Mahesh Bhatt & Amrita Singh Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Mahesh Bhatt directed every film; Amrita Singh acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Mahesh Bhatt cast Amrita Singh in 'Naam' (1986) after seeing her in a small role in 'Betaab' — but she almost didn't get the part because Bhatt thought she looked too young. She screen-tested twice before he said yes.
• On the sets of 'Thikana' (1987), Amrita Singh would deliberately flub her lines to make Mahesh Bhatt laugh and break his intense director persona. He later said she was the only actor who could make him lose focus on set.
• During the making of 'Kabzaa' (1988), Mahesh Bhatt and Amrita Singh started a romantic relationship that lasted several years. Bhatt later admitted in interviews that their off-screen dynamic directly influenced the intensity of the film's scenes.
• Mahesh Bhatt once said about Amrita Singh: 'She was a storm I couldn't control. Every film we made together felt like a live wire.' He said this in a 1993 interview with Stardust magazine.
• The success of 'Naam' (1986) — their first film together — directly led to Mahesh Bhatt casting Amrita Singh in two more films back-to-back. That trilogy made her one of the highest-paid actresses in Bollywood by 1988.