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Directed by | Dev Anand |
Produced by | Navketan Productions |
Written by | Dev Anand |
Starring | Dev Anand Aamir Khan Aditya Pancholi |
Music by | Bappi Lahiri |
Release date(s) | 1990 |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Awwal Number is a 1990 film directed by Dev Anand. The film features the then 67 year old Dev Anand himself with Aamir Khan.It was a box office success.
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The story revolves around cricket where a new star Sunny (Aamir Khan) has been included in the team in place of another famous star Ronny (Aditya Pancholi). All this creates hatred in heart of Ronny against Sunny though Sunny respects him. Ronny decides to take revenge on Sunny, while meanwhile a terrorist decides to put a bomb in the field where a match is to be organised between India and Australia.
DIG Vikram Singh (Dev Anand) comes to know about the plan of the terrorists and his brother and goes on to prevent the attack, saving thousand of lives. Sunny also becomes a star by playing a match winning knock for the country.
Aamir Khan quoted in an interview, after Dev Anand death "He was an icon for many generations and entertained us throughout his life. The only film I signed without reading the script was Awwal Number." [2]
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