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The Great Gambler is a film of genre Thriller directed by Shakti Samanta with Amitabh Bachchan
The Great Gambler (1979)
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Add to a movie listThe Great Gambler is a 1979 Bollywood action thriller film, known in Hindi as Sabse Bada Zuari (Hindi: सबसे बड़ा जुआरी), stars Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh and Prem Chopra. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. It did decent business in Mumbai and has attained cult status.This film is a thriller, and its story is based on international gangsters, spies and secret agents of different countries' intelligence agencies and their undercover operations. This film had high production costs with a significant portions of it being shot in international locations including Cairo, Lisbon, Venice and Rome, and in India many scenes were shot in Goa.
The Great Gambler has been widely appreciated for its action, direction and cinematography.
Synopsis
Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) is an expert gambler, has been for as long as he can remember, and has never lost a game. These skills bring him to the attention of the underworld don Ratan Das (Madan Puri), who is interested in hiring him to win large amounts of money from rich people and then influencing them into doing whatever he wants. Jai agrees to do so, and plays successfully, though unknowingly to entrap Nath (Jagdish Raj) who works for the government. After losing large amounts of money, he is blackmailed into revealing the blueprints of a top-secret military laser weapon that can hit any target within 50 miles. When the Indian police come to know of this, they assign the case to Inspector Vijay (also Amitabh Bachchan), who is asked to apprehend Jai at any cost. The only problem is that Inspector Vijay is Jai's look-alike, and is not at all a good gambler.Actors
Amitabh Bachchan
(Jay / Insp. Vijay)
Zeenat Aman
(Shabnam)
Neetu Kapoor
(Mala)
Prem Chopra
(Ramesh / Abbasi)
Utpal Dutt
(Saxena)
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