Bandhan

1969 159’ col Hindi d/s Narendra Bedi pc Sippy Films dial Rajinder Singh Bedi lyr Anjaan, Indivar c K. Vaikunth m Kalyanji-Anandji lp Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Anju Mahendru, Jeevan, Kanhaiyalal, Achala Sachdev, Aruna Irani, Sundar, Ratnamala, Sapru, Kamal Kapoor, Meena, Birbal, Rajindernath, Keshav Rana, Roopesh Kumar, Narmada Shankar, Baldev Mehta

Ruralist melodrama featuring Khanna as Dharma who grows up haunted by a thieving, alcoholic, wife-beating father, Jeevanlal (Jeevan), who even steals his own daughter’s jewels on her wedding day. Dharma manages a meagre living tilling his land until his father assigns it to the wicked moneylender Malik Ram (Kanhaiyalal), whose daughter Gauri (Mumtaz) is Dharma’s beloved. Malik Ram takes over Dharma’s field, and when his father is killed Dharma is arrested for the murder until the truth emerges. The film continu

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