Highest Grossing Hindi Movies of 1980
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 45 films were hits and rest in this list below were declared as box office flops and the rest of the films from the beginning were Superhits.
Redrose, Burning Train and Shaan - all the three are regarded as classic films which deserved to be superhits.
All the films in the below list are regarded as classics except Ram Balram, Aap Ke Deewane, Pyaar Ka Dushman and Nishana
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 45 films were hits and rest in this list below were declared as box office flops and the rest of the films from the beginning were Superhits.
Redrose, Burning Train and Shaan - all the three are regarded as classic films which deserved to be superhits.
All the films in the below list are regarded as classics except Ram Balram, Aap Ke Deewane, Pyaar Ka Dushman and Nishana
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- DirectorJ. Om PrakashStarsJeetendraReena RoyRameshwariDeepak (Jeetendra) is a truck driver. One day he meets with haughty, snobbish, and popular singer, Asha. He assists her with her travel and the two become friends. Deepak loves Mala, introduces her to him mom, and soon they are married. Mala has eye problems, and eventually loses her sight. While travelling, Deepak has an accident and his body is nowhere to be found. Deepak's mom blames a pregnant Mala for this bad luck, and throws her out of the house. Mala gives birth to a baby girl, and both live a very poor and destitute life. Deepak has met with Asha several times, and would like to marry her. Asha would also like to marry Deepak. And then Asha finds out that Mala is still alive, and she must now decide to withhold that information from Deepak so she could marry him instead or tell him the truth and lose him forever.
- DirectorFeroz KhanStarsFeroz KhanVinod KhannaZeenat AmanTwo friends live happily until misunderstandings arise between them.
- DirectorsLatif FaiziyevUmesh MehraStarsDharmendraHema MaliniZeenat AmanAlibaba, (Dharmendra) a native of Guleba is in love with Marjina (Hema Malini). The town has a ruler, Abu Hasan. Guleban is terrorized by dacoits. Ali Baba hears the password to the door of the cave of the dacoits and takes a lot of jewels from the cave. His brother is killed by the dacoits as he forgets the password and is trapped inside. A young girl whose father has been murdered by the dacoits (Zeenat Aman) has a score to settle with Abu Hasan. Abu Hasan turns out to be the head of the dacoits and he comes to know that Ali Baba visits the cave. He hides the 40 thieves in large urns to kill Ali Baba. Ali Baba comes to know of this and kills them all. He brings to light the startling truth that their own ruler heads the dacoits!
- DirectorDasari Narayana RaoStarsJeetendraVinod MehraAshok KumarSuraj and Malti are in love and get very intimate. They are introduced to their respective families, and there is approval all round, and their marriage is to be finalized soon. Before that could happen, Suraj meets with an accident and is killed instantly, leaving Malti devastated. Malti's dad, Charandas, is shocked to find that Malti is pregnant, and both of them re-locate to a secluded area, where Malti's gives brith to a baby boy. Charandas has the child disposed off in a garbage can, and tells Malti that the child died. Malti recovers and subseqeuntly marries Mr. O.P. Bakshi, and settles down. Years later, while watching a dance show with her husband, Malti sees a young man who resembles her husband in every shape and form. She attempts to make inquiries, but is afraid of what her husband will think when he finds out that the young man is her son, born out of marriage. The young man is Jyoti, who was left in a garbage can at the time of his birth, but is now a dreaded, ruthless, and much feared criminal don, going by the name of Jwala.
- DirectorB.R. ChopraStarsZeenat AmanRaj BabbarDeepak ParasharRamesh, a businessman, is arrested for molesting Bharati, a beauty queen. She is later accused of murdering him and arrested. The events that unfold show what compelled her to do so.
- DirectorRaj KhoslaStarsAmitabh BachchanShatrughan SinhaZeenat AmanTwo best friends, Vijay and Ravi, fall in love with the same girl, Sheetal. Misunderstandings due to their respective careers and people with vested interests cause them to become rivals.
- DirectorAnil GangulyStarsRajesh KhannaRakhee GulzarRekhaThe pure, selfless, and strong bond between Shambu and his sister-in-law Shanti is misunderstood by their family and the society, leading them to face many trials that threaten to split the family.Platinum Jubilee Hit. 7th grossing films
of year 1980. - DirectorEsmayeel ShroffStarsRajesh KhannaShabana AzmiSiddharthArun takes on the responsibility for the care of his step-mother (Sujatha) and step-sisters on the death of his father. Losses in business result in the sale of their palatial home, and Arun together with his wife (Neema - Shabana Azmi) move to a smaller house. Tensions escalate between Neema and Sujatha, even as Arun struggles financially to meet the needs of his family. Things come to a head when she sees her husband eating sweets from the hand of a beautiful woman doctor in a restaurant. Neema leaves her matrimonial home together with her son Abhinandan. Neema sells her jewelry to support her brother's education, without any return on her investment. She and Abhinandan live a life of genteel poverty on the charity of another brother. Divorce court judgment leaves Arun dissatisfied and resentful and he does not meet his son for years. Meanwhile, Neema feeling wronged and cheated by Arun thinks he has remarried and has a new child. The thread of the story begins to unravel when Abhinandan comes to Bombay for higher education. Does Abhinandan hate his father? Does he ride his Rajdoot-Bobby motorcycle from Bombay to Nasik? What happens when Neema and Arun come face to face, after many years in common grief, worry and concern for the well being of a loved one is to be watched.Golden Jubilee Hit.
- DirectorK. BapaiahStarsRajesh KhannaHema MaliniDanny DenzongpaA man's life, comes to a standstill when his lover is murdered. Years later, he meets his lover's lookalike and finds himself drawn towards her. But does fate have positive results for him?Golden Jubilee Hit.9th highest grossing
film of year 1980. - DirectorRama Rao TatineniStarsJeetendraRekhaMoushumi ChatterjeeChandru lives in a palatial house with his dad, Ram Kumar; mom Sita; elder brother Shyam and his wife. Chandru is in love with Geeta Sinha, the only daughter of wealthy Dr. Sinha, and would like to marry her. Geeta, too is in love with Chandru and introduces him to her dad. Dr. Sinha has no objections, the young couple are then formally engaged and a wedding date is set. The wedding preparations take place in both the households, and soon the big day arrives. Before the marriage could be formalized, Dr. Sinha asks Ram that he has heard that Chandru is not the son of Sita but of a prostitute named Radha. This shocks everyone present, and it looks like Ram has a lot of explaining to do in order to get his son married or else live with this stigma for the rest of his life.
- DirectorRama Rao TatineniStarsAshok KumarJeetendraRekhaTo fulfil his father's dying wish, Dr. Shashikant gets married to Gauri. But misunderstandings and subsequent fights put them asunder. The story follows the separate individual lives of Shashikant and Gauri and their two children.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsRekhaAshok KumarRakesh RoshanA strict matriarch's regimented household is upended by the arrival of a spunky relative who challenges the rules.
- DirectorDanny DenzongpaStarsRajesh KhannaKimAruna IraniA woman keeps having nightmares about a woman trying to kill her and a psychiatrist tries to help her.Golden Jubilee Hit.13th highest grossing
film of year 1980. - DirectorVijay AnandStarsDharmendraAmitabh BachchanZeenat AmanJagatpal raises his nephews, Ram and Balram, after killing their parents. He hatches an evil plan to push Ram into the world of smuggling and earn money, but the brothers unite to take him down.
- DirectorVinod PandeStarsSuresh OberoiDeepti NavalPradeep VermaKalpana has been married to movie actor, Mahender Kumar for years where he keeps himself occupy with his acting career as well as pleasure and has little or no time with her. When they moves to Britain for a movie shoot; Kalpana finds her self getting attracted to a struggling student, Vimal, who also doubles as an artist. This behavior not only seriously impacts her marriage life but crumbles it as time progresses.
- DirectorDev AnandStarsDev AnandTina AmbaniMehmoodAir Force pilot Bhagat's wife and her father are killed during a bank robbery.Bhagat traces the robbers to hilly region with help of a locket.By the time their leader Vikram has asked his gang to split as cops are on lookout for them.
- DirectorBapuStarsSanjeev KumarShabana AzmiMithun ChakrabortyWealthy, lecherous Zamindar Thakur Vir Pratap Singh lords over a small region in rural India, mercilessly killing anyone who opposes his rule. He gets the male villagers addicted to gambling and sexually molests the female villagers under false pretenses. When the same happen to Sundariya, which results in her losing her mental balance, her two brothers form a gang which includes three other male members from the village to put an end to the tyrannical rule of the Thakur.
- DirectorP. Sambasiva RaoStarsShashi KapoorSanjeev KumarMoushumi ChatterjeeThe second wife of kind-hearted,and generous Amirchand Bhargav is Durgadevi Bhargav (Nadira), who is exactly the opposite of her late husband. She rules over her household, alongwith her brother, Makhanlal (Madan Puri), with an iron hand, and also over her step-daughter, Shanti (Vidya Sinha), who she treats worse than her servants. Due to her brutality, there is always a dearth of servants in her household, and hence most of the work must be done by Shanti. Her other daughter is Roopa (Moushumi Chatterjee), is bad-tempered and spoiled. When a former employee of Amirchand, Ratanlal (Shreeram Lagoo) approaches Durgadevi for marrying her two sons to her two daughters, she humiliates him and turns him away. Unperturbed by this, he asks the assistance of his two sons, Ram (Sanjeev Kumar) and Laxman (Shashi Kapoor), so that the marriages can take place, and at the same time Durgadevi and Makhanlal be taught a lesson. Both the sons readily agree to do this, and Ram goes to Durgadevi household as a servant to woo Shanti; while Laxman poses as a wealthy playboy to woo Roopa. But Makhanlal and his wife, Jwala (Shashikala) want Roopa to marry their jailbird son, Chander (Ranjeet), and will not stop at anything, including abducting Durgadevi herself, to pave their way to wealth.
- DirectorDasari Narayana RaoStarsVinod MehraShabana AzmiSarika ThakurHoping to impress his National Bank co-worker Sudha, Shankar recounts his story, right from his birth, as the lowly son of a servant in a once-wealthy Nagpur-based family consisting of Madhu, her brother, Sunder, and her widowed mother, who struggle to make ends meet. Then she meets Ram Nath, both are attracted to each other and Ram proposes. Madhu conditionally accepts, and moves in with him to live with his parents, and sister, Sharda. They continue to struggle so much so that Madhu aborts her child, while Sharda gets married to wealthy Velaytiram. Things continue regressing financially and Madhu's family moves in to live with the Naths. Both Sharda and Madhu become pregnant at the same time and give birth to a boy and girl respectively. After Madhu's mom becomes seriously ill; Ram is unable to repay a loan he had taken to pay for Sharda's marriage; while funds are needed to continue the education of both Sunder and Shankar, misunderstandings crop up, and Ram gives an ultimatum to Madhu - abandon her family and re-locate with him and his parents to Bombay or else he will take their daughter and leave Madhu behind.
- DirectorK. BapaiahStarsSanjeev KumarJeetendraZeenat AmanA wicked stepmother and her brother attempt to kill her stepson but he survives, and years later re-enters their lives. On the other hand, a smuggler assumes the identity of an honest man who looks like him, in order to evade the police.
- DirectorK. Raghavendra RaoStarsJeetendraPoonam DhillonShreeram LagooThakur Saab and his wife Jankidevi belong to a rich and royal family. They have an ancestral necklace which is very precious and very expensive. The necklace is always worn by Jankidevi. Their Dewanji is behind this necklace and also Thakursaab's property. But Jankidevi somehow escapes from him and secretly gives the necklace to a Adivasi. She tells him to give it back to her when she returns. Till then, the necklace is worn on Adivasi's Kuldevi. A hunter, Surya Prakash (Pradeep Kumar) tries to save Jankidevi but she is killed by Dewanji's men. Dewanji (Utpal Dutt) tells Thakursaab that a hunter has taken away his wife's life for the Rajkamal necklace. After many years Kavita (Poonam Dhilon), daughter of Thakursaab and Raja (Jeetendra), who is the son of hunter Surya Prakash meet and fall in love with each other. But as her father comes to know that he is the son of Surya Prakash he disagrees to the marriage. Raja formulates a plan to prove his fathers innocence.
- DirectorSatpalStarsFeroz KhanNeetu SinghDharmendra
- DirectorVijay SadanahStarsAshok KumarRaj BabbarReena RoyWidowed Bhavanidevi rules her palatial home with an iron hand. Nothing is permitted to be touched or moved without her permission and approval. She has two sons, and one daughter. She dotes on her daughter, Shobha, and son-in-law, Khubchand. When her eldest son marries a young woman, Sheela, Bhavani is enraged because Sheela did not bring in enough dowry. To teach Sheela a lesson, she burns her foot, leaving a petrified Sheela submissive and open to even more abuse. When Bhavani's second son gets married without her permission, she is angered even more, and will not have anything to do with her new daughter-in-law, Durga. When Durga insists on living there, she is permitted to do so, not knowing that she has now entered a household where she will be another abused and submissive slave to her dominating mother-in-law.
- DirectorBabbar SubhashStarsLeena ChandavarkarVinod KhannaPran SikandVinod Khanna rescues the purse of a pretty girl, Leena chandavarkar which was robbed by two robbers. Vinod & Leena meet and fall in love. One night, a dead body is found in Leena's room and she calls Vinod. Out of panic and desperation Vinod gets rid of the body. The next day police start to investigate, and Leena goes missing. Who's body is this, where did it come from, who commited this murder and where is Leena? Watch this thrilling movie to find out.
- DirectorsShyam RamsayTulsi RamsayStarsNavin NischolVidya SinhaKaajal KiranDharamdas is killed by Dhanraj and his man later one by one Dharamdas killers are killed but it puts question to everyone as whose behind all this killings?