbided human values. Dheeraj, the second of the three, has to make a choice between his duties and frienship. And last but not least, Parthan Sher Khan has to make a choice to show the world that he can ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 20 members
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  • Mukti
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Sanjeev Kumar,  Vidya Sinha
    Director: Raj Tilak
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Love has many faces.and its most beautiful is 'Mukti'. Happiness is the God given gift of a small family of three, Kailash, his wife Seema and their daughter Pinky. But one fine day misfortune strikes their little world of happiness when Kailash is separated from his family. Seema can never forget ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 17% from 4 members
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  • Ghar Bazar on DVD
    Starring: Gulshan Grover,  Hina Kaushar,  Sharmila Tagore
    Director: D. S. Azad
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Gul delivered baby before her marriage and entrusted to her driver Kishan. Gul met Amar, a film directed with Balam. As she wanted to become a heroin. Amar and Gul married. Balam did not like this idea. Gul left Amar and lived with Balam, who set her to sleep with the film financiers. Roopa & Ravi ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 28% from 7 members
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Shashi Kapoor facts

5 most recent films

Kaala Patthar - 3.5 stars
Jinnah - 3.5 stars
Gulliver's Travels - 3.5 stars
In Custody - 3.0 stars
Ajooba - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shaan - 3.5 stars
Deewaar - 3.5 stars
Trishul - 3.5 stars
Kabhi Kabhie - 3.5 stars
Gulliver's Travels - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Ghungroo - 1.0 stars
Mukti - 1.0 stars
Insaaniyat - 1.0 stars
Atithee - 1.5 stars
Ghar Bazar - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Amitabh Bachchan - 12 times - show films
Sanjeev Kumar - 6 times - show films
Rekha - 5 times - show films
Prem Chopra - 5 times - show films
Nirupa Roy - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Yash Chopra - 7 times - show films
James Ivory - 4 times - show films
Prakash Mehra - 3 times - show films
Suraj Prakash - 3 times - show films
Jamil Dehlavi - 3 times - show films