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The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

 Hindi movie produced by Tarachand Barjatya
Tarachand Barjatya
Tarachand Barjatya was a well known film producer of Indian films. He has produced many successful Hindi films from the 1960s through to the 1980s. He founded Rajshri Productions which continues to produce films even today. His mainstay was family oriented films based on human valuesHe was born...

 for Rajshri Productions
Rajshri Productions
Rajshri Productions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hindi film production company. Rajshri partially works as a film distributor also. On 15 August 1947, Tarachand Barjatya established Rajshri Pictures Ltd., the film distribution division of Rajshri....

. The film stars 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...

, Rakhee, Ajit, Rajindernath
Rajindernath
Rajendra Nath Malhotra was a comedian actor in Indian Hindi and Punjabi films.-Early life and family:His family was from Peshawar but settled in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. He studied in college at Darbar College, Rewa where Arjun Singh and R.P...

 and Leela Chitnis. The films music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal
Laxmikant Pyarelal
Laxmikant-Pyarelal were a popular Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma . They composed music for about 635 Hindi movies from 1963 to 1998, working for almost all notable filmmakers including Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Feroze Khan, B.R...

 with lyrics by Anand Bakshi. The film is considered as one of Dharmendra's best work, although it is his low profile movie. This film shows how versatile Dharmendra is as an actor. The film went on to become a big hit on box office including its song "Jhilmil sitaron ka aangan hoga".

The film was Rakhee's debut in Hindi movies

Plot Summary

Ashok Tandon (Dharmendra) is a bank manager, and is in love with Deepa (Raakhee), and both are to be married soon. However, Ashok is arrested for theft from the bank. He asks Deepa to look after his mom (Leela Chitnis), which she agrees to do so. He is sentenced to prison for several years. After his release he finds out that his mother has died; Deepa is married and has re-located; and he was framed by his colleagues at the bank. Devastated but still honest, he is befriended by Raja Ranbir Singh, who gives him a job, as well a new identity. Ashok now becomes Bikram Singh, and he must seek out Deepa, and his shrewd and calculating colleagues at the bank to extract vengeance.

Cast

  • 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...

    ... Ashok Tandon & Bikram Singh
  • Rakhee Gulzar ... Deepa
  • Ajit
    Ajit
    Ajit, variously spelled Ajith, Agith, Ajay, Aje or Ajeet is a common male name derived from Sanskrit. The name used in various forms in India nationwide, and in parts of Sri Lanka where Tamil people are concentrated. The name means invincible or, literally, he who has not been conquered, from the...

    ... Harishchandra Shroff 'Harish'
  • Kanhaiyalal ... Jagat Narayan
  • Ramesh Deo ... Barrister P. Amarnath
  • Bipin Gupta
    Bipin gupta
    Bipin Gupta was an actor and artist of during 1930s and 1960s. He acted in several bengali and hindi movies.-Early life:He was born on 21st August, 1905 in Meerut 5th child of his parents, Trailokya Nath Gupta and Khemankari Devi. Later they shifted to Barrackpore. He did his schooling from...

    ... Ranvir Singh
  • P. Jairaj ... S.N. Roy
  • Krishan Dhawan ... Ramakant
  • Master Bunty ... Shankar
  • Rajendra Nath ... Prem Prakash
  • Leela Chitnis
    Leela Chitnis
    Leela Chitnis was an early actress in the Indian film industry.-Early life:She was born in Dharwar, Karnataka to an English professor. She was one of the first educated film actresses...

    ... Ashok's Mother
  • Gajanan Jagirdar ... Deepa's Father
  • V. Gopal ... Bhim Sen
  • Roopesh Kumar ... Sameer
  • Murad
    Murad (actor)
    Murad was an Indian character actor who appeared more than 100 Bollywood films from the early 1940s through to the end of the 1980s playing character roles ranging from a father, uncle, police officer, courtroom judge or an emperor. His son Raza Murad is also an actor in the Bollywood industry who...

    ... The Judge

Performance

A must watch movie for people, who say 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...

 is not excellent Actor. 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...

 did justice to the role and did his job beautifully. He is at his best whether it is comedy, sad, happy, romantic or emotional scene. In some of the get ups you can not recognize 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...

. Rakhi looked very sweet and cute. You can't believe that it is her first movie by seeing her role as School Teacher.

Songs

Movie has one of the best song filmed on 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...

, Jhilmil Sitaron ka Aangan hoga.
S. No. Lyrics Singer
1
Jhilmil Sitaron Ka Aangan Hoga Mohd. Rafi & Lata
2 Zamane mein aji Lata Maneshkar
3 Jhilmil Sitaron Ka Aangan Hoga Lata Mangeshkar
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