''Khwab'' (

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

ख्व़ाब
) is a 1980 Indian

-language

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film directed by

Shakti Samanta Shakti Samanta (13 January 1926 – 9 April 2009) was an Indian film director and producer, who founded Shakti Films in 1957, which is most known for films such as ''Anand Ashram'' (1977), Anusandhan /''Barsaat Ki Ek Raat'' (1981), ''Anyay Abhi ...

, starring

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, film producer, screenwriter, entrepreneur and politician who predominantly works in Hindi cinema, Hindi and Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. In a career spa ...

Ranjeeta Kaur Ranjeeta Kaur (born 22 September 1956) is an Indian actress. She was trained at FTII. She has appeared in around 47 films. She has portrayed a variety of characters and her films include '' Laila Majnu'' (1976), ''Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se'' ...

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and

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. The film was loosely based on the 1951 film A Place in the Sun which itself is based on the 1925 novel ''

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'' by

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Plot

Pratap Kumar Srivastav travels from Shyamnagar to Bombay, and is hired by his father's friend, Ram Prasad. He rents a room in a Chawl in Borivali's 'Asha Manzil' where his friend, Gopal Mathur and his attractive sister, Maya also live. Pratap's main aim is to succeed in life, become rich, and buy a flat in posh Malabar Hills. He succeeds considerably, woos his boss' daughter, Indrani and is soon promoted to the position of Deputy General Manager. On the day of his engagement to Indrani, he goes missing, and subsequently she and her father are notified that he has been arrested and charged with the homicide of a pregnant Maya.

Cast

as Pratap Kumar Shrivastav *

as Indrani Prasad *

as Gopal Mathur *

as Maya (Gopal's sister) * Chaman Puri as Dayal landlord * Tarun Ghosh as Bholaram * Yunus Parvez as Bhulakiram Tripathi * Dinesh Thakur as Comrade Lobo * Birbal as Lala Satyanarayan * Subroto Mahapatra as Bahadur *

Ashok Kumar Ashok Kumar (born Kumudlal Ganguly; 13 October 1911 – 10 December 2001), was an Indian actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema. He is regarded as one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema. He is considered to be the first Super-st ...

as Advocate Joshi *

Madan Puri Madan Puri (30 September 1915 – 13 January 1985) was an Indian actor of Hindi and Punjabi films. His brothers were actors Chaman Puri and Amrish Puri. As a character actor mainly in negative roles (villain), he acted in about 430 films in ...

as Ram Prasad (Indrani's father) *

Sujit Kumar Sujit Kumar (7 February 1934 – 5 February 2010) was an Indian actor and producer. He appeared in over 150 Hindi films in the 1960s through the 1990s, and in at least 20 Bhojpuri films. Sujit played the major lead actor in many films in ...

as Biharilal Khanna * Jagdish Raj as Inspector Shinde * Hari Shivdasani as Judge *

Utpal Dutt Utpal Dutt (; 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little The ...

as Public Prosecutor Dalaal

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External links

* 1980 films 1980s Hindi-language films 1980s Indian films Films directed by Shakti Samanta Films scored by Ravindra Jain {{1980s-Hindi-film-stub