Shaan (film)

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Shaan (Hindi: शान, Urdu: شان) is a 1980 Indian Hindi film. It is director Ramesh Sippy's 2nd film with Amitabh Bachchan after Sholay.

The Story was written by Salim-Javed. The movie is largely light-hearted, with Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor playing the brothers of an upright police officer (Sunil Dutt) . The two brothers are involved in dubious get rich quick scams. The fun and games come to an end when the good guys unite to take on the bald baddy Shakal (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) who killed their brother.

Expectations were high as this was the film that was to have topped Sholay. It didn't match the success of Sholay but was still an average success at the box office, even though director Ramesh Sippy tried to round up the same people from Sholay, and he succeeded partly by getting superstar Amitabh Bachchan and music composer R.D. Burman who composed the unforgettable songs for the film and earned the film's only Filmfare nomination for Best Music. The film took 3 years to make, because of the juggling around of stars busy schedules. While Sholay drew its inspiration from the American Western and spaghetti western films, Shaan took its lead from the James Bond films with fancy sets and beautiful costumes.