Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee; Writer: Biresh Chatterjee, Gulzar, D.N. Mukherjee, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Chandra Kanta Singh, Mohini N. Sippy; Producer: Raja Ram, Satish Wagle, Jayendra Pandya; Cinematographer: Jaywant Pathare; Editor: Das Dhaimade; Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Simi Garewal, Rekha Ganesan, Asrani, A.K. Hangal, Om Shivpuri, Manmohan, Durga Khote, Raza Murad, Jayshree T., Yogesh Chhabra, Darshan, Neelam, Lalita Kumari, Habiba Rehman, Kamaldeep, Manisha, Manju Asrani
Duration: 02:17:05; Aspect Ratio: 1.500:1; Hue: 336.149; Saturation: 0.087; Lightness: 0.356; Volume: 0.178; Cuts per Minute: 9.811; Words per Minute: 52.587
Summary: Mukherjee repeats his successful pairing of Khanna and Bachchan in
Anand (1970) with this buddy melodrama in an industrial working-class setting. When his father (Shivpuri) falls ill, the rich playboy Vikram (Bachchan) has to manage the Bombay factory. He insults a union leader (Hangal) and triggers a strike which he can end only by publicly apologising. Vikram asks his friend Somu (Khanna) to help avenge this humiliation and Somu joins the workforce. Somu becomes involved with a female union activist (Rekha) and changes his views about the conflict and sides with the workers. Vikram’s father exposes him as a management stooge and Somu is killed. Vikram takes the blame, is jailed and, when released, decides to champion workers’ rights to honour Somu’s memory. Based loosely on Peter Glenville’s Becket (1964) with a contemporary plot, it attempted a hard-edged realism in its dialogue, with several references to debates and political action from the Left in the late 60s.
Song: Diye jalte hain, phool khilte hain
दिये जलते हैं, फूल खिलते हैं
Song: Nadiya se dariya, dariya se saagar
नदिया से दरिया, दरिया से सागर
Song: Mai shaayar badnaam
ho mai chalaa, mai chalaa
मैं शायर बदनाम, हो मैं चला, मैं चला
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