''Jeevan Ek Sanghursh'' () is a 1990

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film directed by

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, produced by D. Rama Naidu. It stars

Raakhee Raakhee Gulzar ( Majumdar) (; born 15 August 1947), professionally known as Raakhee, is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi and Bengali films. One of the leading and most popular actresses of the 1970s and early 1980s, Raakhee is a ...

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and

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in the leading roles. The film was successful and was the tenth highest grossing Bollywood film of 1990. By titling this film as ''Jeevan Ek Sanghursh'', Rawail paid a tribute to his father's ( H. S. Rawail) films; ''

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'' (1968), based on a novel written by the Bengali author

Mahashweta Devi Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016)
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) has three children: two sons, Arjun ( Kanwaljit Singh) and Karan, and a daughter, Suman (Shehnaz Kudia). They live in a rented house, and the landlord behaves badly with Sulakshana Devi and robs all her money. Karan decides to rob the landlord but gets caught and is sent to the children's remand home. Sulakshana Devi decides to visit Karan before they leave for

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but realises that he ran away from the remand home. Karan also makes his way to Mumbai, where he is picked up by a garage owner. During a roadside fight, grown-up Karan (

) is caught by the police and is offered to work for Devraj Kamat (

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), a criminal mastermind. Karan refuses the offer, but Kamat informs his rival Rattan Dholakia (

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). Rattan frames Karan for the murder of a police officer but is freed by Kamat when he agrees to work with him. Karan tries to meet his family through Arjun ( Kanwaljit Singh) and Suman (Shehnaz Kudia), but Sulakshana Devi refuses to accept him. Various incidents lead Karan to meet and fall in love with Madhu (

), and he decides to leave the underworld. However, Kamat and Dholakia join hands to destroy Karan, as he was a critical part of their underworld operations.

Cast

as Sulakshana Devi *

as Karan Kumar *

as Madhu Sen *

as Devraj Kamat *

as Rattan Dholakia *

Moon Moon Sen Moon Moon Sen, also credited as Moonmoon Sen (born Srimati Sen; 28 March 1954), is an Indian actress, known for her works in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Marathi films. She eventually starred in Bollywood films. S ...

as Shivani *

Pankaj Dheer Pankaj Dheer is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films and TV series. He is known for his role of Karna in TV series ''Mahabharat'' and other roles in '' Chandrakanta'', ''The Great Maratha'', '' Yug'' and '' Badho Bahu''. He appeared in se ...

as Mahesh Dholakia * Kanwaljit Singh as Arjun Kumar * Shehnaz Kudia as Suman * Abhinav Chaturvedi as Vinod *

Chandrashekhar Dubey Chandrashekhar Dubey (4 September 1924 – 28 September 1993) commonly referred to as C. S. Dubey was an Indian actor and radio personality. He was born in Kannod and appeared in over 150 Hindi films as a character actor starting in 1950s, wi ...

as Roop Chand *

Mangal Dhillon Mangal Singh Dhillon (18 June 1957 – 11 June 2023) was an Indian actor, writer, director and film producer. He was born in Wander Jatana near Kotkapura in Faridkot district, Punjab. Early life Mangal Dhillon was born in a Sikh family in t ...

as Police Inspector Gill

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* {{Rahul Rawail 1990s Hindi-language films 1990 films Films scored by Laxmikant–Pyarelal Films directed by Rahul Rawail Suresh Productions films