
It won several awards at 25th Filmfare Awards, including Best Actor, Best Music Director and Best Editing. Amar Akbar Anthony also had a lasting impact on pop culture, with its catchy songs, quotable one-liners, and the character of Anthony Gonsalves (played by Bachchan). Religious tolerance became a landmark theme in Bollywood masala films, building on the masala formula pioneered several years earlier with Nasir Hussain's Yaadon Ki Baaraat (1973). The film was released on and earned ₹155 million (equivalent to ₹3.7 billion or US$49 million in 2020) at the Indian box office, becoming the highest-grossing Indian film of that year, alongside Dharam Veer and Hum Kisise Kum Naheen. The soundtrack album was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi.

They grow up to be a policeman, a qawwali singer, and an owner of a country liquor bar, respectively. The plot focuses on three brothers who are separated in childhood and adopted by three families of different faiths- Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. The film stars Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan opposite Shabana Azmi, Neetu Singh and Parveen Babi are in the lead roles. ₹155 million (equivalent to ₹3.7 billion or US$49 million in 2020) Īmar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Indian Hindi- language masala film directed and produced by Manmohan Desai, and written by Kader Khan.
