Namak Haraam (1973)


Namak Haraam Movie Trailer 1973
Crew
    Director - Hrishikesh Mukherjee
    Story - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Biresh Chatterjee, Chandra Kanta Singh, Mohini N. Sippy
    Screenplay - Gulzar, D. N. Mukherjee, Biresh Chatterjee, Chandra Kanta Singh, Mohini N. Sippy
    Dialogue - Gulzar
    Producer - Jayendra Pandya, Rajaram, Satish Wagle
    Editor - Das Dhaimade
    Cinematographer - Jaywant Pathare
    Art Director - Ajit Banerjee
    Costume and Wardrobe - Meeta Hassan, Ramlal Maheswari, Madhvi R. Shanker
    Choreographer - Gopi Krishna, Habiba Rehman, Kapil
    Music Director - Rahul Dev Burman
    Lyricist - Anand Bakshi
    Playback Singers - Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Usha Mangeshkar


Cast
    Rajesh Khanna - Somnath (Somu)/Chander Singh
    Amitabh Bachchan - Vikram Maharaj (Vicky)
    Simi Garewal - Manisha
    Rekha - Shyama
    Asrani - Dhondu (Shyama's brother)
    A. K. Hangal - Bipinlal Pandey
    Manju Asrani - Rama, Pandey's assistant (as Manju)
    Om Shivpuri - Damodar Maharaj
    Manmohan - Jai Singh
    Durga Khote - Somu's Mother
    Manisha - Sarla, Somu's sister
    Raza Murad - Alam
    Jayshree T. - Courtesan
    Darshan
    Neelam
    Lalita Kumari
    Yogesh Chhabra
    Habiba Rehman (as Habiba)
    Kamaldeep (as Kamal Deep)


Story
Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take bed-rest for two months, Vicky fills in his father's shoes, has a confrontation with a senior employee and union leader, Bipinlal Pandey, which results in a strike. His father intervenes, asks Vicky to apologize to Bipinlal, which Vicky does, and everything returns to normal. Vicky confides about his humiliation with Somu, and both conspire to teach Bipinlal a lesson. As a result, Somu accompanies Vicky to Calcutta, gets a job as a laborer in his mill, befriends his fellow-workers, gets some monetary relief to injured workers, amongst other benefits, is elected as the union leader replacing Bipinlal. With Somu as the union leader and Vicky as the boss there is no stopping these two.

Did you know?When Vicky Maharaj (Amitabh Bachchan) first shows up, he mentions that he is wearing two watches. In real life, Amitabh Bachchan is very fond of various wristwatches and sometimes wears more than one at a time. 

 


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