Satte Pe Satta (1982)

Original title

सत्ते पे सत्ता

Directed by

Raj N. Sippy

Genre

drama film, comedy film, family film, action comedy film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 46m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Seven brothers live together with their rough ways. The eldest brother marries Indu who tries to teach them manners. A lookalike is sent to harm a disabled heiress but falls in love with her instead.

humorouslightheartedenergeticwhimsicalromanticaction-packeddramaticfeel-good

What happens

Satte Pe Satta (transl. Seven on Seven) is a 1982 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Raj N. Sippy and produced by Romu N. Sippy. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Ranjeeta Kaur and Amjad Khan in the lead roles with Sachin Pilgaonkar, Sudhir Luthria, Shakti Kapoor, Kanwarjit Paintal and Kanwaljit Singh in supporting roles. The story revolves around seven unsophisticated brothers who all are transformed by Indu (Hema Malini) the wife of the eldest brother Ravi Anand (Amitabh Bachchan). However, things take a turn when Ravi's lookalike Babu is sent to impersonate him and murder Seema Singh (Ranjeeta Kaur), a disabled heiress, by her cunning uncle Ranjit Singh (Amjad Khan). Then Babu falls in love with Seema adding to the complications. The story of the film was adapted from the American film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), which is based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the ancient Roman legend of the Rape of the Sabine women. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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