Director: Nasir Husain; Writer: Rajinder Singh Bedi, Nasir Husain; Producer: Nasir Husain; Cinematographer: Jal Mistry; Editor: Babu Lavande, Gurudutt Shirali; Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Asha Parekh, Prem Nath, Rajendra Nath, Madan Puri, Sulochana (Latkar), Nana Palsikar, P. Jairaj, Krishan Nanda, Ram Avtar, Azra, Indira Bansal, Bela Bose, Laxmi Chhaya, Jayshree Gadkar, Anwar Hussain (Actor), R.P. Kapoor, Nazir Kashmiri, Mansoor Khan, Padma Khanna, Uma Khosla, Saral Kumar, Manorama, Meettibai, Baby Nuzhat, Kanu Roy, Narbada Shankar, Shivraj, Rajinder Singh
Duration: 02:26:34; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 68.689; Saturation: 0.022; Lightness: 0.200; Volume: 0.113; Cuts per Minute: 8.610
Summary: In a small industrial town near Bombay lives Bholanath, who works at the local mill, and is the proud husband of Gauri, a daughter, Champa, and above all his son, Ramaiya, who is a graduate in the arts faculty, - the only one in this town who has attained this degree. But times are hard, and jobs are difficult to come by. When Bholanath loses his job, Ramaiya decides to find employment, and does so as a menial worker in the same mill his dad used to work. Ramaiya is very popular with his co-workers and they soon elect him as their new union leader. This puts Ramaiya in conflict with the Management of the Mill, headed by the owner, Kapoor, who has ordered that Ramaiya be eliminated post haste. But Ramaiya is determined to address the workers' grievances, and he gets himself framed for theft; has the police on the lookout for him, and so Ramaiya goes into hiding. When Ramaiya does not show up for a workers' meeting, some believe that he has been bought by the mill management, and they decide to take the matters into their own hands - by burning the mill down, killing Kapoor and his family, and getting into direct confrontation with the local police, who have been issued orders to shoot-at-sight.
“ The film was realistic, a complete departure from the films that I had made till then, and remains my only film where I did not offer pure entertainment. G.P. Sippy and I were the first to sign Rajesh Khanna, who had won the Filmfare-United Producers’ Talent Contest. Rajesh as he looked then fitted my concept of a young man with the lean kind of look!” Adieu Nasir Hussain, Screen, May 7, 2008
But even with this stark social saga, he never tasted failure – the film did average business, though the original sad ending of the story was changed to a happy, optimistic one
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