Highest Grossing Hindi Movies of 1983
This list is as per the film's performance money wise at the box office in the particular year.
The order is as per revenue collected.
There are some years in which films which are regarded as classics post their release or have developed cult following among public over the years, have become box office flop at the time of their release.
The first 30 are hits and rest films in this list below were declared as box office flops and the rest of the films from the beginning were Superhits
All the films below are classics except Mahaan , Prem Tapasya, Coolie, Himmatwala, Mawali, Naukar Biwi Ka, Nishan , Nastik, Kalakaar, Jaani Dost, Andha Kanoon , Bandhan Kuchche Dagaon Ka, Taqdeer and Romance.
The order is as per revenue collected.
There are some years in which films which are regarded as classics post their release or have developed cult following among public over the years, have become box office flop at the time of their release.
The first 30 are hits and rest films in this list below were declared as box office flops and the rest of the films from the beginning were Superhits
All the films below are classics except Mahaan , Prem Tapasya, Coolie, Himmatwala, Mawali, Naukar Biwi Ka, Nishan , Nastik, Kalakaar, Jaani Dost, Andha Kanoon , Bandhan Kuchche Dagaon Ka, Taqdeer and Romance.
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- DirectorK. Raghavendra RaoStarsSrideviJeetendraAmjad KhanA poor and wronged woman's son returns from the big city to avenge his father, a honest school teacher.
- DirectorManmohan DesaiPrayag RajStarsAmitabh BachchanWaheeda RehmanRishi KapoorWhen Iqbal gets separated from his mother and brother by a flood, he becomes a coolie at Mumbai railway station. He then fights for the coolies rights and faces challenges from a businessman.
- DirectorSaawan Kumar TakStarsRajesh KhannaTina AmbaniPadmini KolhapureShyam, a middle-class man, falls in love with a millionaire's daughter and marries her. However, as their relationship starts deteriorating, Shyam finds solace in the company of Radha.
- DirectorMohan KumarStarsRajesh KhannaShabana AzmiSujit KumarAvtaar Krishen lives a poor lifestyle with his wife, Radha, and two sons, Ramesh and Chander. He works in a factory and toils hard so that his sons can get the necessary education, and live a better lifestyle. He gets injured and crippled while working, but is compensated adequately by his employer, Bawaji. Years later his sons have grown up. While Ramesh has married Sudha and works with a bank; Chander is wooing Renu, the only daughter of wealthy Seth Laxminarayan. When Avtaar and Radha wish to go on a tirathyatra (pilgrimage), they ask Ramesh to book tickets for them, but he tells them that he has no money. When Radha gets sick, their servant, Sewak, enters Sudha's room to get some money for her treatment, as a result Radha does get treatment, but Sudha blames them for stealing her money. Avtaar asks Ramesh and his wife to get out, only to find out that the house is now in Sudha's name. AVtaar, Radha and Sewak move out and live in a shanty hut. Their hopes are with Chander, who does well in his exams, decides to marry Renu, and moves out without financially assisting his parents. Now Avtaar and Radha are elderly and dependent on Sewak, and the question remains will they resign themselves to this existence, if not, what possibly can a crippled older male accomplish, especially at this time in his life?
- DirectorSubhash GhaiStarsSanjeev KumarShammi KapoorJackie ShroffAfter his friend is imprisoned, a hitman kidnaps the daughter of the police commissioner by telling her that he is a police officer.
- DirectorLekh TandonStarsRajesh KhannaRekhaRaj BabbarRadha's husband becomes disabled post a car accident. To make ends meet, she unwillingly accepts a job as a nanny at a wealthy family's house. Complications arise when she learns the family's reason for hiring specifically her.
- DirectorK. Raghavendra RaoStarsJeetendraHema MaliniSrideviAn honest and upright lawyer becomes a judge; marries his disabled daughter to a crook, and is blackmailed to compromise his judicial judgements.
- DirectorRahul RawailStarsShammi KapoorNirupa RoyPrem ChopraA young man (Sunny Deol) and woman (Amrita Singh) fall in love, but face obstacles from their families.
- DirectorK. BapaiahStarsJeetendraSrideviJaya PradaRamesh gets employ as an engineer in a factory own and maintain by the wealthy, Goyal Verma. Goyal has a daughter, Nisha who is of marriage-able age and who also is in love with Ramesh. But their marriage is unacceptable by Goyal and in retaliation he fires Ramesh from his job. This does not end here as the next day Goyal is found dead in his bedroom and Ramesh is accuse of killing him; who is also convicted in a court of law and remanded to prison. While in prison he gets to meet his look-alike Gangu - with Gangu entering into the frame-work this opens up a game between Ramesh and the real killers of Mr. Goyal.
- DirectorRajkumar KohliStarsDharmendraAnita RajReena RoyJagirdar Bishamber Nath a wealthy man disowns his son, police inspector Amar Nath for marrying against his wishes. In the course of his duties Amar sends a notorious criminal Pinto to jail. In due course, Pinto escapes from prison and begins a vendetta which results in several deaths, children being separated from parents and the loyalty of a family driver which saves Jyoti. As the children grow up there is a peek behind the scenes of movieland in Bombay, abductions, being loved, unrequited love, broken childhood engagement, success in stardom, suicide and failure. Does Amar's daughter Jyoti find her true love? Is wealthy Bishamber Nath destined to a lonely old age?
- DirectorShekhar KapurStarsNaseeruddin ShahShabana AzmiJugal HansrajA happy family goes through turbulent times because of a big mistake by one of the family members.
- DirectorRama Rao TatineniStarsRajinikanthHema MaliniReena RoyTwo siblings attempt to avenge the death of their parents. But the sister believes in the law while the brother believes in administering justice himself.
- DirectorK. Raghavendra RaoStarsDharmendraJeetendraParveen BabiTwo childhood friends face obstacles and challenges after they confront gangsters and each other.
- DirectorSurendra MohanSikandar KhannaStarsRajesh KhannaJeetendraRekhaWhen a villain tries to break the friendship of two friends, they realise that they are brothers and set out to take revenge against the people responsible for their separation.
- DirectorBapuStarsAnil KapoorPadmini KolhapureNaseeruddin ShahMaya, coming from poor family, is married to the affluent Dr. Anand; but she tries to commit suicide on the nuptial night. She tells Anand that she was in love with Prem whose ambition was to be a music director. He too was in love with her but thought she would not be happy as his wife. Anand tells Maya that he had married her only for his mother who was on her death bed. When the mother dies Anand wants to unite Prem and Maya but Prem says it is against Hindu culture and disappears from their life.
- DirectorS. Ali RazaStarsRajesh KhannaZeenat AmanPradeep KumarA young woman (Zeenat Aman), who grows up in the wild, knows the secret of a lost treasure, and is also the heir to the throne. She meets with a young man (Rajesh Khanna) and both fall in love. Then the people find out that she actually is the heir to the throne, so she re-locates to the palace. Once there, she is brainwashed into forgetting who she is, and the man she loves. Notable song: "Pyar me nazar churai nahin jati, apno se koi baat chupai nahin jati, dilbar janam janam, janam janam...";
- DirectorKundan ShahStarsNaseeruddin ShahRavi BaswaniBhakti BarveTwo photographers, who are employed by a magazine editor to expose the scandalous activities of the rich, come across corruption by a builder and accidentally photograph a murder.
- DirectorRama Rao TatineniStarsRati AgnihotriMithun ChakrabortyRekhaMalati (Rati Agnihotri), a young girl from a middle-class family meets Suresh Ray (Mithun Chakraborty), who is the son of a well-known lawyer Dayashankar Ray (Danny Denzongpa). After dating each other for some time, she finds that she is pregnant. When Suresh refuses to marry Malati, and she decides against aborting the baby, her parents throw her out and disown her. Left alone, she decides to take Suresh to court. She is supported in this fight by Shakuntala (Rekha), a lawyer who works for woman's rights, who also has an illegitimate daughter from Dayashankar Ray. The case gets much publicity and public support, and the judge rules in Malati's favor. At this point however, Malati refuses to marry Suresh and decides to raise the child on her own. In the meantime, Shakuntala dies of a heart attack, and Malati promises her to take care of her daughter, and carry on Shakuntala's work. Years later Suresh and his wife (Ranjeeta), now married for some years and still childless, run into Malati again. It turns out that she has been raising her son all by herself, and he has turned out to be a very talented and well-adjusted young and smart boy.
- DirectorJ. Om PrakashStarsJeetendraReena RoyParveen BabiThe Verma family consists of Mrs. Verma, the mother; Anil, the son; and a daughter named Vinnie. Anil loves Shobha, and hopes to marry her someday. While Vinnie loves Rakesh and also hopes to marry him someday too. Shobha and Rakesh both work for JK, a multi-millionaire industrialist. Anil has to goes overseas for a year to better his prospects. He promises to stay in touch with Shobha. However, after a year when Anil returns he finds that Vinnie and Rakesh have married, and is heart-broken to find that Shobha had married JK. Dejected but not beaten, he marries another girl by the name of Sona, but is unable to get Shobha out of his mind. Sona resents this, and one day follows him, and finds him in bed with none other than Shobha.
- DirectorRavi ChopraStarsDilip KumarNanda KarnatakiRaj BabbarA laborer-turned-businessman faces challenges after the marriage of his children.
- DirectorDeepak BahryStarsMithun ChakrabortyRanjeeta KaurPran SikandRadhe Shyam is a widower and renowned masseur raising his daughter Hasina. When he is framed for the murder of a good friend and client by Seth Damodardas, he becomes separated from his daughter. She is rescued and raised by traveling gypsies. Radhe spends years searching for her, only to find that she is in love with the son (Mithun Chakraborty) of the murdered man and the rival of Damodardas' daughter. In order to save his daughter, he has to reveal himself, and risk arrest for a murder he did not commit.
- DirectorK. ViswanathStarsRati AgnihotriRenukaGirishRatan (Rakesh Roshan) is a self-styled, and rather compulsive do-gooder. His manner often alienates him from his superiors and bosses, and he often ends up getting fired. He comes across Sujata (Rati Agnihotri) and her family, and finds out that Sujata cannot get married because her father (Sujit Kumar) is not wealthy enough to afford a dowry. Ratan decides to get involved indirectly and secretly arranges Sujata's marriage with Mr. Mehra (Vinod Mehra). But will this land Ratan in trouble all over again? Is this what Sujata and Mr. Mehra really want?
- DirectorRamanand SagarStarsShammi KapoorKumar GauravPoonam DhillonBritish based Mr. and Mrs. Roy are thrilled when their son announces that he is going to marry a Caucasian woman. Soon they are blessed when a daughter, Sonia, is born. Tragically, their son passes away, leaving them heartbroken. Sonia grows up under her mother's strict control and guidance, and the love of her grandparents, who encourage her to visit India, which she does. When she returns, she announces that she has met her soul-mate in Amar, who she is going to invite to Britain, where they will marry. Her mother does not approve of this, as she wants Sonia to get married to a Caucasian male of her choice, and will not permit any interference from her in-laws, who are asked to leave her house. In the meantime Amar's passport and money are stolen. He manages to board a ship bound for Britain, where he is subsequently apprehended, arrested and turned over for prosecution and possible deportation as an illegal immigrant. It looks like Sonia's mom have have her way with her daughter after all.
- DirectorPramod ChakravortyStarsAmitabh BachchanHema MaliniPran SikandA devout Hindu priest's son sees his father murdered and his mother and sister burned alive. He becomes an atheist and vows to avenge his family's murders at the hands of an evil landowner and smuggler.
- DirectorS. RamanathanStarsAshok KumarWaheeda RehmanAmitabh BachchanA lawyer goes into hiding after being falsely accused of committing a crime while his wife gives birth to twins. One of the twins is separated at birth, while the other twin grows up to become an inspector who is on his father's trail.
- DirectorDasari Narayana RaoStarsJeetendraRekhaReena RoyMohan Verma meets with attractive Devi and falls in love with her. His parents would prefer that he marry Anita, but he refuses to do so. He proposes his love for Devi, but Devi rejects, and even humiliates him. When Devi comes to know that Mohan really loves her with his heart and soul, she repents, and accepts Mohan's proposal for marriage. The marriage is set to take place within a few days, and preparations are on. Then Devi's brother, Nandlal, comes across a secret about Mohan's life, and puts a stop to this marriage. Devi finds out that her brother is behind this, and tells Mohan, and they plan to get married in secret. That night Mohan does not show up, and Devi is devastated. Fearing that he may have been involved in an accident, she contacts him and finds out that he was out with another woman, a woman named Laila.
- DirectorJ. Om PrakashStarsRaj BabbarMohan BaggadKirron KherDeep in the Punjab Village live two brothers, Madan Lal (Navin Nischol) and Suraj (Raj Babbar). Madan is married to Sheela (Kiron Kher), and Suraj is in love with Kiran (Priti Sapru). Both get married, but this doesn't go down well with local bad boy Shibu (Mohan Baggad), who also likes Kiran. He gets beat up by Madan once and vows to take revenge one day. Kiran gives birth to a lovely baby boy, but instantly Suraj gives him up to her Bhabhi Sheela as his elder brother and bhabhi are childless. At first this doesn't go down well with Kiran, but later she understands. Shibu now wants revenge so he goes all around the village trying to spread false rumours about Suraj and his bhabhi having an affair. He also convinces the local Panchayat, but Sheela proves them all wrong in front of Devi Maa and proves her own innocence. Suraj captures Shibu and brings him to Sheela, but she and the whole village say sorry to Sheela, and all ends well.
- DirectorShibu MitraStarsAmjad KhanRandhir KapoorRaj KiranSunder Singh lives with his wife, Lajwanti, and three sons, Bheema, Kishan, and Vijay, in a small town in India. His two elder sons are slackers and up to mischief and wrestling. They find they can better their lives if they buy a tractor to till the land. Lajwanti comes up with jewelery and the brothers recover the rest of the money on hold with Lala Bhagwandas, and set forth to buy a tractor. They re-locate to the city and team up with their police inspector brother Vijay. Watch as hilarious events unfold that will encompass the trio in crime, romance, and jail-time, as they try to diligently fulfill their parents' wishes.
- DirectorBrijStarsMithun ChakrabortyZeenat AmanHema MaliniWidower Pratap Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle along with two married sons, Randhir and Ranvir. While Ranvir's wife continues to be childless, Randhir has a daughter, and his wife is expecting a second child. Pratap wants Randhir to invest the family's gold and jewelry, which are hidden underneath the Mandir of Bhagwan Shri Shivji, in a foreign country, but Randhir refuses, arguments ensue, Randhir moves out, and starts his own business, a coal mine. Shortly thereafter, there is an accident in the mines, over 300 miners are killed. The Police arrest Randhir, he is tried in Court, found guilty, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. After his term ends, he is discharged and will soon find out that his wife and father are dead, his second child is missing believed to be dead, a prostitute has taken over the identity of his daughter, and a hoodlum, Shiva, is waiting to kill him.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAmol PalekarParveen BabiFarooq ShaikhSparkling comedy about a meddling friend whose attempt to rekindle the spark in his friend's relationship with his wife of seven years leads to complications to their lives, and to the lives of his secretary and her boyfriend he has not 'scripted' ... Splendid performances by Amol Palekar, Deepti Naval, Parveen Babi and Farooq Shaikh, a perfectly pitched script, witty dialogue and a plethora of aptly placed film references make this a film one can watch over and over and never fail to laugh out loud.
- DirectorZaheer D. LariStarsVinod MehraShabana AzmiPrema NarayanGopika Sharma lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with her widowed mother in Bangalore. She expresses a desire to sing and is encouraged by her maternal uncle, Dubey, who takes her with him to Bombay along with her maid, Lajjo. Once there, they are molested and Dubey goes missing. They then attempt to find a decent place to live, and after many frustrations make an agreement with a single male, Kishankumar Shukla, who poses as Gopika's husband, and move into an apartment owned by Lala Dhaniram. Eventually both Kishankumar and Gopika fall in love and get married. Shortly after the marriage, Gopika finds out that Kishankumar is already married to Ujjain-based Radha, who is now deceased, has a daughter, Shashi, and decides to leave him. Kishankumar goes to Ujjain to meet Shashi and is informed that she is and his in-laws have passed away in an auto accident. He returns to Bombay, and finds that Gopika is ready to move in back with him provided he accepts her son from a previous relationship which she had not disclosed to him. Will Kishankumar accept her son?
- DirectorAsit SenStarsVinod MehraRaj BabbarRanjeeta KaurGautam is an Officer in the Indian Army, and is very friendly with another Army Officer, Ajit Singh. Both are assigned tasks that take them to the battlefront. Gautam's senior officer asks him to deliver an urgent letter to the Colonel, on the way, Gautam is injured and is helped by a local belle, Gauri. After he recuperates under her care, both fall in love with each other. When he fully recovers, he promises to return as soon as possible to marry her. He does return after a few days, and finds her lifeless and sexually molested body. He hunts down the culprits, turns them over to the law, and returns home to his mom, who has arranged a marriage for him with a woman named Madhuri. Initially he refuses to marry, but when his mom has a heart attack, he relents and marries Madhuri. Then he gets more devastating news when he is told that Ajit is missing and believed to be dead. Several months later, while celebrating Madhuri's birthday, Gautam is overjoyed to find that Ajit is alive and has returned home in one piece. What Gautam does not know is that Ajit and Madhuri had been lovers, his re-appearance may well result in Madhuri leaving him, and it looks like Gautam may lose yet another love of his life.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAmjad KhanRanjeet BediRaj BabbarMohammad Sher Khan is a Pathan who has re-located to India from Afghanistan and befriends Phagwara-born Veer Singh. Both are quite naive, they steal a truck from a businessman who has 20 such trucks, get into a fight, are arrested, and jailed. They are let out for good behavior, go to live in Chaurasiya Chawl, and lease a truck for a living. There they become popular when they oust the local goon Jaggu Dada. Then a Catholic Anglo-Indian, Rosy, comes to live there. Both friends mock and make fun of her, but then all three become fast friends. When Rosy falls ill, both come to her rescue and ensure that she recovers. They find out that she is the nanny of a wealthy young woman named Rita Roy, and they also find out that Rita has fallen in love with wealthy Ravi Lala, both want to get married but Ravi's dad wants a huge dowry. Sher Khan and Veer Singh come up with a scheme to get the young lovers gets married - but the scheme has many flaws: it does not involve Rosy at all; it may end up seeing the duo back behind bars; as well as Ravi getting married to a woman of his dad's choice.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsFarooq ShaikhDeepti NavalUtpal DuttKailashnath is a widower, and father of an only son, Ramesh. He feels that his son has come of age, and must get married. He goes to see a number of young ladies for him, but is disappointed with them, as he feels they are too modern, speak English, and listen to foreign music. He feels that Ramesh will be better off marrying a non-English speaking lady, preferably from a small village. But the predicament of Ramesh is that he is already in love with Ramola, a very well qualified, English speaking Doctor, and he knows fully well that she will not be approved by his dad. So Ramesh, Ramola and Lalaji concoct a plot, making Ramola masquerade as a naive, non-English speaking village belle, with hilarious and unpredictable results.
- DirectorRamesh BehlStarsAmitabh BachchanZeenat AmanRandhir KapoorAlthough India obtained freedom from the British in 1947, Goa and its territories are still ruled by the Portuguese. A group of revolutionaries want a free Goa and are thus wanted by the Portuguese administration. Among them are Purandare, Narvekar, and Dinanath, and when Dinanath's whereabouts are known to the police, he escapes with his young son Ramdas and goes to their hideout. With Purandare's assistance they manage to escape, but they're shot. A horrified Ramdas watches Purandare shoot his father dead, and this is how he starts hating revolutionaries. Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie, befriends a girl named Julie, and grows up taking up crime as his career. He soon prospers and lets the villagers also prosper with him. Then when the Police Commissioner is shot dead, Ronnie helps the authorities apprehend his killer, a young man named Shekhar. He is arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to be hanged. At this point Ronnie finds out that the people he assisted in the past are all against him and sympathize with the revolutionaries. Furious, he grabs a gun to kill Shekar's parents--and finds out who they really are and why Purandare shot his dad.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsMithun ChakrabortyRati AgnihotriUtpal DuttSandeep Anand is a wealthy industrialist. He runs an organization, and falls in love with one of his employees named Geeta, who comes from a lower middle class family, and wants to marry a man in the same class. Sandeep convinces her that he works for Mr. Anand, and both fall in love. When Geeta and her family find out that Sandeep has been lying to them, they have him arrested for impersonation. When Sandeep convinces the police that he is indeed the real Sandeep Anand, he is released. When Sandeep attempts to woo Geeta back, she will have nothing to do with him, as he lied to her. Sandeep will now have to prove his love for Geeta all over again.
- DirectorBalu MahendraStarsKamal HaasanSrideviGulshan GroverA head injury causes a woman to regresses to childhood. Lost and confused, she is eventually befriended by a school teacher.
- DirectorGovind NihalaniStarsOm PuriSmita PatilAmrish PuriA newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.
- DirectorBhappi SonieStarsRishi KapoorTina AmbaniSarika ThakurAmrit's generosity and kindness initially lands him in the bad books of a dancer; then in prison; and then as false son-in-law of a very wealthy man.
- DirectorAmjad KhanStarsShatrughan SinhaParveen BabiShakti KapoorInspector Sunil Rana (Shatrughan Sinha) has been assigned the case of triple-homicide of the Sinha family, namely Mr. Sinha (Ashok Kumar); his son Inspector Rohan (Vinod Mehra), and Rohan's wife (Bindiya Goswami). After an investigation, Sunil concludes that the assailant can only be Dr. Singh (Kader Khan), who escapes from India, and re-locates to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, far from the jurisdiction of Bombay Police. Sunil must overcome borders to apprehend Dr. Singh, and thus bring justice to the Sinha family. It is then Sunil comes to know that Dr. Singh is not the only one involved in this homicide, which is far more complicated that he had thought it to be so.
- DirectorBimal RawalStarsManuManjushreeMehmoodSunil lives a middle-class life with his brother, Raju, and mom. Raju has fallen into bad company, and Sunil attempts to counsel him against this, but in vain, and as a result there are frequent arguments in this household. Then one day Raju is killed, and the police believe that Sunil killed him in a fit of rage. Sunil runs from the law, and attempts to prove that he is innocent, but he has no clue as to who would have killed Raju, and the motive for his death.
- DirectorP. Sambasiva RaoStarsKunal GoswamiSrideviRakesh BediPoor and orphan Ravi Kumar is gifted with good singing attributes. He meets wealthy Radha Khanna and with her recommendation he lands his first singing assignment and this takes him to the way of stardom. Soon Radha starts to witness changes in Ravi's behavior towards her; which makes them split up. Unknown to Radha that Ravi has been diagnosed with cancer and does not have long to live.
- DirectorKamal AmrohiStarsHema MaliniDharmendraParveen BabiAn account of the reign of Indian empress Razia Sultan and her love for her slave Jamaluddin Yakut.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsShabana AzmiSmita PatilNaseeruddin ShahForbidden love, fraying loyalties and flagrant hypocrisy emerge when sanctimonious politicians drive a madam's brothel from the heart of Hyderabad.