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Mahaan (1983)

Name: Mahaan (1983)
Director: S. Ramanathan
Released: 1983
Duration: 2 h 52 min 34 s

महान

Hindi film

by S. Ramanathan 1983G General

triple role Amitabh Bachchan Lost-and-found remake frame-up R. D. Burman

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Directed by: S. Raamanathan
Produced by: Satyanarayana, Suryanarayana
Written by: Kader Khan
Music by: Rahul Dev Burman
Cinematography: A. Vincent
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman, Ashok Kumar

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A judge, a criminal and a taxi driver who happen to be identical, in a plot that depends on all three. Amitabh Bachchan plays all of them, with Waheeda Rehman, Zeenat Aman and Parveen Babi. The Internet Archive copy was uploaded with its format details disguised, so playback is withheld here; the entry stays listed and the Archive's own page remains reachable.

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Taken from

Shankar Guru (1978, Kannada) — not in this catalogue yet
An official remake of V. Somashekhar's Kannada film - the Hindi title keeps the two sons' names inside the original one. Not held.

The same people, elsewhere

Same script writer and actor: Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
Kader Khan wrote both.
Same director and music director: Bombay to Goa (1972)
S. Ramanathan directing Amitabh Bachchan eleven years apart - once before Zanjeer made him, once in a triple role at the height of it.
Same script writer: Charnon Ki Saugandh (1988)
Kader Khan wrote both.
Same script writer and actor: Dharam Kanta (1982)
Kader Khan wrote both.
Same director: Dial 100 (1982)
S. Raamanathan directed both.
Same director and music director: Do Phool (1973)
S. Raamanathan directed both; R. D. Burman wrote the music of them - 10 years apart.
Same director and music director: Faisla (1988)
S. Ramanathan directed both, and Bombay to Goa as well - none of the three like the others.
Same script writer: Maqsad (1984)
Kader Khan wrote both.
Same script writer and music director: Satte Pe Satta (1982)
R. D. Burman wrote the music of both; Kader Khan wrote them.
Same director: Shikshaa (1979)
S. Raamanathan directed both.
Same actor: Watan Ke Rakhwale (1987)
M. D. Sundar wrote both - the screenplay of Watan Ke Rakhwale and the script of Mahaan.

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