High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Akayla (English: Lonely) is a 1991 Bollywood film directed by Ramesh Sippy. It was the fourth film collaboration of Ramesh Sippy and Amitabh Bachchan after Sholay (1975), Shaan (1980) and Shakti (1982). Although their previous films were successful at the box office, Akayla did not do as well as expected. The story was written by Salim Khan.