The Burning Train

The Burning Train was a Bollywood film. It was released in 1980. Later Hollywood writers were inspired by this movie while writing Runaway Train. Ravi Chopra took this movie and completed it with high budget. But this movie didn’t reach his expectations at the box office. He received complements from many Bollywood people.

Vinod Verma (Vinod Khanna) dreams to design a super fast train. He spends many years on that project, and finally he designs and takes permission from Indian railways to keep his train on track. He plans a record breaking journey from Delhi To Mumbai in 14 hours. But somebody destroys the train and makes it burn on the journey. Finally Vinod’s friends Ashok (Dharmendra) and Rakesh (Vinod Mehra) manage to end the journey.

Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh and Jeetendra are the other lead cast in this movie.

Zanjeer

Zanjeer is one of the best movies in Amitabh’s career. Before this movie, he was considered as a romantic hero. But with his role as a cop in this movie, he became the angry young man. Actually Dev Anand had to act in this movie instead of Amitabh.

Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) is a sincere police officer. Teja (Ajit) a gangster sends Vijay to jail with a plan. After he is released from jail, Vijay plans to take revenge on Teja. He finds Teja killed his parents 20 years back. Finally he takes revenge on Teja and marries Mala (Jaya Bhaduri).

Pran appeared in a positive role as Amitabh‘s friend Sher khan. Prakash Mehra was the director for this movie. Kalyanji-Anandji bagged the Filmfare award for their music for this movie.

Ankhen

Ankhen was a spy thriller, it was directed by Ramanand Sagar. With this movie only Dharmendra became a top hero in Bollywood. It was a very expensive movie. Director Saagar has shot this movie in many countries.

Story starts with the blast in Assam. Salim works as undercover cop in the terrorist group who involved in the bomb blasts. Syed head of this group identifies Salim and kills him. Later to report about Syed’s group Sunil enters into Assam. What are the challenges Sunil faced and how he gave end to Syed is the remaining.

Dharmendhra gave very good action in James Bond style character. Mala Sinha and Mehamood are other lead roles in the movie. This movie has huge expectations in those days. Because Farz which also a spy thriller in the same combo was a huge hit before this movie.

Do Anjaane

Do Anjaane released with huge expectations. This was the first movie from Amitabh Bachchan after his historical hit Sholay, Do Anjaane also became a super hit. Rekha and Prem Chopra appeared in negative roles. Mithun Chakraborty played a key role.

Story first frame shows an unknown person (Amitabh Bachchan) at railway track without conscious. A rich family takes him to home and provides good treatment. After getting conscious he fails to remember his past. He don’t know even his name. He stays with that family with the name Naresh Dutt. One day he watches a movie, while watching the movie he notices the heroine. She is none other than his wife Rekha(Rekha).

Later he reminds every thing of his past. And meets Rekha as a new person. Ranjeet (Prem Chopra) who was his best Friend is now manager for Rekha. He comes to know that, Ranjeet pulled him from the train to kill him. Then he plans to take revenge on Ranjeet and Rekha. How he took revenge on them is the remaining story.

Anoop Kumar, Lalita Pawar and Pradeep Kumar were the other crew in this movie. Kalyanji-Anandji were the music directors.