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Family drama
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film starring
Bollywood
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actors
Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor (pronounced �əʃi kəpuːɾ born Balbir Raj Kapoor; 18 March 1938 – 4 December 2017) was an Indian actor and producer known primarily for his work in Hindi films. He is considered as one of the greatest and most successful acto ...
,
Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore (; born 8 December 1944) also known by her married name Begum Ayesha Sultana, is an Indian actress primarily known for her work in Hindi cinema, Hindi and Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali films. Widely recognized as one of the gre ...
,
Tanuja
Tanuja Mukherjee (née Samarth), known mononymously as Tanuja, (born 23 September 1943) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in the Hindi film industry. Part of the Mukherjee-Samarth family, she is the daughter of actress Shobhna Sam ...
,
Meenakshi Sheshadri
Meenakshi Seshadri Mysore (; née Seshadri; born 16 November 1963) as Shashikala Seshadri, is an Indian former actress and beauty pageant titleholder who worked primarily in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. Seshadri established herself as one ...
in the lead roles.
Plot
Savitri lives a wealthy lifestyle with her businessman husband and daughter, Meenu. She gets pregnant a second time and gives birth to a son, Ketan, but dies. Her husband, unable to handle business and two children at the same time, remarries a woman named Laxmi. Laxmi, unaware of her brother Raghunandan's evil plans, ill-treats her stepchildren, causing them to run away. However, her life changes forever when Raghunandan swindles all their money and kicks Laxmi and her family out of the house.
Cast
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Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor (pronounced �əʃi kəpuːɾ born Balbir Raj Kapoor; 18 March 1938 – 4 December 2017) was an Indian actor and producer known primarily for his work in Hindi films. He is considered as one of the greatest and most successful acto ...
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Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore (; born 8 December 1944) also known by her married name Begum Ayesha Sultana, is an Indian actress primarily known for her work in Hindi cinema, Hindi and Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali films. Widely recognized as one of the gre ...
as Savitri
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Meenakshi Sheshadri
Meenakshi Seshadri Mysore (; née Seshadri; born 16 November 1963) as Shashikala Seshadri, is an Indian former actress and beauty pageant titleholder who worked primarily in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil films. Seshadri established herself as one ...
as Meenu/Asha
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Sachin as Ketan
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Tanuja
Tanuja Mukherjee (née Samarth), known mononymously as Tanuja, (born 23 September 1943) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in the Hindi film industry. Part of the Mukherjee-Samarth family, she is the daughter of actress Shobhna Sam ...
as Laxmi
* Karan Shah as Meenu's love interest
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Pran
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as Ramu
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Kader Khan
Kader Khan (22 October 1937 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and film producer. As an actor, he appeared in over 300 Bollywood films after his debut in the 1973 film '' Daag'', starring Rajesh Khanna, as a prosecuting l ...
as Shiv Prasad
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Ashok Saraf
Ashok Saraf (born 4 June 1947) is an Indian actor and comedian, known for his work in Marathi and Hindi films along with theatre in both languages. Saraf has received several awards including eleven Maharashtra State Film Awards and four Filmfar ...
as Shankar Prasad
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Jayshree T.
Jayshree Talpade is an Indian actress and dancer who predominantly works in Hindi film productions and a few television productions.
Career
Talpade began her career with '' Goonj Uthi Shehnai''. She gained popularity when she started performin ...
as Shanta
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Nilu Phule
Nilu Phule (Marathi pronunciation: iɭuː pʰuleː 4 April 1930 – 13 July 2009) was an Indian actor known for his roles in Marathi movies and Marathi theatre. Nilu Phule acted in around 250 Marathi and Hindi movies during his film career. ...
as Raghunandan
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Manmohan Krishna
Manmohan Krishna (26 February 1922 – 3 November 1990) was an Indian film actor and director, who worked in Hindi films for four decades, mostly as a character actor. He started his career as a professor in Physics and held master's degree i ...
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Shubha Khote
Shubha Balsavar (''née'' Khote) is an Indian film and television actress who has worked in several Hindi-language and a few Marathi- Bhojpuri- films. She is also a former women's national champion in swimming and cycling.
Early life and educa ...
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C. S. Dubey
Soundtrack
Anjaan write the lyrics.
References
External links
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1987 films
1980s Hindi-language films
1980s Indian films
Films scored by Anand–Milind
Films directed by Kalpataru
Films about courtesans in India
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