Big B’s Muqaddar Ka Sikandar was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 1978. It was also the third highest-grossing Indian film of the decade, after Sholay and Bobby. Muqaddar Ka Sikandar was a blockbuster in India and the U.S.S.R.
At the 26th Filmfare Awards, it was nominated for nine Filmfare Awards, including Best Film, but did not win in any category.[3] It was remade into the Telugu film Prema Tarangalu (1980),[4] and in Tamil as Amara Kaaviyam (1981).[5]
Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (transl. Conqueror of Destiny) is a 1978 Indian drama film, produced and directed by Prakash Mehra, and written by Kader Khan, Vijay Kaul and Laxmikant Sharma. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, in his fifth of nine films with Prakash Mehra to date, along with Vinod Khanna, Raakhee, Rekha, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Mayur Raj Verma and Nirupa Roy. The film tells of the story of Sikandar (played by Verma as a child and Bachchan as an adult), an orphan raised in the slums of Bombay.
The year 1979 had 1978 – 6 releases which Amitabh topped the box-office attention one after another – Don, MKS, Trishul, Kasme Vaade, Ganga Ki Saughandh, Besharam
This movie had the biggest actors of that era
- Amitabh Bachchan as Sikandar
- Mayur Raj Verma as young Sikander
- Vinod Khanna as Vishal Anand
- Raakhee as Kaamna
- Rekha as Zohra Begum
- Amjad Khan as Dilawar
- Ranjeet as J. D.