Himmatwala (1983)

A poor and wronged woman's son returns from the big city to avenge his father, a honest school teacher.

Director:

K. Raghavendra Rao

Writers:

Kader Khan (dialogue), K. Raghavendra Rao (screenplay)

Stars:

Shoma Anand, Asrani, Arun Govil

Cast

Credited cast:
Shoma Anand	...	Champa
Asrani	...	Bhushan
Arun Govil	...	Govind
Jeetendra	...	Ravi D. Murti
Satyendra Kapoor	...	Dharam Murti (Ravi's father)
Shakti Kapoor	...	Shakti N. Gopaldas
Amjad Khan	...	Sher Singh Bandookwala
Kader Khan	...	Narayandas Gopaldas (Munimji)
Sulochana Latkar	...	Govind's Grandmother
Waheeda Rehman	...	Savitri
Swaroop Sampat	...	Padma (Ravi's sister)
Sridevi	...	Rekha S. Bandookwala

Storyline

Dharam Murti is a much respected school master in Shaktinagar in India, where he lives with his young son, Ravi, daughter, Padma, and wife, Savitri. One day he witnesses a man being being killed at the hands of Sher Singh Bandookwala, the Zamindar. He reports this matter to the police and Sher is arrested and prosecuted. Sher uses all his financial might to convince the courts of his innocence, and is set free. Then a few days later, Dharam is found in a compromising position with a new lady school-teacher, Menaka, is summoned by the local Panchayat, and asked to leave Shaktinagar for 30 days. Dharam leaves and does not return, leaving his wife and children alone and destitute. Savitri toils hard to provide education for Ravi, and for this she scarifies everything she has owned, and sends Ravi to her brother's place. Years later, Ravi is now an Engineer and returns home to Shaktinagar, is appalled to learn of his mom's and sister's destitute condition and vows to avenge this ...

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Plot Keywords:

remake

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Genres:

Drama | Action | Comedy | Family

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Details

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

25 February 1983 (India)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Padmalaya Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

179 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sridevi's voice was dubbed.

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Connections

Remake of Ooriki Monagadu (1981)

User Reviews

Worth watching

Great Pair of Sridevi and Jeetu. Has everything that a masala movie should have and also its remake of a Tamil film. It's movie about an Ramu who is raised throw hardships by his mother and he returns to village as a engineer. Jeetendra is playing the character of engineer babu, Ravi, and Waheeda is playing the role of his mother. Sridevi playing the Rekha daughter a Sher Singh played by Amjad Khan. This movies great to watch and contains lots of comedy and wonderful music. The Naino Main Sapna , Sapno main sajna, sajna pe dil aagya, is from this film. The music is foot taping and dances are great. One more thing this is the movie of Sridevi's early years in Hindi movies and the voice dobbed on her is not her voice but dances are just super. Her character is small character but as a leading lady opposite Jeetu whom she worked with in many great films, but also as a kid she played his sister in 73. Jeetu at his best dances but his acting good sometime you hear him that he lecturing somebody or in college. Maybe his acting in dialog delivery had same always but i think its seems little weird. Amjad Khan is at his best and Kader Khan is giving the best performance I ever seen. Shoma looks great in village gal. Arun Govl is mute and he is giving great performance. Asarni gives average performance but great direction of the director. Lovely locations, and its worth watching. The locations are similar in other Padmalya films also but lovely locations and great art direction set coordination. It's great film that a family can enjoy. Beautiful costumes, and great cinematography. To find what the movie is about everyone should see it.