Director: Subhash Ghai; Writer: Sachin Bhowmick, Subhash Ghai, Kamlesh Pandey; Producer: Subhash Ghai; Cinematographer: Ashok Mehta; Editor: Waman B. Bhosle, Gurudutt Shirali; Cast: Dilip Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Vivek Mushran, Manisha Koirala, Anupam Kher, Gulshan Grover, Dina Pathak, Jackie Shroff, Deepti Naval, Dalip Tahil, Mukesh Khanna, Anand Balraj, Amrish Puri
Summary: Billed as a clash of titans between the 60s stars
Raaj and Dilip Kumar, the conflict between two
ageing patriarchs is told as a parable by
Mandhari (Kher). The two are bosom buddies
in their youth and Bir Singh aka Biru (Dilip
Kumar) is supposed to marry Thakur
Rajeshwar Singh’s (Raaj Kumar) sister.
However, he has to abandon her because
honour requires him to save a woman who has
been rejected on the eve of her wedding. The
thakur’s sister commits suicide and the buddies
become bitter enemies, pursuing their feud
over two decades while their respective
families proliferate on either side of the Beas
river. Each maintains a private army to counter
the other’s threat. The real villain, Rajeshwar
Singh’s brother-in-law Chuniya (Puri), has
Biru’s eldest son Vishal (Shroff) killed when he
tries to make peace. Vishal’s son Vasu
(Mushran), sent to an ashram to prepare for
joining his grandfather’s army, now falls in love
with the enemy’s granddaughter Radha
(Koirala) and the two eventually bring the
warring clans together. The partiarchs die in
each other’s arms. Dialogue reigns supreme in
the film but the love interest between Vasu and
Radha (played by newcomers, this being
Koirala’s debut) culminates in the hit song Ilu
ilu.
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