Geraftaar is a 1985

1985 in film

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 Bollywood

Bollywood

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 action film

Action film

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

 directed by Prayag Raj. It starred Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan

Kamal Haasan is an Indian film actor, screenwriter and director, considered to be one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema. He is widely acclaimed as an actor and is well known for his versatility in acting...

 and Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

 with Madhavi

Madhavi (actress)

Madhavi is a South Indian film actress. She played lead roles for 17 years in seven languages: Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali, and Hindi. She has acted in more than 300 films.-Early life:...

 in the lead roles, while Rajinikanth played an extended cameo role.

Plot

The film followed the famous lost and found formula, where Amitabh and Kamal played brothers. The film also showed the ideal friendship between Hindu and Muslim, where Amithabh and Rajini played the friends.

Cast

• Amitabh Bachchan ... Insp. Karan Kumar Khanna
• Kamal Hassan ... Kishan Kumar Khanna
• Rajnikanth ... Inspector Hussein (Guest Appearance) (as Rajanikanth)
• Poonam Dhillon ... Anuradha Saxena
• Madhavi ... Inspector Geeta Sinha
• Ranjeet ... Ranjit Saxena
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda ... Vidyanath's Lawyer (Guest Appearance)
• Shakti Kapoor ... Chutkiram
• Kader Khan ... Vidyanath
• Nirupa Roy ... Mrs. Durga Kumar Khanna
• Aruna Irani ... Gulabo
• Rabia Amin ... Lucy
• Renu Joshi ... Hussein's Mother
• Om Shivpuri ... Police Commissioner Sinha
• Satyendra Kapoor ... Mr. Kapil Kumar Khanna
• Pinchoo Kapoor ... Judge
• Sharat Saxena ... Vijay Sinha
• Jeevan ... Lucy's Father
• Jagdish Raj ... Inspector Samant
• Master Ravi ... Young Karan
• Manik Irani ... Pandit Jagganath Prasad
• Master Suresh ... Young Hussein
• Bob Christo ... Ram
• Vijay Kumar ... Shyam
• Tej Sapru
• Shanker Lal
• Mickey
• Pedda Babu
• Kishen (as Kishan)
• Swaraj Kumar
• Shyam Kumar
• Rudramoorthy

Reception

The film created the Ultimate hype as, 3 superstars shared the screen together for the first time. The film was a runaway Hit, moreover the presence of Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth helped the movie to Superhit status in Southern part of India. Amithabh's charisma helped the movie to attain Superhit status in Bengal.