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Best Actor | 1978 | Amitabh
Best Music Director | 1978 | Pyarelal Ramprasad
Best Editor | 1978
Budget 10,000,000 USD
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The line, "sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated with the exuberance of your own verbosity" that is spoken by Anthony when he emerges from the Easter egg is an almost exact quotation from a speech given by Benjamin Disraeli in 1878. Disraeli (who was referring to W.E. Gladstone) used the word "inebriated" rather than "intoxicated".
It might come as a surprise but there is an interesting goof in the film. In the introduction scene between Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, Rishi's character Akbar Illahabadi calls Neetu Singh's character Dr Salma by her real name and not with her character's name. This goof is noticeable enough, but no efforts were taken to correct it in the movie. This is the scene when Akbar comes to Dr Salma for a health check-up and he refers to Dr Salma as Neetu.
The story of Amar Akbar Anthony is really interesting and director Manmohan Desai got the idea while reading a newspaper! He read a news piece of a drunk man named Jackson, who was fed up of his life and hence decided to drop his three children in the park. Similarly, in the film, Pran takes his children and drops them in a park at the beginning of the film. In the story, the eldest kid is adopted by a Hindu police officer, and the other two by a Muslim tailor and a Catholic priest, respectively.
Amitabh on kbc spoke of the film when Neetu and Ranbhir Kapoor had come to promote Besharam, Amitabh said that Manmohan Desai never cared for logic, he was laughing the scene when three brothers give blood to Nirupa Roy and another scene when Neetu checks Parveen's pulse to find out if she is pregnant.
Manmohan Desai did not want a heroine opposite Vinod Khanna. He reasoned that his was a serious character and it would not suit him. But Vinod kept insisting that Amitabh and Rishi had leading ladies, he should too. He kept badgering Desai to sign Shabana Azmi. Finally Desai gave in and signed her , creating a role for her in the film.
"Anthony Gonzalves: You know the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the hemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity."
"Anthony Gonzalves: A man runs like this only two times in his life, either in an Olympic race or if it's a police case."
