1977 · action · comedy · masala
Amar Akbar Anthony
Directed by Manmohan Desai3h 4m1977
Three brothers, each raised in different religious households, reunite after many years in a chance encounter. They set out to take revenge on those responsible for separating them.
Our read: Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive action · comedy · masala entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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