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Soon, Ravi is arrested by Inspector Kulkarni for the murder of Surendra Sinha and is sentenced to death for the crime by the [[Supreme Court of India]], much to the consternation of his family, and that of Neela and her father ([[D. K. Sapru]]). While Neela and Ravi's mother try to make some sense of Ravi's confession, also approach Narendra Sinha to beg for clemency, Ravi is in prison awaiting his execution, and his another intense headache results in him being rushed to the government hospital by Inspector Khurana and Inspector Kulkarni, where, serendipitously, it is Dr. Shah who examines him. Knowing Ravi's medical history, Dr. Shah wastes no time in getting him into the operation theatre, and the brain surgery is successful, but Dr. Shah is shattered to learn that he saved the patient on the operating table only to see him hung for murder. Well-aware of having condemned himself to be hung for a murder he did not commit, Ravi, during a permitted meeting with Neela and Rane at the hospital, asks Rane if he could appeal and tell the truth in the court as the envelope he left anonymously in his care will confirm his story after all. However, Rane's response tells Ravi that he is his friend as well as his lawyer, so the court would not believe anything he says, and that the only way for him to escape the consequences of his ill-advised actions is to now find the real murderer of Surendra Sinha. | Soon, Ravi is arrested by Inspector Kulkarni for the murder of Surendra Sinha and is sentenced to death for the crime by the [[Supreme Court of India]], much to the consternation of his family, and that of Neela and her father ([[D. K. Sapru]]). While Neela and Ravi's mother try to make some sense of Ravi's confession, also approach Narendra Sinha to beg for clemency, Ravi is in prison awaiting his execution, and his another intense headache results in him being rushed to the government hospital by Inspector Khurana and Inspector Kulkarni, where, serendipitously, it is Dr. Shah who examines him. Knowing Ravi's medical history, Dr. Shah wastes no time in getting him into the operation theatre, and the brain surgery is successful, but Dr. Shah is shattered to learn that he saved the patient on the operating table only to see him hung for murder. Well-aware of having condemned himself to be hung for a murder he did not commit, Ravi, during a permitted meeting with Neela and Rane at the hospital, asks Rane if he could appeal and tell the truth in the court as the envelope he left anonymously in his care will confirm his story after all. However, Rane's response tells Ravi that he is his friend as well as his lawyer, so the court would not believe anything he says, and that the only way for him to escape the consequences of his ill-advised actions is to now find the real murderer of Surendra Sinha. | ||
In an attempt to save himself from going to the gallows, Ravi succeeds in escaping from the hospital in search of the real killer and is aided by Neela in his pursuit. As part of his mission, Ravi investigates the significant ring of Surendra Sinha that could lead back to the killer, and experiences the arrival of Michael D'Souza ([[Pran]]) from his own logical procedural thinking. Michael is a kind-hearted and happy-go-lucky small-time thief, who pledges to help Ravi nab the real culprit on learning of his plight. On the fateful rainy night, Michael had threatened the driver of a car at gunpoint and had grabbed the same costly ring from him, unmindful of the fact that it belonged to the already dead Surendra Sinha on the backseat. Michael's endeavour later takes him to Surendra Sinha's house where he runs into the murderer and sets up a meeting point by the riverside in the hills of [[Maharashtra]] to settle the issue. The climax alternates between a grievously injured Michael holding the murderer at gunpoint | In an attempt to save himself from going to the gallows, Ravi succeeds in escaping from the hospital in search of the real killer and is aided by Neela in his pursuit. As part of his mission, Ravi investigates the significant ring of Surendra Sinha that could lead back to the killer, and experiences the arrival of Michael D'Souza ([[Pran]]) from his own logical procedural thinking. Michael is a kind-hearted and happy-go-lucky small-time thief, who pledges to help Ravi nab the real culprit on learning of his plight. On the fateful rainy night, Michael had threatened the driver of a car at gunpoint and had grabbed the same costly ring from him, unmindful of the fact that it belonged to the already dead Surendra Sinha on the backseat. Michael's endeavour later takes him to Surendra Sinha's house where he runs into the murderer and sets up a meeting point by the riverside in the hills of [[Maharashtra]] to settle the issue. The climax alternates between a grievously injured Michael holding the murderer at gunpoint at the meeting point, accompanied by Neela, while Ravi drives desperately to get a doctor back in time. In the end, the real killer of Surendra Sinha is surprisingly revealed to be his own brother, Narendra Sinha, and Ravi becomes a free man but not without Michael paying a heavy price in managing to solve the mystery. | ||
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| Majboor | |
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| Directed by | Ravi Tandon |
| Produced by | Premji |
| Written by | Salim–Javed |
| Starring | Amitabh Bachchan Parveen Babi Pran Farida Jalal Sulochana Latkar Satyen Kappu Iftekhar Jagdish Raj Rehman |
| Music by | Laxmikant–Pyarelal |
| Distributed by |
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Release date | 6 December 1974 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Majboor (translation: Compelled) is a 1974 Indian Hindi-language suspense thriller film directed by Ravi Tandon and written by Salim-Javed. Released in India on 6 December 1974, the film stars an ensemble cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Parveen Babi, Pran, Farida Jalal, Sulochana Latkar, Satyen Kappu, Iftekhar, Jagdish Raj and Rehman. The music was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
The film is loosely inspired by two English films of 1970 - Zig Zag and Cold Sweat. The film was later remade in Telugu by director K. Raghavendra Rao as Raja (1976) starring Shobhan Babu and Jayasudha, in Tamil as Naan Vazhavaippen (1979) with Sivaji Ganeshan and K. R. Vijaya , in Gujarati as Naseeb No Khel (1982) and in Malayalam as Ee Kaikalil (1986).[1] The film was also an inspiration for the 2008 film Jimmy.
Plot
Ravi Khanna (Amitabh Bachchan) is a middle-class travel agent leading a simple life with his elderly mother (Sulochana Latkar) and wheelchair-bound sister, Renu (Farida Jalal), and is also due to get married with his girlfriend, Neela Rajvansh (Parveen Babi). One rainy night, one of his clients, Surendra Sinha (Rehman), visits Ravi's travel agency to pick up the tickets that have been reserved for him when Ravi notices a large emerald ring on his finger as Surendra Sinha impatiently taps on the counter. After leaving the premises, Surendra Sinha offers Ravi a lift in his car till the crossroads near Ravi's house as there is not a single taxi to be seen. Some time later, two detectives, CID Inspector Khurana (Iftekhar) and Inspector Kulkarni (Jagdish Raj), come to interrogate Ravi at the travel agency as Surendra Sinha was apparently abducted that night and his dead body was later shockingly recovered from a gutter. Ravi is innocent, but nervous as Inspector Khurana and Inspector Kulkarni are taking a keen interest in him since he is the last known person to have seen Surendra Sinha. He decides to seek legal advice from his lawyer friend, Rane (Shiv Kumar), for being a simple man with a family to be taken care of and wanting to do nothing with the police and the courts.
However, the stress seems to be triggering severe intense headaches and Ravi ends up at the place of Dr. Shah (Sajjan), where he explains that he has had minor headaches earlier which he ignored, but the pain has now intensified these past few days. After being sent by Dr. Shah for a brain X-Ray, the shocking diagnosis is far more serious than tension as Ravi has a brain tumour that needs to be removed and if not, will cause his death in six months. Ravi is willing to do anything for his family, even have himself operated upon, but Dr. Shah has a few caveats that the brain surgery could cure him completely while there is no guarantee that he will not be blind over even paraplegic as its side-effects. Ravi is aghast as he is the sole provider to his family and cannot contemplate a life where he becomes a dependent, so he leaves without making a decision when the choices are death and a life worse than death. Ravi returns home, deep in thought, and his family's affection and their implicit trust in his ability to take care of them only serve to increase his conflict. At the same time, Ravi receives the interesting news of Surendra Sinha's grieving younger brother, Narendra Sinha (Satyen Kappu), having announced a handsome reward of five lakh rupees for any information about his brother's killer.
In an effort to better his family's financial conditions after him, Ravi telephones Inspector Khurana at the police station without revealing his identity and poses as an informer about Surendra Sinha's murder, in a scheme to frame "himself" as the murderer and collect the reward money for his family, believing that he has nothing to lose and is going to die in six months nevertheless. Inspector Khurana speaks to Narendra Sinha about the anonymous telephone call, and tells him that the reward money has to be paid to a lawyer whom the caller suggests, while a sealed envelope will be also deposited with the same lawyer. Once the money is paid, the caller will inform the police over the telephone who the killer is and will provide the evidence as well. Narendra Sinha is willing to go through with the proposal. Now that his proposal has been accepted, Ravi meticulously sets the stage, even leaving sealed instructions and a cover letter with Rane, who is rather bewildered at all the cloak-and-dagger stuff, until Inspector Khurana telephones him to confirm that the money mentioned in the covering letter will be entrusted to him. Acting upon the received information, Inspector Khurana and Inspector Kulkarni recover the evidence that Ravi has created against himself and it is sent to the laboratory for fingerprint testing.
Soon, Ravi is arrested by Inspector Kulkarni for the murder of Surendra Sinha and is sentenced to death for the crime by the Supreme Court of India, much to the consternation of his family, and that of Neela and her father (D. K. Sapru). While Neela and Ravi's mother try to make some sense of Ravi's confession, also approach Narendra Sinha to beg for clemency, Ravi is in prison awaiting his execution, and his another intense headache results in him being rushed to the government hospital by Inspector Khurana and Inspector Kulkarni, where, serendipitously, it is Dr. Shah who examines him. Knowing Ravi's medical history, Dr. Shah wastes no time in getting him into the operation theatre, and the brain surgery is successful, but Dr. Shah is shattered to learn that he saved the patient on the operating table only to see him hung for murder. Well-aware of having condemned himself to be hung for a murder he did not commit, Ravi, during a permitted meeting with Neela and Rane at the hospital, asks Rane if he could appeal and tell the truth in the court as the envelope he left anonymously in his care will confirm his story after all. However, Rane's response tells Ravi that he is his friend as well as his lawyer, so the court would not believe anything he says, and that the only way for him to escape the consequences of his ill-advised actions is to now find the real murderer of Surendra Sinha.
In an attempt to save himself from going to the gallows, Ravi succeeds in escaping from the hospital in search of the real killer and is aided by Neela in his pursuit. As part of his mission, Ravi investigates the significant ring of Surendra Sinha that could lead back to the killer, and experiences the arrival of Michael D'Souza (Pran) from his own logical procedural thinking. Michael is a kind-hearted and happy-go-lucky small-time thief, who pledges to help Ravi nab the real culprit on learning of his plight. On the fateful rainy night, Michael had threatened the driver of a car at gunpoint and had grabbed the same costly ring from him, unmindful of the fact that it belonged to the already dead Surendra Sinha on the backseat. Michael's endeavour later takes him to Surendra Sinha's house where he runs into the murderer and sets up a meeting point by the riverside in the hills of Maharashtra to settle the issue. The climax alternates between a grievously injured Michael holding the murderer at gunpoint at the meeting point, accompanied by Neela, while Ravi drives desperately to get a doctor back in time. In the end, the real killer of Surendra Sinha is surprisingly revealed to be his own brother, Narendra Sinha, and Ravi becomes a free man but not without Michael paying a heavy price in managing to solve the mystery.
Cast
- Amitabh Bachchan as Ravi Khanna
- Parveen Babi as Neela Rajvansh
- Pran as Michael D'Souza
- Farida Jalal as Renu Khanna (Ravi's younger sister)
- Sulochana Latkar as Mrs. Khanna (Ravi's mother)
- Satyen Kappu as Narendra Sinha
- Iftekhar as CID Inspector Khurana
- Jagdish Raj as Inspector Kulkarni
- Rehman as Surendra Sinha
- Mac Mohan as Prakash (Michael's friend)
- Madan Puri as Mahipat Rai (Ravi's one-time accquaintance)
- Sajjan as Dr. Shah (Ravi's doctor)
- Alankar Joshi as Billu Khanna (Ravi's younger brother)
- D. K. Sapru as Mr. Rajvansh (Neela's father)
- Shiv Kumar as Advocate Rane (Ravi's lawyer friend)
- Sudhir as Sharma (Ravi's colleague)
- K. N. Singh as Prosecuting Attorney
- Murad as Supreme Court Judge
- Ashoo as Mona Sinha (Surendra Sinha's widow)
- Lalita Kumari as Sulakshana Rai (Mahipat Rai's wife)
Soundtrack
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Roothe Rab Ko Manana Aasan Hai" | Mohammed Rafi Asha Bhosle |
| 2 | "Dekh Sakta Hoon Main Kuch Bhi Hote Hue" (Male Version) | Kishore Kumar |
| 3 | "Aadmi Jo Kehta Hai Aadmi Jo Sunta Hai" | Kishore Kumar |
| 4 | "Daaru Ki Botal Mein Kahe Paani Bharta Hai" | Kishore Kumar |
| 5 | "Dekh Sakta Hoon Main Kuch Bhi Hote Hue" (Female Version) | Lata Mangeshkar |
Success
The film was a Hit at the box office.[2]
Awards and nominations
- Filmfare Supporting Actor Nomination--Pran
- Filmfare Supporting Actress Nomination--Farida Jalal[3]
References
- ↑ Ramachandran, Naman, Rajnikanth: The Definitive Biography. India: Penguin Books (2012).
- ↑ Box Office India Archived 22 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/366907.cms[permanent dead link]