The Great Gambler

The Great Gambler
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Directed by	Shakti Samanta
Produced by	C.V.K. Shastri
Written by	C.J. Pavri (adaptation) Vrajendra Gaur (dialogue)
Screenplay by	Shakti Samanta Ranjan Bose
Story by	Vikramaditya (novel)
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Zeenat Aman Neetu Singh
Music by	Rahul Dev Burman
Cinematography	Aloke Dasgupta
Edited by	R.P. Bapat Pran Mehra
Release date	April 6, 1979
Running time	163 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

The Great Gambler is an Indian action thriller film, known in Hindi as Sabse Bada Zuari (Hindi: सबसे बड़ा जुआरी), stars Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh and Prem Chopra. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. It did decent business in Mumbai and has attained cult status. This film is a thriller, and its story is based on international gangsters, spies and secret agents of different countries' intelligence agencies and their undercover operations. This film had high production costs with a significant portions of it being shot in international locations including Cairo, Lisbon, Venice and Rome, and in India many scenes were shot in Goa. The Great Gambler has been widely appreciated for its action, direction and cinematography.

Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) is an expert gambler, has been for as long as he can remember, and has never lost a game. These skills bring him to the attention of the underworld don Ratan Das (Madan Puri), who is interested in hiring him to win 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 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 can hit any target within 50 miles and is wanted by another underworld don named Saxena (Utpal Dutt). When the Indian police come to know of this, they assign the case to Inspector Vijay (also Amitabh Bachchan) who is a lookalike of Jai.

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