Dharam Aur Kanoon
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Dharm Aur Qanoon is a 1984 film starring Rajesh Khanna
, Dharmendra
, Vinod Mehra
, Asha Parekh
and Danny Denzongpa
in pivotal roles and Jaya Prada
, Supriya Pathak
, Manmohan Krishna, Ifthekar and Om Shivpuri
are in the supporting roles in this film. The film saw the two giants, Rajesh Khanna
and Dharmendra
, coming together again after their previous successful ventures with films Khamoshi
(1969) and Rajput
(1982). It had box office collection of 6.5 crores in 1984 and went on to become a moderate hit at the Indian boxoffice. The film saw Asha Parekh pair opposite Khanna after Baharon Ke Sapne (1967), Kati Patang and Aan Milo Sajna (1970). In this film Khanna had a double role: that of the father and the son.
The film was remade in Tamil that same year as Ezhuthatha Sattanggal ('Unwritten Laws')directed by veteran Tamil
/Hindi
director K. Shankar with Sivaji Ganesan
, Jaishankar
, Prabu, M.N. Nambiar, Sarath Babu
, Urvashi and Nalini in Dharmendra
, Rajesh Khanna
, Rajesh Khanna
, Danny Dengzongpa, Vinod Mehra
, Jaya Prada
and Supriya Pathak
's charachter respectively. Unlike the original version where Rajesh Khanna dones the father and son role, the Tamil version has Jaishankar in father's role and Prabhu as the son.
Diwan doesn't get along with his son Rajan even though both love each other a lot. Eventually Rajan moves out to live in a nearby slum area with Rahim in his house. Dr. Bashir Khan is Rahim’s brother and lives in a bungalow next to Rahim’s small house. Its not that Rahim and Bashir are not attached to each other: Bashir has become a doctor thanks to Rahim’s efforts. Rahim wants to spend the rest of life staying in that small house, as this is the house where his wife breathed her last. Its also a practice that Diwan, Rahim and Shardha have breakfast together in the morning and sometimes Kader joins them at Diwan’s house. Bashir has been in love with Reshma since their school days and this fact is unknown only to Rahim Khan. All others including Reshma's father Kader and his closest friend Justice Diwan and his family is aware of them being in love.
Bashir Khan hopes to marry Reshma soon. Meanwhile Rajan starts loving a fisherman's girl named Shanta. Rahim Khan makes a living for himself by collecting Hafta from the fisherman; he saves them from the Bhuree and his men who keep attacking the fisherman for they want them to vacate the premises and want to construct a building complex. Bhuree’s men fear Rahim Khan so give warnings to fishermen in his absence from the village. Later in a case, Diwan sentences Tejaa, the head of the group of Buree and his men for life imprisonment. But Tejaa manages to get bail with help of his advocate. After coming out of the prison, Tejaa decides to take revenge from Diwan. Within a few days Dr. John, Bashir's senior, gets killed and the evidence points at Bashir being at the place of crime (the worker had seen Bashir with a knife full of blood). Bashir is arrested and, in the court, Justice Diwan finds him guilty after examining the witnesses and orders that he be hanged. Bashir gets lodged in jail. Rahim asks Diwan to help Bashir and to prove somehow that he is innocent. Diwan says he knows Bashir being Rahim’s brother and being a doctor cannot commit the crime, but he as a judge has to announce judgements according to evidence. Bhuree has an eye on Shanta, too, and so decides to give her father lots of wine. When he is unconscious, he rapes Shanta. The next day Bhurre is found dead, and the evidence points to Rajan, who is arrested and produced before Justice Diwan, who finds him guilty, and sentences him to death. Rajan says to his mother that he has not killed Bhuree and that he would have been happy to kill Bhuree.
An alteration takes place between Sharda and Diwan where Diwan shows his helplessness and he says he prefers duty over attachments. Later on Rahim finds his house burned down and is out on the street after the destruction of his house. The rest of the story is about how Rajan and Bashir prove their innocence, who killed Bhuree and Dr. John, why were they killed and by whom, how Rahim tries his best to find out who is the real culprit who is trying to frame Diwan and his family in false charges and how Diwan sticks to his principles of law and to what extent he goes to ensure that justice is delivered.
Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....
, Dharmendra
Dharmendra
Dharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...
, Vinod Mehra
Vinod Mehra
Vinod Mehra was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s...
, Asha Parekh
Asha Parekh
Asha Parekh is a Bollywood actress, director, and producer. She was one of the top stars in Hindi films from 1959 to 1973.-Early life:...
and Danny Denzongpa
Danny Denzongpa
Tshering Phintso Denzongpa , widely known by his acting name "Danny" Denzongpa, is an Indian actor of Sikkimese ancestry working in Bollywood films....
in pivotal roles and Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada is an Indian film actress and politician. She has starred in hundreds of Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Marathi films.-Early life:...
, Supriya Pathak
Supriya Pathak
Supriya Pathak Kapur is an Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi and Idhar Udhar.-Family:...
, Manmohan Krishna, Ifthekar and Om Shivpuri
Om Shivpuri
Om Shivpuri was an Indian theatre actor-director and character actor in Hindi films.A National School of Drama, New Delhi alumni, Om Shivpuri became the first chief of the National School of Drama Repertory Company and one of its actors; he later founded an important theatre group of its era, in...
are in the supporting roles in this film. The film saw the two giants, 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 Dharmendra
Dharmendra
Dharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...
, coming together again after their previous successful ventures with films Khamoshi
Khamoshi
Khamoshi is a 1969 black-and-white Hindi film directed by Asit Sen, starring Rajesh Khanna and Waheeda Rehman. It especially remembered for its songs with music by Hemant Kumar and some haunting lyrics by Gulzar, who also wrote films equally effective dialogues...
(1969) and Rajput
Rajput (1982 film)
Rajput is a Hindi blockbuster film released in 1982, starring Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra and Josh Murray in the main lead roles. The film also starred Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Ranjeeta Kaur, Tina Munim and Ranjeet in supporting roles....
(1982). It had box office collection of 6.5 crores in 1984 and went on to become a moderate hit at the Indian boxoffice. The film saw Asha Parekh pair opposite Khanna after Baharon Ke Sapne (1967), Kati Patang and Aan Milo Sajna (1970). In this film Khanna had a double role: that of the father and the son.
The film was remade in Tamil that same year as Ezhuthatha Sattanggal ('Unwritten Laws')directed by veteran Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
/Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
director K. Shankar with Sivaji Ganesan
Sivaji Ganesan
Viluppuram Chinnaiahpillai Ganesan Manrayar , commonly known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan , was an Indian stage and film actor active during the latter half of the 20th century. He is one of the most respected film actors in India. He is well known for his versatility and acting skills with...
, Jaishankar
Jaishankar
Jaishankar is a yester-year actor of the Tamil Film Industry. He is fondly referred to as Thennagathu James Bond . His penchant for dashing roles earned him the sobriquet of James Bond of South India, thanks to his roles in films like Vallavan Oruvan, CID Shankar and so on...
, Prabu, M.N. Nambiar, Sarath Babu
Sarath Babu
Sarath Babu is an Indian film actor, who has acted in almost all the major south Indian languages - Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. He has been in the industry for nearly 37 years and has acted in more than 200 movies, most of them in a supporting role. He has acted in 80 films each in...
, Urvashi and Nalini in Dharmendra
Dharmendra
Dharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...
, Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....
, Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....
, Danny Dengzongpa, Vinod Mehra
Vinod Mehra
Vinod Mehra was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s...
, Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada is an Indian film actress and politician. She has starred in hundreds of Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Marathi films.-Early life:...
and Supriya Pathak
Supriya Pathak
Supriya Pathak Kapur is an Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi and Idhar Udhar.-Family:...
's charachter respectively. Unlike the original version where Rajesh Khanna dones the father and son role, the Tamil version has Jaishankar in father's role and Prabhu as the son.
Synopsis
Justice Diwan lives in a bungalow with his wife, Sharda, and a son named Rajan. Diwan was a very famous advocate in his younger days and today has become a name to reckon with. His admirers include the superintendent of police Kader whom he knows since his younger days. Diwan has been appointed as the judge in the court. Diwan’s wife Shanta considers Rahim Khan as her brother. Rahim visits Diwan’s house daily to give her flowers to wear and for presenting them to her house temple.Diwan doesn't get along with his son Rajan even though both love each other a lot. Eventually Rajan moves out to live in a nearby slum area with Rahim in his house. Dr. Bashir Khan is Rahim’s brother and lives in a bungalow next to Rahim’s small house. Its not that Rahim and Bashir are not attached to each other: Bashir has become a doctor thanks to Rahim’s efforts. Rahim wants to spend the rest of life staying in that small house, as this is the house where his wife breathed her last. Its also a practice that Diwan, Rahim and Shardha have breakfast together in the morning and sometimes Kader joins them at Diwan’s house. Bashir has been in love with Reshma since their school days and this fact is unknown only to Rahim Khan. All others including Reshma's father Kader and his closest friend Justice Diwan and his family is aware of them being in love.
Bashir Khan hopes to marry Reshma soon. Meanwhile Rajan starts loving a fisherman's girl named Shanta. Rahim Khan makes a living for himself by collecting Hafta from the fisherman; he saves them from the Bhuree and his men who keep attacking the fisherman for they want them to vacate the premises and want to construct a building complex. Bhuree’s men fear Rahim Khan so give warnings to fishermen in his absence from the village. Later in a case, Diwan sentences Tejaa, the head of the group of Buree and his men for life imprisonment. But Tejaa manages to get bail with help of his advocate. After coming out of the prison, Tejaa decides to take revenge from Diwan. Within a few days Dr. John, Bashir's senior, gets killed and the evidence points at Bashir being at the place of crime (the worker had seen Bashir with a knife full of blood). Bashir is arrested and, in the court, Justice Diwan finds him guilty after examining the witnesses and orders that he be hanged. Bashir gets lodged in jail. Rahim asks Diwan to help Bashir and to prove somehow that he is innocent. Diwan says he knows Bashir being Rahim’s brother and being a doctor cannot commit the crime, but he as a judge has to announce judgements according to evidence. Bhuree has an eye on Shanta, too, and so decides to give her father lots of wine. When he is unconscious, he rapes Shanta. The next day Bhurre is found dead, and the evidence points to Rajan, who is arrested and produced before Justice Diwan, who finds him guilty, and sentences him to death. Rajan says to his mother that he has not killed Bhuree and that he would have been happy to kill Bhuree.
An alteration takes place between Sharda and Diwan where Diwan shows his helplessness and he says he prefers duty over attachments. Later on Rahim finds his house burned down and is out on the street after the destruction of his house. The rest of the story is about how Rajan and Bashir prove their innocence, who killed Bhuree and Dr. John, why were they killed and by whom, how Rahim tries his best to find out who is the real culprit who is trying to frame Diwan and his family in false charges and how Diwan sticks to his principles of law and to what extent he goes to ensure that justice is delivered.
Cast
- DharmendraDharmendraDharmendra Singh Deol |Punjab]]), better known as Dharmendra, is an award-winning Hindi film actor who has appeared in more than 247 Hindi-language films as of 2011. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema and also another Lifetime...
as Rahim Khan - Rajesh KhannaRajesh KhannaRajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....
as Justice Diwan / Rajan - Asha ParekhAsha ParekhAsha Parekh is a Bollywood actress, director, and producer. She was one of the top stars in Hindi films from 1959 to 1973.-Early life:...
as Shardha - Vinod MehraVinod MehraVinod Mehra was an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He started out as a child actor in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s before starting his adult film career in 1971 acting in over 100 films throughout the 1970s through to the 1990s...
as Dr. Bashir Khan - Danny DenzongpaDanny DenzongpaTshering Phintso Denzongpa , widely known by his acting name "Danny" Denzongpa, is an Indian actor of Sikkimese ancestry working in Bollywood films....
as Superintendent of Police Kader - Jayapradha as Shanta
- Supriya PathakSupriya PathakSupriya Pathak Kapur is an Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi and Idhar Udhar.-Family:...
as Reshma - Mazhar KhanMazhar KhanMazhar Saleem Khan, born 11 September 1964 in Rawalpindi, is an Pakistan-born Omani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. He made several appearances as a batsman in the 2005 ICC Trophy and has also played List A cricket for the Oman national cricket team.-References:...
as Bhurre - Om ShivpuriOm ShivpuriOm Shivpuri was an Indian theatre actor-director and character actor in Hindi films.A National School of Drama, New Delhi alumni, Om Shivpuri became the first chief of the National School of Drama Repertory Company and one of its actors; he later founded an important theatre group of its era, in...
as Tejaa - IftekharIftekharIftekhar was a character actor in Bollywood films, especially known for his roles as police officers in several films.-Career:...
as Dr. John - Manmohan Krishna as Shanta’s Dad
Music
- "Dil Se Dil Ki Baat Hogayi" - Kishore KumarKishore KumarKishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...
, Asha Bhonsle - "Aashiq Hun Tumhara" - Shailendra Singh, Asha Bhonsle
- "Badi Door Se Aaya Banna Re Banni Na" - Kishore KumarKishore KumarKishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...
, Alka YagnikAlka YagnikAlka Yagnik is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best Hindi playback singers of all time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award as well as a two-time recipient of the prestigious National Film Awards... - "Aisa Kyun Hota Hai" - Bhupinder SinghBhupinder SinghBhupinder Singh may refer to:* Bhupinder Singh , Indian singer and musician popularly known by his first name* Bhupinder Singh of Patiala , Maharaja of Patiala* Bhupinder Singh, Sr. , Indian cricketer...
- "Ae Balam" - Vani Jairam