35 years of Saagar (09/08/1985)

35 years of Saagar. (09/08/1985)

Saagar is directed by Ramesh Sippy. The film stars Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Kamal Hassan, Saeed Jaffrey, Madhur Jaffrey, Nadira, A. K. Hangal and Satish Kaushik etc.

Music by R. D. Burman and lyrics by Javed Akhtar. Saagar was India’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1985.

This was the second instance in the history of Filmfare Awards where an actor has been nominated for both Best Actor as well as Best Actor in Supporting role, the previous nominee for both awards was Ashok Kumar (for Aashirwad in 1970). Kamal Hassan ultimately won the Best Actor award, his first and only award in that category for a Hindi film.