Best Amitabh Bachchan-Rekha Movies
Amitabh-Rekha Movie - Do Anjaane (1976) The film is based on the story Rater Gari by Nihar Ranjan Gupta. It’s one of the first movies Amitabh and Rekha worked together on. The story throws light on ambition, greed and revenge. Rakha and Amitabh both play middle-class lovers who get married and have a blissful life.
Amitabh-Rekha Movies - Alaap (1977) The unsuccessful Hrishikesh Mukherjee-Big B collaboration oozed despondency and despair. Big B was utterly credible as a hotshot lawyer's son who prefers to spend time with a classical singer rather than practising his father's craft. How far would you go while pursuing a dream?
Amitabh-Rekha Movies - Khoon Pasina (1977) This was a Western pared down to suit Indian sensibilities. It had the look and the feel of a Sergio Leone film. But unlike Leone’s films, it lacked a genuine screenplay and relied more on the macho personalities of the two leads than on actual storytelling. While Amitabh Bachchan was called Tiger, Vinod Khanna was called Shera in the film.
Amitabh-Rekha Movies - Ganga Ki Saugandh (1978) Sultan Ahmed loved to make dacoit films and this film is a prime example of that. Ganga Ki Saugandh has the typical storyline of an individual who is thrown out of his village for going against the powerful and corrupt landlord of the area. He becomes a dacoit and decides to take revenge against the landlord who was also responsible for his mother’s death.
Amitabh-Rekha Movies - Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978) Devdas as seen in our films was an alcoholic loser but director Prakash Mehra conceived him as this street-smart guy who lives life on his own terms. He wasn’t a loser but a winner – Sikandar – the archetypical winner who never lost. Yes, he does drink a lot, yes, he does pine for unrequited love and frequents a kotha but does it all with a winner’s swagger.
Amitabh-Rekha Movies - Mr. Natwarlal (1979) It’s a melodramatic revenge flick containing some great comedy and action. And has one of the best picturised romantic songs Pardesia, featuring Amitabh and Rekha. Another song, Mere paas aao, has Amitabh taking to the mike the first time as a singer. Natwar is a young boy, when his beloved older brother police officer Gridharilal (Ajit), is framed for bribery by criminal mastermind Vikram (Amjad Khan).
Amitabh-Rekha Movies - Suhaag (1979) Manmohan Desai liked to reuse his masala tropes so much that you got over-familiar with them. Take Suhaag for instance. It had everything from long lost brothers to missing parents and drunk actors and scenes glorifying God’s awesomeness. Shashi Kapoor plays a good inspector who at first fights with his outlaw brother -- who reforms and becomes an inspector when the good brother becomes blind.
Amitabh-Rekha Movies - Ram Balram (1980) The film was a psychological thriller directed by Vijay Anand. Ajit brings up Ram (Dharmendra) and Balram (Amitabh Bachchan) in such a way that they are in constant fear of him even as grown-ups. While Balram is a police inspector, Ram becomes a smuggler but is Balram’s informer in disguise.
Amitabh-Rekha Movies - Silsila (1981) Silsila was the most mature film perhaps directed by Yash Chopra which took on the taboo subject of extra-marital relationships by the horns. However, the volatile real-life pairing – Amitabh and Rekha were said to be in a relationship at the time – didn’t work and the film bombed at the box-office but is considered a cult classic ever since.