Highest Grossing Hindi Movies of 1985
by shrikant-narayanan | created - 13 Feb 2011 | updated - 28 Mar 2018 | PublicThis list is as per the film's performance money wise at the box office in the particular year.
The order is as per revenue collected.
There are some years in which films which are regarded as classics post their release or have developed cult following among public over the years, have become box office flop at the time of their release.
The first 31 were hits land rest in this list below were declared as box office flops in some places in India and in few as average grossers and the rest of the films from the beginning were Superhits.
Mard, Raam Teri Ganga Maili, Geeraftar ,Balidaan , Yudh , Karishma Kudrat Ka, Aameer Aadmi Gareeb Aadmi , Sitamgar, Yadon Ki Kasam and Pyar Jhutka Nahin - all of them are not regarded as classic films and they were just box office hits in 1985.The rest of the films starring Rajesh Khanna, Shashi Kapoor,Smita Patil,Sanjeev Kumar, Rajendra Kumar,Rakhee and Hema Malini are regarded as classic films.
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1. Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985)
178 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In order to give her son a good future, Ganga sets out on a journey to Kolkata to find her husband who left her.
Director: Raj Kapoor | Stars: Rajeev Kapoor, Mandakini, Divya Rana, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 1,130
2. Pyar Jhukta Nahin (1985)
135 min | Family, Romance
Ajay Khanna works as a Photographer and Jounralist earning Rs.850/- per month. He meets with wealthy Preeti B. Pratap, rescues her from goons, they become friendly and fall in love with ... See full summary »
Director: Vijay Sadanah | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Padmini Kolhapure, Danny Denzongpa, Bindu Desai
Votes: 213
3. Mard (1985)
177 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
King Azad gets locked in a dungeon by the British general Dyer who wants to take over his kingdom. Years later, Azad's son decides to put an end to Dyer's tyranny and comes to his father's rescue.
Directors: Manmohan Desai, Anil Nagarath, Pammy Varma | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Amrita Singh, Nirupa Roy, Dara Singh Randhawa
Votes: 2,056
4. Hum Dono (1985)
Not Rated | 156 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Raja (Khanna) discovers that his face is similar to that of Dr. Shekhar, one of the top earning doctors of Bombay. He somehow manages to take his place, but discovers that even Dr. Shekhar has problems of his own.
Director: B.S. Glaad | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Reena Roy, Johnny Walker
Votes: 79
5. Bewafai (1985)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Romance
Asha's jealousy gets the better of her when she finds out that the man she loves, Ashok, is showering his attention to other two girls, Vinny and Renu.
Director: R. Thyagaraajan | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Rajinikanth, Tina Ambani, Padmini Kolhapure
Votes: 77
6. Meri Jung (1985)
Not Rated | 164 min | Action, Drama
Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle.
Director: Subhash Ghai | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Girish Karnad, Nutan, Amrish Puri
Votes: 1,466
7. Arjun (1985)
154 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Arjun Malvankar after his graduation thrives to get job. The corruption and injustice taking place in his community frustrates him to the extent of revolting with the help of some of his ... See full summary »
Director: Rahul Rawail | Stars: Sunny Deol, Dimple Kapadia, Raj Kiran, Anupam Kher
Votes: 1,118
8. Ghulami (I) (1985)
199 min | Action, Drama
In feudal Rajasthan, a bunch of peasants rise up against the exploitative landowners and the age-old system of caste-based oppression.
Director: J.P. Dutta | Stars: Dharmendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Reena Roy
Votes: 617
9. Babu (1985)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Family
Babu is a naive young man who likes to go out of his way to help people. He has fallen in love with Kammo, but in the process of helping another, he lands himself in jail for two years. ... See full summary »
Director: A.C. Trilogchander | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Mala Sinha, Rati Agnihotri
Votes: 134
10. Hoshiyar (1985)
Not Rated | 147 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Sitadevi lives a comfortable life with her husband and two sons, Rakesh and Rajesh. While celebrating the birth of one of her son's, her husband gets killed in an automobile accident, and ... See full summary »
Director: K. Raghavendra Rao | Stars: Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Govardhan Asrani, Ranjeet Bedi
Votes: 48
11. Yudh (1985)
155 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Savitri's twin sons get s abducted by a criminal named Gama Mating. In need of a son, Savitri adopt a young boy, but searches frantically for her twin babies. Years later her adopted son ... See full summary »
Director: Rajiv Rai | Stars: Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Tina Ambani, Nutan
Votes: 231
12. Masterji (1985)
178 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Percocious village belle, Radha, the daughter of Mukhiya Jamnadas, takes a liking to the widowed school-master, Masterji, the father of a toddler; when he spurns her, she publicly accuses ... See full summary »
Director: K. Raghavendra Rao | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Sridevi, Anita Raj, Kader Khan
Votes: 140
13. Insaaf Main Karoonga (1985)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ravi makes a second attempt at killing the culprit who drove his wife to suicide. But, he is under army officer's watch in hospital.
Director: Shibu Mitra | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Padmini Kolhapure, Tina Ambani, Shakti Kapoor
Votes: 46
14. Aandhi-Toofan (1985)
Not Rated | 144 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Balbir has terrorized a region.On the day of his wedding Inspector Ranjeet Singh prefers duty first and gets him arrested,but the same night Balbir manages to escape with help of his ... See full summary »
Director: Babbar Subhash | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Danny Denzongpa, Shatrughan Sinha
Votes: 70
15. Zamana (1985)
Not Rated | 154 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ravi and Vinod's father is killed by a don, for developing a photo that showcases a crime scene. Ravi, a criminal and Vinod, a cop, decide to exact revenge from their father's killer.
Director: Ramesh Talwar | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, Ranjeeta Kaur
Votes: 66
16. Geraftaar (1985)
167 min | Action, Drama
Kishan Kumar Khanna is a well-rate film actor who falls head over heels in love with young, beautiful and attractive Anuradha Saxena much to the dislikeness of her gangster brother who ... See full summary »
Director: Prayag Raj | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Poonam Dhillon, Amitabh Bachchan, Madhavi
Votes: 517
17. Ramkali (1985)
Not Rated | 141 min | Action
Police Inspector Sultan Singh comes from a poor family and lives with his mom, Rukmani, and dad, Ram Singh. He is asked by his superiors to work in the region of his village under Police ... See full summary »
Director: Shyam Ralhan | Stars: Hema Malini, Shatrughan Sinha, Nirupa Roy, Parikshit Sahni
Votes: 22
18. Durgaa (1985)
Action, Crime
This action-crime genre film revolves around Durgaa, a soft spoken girl who is exploited by various men in her life.
Director: Shibu Mitra | Stars: Hema Malini, Raj Babbar, Pran Sikand, Rajesh Khanna
Votes: 30
19. Ram Tere Kitne Nam (1985)
157 min | Drama
Peturam is an overweight, albeit sensitive young man, who is head over heels in love with beautiful Radha, the sister of Tej Singh, and would like to marry her. When he proposes to marry ... See full summary »
Director: P. Madhavan | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Rekha, Prem Chopra, Lalita Pawar
Votes: 76
20. Aakhir Kyon? (1985)
Drama
Nisha believes she is happily married until she discovers that her successful businessman husband, Kabir, has been having an affair with her cousin, Indu. Distraught, Nisha abandons her ... See full summary »
Director: J. Om Prakash | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Smita Patil, Rakesh Roshan, Tina Ambani
Votes: 200
21. Sanjog (1985)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama
Bombay-bred Narain goes to a village, where he meets and falls in love with a village belle, Yashodra. She also is attracted to him, and both get married. After their marriage, both go to ... See full summary »
Director: K. Viswanath | Stars: Jeetendra, Jaya Prada, Vinod Mehra, Aruna Irani
Votes: 114
22. Bepanaah (1985)
Not Rated | 156 min | Drama, Family
Coming from a small village from Central India, naive Bajrang finds himself exploited when he travels to Bombay. On the bright side, he meets with a beautiful woman named Bhavna Bhardwaj, ... See full summary »
Director: Jagdish Sidana | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Poonam Dhillon, Rati Agnihotri
Votes: 59
23. Haqeeqat (1985)
148 min | Crime, Drama
Arjun, an honest cop, makes influential enemies in his department and amongst corrupt politicians when he brings law and order to his region. Can he and his community get justice or remain oppressed?
Director: Rama Rao Tatineni | Stars: Jeetendra, Jaya Prada, Raj Babbar, Swapna
Votes: 30
24. Balidaan (1985)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Police Inspector Vijay lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay, India, along with his Bua, while his widower dad lives in the countryside in a farmhouse. Vijay meets and falls in love with Uma,... See full summary »
Director: S.A. Chandrashekhar | Stars: Shammi Kapoor, Jeetendra, Bindu Desai, Sridevi
Votes: 82
25. Mera Saathi (1985)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
Ragini, who is running away from Bansi Das who wants to marry her, enters into the house of Ranga, a goon Ranga starts to protect Ragini and they later get married. Ragini realizes his ... See full summary »
Director: K. Raghavendra Rao | Stars: Jeetendra, Jaya Prada, Rajeev Kapoor, Mandakini
Votes: 20
26. Mohabbat (1985)
Not Rated | 134 min | Romance
Shekhar is in love with Pooja and would like to marry her. Pooja is the only daughter of Choudhury, the apple of his eye, and he agrees to get her married to Shekhar. Shekhar informs his ... See full summary »
Director: Bapu | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Vijayata Pandit, Aruna Irani, Amjad Khan
Votes: 124
27. Adventures of Tarzan (1985)
135 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A hunter is assigned the task of capturing an ape man named Tarzan and hand him over to the owner of a circus.
Director: Babbar Subhash | Stars: Hemant Birje, Kimi Katkar, Dalip Tahil, Om Shivpuri
Votes: 212
28. Yadon Ki Kasam (1985)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action
While patrolling his father's estate, Ravi Kapoor (Mithun Chakraborty) comes across a beautiful girl, Chandni (Zeenat Aman) taking a swim in a nearby lake. He is attracted to her, despite ... See full summary »
Director: Vinod Dewan | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Zeenat Aman, Shakti Kapoor, Govardhan Asrani
Votes: 44
29. Pyari Behna (1985)
Not Rated | 136 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Kaali lives a middle class and common-man life with his sister Seeta in a shanty house. He works at a small train station nearby with an Engineer called Vinay. Kaali is the eldest in his ... See full summary »
Director: Bapu | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Padmini Kolhapure, Tanvi Azmi, Vinod Mehra
Votes: 87
30. Maa Kasam (1985)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action
Balwant is a ex-convict and former jailbird. He returns home after completing his sentence, and finds out that the wealthy Thakur has a treasure stashed away nearby with a map enclosed in a... See full summary »
Director: Shibu Mitra | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Divya Rana, Ranjeet Bedi, Amjad Khan
Votes: 40
31. Saaheb (1985)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama
The youngest of the four Sharma brothers is a huge sports buff. When a financial crisis befalls upon the family, he manages to raise a huge sum of money at a great personal sacrifice that no one knows of until it's too late.
Director: Anil Ganguly | Stars: Rakhee Gulzar, Anil Kapoor, Amrita Singh, Utpal Dutt
Votes: 563
32. Bhavani Junction (1985)
128 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Ram is in search of his wife's killers, which leads him to Bhavani Junction - ruled by his childhood friend who promises to help him.
Director: H. Dinesh | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Zeenat Aman, Rati Agnihotri
Votes: 62
33. Alag Alag (1985)
174 min | Family, Musical, Romance
Two people from different strata in society, Chandni and Neeraj will do anything to get there obligations carried out. While Chandni always dreams of a luxurious life, Neeraj wants some of ... See full summary »
Director: Shakti Samanta | Stars: Rajesh Khanna, Shashi Kapoor, Tina Ambani, Sushma Seth
Votes: 109
34. Saagar (1985)
186 min | Drama, Romance
Raja, a fisherman is secretly in love with Mona. When wealthy Ravi comes to live with his grandmother, Kamladevi, he sees Mona and falls in love with her. Mona also reciprocates his love. ... See full summary »
Director: Ramesh Sippy | Stars: Rishi Kapoor, Kamal Haasan, Dimple Kapadia, Nadira
Votes: 1,069
35. Sitamgar (1985)
150 min | Action
Barely in his teens, Sonu works as a servant in the palatial house of Mr. Nath, his wife and step-daughter, Nisha. One day while ironing Nisha's birthday dress, Sonu accidentally burns it, ... See full summary »
Director: Raj N. Sippy | Stars: Dharmendra, Parveen Babi, Rishi Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon
Votes: 76
36. Pighalta Aasman (1985)
155 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Delhi-based businesswoman Arti Singh Rathod lives a wealthy lifestyle along with Nanny, Suku, and friend and employee, Anuradha. She decides to travel to Kashmir and take possession of a ... See full summary »
Directors: Shammi, Esmayeel Shroff | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Rati Agnihotri, Deven Verma
Votes: 43
37. Tawaif (1985)
Not Rated | 160 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A courtesan accidentally comes to the house of a humble man and lives in the civil society without revealing about her profession. She falls for the man but her past forbids a union between them.
Director: B.R. Chopra | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Poonam Dhillon
Votes: 127
38. Aitbaar (1985)
133 min | Romance, Thriller
Widower Mr. Khanna is a very wealthy businessman in Bombay. He has a daughter named, Neha, of whom he adores. Realizing that he is not young anymore he wanted her to get married before he ... See full summary »
Director: Mukul Anand | Stars: Raj Babbar, Dimple Kapadia, Danny Denzongpa, Sharat Saxena
Votes: 204
39. Khamosh (1986)
101 min | Mystery, Thriller
When a starlet is murdered on a film location, a detective arrives to investigate the cast and crew.
Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Soni Razdan
Votes: 1,155
40. Ulta Seedha (1985)
139 min | Comedy
Justice M.K. Roy is a traditional and orthodox gentleman, who is unable to understand nor appreciate the carelessness of today's youth. He has brought up his daughter, Shobha, with these ... See full summary »
Director: Subodh Mukherji | Stars: Raj Babbar, Rati Agnihotri, Aruna Irani, Deven Verma
Votes: 27
41. Karishma Kudrat Kaa (1985)
185 min | Action, Drama
Vijay is a simple-minded widower who lives in a small rural town in India with his unmarried sister, Radha; his son; and his widowed mom. Radha is soon to be married to Sub-Inspector Raj. ... See full summary »
Director: Sunil Hingorani | Stars: Rati Agnihotri, Urmila Bhatt, Mithun Chakraborty, Dharmendra
Votes: 89
42. Jhoothi (1985)
136 min | Comedy
Kalpana pranks on everyone by lying even after getting frequent warnings from her brother Inspector Kamal who has warned her that someday she might land in trouble.Kalpana plays vital part ... See full summary »
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Stars: Rekha, Raj Babbar, Amol Palekar, Supriya Pathak
Votes: 168
43. Ameer Aadmi Ghareeb Aadmi (1985)
Drama
Subhash Gaekwad is a worker employed in a mill run by Lal and partners. Lal does not pay his workers well, and they decide to go on an indefinite strike. Lal does not really care, and soon ... See full summary »
Director: Amjad Khan | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Rabia Amin, Parveen Babi
Votes: 27
44. Jawaab (1985)
Romance, Thriller
A journalist, Mehta, on the run from Jagmohan's men, leaves an envelope with singer, Ramprasad Singh, and asks him to deliver it to Inspector J.S. Sharma at Bandra (Bomay) Police Station. ... See full summary »
Director: Ravi Tandon | Stars: Vikas Anand, Raj Babbar, Raj Bharti, Abhi Bhattacharya
Votes: 48
45. Zabardast (1985)
159 min | Action, Drama
Ratan Kumar lives a middle-class existence with his wife, Pushpa and son, Sunder. When he is asked to commit a crime for Balram Singh, he does so, but decides to keep a suitcase full of ... See full summary »
Director: Nasir Hussain | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Sunny Deol, Rajeev Kapoor, Jaya Prada
Votes: 137
46. Mirch Masala (1986)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, Thriller
In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confident woman whose ... See full summary »
Director: Ketan Mehta | Stars: Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Ratna Pathak Shah
Votes: 1,555
47. Ankahee (1985)
135 min | Drama
Renowned Indian astrologer Jyotibhaskar Pandit Satyanarayan Chaturvedi, wishes a doctor, who is about to perform surgery on a woman, good luck, but also tells him that his patient is going ... See full summary »
Director: Amol Palekar | Stars: Amol Palekar, Deepti Naval, Devika Mukherjee, Shreeram Lagoo
Votes: 129
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