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This compilation has action sequences (Satte Pe Satta), some light comedy (Chupke Chupke) and romance (Ek Nazar). Sure there are some sensitive flashbacks, like from Alaap, and Anand, but one misses many of his commendable performances, among them in Kabhie Kabhie, Coolie, Abhimaan, and most notably Sholay to mention a few. Instead, one is made to watch almost a fourth of Amar Akbar Anthony broken up into seven longish scenes. There are also some glimpses from the more recent films, Baghban, Family and Hum Kisise Kum Nahin.

So much for the ‘electrifying’ scenes packed in two DVDs.

The third one has some 26 ‘superhit’ songs from his films ranging from “My name is Anthony Gonsalves”, “Anhonee Ko Honee Kar De” (Amar Akbar Anthony), “Patta Patta Boota Boota” (Ek Nazar), “Meri Makhna”, “Main Yahan Tum Wahan” (Baghban), “Aadmi Jo Kehta Hai” (Majboor), to name some. Here again there is an overdose of Amar Akbar Anthony, but why? You miss melodious songs from films such as Abhiman, Kabhi Kabhie and Sharaabi.

The song selection is poor and to call them all super-hits would be a misnomer.

An entertaining retrospective, albeit incomplete and lop-sided.

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