Ram Balram

Ram Balram is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Vijay Anand, which starred Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan in pivotal roles along with the supporting cast including Zeenat Aman and Rekha. The film marked the third time in which Dharmendra and Bachchan worked together after their previous films, Chupke Chupke and Sholay.

Ram Balram
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Directed byVijay Anand
Written byVijay Anand
Produced byTito
StarringDharmendra
Amitabh Bachchan
Zeenat Aman
Rekha
Ajit
Amjad Khan
Prem Chopra
Sujit Kumar
CinematographyFali Mistry
Edited byVijay Anand
Music byLaxmikant–Pyarelal
Distributed byNavjeevan Productions
Release date
  • 28 November 1980 (1980-11-28)
Running time
171 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹9.5 crores[1]

The film was started in 1975, but faced several delays due to production issues, health issues to Bachchan and Ajit and the Emergency. It was finally released on 28th November 1980 and was a critical and commercial success, earning ₹9.5 crores[1] at the box office and was the third highest grossing film of 1980. It also remains the only film in which Rekha and Zeenat Aman acted together and where Dharmendra and Bachchan had equal screen sharing.

Plot

Ram and Balram are two young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however, kills the boys' parents. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents have been killed in an accident and promises to raise them himself.

He enrolls the younger brother Balram in school and eventually sends him off to join the police force. The older brother Ram becomes a mechanic. Jagatpal has a tight hold on the boys, even when Ram is an adult, he still gives all his wages to his uncle and is only allowed to keep a few rupees for pocket money.

When Balram returns as a fully fledged police officer, Jagatpal finally reveals his plan. He is going to use Ram to target the biggest smugglers in India. Now that Balram is a police officer, he will protect his brother from getting arrested. Balram has reservations, but Jagatpal threatens to beat him just as he did when he was a boy; he has a needle at the edge of his cane and whenever the boys would do something Jagatpal dislikes, he would put the pointy and dangerous needle on the boys' neck.

Balram is still unhappy with Jagatpal's plan, so he tells his superiors in the police force that his brother intends to infiltrate the smuggler's underworld so that Balram can arrest them. Ram becomes a police informer for Balram.

The plan goes well. Ram becomes one of the lieutenants of one of the biggest smugglers Sulaiman and Balram's excellent arrest rate makes him one of the force's most successful officers. Jagatpal becomes enormously wealthy from Ram's illicit gains. The brothers also find love. Balram with Shobha, the daughter of a college professor and Ram with Madhu, a girl who has moved to the area with her mother looking for her father. Unbeknownst to Ram, the girl believes her father to be Jagatpal. She, along with her courtesan mother, attempt to extort money for Jagatpal but he refuses to believe he is the father. His suspicions are confirmed when he catches the mother paying off a former customer. The man is confronted by Jagatpal and confesses that the girl is not Jagatpal's daughter.

Jagatpal's plan comes unstuck however when the boys' mother returns. She did not die after all. She reveals Jagatpal's actions to the two brothers and they unite to take him down.

Cast

Soundtrack

Music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Lyrics penned by Anand Bakshi.

SongSinger
"Ek Rasta, Do Rahi, Ek Chor, Ek Sipahi" Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi
"Ladki Pasand Ki Mushkil Se Milti Hai, Mil Gayi, Mil Gayi" Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
"Ab To Ram Hi Jaan Bachaye, Bera Paar Lagaye" Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Dilraj Kaur
"Humse Bhool Ho Gayi, Humka Maafi Dai Do" Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle
"Yaar Ki Khabar Mil Gayi, Pyar Ki Nazar Mil Gayi" Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle

References
  1. "Ram Balram". Best of the Year. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
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