Coolie is a 1983 Indian action comedy film, directed by Manmohan Desai and written by Kader Khan.

Years later, fate unites her sons, Iqbal and Sunny (Rishi Kapoor) and they set out to save Salma from Zafar's captivity.

The film is also infamous for a fight scene with co-star Puneet Issar, during which Bachchan had a near-fatal injury due to a miscalculated jump.

But later on, after the injury-and-recovery episode, Desai thought that this would have a negative impact on the movie as well as a bad feeling in the audience, decided to change the ending.

[3][4] According to film expert Rajesh Subramanian Manmohan Desai a great admirer of Hrishikesh Mukerjee requested the veteran director cum editor to edit Coolie.

Zafar was arrested for various crimes and was imprisoned for 10 years, but when he is released in 1963, he sees that Salma is married to a good man named Aslam Khan.

He also adopts an infant from an orphanage in Kanpur, a boy named Sunny, for Salma to raise on the advice of a psychiatrist.

Iqbal has grown up to be a dashing, confident young man, and is considered the leader of the local coolies.

During an incident with a man named Mr. Puri, a coolie is beaten up badly, to which Iqbal is infuriated.

His crooks, disguised as police officers, near-fatally beat Iqbal, while he takes Salma to the psychiatrist to administer electric shocks on her so that her memory never returns.

When he is finally let out, Julie tries to kill him in a graveyard because she thought he had murdered her father, John D'Costa, but, as the revolver is empty, she cannot fire.

Iqbal and Sunny both chase after the evildoers, killing Mr. Puri (who dies from a heart attack due to the mental pressure of the chase) and Vicky (who falls out of Zafar's car and is run over by an oncoming truck) in the process, until Iqbal corners Zafar at Haji Ali Dargah.

With the last of his strength, he cries the takbir and pushes Zafar off the parapet, killing him instantly, and Iqbal collapses into his mother's arms.

He was transferred to a Mumbai hospital, where according to the actor, he went into a "haze and coma-like situation", and was "clinically dead for a couple of minutes".

But later on, after the injury-and-recovery episode, Manmohan Desai, thinking that this would have a negative impact on the movie as well as a bad feeling in the audience, decided to change the ending.

Shabbir Kumar, whose voice was similar to Mohammed Rafi, Manmohan Desai’s preferred singer, was used to provide playback to Amitabh Bachchan.