Kaala Patthar (1979)


Kaala Patthar Movie Trailer 1979
Crew

    Direction – Yash Chopra
    Writer – Salim-Javed
    Production – Yash Chopra
    Production Company – Yash Raj Films
    Cinematograpy – Kay Gee
    Music Direction – Rajesh Roshan
    Lyrics – Sahir Ludhianvi
    Playback – Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mahendra Kapoor, Mohammed Rafi, Pamela Chopra, S.K. Mohan, Usha Mangeshkar

Cast

    Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay Pal Singh
    Shashi Kapoor as Ravi Malhotra, Engineer
    Shatrughan Sinha as Mangal Singh
    Raakhee as Dr. Sudha Sen
    Neeto Singh as Channo, jewellery seller
    Parveen Babi as Anita, Press Photographer
    Prem Chopra as Dhanraj Puri, Coal mine owner
    Parikshat Sahni as Jagga
    Satyen Kappoo as Raghunath, Coal miner
    Gita Sidharth as Mrs. Raghunath
    Poonam Dhillon as Raghunath's daughter
    Babu Kumar as Raghunath's son
    Suresh Oberoi as Navy officer
    Gautam Sarin as Chief Navy Officer
    Om Sahni as Navy Officer
    Suresh Bedi as Navy Officer
    Lamba as Navy Officer
    Iftikhar as Mr. Singh, Vijay's father
    Sudha Chopra as Mrs. Singh, Vijay's mother
    Sanjeev Kumar as Dr. Mathur
    Annu Kapoor as Compounder
    Pardesi as Compounder
    Yunus Parvez as Maneklal Saxena, Chief Engineer
    Romesh Sharma as Vikram
    Madan Puri as Vikram's father
    Manmohan Krishna as Crippled hotel owner
    Sharat Saxena as Dhanna
    Mohan Sherry as Shanker
    Mackmohan as Rana
    Jagdishraj as Police Inspector
    Mahaan Swadesh as Murli
    Baldev Trehan as Ozi
    Vikas Anand as Ram Singh
    Raj Verma as Munim
    Harish Chander as Harish
    Nagar as Daag
    Chandu as Chandu
    Uttam Sodi as Qaidi
    Darshan as Jailor
    Bhola as Gyan
    Ramanand as Roshan Singh

Story

Being branded a coward for abandoning his ship full of over 300 passengers. Captain Vijay Pal Singh, is discharged from duty, humiliated by society and disowned by his parents. Feeling guilty over his cowardice and with low self-esteem, he starts working as a coal miner to forget his past. But it still continues to hunt him, he welcome pain as a punishment. The owner of the mine is Dhanraj Puri, a carefree and irresponsible man whose mine is poorly equipped, with less than sufficient medical supplies, and no facilities for the miners and their families. Vijay trys to save every workers life in order to overcome his haunted past but to no avil. But one day water forced itself in one of the mining tunnels, endangering the lives of over 400 workers. Vijay along with some of his other colleagues put up a big fight to save each and every workers life. Which at last was successful and Vijay was able to overcome his troubled past.

Did you know?

When the movie opened in Leicester's Natraj cinema, England,UK in 1979, Amitabh Bachchan & Shashi Kapoor both appeared on stage during the opening credits of the movie to surprise the movie audience. They were in the UK to promote the movie.


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