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Director:
Narendra Bedi
Writers:
Narendra Bedi (screenplay)
Narendra Bedi (written by)
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Release Date:
18 October 1974 (India) more
Genre:
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Plot:
While driving to a party Amit Srivastav (Amitabh Bachchan) and his wife Sheela (Moushumi Chatterjee) watch a man getting stabbed... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Hitchcock desi style more (1 total)

Cast

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Amitabh Bachchan ... Amit Srivastav
Moushumi Chatterjee ... Sheela Srivastav
Satyendra Kapoor ... Inspector Jadhav (as Satyen Kapoo)
Madan Puri ... Gopal
Iftekhar ... Police Commissioner (as Iftikar)
Dhumal ... Police Constable Havaldar
Shubha Khote ... Chachi (as Shobha Khote)
Jagdish Raj ... Mr. Desai
D.K. Sapru ... Mr. Sharma (as Sapru)
Rajpal ... Tony - Amit's college (as Rajpaul)
Viju Khote ... Salim

Sharat Saxena ... Amit's college (as Sharad Saxena)
Deepak
Chandu
Mansaram ... Pandit-hiromant (as Mansa Ram)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Nameless
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Country:
India
Language:
Hindi
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Filmalaya Studio, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India more
Company:
Ranjit Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In this film Amitabh Bachchan uses his real family name which is Amit Shrivastav. Bachchan incidentally was adopted by his poet father Harivansh Rai as his pen name through publication. more

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Hitchcock desi style, 17 June 2009
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Author: sharankandhai from Netherlands

This is an actual remake of an Alfred Hitchcock classic THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH which starred Peter Lorre and was remade by Hitchcock himself with the same title. Amitabh Bachchan in the role of James Stewart and Moushumi Chtterjee in the Doris Day role. Ironically the Hindi remake has no noteworthy songs though the remake Hirchcock made has the memorable QUE SERA SERA by Day. The other attempt by Bollywood to remake a classic Hitchcock (AETBAAR which was based on DIAL M 4 MURDER) was much better. But this movie is worth seeing. AETBAAR starred Raj babbar, Dimple Kapadia, Danny Denzongpa amongst others and was produces by Romesh Sharma who later made HUM. The movie was the first directorial effort of the late Mukul Anand who would later make Mahasangram, Hum, Agneepath, Khuda Gawah, Dus and many more movies. This movie is not amongst Bachchans best movies ever but thats not Bachchans fault. He is good as always, the script could have been tighter

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