Indian Army Captain Amar Kumar lives with his father, Ram, and mother, Saraswati. Ram has been associated with top freedom fighters during India's struggle for independence from the British. Almost all of these freedom fighters had taken advantage of their involvement and have taken up important positions in India's administration, and these include Jagrathan, and Mohanlal. While others like Vaisakh Ansari and Ram have chosen not to.
Acting
Rajesh Khanna's late-career intensity as the principled captain
Writing
B.R. Chopra's blunt critique of post-Independence power grabs
Production
That very specific 1987 aesthetic of 'important' cinema
Director
B.R. Chopra
Rajesh Khanna
Captain Amar Kumar
Ashok Kumar
Veshat Ansari
Smita Patil
Dr. Shabnam
Raj Babbar
Rafiq Jafri
Poonam Dhillon
Sushma
Shafi Inamdar
Mohanlal
Nana Patekar
Colonel Mustafa Ali Zahidi
Shreeram Lagoo
Mahamantri
Om Shivpuri
Jagrathan
Saeed Jaffrey
Defense Advocate
Vijay Arora
Thakur Suryabhan Singh
Deepak Parashar
Surender Jagrathan
Sushma Seth
Durga Jagrathan
Ashalata Wabgaonkar
Saraswati
Iftekhar
Ram Kumar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Avam arrived during Rajesh Khanna's commercial decline, making his casting as a fading idealist almost meta-commentary on his own stardom.
B.R. Chopra's films often attacked institutional hypocrisy; this was his direct assault on the Congress party's co-option of freedom movement legacy.
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