The Great Gambler (1979)

The Great Gambler Movie Trailer 1979

Crew
Directed by     Shakti Samanta
Produced by     C.V.K. Shastri
Written by     Shakti Samanta ,Ranjan Bose
Music by     Rahul Dev Burman

Cast
    Amitabh Bachchan .... Double role (Jai/Inspector Vijay)
    Zeenat Aman .... Shabnam
    Neetu Singh ... Mala
    Madan Puri .... Ratan Das
    Iftekhar ... Deepchand
    Utpal Dutt .... Saxena
    Helen .... Monica (Dancer)
    Jagdish Raj .... Nath
    Prem Chopra .... Ramesh
    Sujit Kumar .... Marconi

Story
Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) is an expert gambler, and has been so as long as he can remember, and has never lost a game. These skills bring him to the attention of the underworld don Saxena (Utpal Dutt), who is interested in hiring him for winning large amounts of money from rich people and then influencing them into doing whatever he wants. Jai agrees to do so, and plays successfully, though unknowingly to entrap a patriotic Indian named Nath (Jagdish Raj) who works for the government. After losing large amounts of money, he is blackmailed into revealing the blueprints of a top-secret military laser weapon that hit any target within 50 miles. When the Indian police come to know of this, they assign the case to Inspector Vijay, who is asked to apprehend Jai at any cost. The only problem is that Inspector Vijay is Jai's look-alike, and is not at all a good gambler. After this Jai and Vijay's professional and personal lives get confusingly mixed up as Jai and Vijay both coincidentally are sent to Rome where Vijay is sent to retrieve evidence against underworld don Saxena and Jai is onto a money-making scheme where he would marry his rich girlfriend Mala (Neetu Singh) to inherit her money. Mala however mistakens Vijay for Jai and Vijay decides to go along with this to find out who his double is. Jai meanwhile meets Shabnam (Zeenat Aman), a club dancer who mistakens Jai for Vijay and is working for a spy ring. She has been sent to seduce Vijay and stop him on his mission to retrieve evidence against the underworld don Saxena and Jai is only more willing to have a little fun before he sets about on his latest money-making scheme.

Did you know ?

1. A fight sequence in a mutton shop between Amitabh Bachchan and Shetty, was deleted because censor board refused to give this film an 'U' certificate with that scene.
2. The movie didn't prove lucky for actor 'Amjad Khan'. On the day he signed the film, his father passed away. In the very first schedule of the film, he met with a serious accident. The role was eventually essayed by Utpal Dutt.