Khoon Pasina (1977)

Ram alias Tiger is the local criminal don in his part of the town where he lives with his mother. His mother wants him to marry and settle down, and give up his criminal activities. Ram ... See full summary »

Director:

Rakesh Kumar

Writers:

Kader Khan (dialogue), Rakesh Kumar (story),

Stars:

Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Rekha

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Amitabh Bachchan	...	Shiva / Tiger
Vinod Khanna	...	Aslam Sher Khan / Shera
Rekha	...	Chanda
Nirupa Roy	...	Aslam's Mother
Helen	...	Dancer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ajay
Vikas Anand
Asrani	...	Mohan Sharma
Bhola
Bharat Bhushan	...	(as Bharat Bhooshan)
Dayanand	...	(as Daya Nand)
Firoze
Master Gopal
V. Gopal
Aruna Irani	...	Shantimohan Sharma / Shanti Devi (Shanno)

Storyline

Ram alias Tiger is the local criminal don in his part of the town where he lives with his mother. His mother wants him to marry and settle down, and give up his criminal activities. Ram meets with Rekha and both are attracted to each other, and soon get married. Rekha is appalled at the way Ram leads his life, with everyone around petrified of him. She asks Ram to give up his criminal activities, and get a job. Ram agrees, but the question is will he keep to his promise or will he just pretend to be honest in front of Rekha. And on the other hand is Shera, a dacait with a good heart. Both Ram and Shera are rivals. When Shera hears of Ram attemtping to go straight, he decides to move in on Ram's territory, with results that will change their lives forever.

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Genres:

Family | Drama

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

21 January 1977 (India)

Also Known As:

Blood Sweat

Filming Locations:

Kashmir, India

Company Credits

Production Co:

Prakash Mehra Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

210 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Main teri ho gayi to mera ho gaya"
Lyrics by Anjaan
Music by Kalyanji Veerji Shah and Anandji Veerji Shah
Performed by Lata Mangeshkar
Records on Polydor

User Reviews

Plenty to see and think about

On one level, Khoon Pasina is an action-packed revenge saga with knockabout violence, some shoddy production values and (in the case of the abbreviated DVD) a rather incoherent narrative. It is also a fashion House of Horrors. Flared trousers of truly epic proportions are paired with some of the most ghastly clothes ever created. Even at a distance of 30 years and a continent or two, it's hard not to cringe at Vinod Khanna's wet-look leather two piece with leopard skin trim.

On another level, the film is alive with contradictions :

· the opening voice-over expresses patriotic sentiment - but this is a state that completely fails to protect its citizens from the deprivations of criminals; · a schoolteacher tells his pupils they are to become the lawyers, doctors, farmers etc. of the future. But the film's heroes are men who talk with their fists, lack any kind of regular employment and dispense vigilante justice with impunity; · we are led to admire the courage of those villagers who face down an armed thug but when one of the heroes lets a tiger out of its cage in the middle of a crowd (to impress a girl) we are supposed to view it as just jolly good fun; · loving ones mother is one thing - but trying to beat up your wife is not an acceptable way of proving it; · we are invited to deplore contractors who exploit their workers but when one of the heroes destroys a farm in pursuit of a criminal gang, there is no suggestion that he ought to apologise or compensate the owners.

On the acting front, the less said the better. Stacey Keach lookalike, Vinod Khanna, considers himself to be dead since losing his boyhood friend. His acting accords strongly with his self-perception - except during the action sequences which are wildly implausible.

You watch Amitabh Bachchan with morbid fascination. It's not the acting, it's those appalling clothes. Rekha cannot help but look gorgeous but has too little to do. Mercifully, by wearing traditional clothes, she is spared the worst sartorial excesses of her co-stars.

Despite all the above, I still found Khoon Pasina fun to watch and the moment when the two protagonists discover each other's true identity is a classic (albeit of a familiar kind).