In seeking to avenge his father's murder, a young man puts an entire village at risk of retribution.
Acting
Shashi Kapoor abandons charm for simmering rage
Direction
Malhotra's village-as-pressure-cooker staging
Costume
Ranjeet's villain mustache deserves its own credit
Director
Harmesh Malhotra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shashi Kapoor rarely played rural revenge heroes; this was his attempt to compete with brother Amitabh's angry-young-man dominance.
The film mirrors 1970s rural anxieties about land disputes and caste violence, using masala conventions to smuggle in social critique.
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