Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi in Aakhree Raasta (1986): The Last Emperor and Empress of Bollywood!

The biggest hit of the year in Bollywood, the Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Jaya Prada and Anupam Kher film Aakhree Raasta was a smash - and released on this day, 35 years ago, on 6 June 1986. 

The film was a casting coup, a movie with a message and studded with chart-busting songs.   

 

1986 came at a time as Amitabh Bachchan was winding down his film career and leaning towards politics. Sridevi's sun was ascending - already declared the number one star of Bollywood in 1984, in 1986, Sridevi dominated the box-office; of the five highest grossing films of the year, Sridevi appeared in four;

1.	Karma	Dilip Kumar, Nutan, Naseeruddin Shah, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Poonam Dhillon, Shakti Kapoor, Dara Singh, Anupam Kher
2.	Nagina	Sridevi, Rishi Kapoor, Prem Chopra, Amrish Puri
3.	Aakhree Raasta	Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Prada, Sridevi, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Anupam Kher
4.	Swarag Se Sunder	Jeetendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Jaya Prada, Padmini Kolhapure, Prem Chopra, Kader Khan
5.	Janbaaz	Feroz Khan, Anil Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Sridevi, Rekha, Amrish Puri