Naseeb

Plot synopsis:
Naseeb, a story of destiny and fate, begins with a lottery ticket. A drunken man who cannot pay his tab trades: so he decides to sell his ticket to the waiter, Namdev (Pran), instead. Namdev purchases this tickt with his three friends Damu (Amjad Khan), Raghu (Kader Khan) and Jaggi (Jagdish Raj). Using a system of drawing out the highest card to decide who keeps the ticket, Jaggi wins, and the ticket stays with him. When the ticket turns out to be a winner, Damu and Raghu turn on the other two, murdering Jaggi and framing Namdev. Namdev goes on the run but Raghu and Damu intervene and throw him over a bridge into a river and Namdev is presumed dead.
However, he is rescued by a don (Amrish Puri), and no one is aware he is alive. Fast forward to twenty years later — Damu and Raghu have used their stolen lottery money to build a fabulous hotel and make millions becoming very successful businessmen. Damu has used a share of his money to send his youngest son, Vicky (Shatrughan Sinha), to school in England. They have even employed Namdev's oldest son Johnny (Amitabh Bachchan), Vicky's best friend, as a waiter in the hotel. By coincidence (or by fate!) Johnny and Vicky fall in love with the same beautiful singer, Miss Asha (Hema Malini). Julie (Reena Roy) is a childhood friend of Vicky's who is in love with him, but he only sees her as a friend. When Johnny discovers this, he and Julie sacrifice their own love to ensure that Vicky and Asha get together. At the same time, Johny's younger brother Sunny (Rishi Kapoor) has fallen for Asha's younger sister, Kim (Kim). Kim and Asha happen to be the daughters of Jaggi, the man Namdev supposedly murdered. Namdev returns soon after and plans to take revenge against Damu and Raghu for separating him from his sons Johnny and Sunny. The lives of all these characters become interwined and Naseeb becomes a poignant story about love, friendship, sacrifice, deceit, revenge and, above all, destiny.

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Review:
It has to certainly be an all time classic for people of my generation who grew up in the 70's and 80's.
To those who live in England, it is of special significance as it was shown on Channel 4 a few times in the mid and late eighties.I cannot begin to describe the story as it is quite complex.
The story continues into a heroes versus villains struggle and ends, as usual, with good winning.
Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor and Shatrughan Sinha are our main three heroes.
Kimi Katkar, Reena Roy and Hema Malini are our heroines.
"Good guys" include Pran and Amjad Khan.
Villains include Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Prem Chopra, and of course Amrish Puri in a commanding performance as "Don." As if the film were short of film stars, there is an EXCELLENT film sequence for the song "John Jani Janardan" (a classic for the age).
It involves various actors and actresses in guest appearances, including Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Simi and many many others.Other songs in the film are also extremely memorable.
In particular, the final picturization "Rang Jamake Jayenge" is an instant classic.What can I tell you about this film if you have not already seen  it?
This film is unprecedented in the number of top stars that have appeared in it.
a typical Bollywood movie.
This movie has the footprint of Manmohan Desai all across the board.
Period between 1979 to 1985 was the peak period for Manmohan Desai, giving hits like 'Amar Akbar Anthony' & 'Suhaag' in 1979, 'Naseeb' in 1981, 'Coolie' in 1983 & 'Mard' in 1985, where Amitabh Bachchan is the main hero in all these movies.
Besides the 'lost & found' theme of the story, all these movies has excellent music, song & dance.
He stretches the scope of the movie to its limit in all directions, be it the number of stars, locations and sets.
It is an entertaining movie and can easily be listed in must-see movies, if time permits..
Naseeb- Age old story on a lavish scale.
Four years after the classic Amar Akbar Anthony Manmohan Desai made another classic Nasseb.
Another difference were the villains, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Prem Chopra, Shakti Kapoor and Amrish Puri (wow!!).It all starts when four friends(Kader Khan,Amjad Khan,Pran and Jagdish)receive a winning lottery ticket and Jagdish wins.
Out of sheer greed Kader Khan and Amjad Khan kill Jagdish and frame Pran.
Kader Khan and Amjad Khan start a hotel with their winnings.
Years later we find out that Pran is actually very much alive and returns to avenge his friend's murder, which results in a superb finale that takes place in a hotelThe songs were extremely good.
The song is memorable for the special appearances by film stars.
Zindagi imtihaan leti hai was also a favourite of mine and so was Rang Jamake Jayenge.After reading my review of classic films people might assume Iam in my 30's or 40's in fact Iam only 22.
I absolutely love classic movies, they have a appeal that is sorely lacking in todays films.
Manmohan Desai thank you for giving me a passion for Bollywood movies..
A film that you can watch anytime and can't really get bored..
Basically,I think that if the actors and actresses are good performers the whole film ends up being good and as part of this film it has the best actors and actresses that can perform great.Amitabh Bachchan,Hema Malini,Rishie Kapoor,Shatrughan Sinha,Reena Roy,Rishie kapoors wife in the film,Kader Khan,Shakti Kapoor,Amrish Puri,Amjad Khan,Jeevan,Prem Chopra and everyone else.Naseeb has the right time to be funny and the right time to be emotional.Naseeb was a perfect film and had a mixture of meanings such as Friendship,love,sacrifice and being poor but being patient.I love the part at the end when they are in the hotel and they fight like mad..
Brilliant Entertaining Movie.
Naseeb is a multi budget Movie that was a Big Blockbuster Hit. It had a Extremely large star cast to create one of the biggest Indian films ever made.
Naseeb is the typical Manmohan Desai movie that contains Action, Romance, Comedy, Family relationships and lots of fun and entertainment.
Naseeb meaning fate has many points in the movie which counts on Fate.
Amitabh Bachchan was good as usual.
Hema Malini was tremondous and was the Best actress of the early 80s.
Naseeb has almost all the Bollywood Villains ever from Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor, Prem Chopra and Om Shivpuri.
Manmohan tries to add many characters in small or main roles from Pran to Jeevan.
It even has a song sequence that celebrates the Silver Jubilee of a previous movie by the same director.
The song has Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna and the famous Kapoor family members including the late Raj Kapoor who was a classic Bollywood Actor.
This movie is Big in actors and Big in Production.
A big time entertainer..
Classic Bollywood Mainstream.
This is one of Manmohan Desai's best films ever, an amalgam of many film genres.
The film boasts of some great songs, and in one of the songs, Manmohan Desai managed to include almost the entire film industry.Manmohan Desai worked with the 'lost-and-found' plot in all of his movies, but made it seem fresh every time around, and this film came as a winner all around.Amitabh Bachchan carried the film, but with ample support from Shatrughan Sinha, Rishi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Pran,and Amjad Khan.
I have seen this film a dozen times and will be watching it again many times more..
This is a movie that is best seen for people who want entertainment.
The plotline is average (standard for a Hindi action blockbuster), but the action scenes are definitely novel ones for Hindi movies.
If you are a fan of martial arts or Western action movies though, you might recognize the elements.It is the actors and the music that are the real backbone of the movie.
Amitabh is in classic form, and Rishi Kapoor shows you why he deserves the title of "The Dancing Kapoor", esp.
in the final song sequence "Rang Jamake".
This is an excellent song sequence and will remind you of the final song sequence in "Amar, Akbar, Anthony".The music is wonderful, not too much of it and not bizarre in execution on screen.
I had not heard these songs in over 10 years, and they still sound very good.An unusual aspect of this movie is there is very little in the way of romantic scenes.
Hema Malini has the role of a woman who is not helpless.Strong-willed is one thing, but ability to defend yourself physically is an added dimension, a welcome one.
There is also nothing in the way of the extended woman-abuse (rape, slapping, beating, etc.) scenes you see in Hindi movies.
So this film is probably more suitable for family viewing.Overall, I would say a 7 out of 10.
("Amar, Akbar, Anthony" by comparison would be an 8.5 out of 10, to give you an idea.).
One of the best film of Amitabh.
He is super in it and as far as cast many stars appear in song John Johny janardan.
Other cast of the film are hema, Shru,Rishi, Tina, and reena roy.
Hema is playing character of a model and on a tour to London for shooting when she meets Mr. Sinha he falls for her but hema is beloved of Amit so things goes right wrong because Amit, and Shatru r two friends on other hand the story has Reena Roy liking but its one side love.
Music is lovely and its a masala film that keeps u wake and the music is amazing.
To find what movie is u have to check out on DVD..
Manmohan Desai made several entertaining films, his films cared less for logic, story but more for entertainment.
MDk is one of the rare directors who gave 4 blockbusters in 1977, After AAA(1977) he made several blockbusters with Bachchan from Parvarish(1977), SUHAAG(1979)and then NASEEB(1981) which was touted as a sequel to AAA as it starred almost similar stars, Big B and Rishi returned back as brothers, Pran as their lost father.etc This time MDK made the film on a larger canvas and shot the film also on foreign locales and brought a bigger supporting cast, For the song John Jani janardhan he brought almost everyone from Raj Kapoor, Simi Garewal, Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna to the that time favourite Vinod Mehra The story is somewhat similar, very convulted but yet treated well by MDK and it guarantees full entertainment.
The film starts 20 years before, Young Pran and his friends Kader Khan, Amjad Khan and Jagdish Raj(for once not a cop) get a lottery ticket by a drunk Satyen Kapuu and they decide to share it, Then tragedy strikes and the long lost theme starts plus the film forwards 20 yrs later Strangely in the same year in YAARANA too Amitabh and Amjad both friends were separated in childhood as the latter went abroad to study 20 years later Amitabh works as the waiter in the hotel run by villains Kader and Amjad and Kader's son Prem Chopra(though same age as him) and Shakti Kapoor.
The film has several funny scenes in the first half like the entire scene where Reena Roy comes with the cake and the chaos that ensure.
Rishi crying for 1 mark ala Dharam in Sholay threatening for suicide and then saving Kim(Dimple lookalike) We also have Jeevan(regular of MDk)as a funny principle who flirts with girl's hostel principle Shobha Khote.
Amitabh saving Hema Malini and their love story which starts off funnily but then gets serious with the predictable twist of Shatru/Amit falling for her and then Bachchan sacrificing his love(done superbly with symbolism used as a cross showing his sacrifice) Amitabh and Shatru paired in a love triangle 1 year before this film in DOSTANA which too was a superhit The film then becomes an action film and after all pairs get each other the focus begins on nailing down the criminals, Pran returns, Amrish Puri too returns and then we have the predictable MDk style get up dance song Rang Jamake ala Amar Akbar Anthony and an action filled climax.
The film does have some flaws like some scenes don't make sense like how Kim does lipreading when someone faces their back, also several other scenes which are overlooked.
The film is quite lengthy too like in those days Direction by MDk is superb Music by LP is superb, most songs were hit like John Jani Janardhan sung by MDK fav Mohammed Rafi who passed away in 1980 and this film was a tribute to him Strangely since SUHAAG MDK didn't have Kishore the usual fav for Big B sing for him and in this film too Kishore sang for Rishi(Pakdo Pakdo) and for Shatru(Rang Jamake)while Rafi sang for Amitabh.
Mere Naseeb mein sung by Lata is still a superhit and performed superbly by Hema Malini Pakdo Pakdo a fun number on Rishi and Kim dancing while playing kabaddi(boys vs girls) and then we have Zindagi Imtehaan leti hai when Big B realises that Shatru too loves Hema, the song is apt sung by Dr. Kamlesh Avastathi.
Most memorable song is also CHAL MERE BHAI wherein a drunk Amitabh sings in his own voice with Rishi Kapoor coming to try to convince him to go home, Rafi and Big B make a good team The finale dance number Rang Jamake with all in get ups is also a brilliant number, KK, Rafi and Shailendra return after Hum Premi(Parvarish) and make a good team The film is quite similar to AAA, as in both films Amitabh has a drunk scene, Shatru's role was supposed to be played by VK who had left to US that time while Rishi does his cartoonish act similarly in the climax Also we have Pran here too as Big B's lost fatherAmongst actors Amitabh Bachchan as usual stands tall and he plays the main lead He proves his versatility by performing superbly in action, romance, comedy, drama.
In all MDK films he always entertained the masses and gave his most freewheeling performance, This was his last classy film with MDK like AAA, after that he made crass films like COOLIE and MARD and then GJS.
Hema Malini looks beautiful and does well in her role and looks charming and has superb chemistry with Big B.
Her bike scenes are a treat Shatrughan Sinha looks overweight but does quite well in his role This was his last film with Big B so far, Rumours were abuzz that both were big time rivals those days and there never spoke during the shoot Rishi Kapoor again entertains after AAA, He is one actor who always entertained never mind if his role was a second lead or main lead.
His comedy timing is superb and also his drama scenes Kim resembles Dimple Kapadia and does okay Reena Roy in her biggest film perhaps does a superb job Amongst the huge supporting cast Pran is superb, Amjad Khan and Kader Khan are good as the bad guys Amrish Puri is superb in his small role Lalita Pawar does well as usual, Jeevan and Shobha Khote are funny, Viju Khote has one scene Prem Chopra and Shakti Kapoor are good as the villain cum jerks.
This is not (Amar Akbar Anthony) part 2, or a remake of it either.
But sorry, it didn't hit the mark that the previous movie did.Back then (Manmohan Desai) was on the top of his game.
Here, he made a complicated plot, as usual, with the same went-to-crime deeply-good father, the same variant but brave lost-and-found sons, again love stories for the 3 sons, bad guys (numerous this round), comedy, music, action, a final song where the sons meet, masquerade and dance before beating up the badies, and most of all a celebration of the power of faith, unity and the main 3 religions of India.
Now it's played all over again, with just different names and characters, more actors and money.
The thing is, I felt less.The movie is 197 minutes another (Desai) masala epic.
(Shatrughan Sinha) is the worst third member for (Amitabh Bachchan) and (Rishi Kapoor) heroic league.
And he was older than his role, being 6 years younger than his father in the movie (Amjad Khan) !
(God forgive Vinod Khanna, the third brother of Bachchan and Kapoor in AAA, who was nominated for the role but couldn't accept it since he took a break from films).
Watch the character of (Pran)'s sister to have a loud laugh; heck, the respectable masala never treated any character that bad before.
Shooting abroad, having tons of cameos at the party scene, the sniper sequence (one of the most marvelous ever), and the aflame tower action at the end, were some of the ways.
It exemplifies the astonishing extravaganza more than any effective suffering or well-made melodrama, despite the scene of sacrificing, beside the Christ statue, for the sake of friendship which was the sole moment where this movie had a heart.
See, that's why the less lavish (AAA) surpasses.Notice well how most of the movie's songs are being performed through parties or shows, how most of the cameos are for the stars as themselves, celebrating their stardom, and how (Amitabh Bachchan) breaks the fourth wall, talking to us, many times to understand that it's a big ostentatious party of the commercial Indian cinema and all its stars at the 1980s start.
So for me the grand party scene, where that crowd of stars gather on one screen, is the best of the movie, or rather the movie itself.
(John Jani Janardhan) and (Mere Naseeb Mein) are great classics.
They are 2 of the reasons why we'll always cherish that era and those movies.
While these 2 songs, along with the party scene, get a 10, the movie itself gets a 7.
Dear (Desai) used to bedeck his movies with fireworks.
This time he made the whole movie out of many flashy fireworks, only..
Sure it's a great movie -- if you don't have a brain!
Nothing in this movie is realistic or plausible.
Now I know you're probably thinking it's a movie and it's not supposed to be realistic...Give me a break.
Of course it's a movie but how would you like it if Superman suddenly started to shoot web out of his wrists.
There is a scene here where one of the heroines is reading the villains' lips when they're backs are turned towards her.
Also why the hell does Sinha marry Reena Roy?
He doesn't love her and I thought that's what Bollywood films are about.
Amitabh and Rishi Kapoor nail down their roles.
Amjad Khan and Amrish Puri are both really good.
Of the woman Hema Malini's easily the best while Kimi Katekar is just horrible.
The songs are really good as are the action sequences although the last one is a clear rip-off of the Towering Inferno and goes too long.
Some Multi-starrers are made because the director wants to make a great movie (such as Amar Akbar Anthony) while others like this one are made to take your money.
Coincidentally both of these movies are made by Manmohan Desai and there are many things about this one that tell you that it was supposed to be a sort of sequel to Amar Akbar Anthony (i.e. Amitabh's drunk scene in front of the mirror, two of the three heros play the same roles they did in the earlier movie, the actor who plays Dabisco also played Dabisco in the first one, Pran's character, the whole three heroes three heroines deal).
The film definitely is a good one and I liked it as such ( 6 or 7 out of 10), but it certainly isn't great and didn't deserve to become the top Bollywood film of the 80s.
But then again with the quality of Bollywood films you never know.