Best Hindi Movies of 1980
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- DirectorVijay AnandStarsDharmendraAmitabh BachchanZeenat AmanRam and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents have been killed in an accident and promises to raise them himself. He enrolls the younger brother Balram, in school and eventually sends him off to join the police force. The older becomes a mechanic. Jagatpal has a tight hold on the boys, even when Ram is an adult, he still gives all his wages to his uncle and is only allowed to keep a few rupees for pocket money. When Balram returns as a fully fledged police officer, Jagatpal finally reveals his plan. He is going to use Ram to target the biggest smugglers in India. Now that Balram is a police officer, he will protect his brother from getting arrested. Balram has reservations, but Jagatpal threatens to beat him just as he did when he was a boy. Balram is still unhappy with Jagatpal's plan so tells his superiors in the police force that his brother intends to infiltrate the smuggler's underworld so that Balram can arrest them. The plan goes well. Ram becomes one of the lieutenants of one of the biggest smugglers (Amjad Khan) and Balram's excellent arrest rate make him one of the force's most successful officers. Jagatpal becomes enormously wealthy from Ram's illicit gains. The brothers also find love. Balram with the daughter of a college professor (Rekha) and Ram with a girl who has moved to the area looking for her father (Zeenat Aman). Unbeknowst to Ram, the girl believes her father to be Jagatpal. She, along with her courtesan mother, attempt to extort money for Jagatpal but he refuses to believe he is the father. His suspicions are confirmed when he catches the mother paying off a former customer. The man is confronted by Jagatpal and confesses that the girl is not Jagatpal's daughter. Jagatpal's plan comes unstuck however when the boy's mother returns. She did not die after all. Ram recognizes his mother but Balram cannot as he was too young when they were separated. Both boys weep when they are reunited, Ram for the mother he has missed all those years and Balram for the opportunity he now has to get to know his mother. She reveals Jagatpal's actions to the two brothers and they unite to take him down.
- DirectorGovind NihalaniStarsOm PuriNaseeruddin ShahSmita PatilA public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAshok KumarRekhaRakesh RoshanA strict matriarch's regimented household is upended by the arrival of a spunky relative who challenges the rules.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsDev AnandTina AmbaniGirish KarnadKamli belongs to a poor family. She sells datuns for a living. She sells them in local suburban trains as well as on railway platforms. One day she meets a bachelor named Pratap, who would like her to become a lady, and be educated, to which she agrees. She thinks that Pratap is in love with her, little does she know that she is the subject of a bet between Pratap and his friend, Kashinath, who both find her crude, crass, loud, and uncouth, so much so that both doubt that she can be transformed into a lady.
- DirectorP. Sambasiva RaoStarsShashi KapoorSanjeev KumarMoushumi ChatterjeeThe second wife of kind-hearted,and generous Amirchand Bhargav is Durgadevi Bhargav (Nadira), who is exactly the opposite of her late husband. She rules over her household, alongwith her brother, Makhanlal (Madan Puri), with an iron hand, and also over her step-daughter, Shanti (Vidya Sinha), who she treats worse than her servants. Due to her brutality, there is always a dearth of servants in her household, and hence most of the work must be done by Shanti. Her other daughter is Roopa (Moushumi Chatterjee), is bad-tempered and spoiled. When a former employee of Amirchand, Ratanlal (Shreeram Lagoo) approaches Durgadevi for marrying her two sons to her two daughters, she humiliates him and turns him away. Unperturbed by this, he asks the assistance of his two sons, Ram (Sanjeev Kumar) and Laxman (Shashi Kapoor), so that the marriages can take place, and at the same time Durgadevi and Makhanlal be taught a lesson. Both the sons readily agree to do this, and Ram goes to Durgadevi household as a servant to woo Shanti; while Laxman poses as a wealthy playboy to woo Roopa. But Makhanlal and his wife, Jwala (Shashikala) want Roopa to marry their jailbird son, Chander (Ranjeet), and will not stop at anything, including abducting Durgadevi herself, to pave their way to wealth.
- DirectorEsmayeel ShroffStarsRajesh KhannaShabana AzmiSiddharthArun takes on the responsibility for the care of his step-mother (Sujatha) and step-sisters on the death of his father. Losses in business result in the sale of their palatial home, and Arun together with his wife (Neema - Shabana Azmi) move to a smaller house. Tensions escalate between Neema and Sujatha, even as Arun struggles financially to meet the needs of his family. Things come to a head when she sees her husband eating sweets from the hand of a beautiful woman doctor in a restaurant. Neema leaves her matrimonial home together with her son Abhinandan. Neema sells her jewelry to support her brother's education, without any return on her investment. She and Abhinandan live a life of genteel poverty on the charity of another brother. Divorce court judgment leaves Arun dissatisfied and resentful and he does not meet his son for years. Meanwhile, Neema feeling wronged and cheated by Arun thinks he has remarried and has a new child. The thread of the story begins to unravel when Abhinandan comes to Bombay for higher education. Does Abhinandan hate his father? Does he ride his Rajdoot-Bobby motorcycle from Bombay to Nasik? What happens when Neema and Arun come face to face, after many years in common grief, worry and concern for the well being of a loved one is to be watched.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsShabana AzmiAmol PalekarGirish KarnadThis is a story of two lawyer brothers, their half brother, their wives and children. Siddheshwari, wife of the eldest brother has left the operational details of the household to Sheela, wife of the half brother Chander. Chander is a happy go lucky musician, who fails in successive business ventures. Sheela ensures that the household runs smoothly, while Siddheshwari is the fount of love and affection in the joint household. When brother Harish and his spouse Nayantara rejoin the household, sparks fly. Sheela is accused of misappropriating assets, and the couple are exiled and humiliated by Harish and Nayantara. Will Sheela and Chander's integrity and love be acknowledged? Will the joint family survive the stress of greed and envy?
- DirectorAnil GangulyStarsShashi KapoorJeetendraRekha
- DirectorRaghunath JhalaniStarsJeetendraRekhaDeven VermaRavi (Jeetendra) overhears a beautiful woman, Namrita (Rekha), singing a sad song. He falls in love, and tries to pull her away from the abyss of suicide. As time goes by, he proposes and introduces her to his family, only to find out that she is already married to Rajesh. He leaves home destroyed, attempting to understand life after she completes suicide...only to run into her at an ashram, where she claims she is not the same person, but a look-alike.
- DirectorShyam RamsayTulsi RamsayStarsNavin NischolVidya SinhaKaajal KiranDharamdas is killed by Dhanraj and his man later one by one Dharamdas killers are killed but it puts question to everyone as whose behind all this killings?
- DirectorBrijStarsZeenat AmanVinod KhannaShatrughan SinhaRanveer Singh's family is killed by his adopted brother Veer Singh mistakenly Veer Singh's man kill Sonu daughter of Masterji thinking she is Munni daughter of Ranveer Singh.Kishen a con man from Calcutta and Kanhaiya a con men from Delhi are ordered by the court to stay away from respective city limits for five years.Kishen and Kanhaiya meet at a bus stand along with a con woman Radha they decide to travel to Bombay. On the way the duo come across Mohanlal elder brother of Masterji and loyal driver of Ranveer Singh he dies while saving Munni from Veer Singh's man and tells them that Munni's life is in danger as its a question of Crores of Rupees .Kishen and Kanhaiya reach Bombay with Munni thinking they will get benefited from it as Munni belongs to a rich family.But before they could trace anyone Veer Singh finds their whereabouts and puts his men behind Kishen and Kanhaiya.
- DirectorVed RahiStarsShashi KapoorRekhaDanny DenzongpaWhen a young woman is pushed off a boat, she must unmask her would-be killer.
- DirectorSubhash GhaiStarsRishi KapoorTina AmbaniSimi GarewalRavi is killed by his wife after his marriage. He is reborn as Monty and is now a singer he goes to holiday in Ooty where he recollects his memories from previous life and inquires about his family from first life and his evil wife Kamini.
- DirectorFeroz KhanStarsFeroz KhanVinod KhannaZeenat AmanTwo friends live happily until misunderstandings arise between them.
- DirectorRaj KhoslaStarsAmitabh BachchanShatrughan SinhaZeenat AmanVijay Varma (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Kapoor (Shatrughan Sinha) are two close childhood friends. When they thought they have matured enough they decides to enter law policy: one as a police officer and another as a lawyer. There lives takes a turn when both reaches a woman named Sheetal Sahni (Zeenat Aman) at different places and time respectively. Both fell in love with her and does not relate each others emotion to one another. Then an old enemy of Vijay named Mr. Daaga (Prem Chopra) enters the scene and deploys such a way that will create misunderstandings between the two friends forever.
- DirectorRavi ChopraStarsDharmendraVinod KhannaJeetendraA dedicated railway employee's plan to introduce an express train result in sabotage.
- DirectorRamesh SippyStarsSunil DuttShashi KapoorAmitabh BachchanTwo brothers go after the international mafia kingpin who murdered their cop brother. They are later joined by another man who wants revenge against the gangster.