''Aakhri Daao'' () is a 1975 Indian

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-language

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

, directed by A. Salaam, written by

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, and produced by M.M. Malhotra Kala Bharathi. It stars

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in lead roles, with

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in supporting roles and music composed by

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. The film is based on

Bhagwati Charan Verma Bhagwati Charan Verma (30 August 1903 – 5 October 1981) was a Hindi author. He wrote many novels, his best work was '' Chitralekha'' (1934), which was made into two successful Hindi films in 1941 and 1964 respectively. He was awarded Sa ...

's 1950 novel of the same name.

Plot

Ravi is professional

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. In one of heists, the owner of the safe is murdered by the cunning duo of Sawan and Julie. Ravi becomes implicated in the murder despite being innocent. He decides to abscond and lands in a remote estate owned by a rich man. He becomes the estate's manager. Reena, the daughter of the estate owner, grows to respect Ravi and eventually they fall in love. Sawan and Julie also arrive at the estate and soon they try to blackmail Ravi into burgling the safe of his employer. They succeed in scaring him into submission and he agrees to pull this one final heist for them. Meanwhile, Reena finds out the truth and lashes out at him for his duplicity. She eventually understands that Ravi is not a bad person at heart. Sawan, sensing Ravi's reluctance, decides to coerce him into cracking the safe by threatening to harm Reena. He eventually betrays his accomplice Julie who confesses to their misdeeds to the police as she lies mortally wounded. Ravi gives chase to Sawan. He manages to subdue him and recover what they had stolen from the estate's safe. Ravi is acquitted of all previous charges and marries Reena.

Cast

as Ravi *

as Reena *

as Sawan *

as Julie *

as Dilawar Singh *

Ramesh Deo Ramesh Deo (30 January 1929 – 2 February 2022) was an Indian film actor who worked in more than 285 Hindi films, 190 Marathi films and 30 Marathi dramas with over 200 showings in his long career. He also produced feature films, television s ...

as Inspector Verma *

Iftekhar Iftekhar Ahmed Sharif (22 February 1920 – 4 March 1995), often mononymously credited as Iftekhar or Iftikhar, was an Indian actor who mainly worked in Hindi cinema. He is known for his film roles as a police officer. Career Iftekhar wa ...

as Inspector Khurana *

Satyen Kappu Satyendra Kappu (born Satyendra Sharma; also credited as Satyen Kappu; 7 February 1931 – 27 October 2007), was an Indian character actor in Bollywood films. He has acted in 390 films. His most remembered role is Ramlal in the movie ''Sholay'' ...

as Reena's father *

Mohan Choti Mohan Choti (1935 – 1 February 1992) was an Indian actor who worked as a comedian in Hindi films. The name Mohan Choti came from a fictional character of the same name from the 1957 film '' Musafir'', in which he plays a tea shop delivery boy ...

as Tannu

Soundtrack

References

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* 1975 films 1970s Hindi-language films 1970s Indian films 1975 romantic drama films 1975 crime drama films Films scored by Laxmikant–Pyarelal Films with screenplays by Salim–Javed Indian romantic drama films Indian crime drama films Hindi-language crime films {{1970s-crime-drama-film-stub