39 years of Saagar (09/08/1985)

39 years of Saagar (09/08/1985)

Saagar was directed by Ramesh Sippy and features a stellar cast including Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Kamal Hassan, Saeed Jaffrey, Madhur Jaffrey, Nadira, A.K. Hangal, and Satish Kaushik, among others.

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

This film marked only the second time in the history of the Filmfare Awards that an actor was nominated in both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories. The previous instance was Ashok Kumar for Aashirwad in 1970. Kamal Hassan ultimately won the Best Actor award for Saagar, his first and only award in that category for a Hindi film.