Have you watched Manmohan desai + Amitabh bachan films?

[Psycho Pakistani]

So how many people have watched the manmohan desai + Amitabh duo movies of late 70s and 80s, What do you think about those films. For me this was kind of movies that were liked the most by people in my early age in 80s and 90s too in pakistan, these films were totally different than other bollywood movies of that time and also from modern day bollywood movies which are mostly garbage. Manmohan desai movies were about friendships and heroism and I really find them the best popular movies ever made in the history of bollywood.

Some of Manmohan desai + Amitabh movies that have now become classic,

Amar akbar anthony, Suhag, Naseeb, Coolie, Mard, ganga jamna saraswati, Toofan etc.

 

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[IndoCarib]

Amithabh Bachan started being recognised as the "angry young man' because of Manmohan Desai movies. They were all popular movies but defied logic and sometimes gravity too !

 

[livingdead]

Those movies belonged to those times.. when we were socialists.. very few were rich and vast majority were poor. We all were deeply suspicious of rich people and made up such stories to comfort us. (may be the rich were evil then, along with white skinhead foreigners. Islamic terrorism was absent)

That time also we were very angry with ourselves and the country, we thought our country will be of milk and honey after british leave, but within a few decades we were knee deep in corruption, food shortage, etc etc.
The chief patrons of bollywood were the unwashed masses, watching movies in bedbug infested single screen theaters, sometimes multiple times.

After 90s, the world opened up to us, we got aspirational and bollywood reflected the change in mood. We started consuming better products, having relatively better life. Bollywood started to target the swelling middle class, instead of the masses.

Even then, bollywood remained an avenue for escapism, even now most watch the movies for light entertainment.

 

[genmirajborgza786]

I like them man Mohan desai & Prakash mehra are some my favorite's Collie, Naseeb & ganga jamuna saraswati , Mard ,being among my favorite with Coolie taking the cake, I also like Amitabh's movies with prakash mehra Sharaabi , Lawaris & Namak Halal with Namak Halal taking the cake