Amar Akbar Anthony is an Indian movie about three brothers separated in childhood who grow up under three different religions.

The movie was directed by Manmohan Desai and starred three reigning superstars in Bollywood of the time, Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor. Their co-stars were Parveen Babi, Shabana Azmi and Neetu Singh respectively. Nirupa Roy, Pran and Jeevan provided support. The music was by Laxmikant-Pyarelal . Kishore Kumar sang for Amitabh Bachchan, while Mohammed Rafi sang for Rishi Kapoor. The soundtrack was one of Mukesh's last soundtracks with Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Anand Bakshi was the lyricist.

Amitabh won his first Filmfare Best Actor Award in this movie. Laxmikant-Pyarelal got the Best Music Director award as well.

The movie begins when Kishenlal (Pran), a taxi driver for the gangster Robert (Jeevan) returns to his wife Bharati (Nirupa Roy) and sons after spending many years in prison because of a crime committed by Robert. He is furious to see that they have no food and the sons are nearly starved to death. He immediately goes to Robert to get revenge, but is humiliated by him. In the process, Kishenlal escapes with booty, steals a car and drives away to his family through a raging storm. But before he arrives, Bharati runs away leaving a suicide note. Kishenlal then takes his sons with him while being chased by Robert's henchmen. Upon reaching a park, Kishenlal leaves his sons there and drives away to divert his enemies and the police from his path. However, his car meets with an accident and falls from the cliff, but Kishenlal survives with the money. Bharati is still running away to commit suicide. Suddenly a big branch falls on her, completely blinding her. She then becomes homeless and thinks that her husband and sons are dead.

Meanwhile the sons are each adopted by a childless man in the park. The eldest, Amar (Vinod Khanna) is adopted by a Hindu police officer and grows up to be a police officer as well. The second son, Anthony (Amitabh Bachchan) is adopted by a Christian priest and becomes a hoodlum on the streets, while the youngest, Akbar (Rishi Kapoor) is adopted by a Muslim tailor and becomes a qawwali singer.

The rest of the movie is about how the family is reunited.

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