Amrish Puri & Raakhee Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

The 1970s belonged to Hamare Tumhare; the 1990s to Karan Arjun. Amrish Puri acted in every film; Raakhee acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• In Shakti (1982), Amrish Puri played the villain who kidnaps Raakhee's son. The role was originally offered to another actor, but Puri's towering presence opposite Raakhee's raw maternal fury became the film's emotional anchor.
• In Hamare Tumhare (1979), Raakhee played a mother struggling to raise four kids, while Puri played her estranged husband. Their scenes together crackled because Puri deliberately underplayed his anger, letting Raakhee's tearful outbursts dominate — a rhythm he never used with other co-stars.
• The success of Shakti (1982) directly led to the trend of pairing a vulnerable mother figure with a cold-blooded villain in 80s Hindi cinema. Films like Mard (1985) and Karma (1986) copied this dynamic, but none matched the original Puri-Raakhee tension.
• On the sets of Karan Arjun (1995), Puri and Raakhee barely spoke to each other. The reason? Puri was deeply uncomfortable with the film's over-the-top violence, while Raakhee found his serious off-screen demeanor intimidating. They did their scenes in one take and retreated to separate vans.
• Raakhee once said in an interview: 'Amrish ji never looked at me as a co-star. He looked through me, like I was his real enemy. That's why our scenes in Shakti still give me chills.'