Excerpt from imdb.com below [with edits];
A look back at the film that was the first collaboration with Amitabh Bachchan - and Bollywood newcomer Sridevi!
Inquilaab was shot and released quickly, as there was a race with Rajesh Khanna's film Aaj Ka M.L.A. Ram Avtar. The mahurat [launch] was held on October 26, 1983. One of the few Hindi film to be shot in record time. The nonstop shooting schedule of Inquilaab was completed in record breaking speed. The first film Amitabh signed after his Coolie accident, it was the most anticipiated film of its time.
All of Bachchan's earlier heroines - be it Raakhee, Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi - had either married, moved on or vanished from the scene due to one reason or another.
Rekha was the undisputed No.1 actress of the time - but constant tabloid scrutiny meant the two superstars stopped working in films together - despite their critical and commercial success. 
Sridevi had scored huge hits Himmatwala and Justice Chaudhry by time the new-to-Bollywood (she was already an establish top actress in the South) star was signed as Amitabh's heroine for the first time.
This started a new chapter in Amitabh's filmography; the next generation of leading ladies, Sridevi, Jaya Prada, Madhavi, Meenakshi Sheshadiri, Amrita Singh, Dimple Kapadia, were the heroines he would constantly star with over the next decade until his self imposed retirement in 1994.
Coincidentally Amitabh Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab at birth - but his father, poet and writer Harivanshrai Bachchan, later changed to Amitabh; which literally translated to "immeasurable splendour" in Sanskrit. Prescient.
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