Benaam (1974)

After helping a stabbing victim to the hospital, a man begins to receive anonymous threats. The only way to save his wife and child is to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity.

Director:

Narendra Bedi

Writers:

Narendra Bedi (screenplay), Narendra Bedi,

Stars:

Amitabh Bachchan, Moushumi Chatterjee, Satyendra Kapoor

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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)

Storyline

While driving to a party Amit Srivastav (Amitabh Bachchan) and his wife Sheela (Moushumi Chatterjee) watch a man getting stabbed. Amit stops to help the man, and even takes him to a nearby hospital. The man is Mr. Verma, a reporter, about to expose an influential and wealthy person. A few days later, Amit starts to receive telephone calls from a man, warning them, and asking them for information Mr. Verma had with him. Amit does not know about this information, and decides to keep it to himself. Strange incidents strange troubling the couple, And then Amit and Sheela's son, Rajoo (Master Bunty) disappears. No one has any clue to where Rajoo is.

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

18 October 1974 (India)

Also Known As:

The Nameless

Filming Locations:

Filmalaya Studio, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ranjit Films

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

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.

User Reviews

Hitchcock desi style

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