Movie Watch from the Archive: Return of Jewel Thief (Bollywood: 1996) / myLot

India

December 30, 2025 12:07pm CST

I watched a Movie specially for Netflix titled "Jewel Thief: The Heist begins" starring a famous Bollywood star : Saif Ali Khan and another emerging star Jaideep Ahlawat. Seeing that, my mind flashed to a similarly named movie of 1960s and its part 2 almost 30 years later. I had seen the part 1. It was well made and appreciated. Part 2 did not prove much successful. This part named as "Return of Jewel Thief" had big stars: Dharmendra, Jackie Shroff, Ashok Kumar and Dev Anand(These 2 from part 1, reprising their roles), Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Prem Chopra and more. The movie had suspense, twists and turns, actions and certain amount of madness. One down point was too many songs. With less of them, the movie could have been better. Anyways, if you want to catch the action, check this out :

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jaishankar

@Shivram59 (47907)

• India

31 Dec

I've heard about the movie, but have not seen it. You know I very rarely watch movies, but now I've decided to watch "Dhurandhar."

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49373)

• India

1 Jan

@Shivram59 I have seen Dhurandhar. I might do its review some day here but not yet decided.

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Ptrikha_2

@ptrikha_2 (49373)

• India

1 Jan

@Shivram59 If I say that I liked the movie, it would be an understatement. After some years, we would remember it as a Cult Movie, almost as much as "Sholay". And if some of the things it showed are even 80% true, we know how terribly we were as a Nation till early 2010s. The movie also displayed some actual recordings between Terrorists and their handlers during Mumbai attack of 2008.