Director: Ramesh Sippy; Writer: Javed Akhtar; Producer: G.P. Sippy; Cinematographer: S.M. Anwar; Editor: M.S. Shinde; Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Kamal Haasan, Dimple Kapadia, Nadira, Saeed Jaffrey, Madhur Jaffrey, A.K. Hangal, Shafi Inamdar, Satish Kaushik, Sudhir Pandey, Kiran Vairale, Lilliput, Goga Kapoor, Sharat Saxena, Shubha Khote, Hari Shukla, Suresh Desai, Mushtaq Merchant
Duration: 03:01:09; Aspect Ratio: 2.207:1; Hue: 20.884; Saturation: 0.081; Lightness: 0.357; Volume: 0.310; Cuts per Minute: 8.407
Summary: Sippy pays homage to Raj Kapoor’s Bobby
(1973) in recasting its famous teenaged lead
pair while celebrating Dimple Kapadia’s return
to films. Set in a coastal fishing community,
Raja (Kamalahasan) loves childhood
sweetheart Mona (Kapadia), but she falls for
Ravi (Kapoor), heir to the industrial house
controlled by his autocratic grandmother
(M. Jaffrey, noted author of Indian cookbooks).
The family’s trawler business is set to ruin the
fisherfolk, mapping a love triangle onto class
differences. In the end, Raja sacrifices himself.
Kamalahasan, in his last major film appearance
in a Bombay-production, often quotes Chaplin
in a tragi-comic performance.
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