Bandhan (1969 film)
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Bandhan is a 1969Hindi film directed by Narendra Bedi and starring Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....

 and Mumtaz
Mumtaz
Mumtaz is an Arabic name commonly used in various countries in the Muslim world such as Afghanistan, Brunei, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey, it can also be used as a female name...

 in the lead roles. This is the second straight movie with Rajesh and Mumtaz together in the lead roles. This film had a gross of 2,80,00,000 at the box office in 1969.. Mahendra Kapoor sings for Rajesh in this film and he gets to sing for Rajesh thereafter only in film Muqabla in 1979 and in Awam in 1987 as Khanna always preferred Kishore Kumar as his singing voice.

Plot

Jeevanlal is a crooked man living in a village in India who makes money by stealing.His wife Sita is a woman of principles and she doesn't like her husband doing any criminal activity.Both have a son,Dharamchand and a daughter named Meena.One day Jeevanlal steals from the Tehsildar's home, returns to his home and hides the stolen property with his son.The police arrive at his house and start enquiring the young Dharm about his father.Dharm honestly gives away the stolen properties with him to the policed officers.Jeevan gets arrested and he lands in prison.He begins to start hating his son for putting him into trouble.Years go by and now Dharm has grown up man and he loves his mother a lot.He also has a girl friend named Gauri Malikram,daughter of the village money lender.Gauri was a wild tom boy who after falling in love with Dharm becomes a sensible girl and wishes to get married to him.Dharm now has taken the occupation of farmer and he does well for himself and his family.Even now Jeevanlal still harbours hatred towards his own son.Jeevanlal even visits brothel and gives away the money kept by Dharm for his sister's wedding to a dancerDharm, an animal lover does not like the cows being sold after they are old and useless.He respects cows and worships them.But Jeevanlal decided one day to sell the cow,which is opposed by Dharmchand.Jeevanlal strikes his son with a stick and to defend himself Dharam picks up another stick.Sita goes and stops the fight and scolds Dharm for disrespecting his father.Sita asks him to get lost and on hearing this Dharm leaves the village and comes for work to Bombay.He gets to work with a building contractor and from whatever he earns send his savings to his mother.After few months,Sita receives a letter that Dharm is coming back to home.Sita feels escalted and on the day he is supposed to reach the village,she decides to receive him in the village bus stand.But on reaching the bus stand she learns from bystanders that Dharm has already left for the house.When Sita reaches home she finds Dharm with an axe and her husband dead.Sita falls in a delimma as she knows Jeevanlal and Dharm never got along with each other but she never expected that Dharm would kill Jeevanlal.Sita still does not believe that Dharm would have killed his father.Dharm gets arrested and his lawyer is Ravi Sharma.It is then that the truth will come out what really transpired between father and son that compelled one to kill the other.

Reception

It received five of five stars in the Bollywood guide Collectionsand grossed 2,80,00,000 at box office in 1984.

Cast

  • Rajesh Khanna
    Rajesh Khanna
    Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....

     as Dharmchand "Dharma"
  • Mumtaz
    Mumtaz
    Mumtaz is an Arabic name commonly used in various countries in the Muslim world such as Afghanistan, Brunei, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey, it can also be used as a female name...

     as Gauri Malikram
  • Jeevan
    Jeevan
    Jeevan is a Tamil film actor.-Biography:He graduated from the St. Bede's School in Chennai. One of his classmates was actor Surya Sivakumar.-Career:...

     as Jeevanlal
  • Achala Sachdev
    Achala Sachdev
    Achala Sachdev is an Indian film actress who started her career as a child. She later became known for mother and grandmother roles in Hindi films...

     as Sita
  • Rajendra Nath as Ram Vaidraj
  • Kanhaiyalal as Malikram
  • Aruna Irani
    Aruna Irani
    Aruna Irani is an Indian actress. An accomplished actress and dancer of her time, Aruna Irani has acted in about 300 movies, with many memorable acting performances to her credit...

     as Chameli
  • D.K. Sapru as Public Prosecutor Kaul
  • Ratnamala
    Ratnamala
    Ratnamala or Ratna Mala is a 1947 Telugu film produced and directed by P. S. Ramakrishna Rao. It is the debut film of Bharani Pictures. The title role of Ratnamala is played by his wife and co-producer Bhanumathi Ramakrishna.-Cast:...

     as Jamuna Malikram
  • Sanjeev Kumar as Ravi Sharma
  • Anju Mahendru
    Anju Mahendru
    -Personal life and education:Mahendru was born in Dehradun. She is famed for her relationship with famous Bollywood star Rajesh Khanna and was briefly engaged to cricket player Gary Sobers.-Career:...

     as Sonia Sharma

Music

  • " Aa Jao Aa Bhi Jao" - Mahendra Kapoor
    Mahendra Kapoor
    Mahendra Kapoor was an Indian playback singer.In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to 25,000 songs in various regional languages, including memorable hits like ‘Chalo ek baar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’ Gumrah, ‘Neele gagan ke taale’ Hamraaz, and in various...

  • "Aayo Re Sawan Aayo Re " - Mahendra & Chorus
  • "Are Jana Hai To Jao" - Mahendra Kapoor
    Mahendra Kapoor
    Mahendra Kapoor was an Indian playback singer.In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to 25,000 songs in various regional languages, including memorable hits like ‘Chalo ek baar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’ Gumrah, ‘Neele gagan ke taale’ Hamraaz, and in various...

    , Asha Bhosle
    Asha Bhosle
    Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies...

  • " Bina Badra Ke Bijuriya" - Mukesh
    Mukesh
    Mukesh Chand Mathur was an Indian playback singer of Bollywood. He, alongside Mohammad Rafi, Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar, left such an impact on the Hindi film industry that they are still remembered to date....

    and Chorus
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