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Amjad Khan is a Actor and Director Indian born on 12 november 1940 at Hyderabad (Inde)

Amjad Khan

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Birth name Amjad Zakaria Khan
Nationality Inde
Birth 12 november 1940 at Hyderabad (Inde)
Death 27 july 1992 (at 51 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards

Amjad Zakaria Khan (12 November 1940 – 27 July 1992) was an Indian actor and director. He worked in over 130 films in a career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his villainous roles in Hindi films, the most famous being the iconic Gabbar Singh in the 1975 classic Sholay and of Dilawar in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978).

Biography

In 1972, he married Shehla Khan and in the following year, she gave birth to their first child, Shadaab Khan, who acted in a few films. He also had a daughter, Ahlam Khan, and another son, Seemaab Khan. Ahlam married popular theater actor Zafar Karachiwala in 2011.

Usually with

Kader Khan
Kader Khan
(35 films)
Shakti Kapoor
Shakti Kapoor
(26 films)
Ranjeet
Ranjeet
(24 films)
Satyen Kappu
Satyen Kappu
(22 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Amjad Khan (132 films)

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Actor

Aatank
Aatank (1996)
, 1h53
Directed by Prem Lalwani
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about sharks
Actors Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Ravi Kishan, Girish Karnad, Amjad Khan, Nafisa Ali
Roles Alphonso
Rating38% 1.900931.900931.900931.900931.90093
Jesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as their livelihood. The community is oppressed by a powerful gangster named Alphonso. Jesu is an orphan, while Peter is brought up by his aunt and uncle, after the death of his mother. The community is all thrilled when Phillips finds black pearls off the coast. But then so does Alphonso, who asks his divers to get all the pearls, thus disturbing the ocean. Peter meets with Suzy D'Silva and they fall in love with each other, and get married. While enjoying a quiet swim on the sea-shore, Suzy disappears. A search is carried out, and a number of human body parts are recovered. With shock and horror, this community finds that their livelihood is being threatened by a gigantic, virtually indestructible man-eating shark.
Rudaali
Rudaali (1993)
, 2h8
Genres Drama
Actors Dimple Kapadia, Rakhee Gulzar, Amjad Khan, Raj Babbar, Sushmita Mukherjee, Raghubir Yadav
Rating73% 3.678733.678733.678733.678733.67873
The film is set in a small village in Rajasthan, India. It tells the story of a woman named Shanichari, who was abandoned by her mother shortly after her father's death. Bad fortune follows as she marries an alcoholic, who leaves her with little hope of a brighter future for herself and her mentally challenged son.
Virodhi
Virodhi (1992)

Directed by Rajkumar Kohli
Actors Dharmendra, Sunil Dutt, Sharat Saxena, Armaan Kohli, Anita Raj, Poonam Dhillon
Rating46% 2.317242.317242.317242.317242.31724
Inspector Shekhar gets involved in a drug racket case which involves ministers like Pandey Sahib & his alliances. When Inspector Shekhar tries to bring justice against them he gets killed by hooligans of Pandey Sahib. It's up to his younger brother Raj to avenge his death.
Dil Hi To Hai
Directed by Asrani
Genres Romance
Actors Jackie Shroff, Divya Bharti, Gulshan Grover, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Shilpa Shirodkar
Roles Maharaj Vikram Garg
Rating55% 2.778552.778552.778552.778552.77855
King Vikram Singh (Amjad Khan) rules over a tiny state in India, called Vikramgarh. His sons are the royal twin-brothers Harshvardhan and Govardhan (double role by Jackie Shroff). Harshvardhan is the smarter one of them, hence he is regarded to become the future King of Vikramgarh. The Diwan Thakur Karan Singh (Kader Khan) is his loyal friend who stays at the prince's side all the time to train him for his future duties. Govardhan can have all the liberty he wants, while Harshvardhan has to face his duties and hence cannot enjoy the same freedom. One day, when his marriage to Jayshree (Shilpa Shirodkar) is planned, he decides to make his brother take his place, so Harshvardhan and his Diwan go to Mumbai where Harshvardhan meets Bharati (Divya Bharti) and instantly falls in love and thus becomes the enemy of Jack (Gulshan Grover) who plans on getting Bharati for himself and marry her.
Love
Love (1991)
, 2h33
Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Salman Khan, Revathi, Amjad Khan, Shafi Ali Inamdar, Harish Kumar, Rita Bhaduri
Roles Guruji
Rating61% 3.0507453.0507453.0507453.0507453.050745
Jailed as a juvenile for killing his abusive father (Sudhir Kumar) who is responsible for his mother's suicide, Prithvi (Salman Khan) is unable to stand any atrocity. He meets Maggie Pinto (Revathi Menon) and after a few chance meetings, they both fall in love. Maggie takes Prithvi to meet her parents, but they reject him after learning about his criminal past. When Maggie and Prithvi persist, Maggie's mother, Stella Pinto (Rita Bhaduri), calls the police and has Prithvi jailed. Guruji (Amjad Khan) comes to Prithvi's aid and bails him out. Prithvi and Maggie continue their courtship, but Stella finds out and intervenes, sending goons to attack Prithvi, during which Maggie is injured. How this affects everyone close to her is the crux of the story.
Ramgarh Ke Sholay, 2h4
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Kishore Bhanushali, Vijay Saxena, Amjad Khan, Rajendra Nath, Harish Patel, Nargis
Roles Gabbar Singh
Rating49% 2.479232.479232.479232.479232.47923
Amjad Khan who played the iconic villain Gabbar Singh in the original film returns to the role of Gabbar in this film. The film features lookalike actors Vijay Saxena who resembles Amitabh Bachchan (who played Jai in the original Sholay), Kishore Bhanushali who resembles Dev Anand as well as lookalike actors of Anil Kapoor and Govinda. The movie did good business in the small theaters.
Izzat
Izzat (1991)

Genres Action
Actors Jackie Shroff, Sangeeta Bijlani, Gulshan Grover, Shakti Kapoor, Amjad Khan, Raza Murad
Roles Commissioner Shamesher Singh
Rating60% 3.0019053.0019053.0019053.0019053.001905
Brahmarshi Vishwamitra, 2h28
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Actors Nandamuri Balakrishna, Meenakshi Seshadri, Deepika Chikhalia, Amjad Khan, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, Aruna Irani
Roles Veerabahu
Rating73% 3.6991153.6991153.6991153.6991153.699115
The story is based on the life of Vishvamitra who is one of the most venerated sages of ancient times in India.
Maha-Sangram, 2h29
Directed by Mukul Anand
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Vinod Khanna, Madhuri Dixit, Govinda, Gulshan Grover, Shaheen Banu, Shakti Kapoor
Roles Bada Godha
Rating54% 2.718752.718752.718752.718752.71875
Uttar Pradesh-based Vishal gets a telegram from Santa Cruz Police Station that his younger collegian brother, Arjun, is dead. Distraught he travels to Bombay, collects his brothers ashes, and finds out that Arjun met a violent death. With the aid of a street-smart con-woman and her mentor, Babu Kasai Hyderabadi, he then sets out to find who killed his brother - not knowing that soon he will be drawn into the dark world of Godha and Vishwaraj.
Pati Patni Aur Tawaif, 2h15
Directed by Rajkumar Kohli
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Salma Agha, Farah Naaz, Om Prakash, Sumeet Saigal, Amjad Khan
Rating47% 2.374332.374332.374332.374332.37433
Pati Patni Aur Tawaif is the Story of Vijay Saxena (Mithun Chakraborty), a well-known Bollywood actor and his relationship with a prostitute, Gauri (Salma Agha). The Third angle is played by Prince Kumar (Sumeet Saigal), a wealthy movie financier. Vijay Saxena is caught between Gauri and his wife Shanti (Farha Naaz).
Lekin...
Lekin... (1990)
, 2h51
Directed by Gulzar
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Alok Nath, Beena Banerjee
Roles Shafi Ahmed Sidiqqui
Rating78% 3.9225453.9225453.9225453.9225453.922545
The movie takes place in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, which gives it something in common with Rudaali, another off-beat drama set in Rajasthan that was released around the same time and also featured Dimple Kapadia and Amjad Khan.