Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi and Kamal Haasan in Khabardaar (1984): Shelved Film from the 80s

All the acting powerhouses and superstars of that era together in one movie? What a film this could have been! Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Sridevi and Jaya Prada in the shelved but lavishly launched film, Khabardaar. Alas, the movie was never completed after a roaring launch in 1984. But we have an archive of images and stills of the movie here. 

Grok tried to amend and restore this rarely seen newspaper scan from way back when... Alas, it didn't do a brilliant job on AB Snr! More success with Sri and Kamal Haasan... 

Rare pic of Sridevi: on the sets of shelved Amitabh Bachchan film Khabardaar

Rare pic of Sridevi: on the sets of shelved Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan film Khabardaar. 

More in the archive here. 

Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi and Kamal Haasan: Icons Only: TBT to 1984

Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi and Kamal Haasan: Icons Only: TBT to 1984

Khabardaar - a film with as many legends, such a loss to cinema that it was never completed. The star cast also included Jaya Prada - you can see more in the archive here. 

Kamal Haasan hinted that the film was stalled as Bombay film production units were rather disorganised in the 1980s - he had, by then, worked with production houses throughout the country and did very few films in Hindi (despite the success of movies like Ek Duje Ke Liye and Sanam Teri Kasam. Plausible.... 

Rare pic: Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi and Kamal Haasan

Rare (meh quality, newspaper scan) pic: Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi and Kamal Haasan at the launch of Khabardaar. A film that was partially made but sadly never completed. 

More on the film in the archives here - including more rare stills. 

Would love to know what happened? Why the film was shelved? Whose ego got in the way...