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''Taxi Chor'' () is a 1980
Hindi-language Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the Government of India, alongside English, and is the ''lin ...
Indian
action film The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work. The specifics of what constitutes an action film has been in scholarly debate since the 1980s. While some scholars such as D ...
directed by Sushil Vyas, 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 ...
(in double role),
Zarina Wahab Zarina Wahab is an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Hindi and Malayalam films. Known for critically acclaimed roles in ''Chitchor'' and '' Gopal Krishna'' in Hindi and Malayalam cinema with films like '' Madanolsavam'', '' Chamaram' ...
,
Bharat Bhushan Bharatbhushan Gupta, better known as Bharat Bhushan (14 June 1920 – 27 January 1992) was an Indian actor in Hindi language films, scriptwriter and producer. He was born in Meerut, and brought up in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Career 1941– ...
and
Jagdeep Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffrey (19 March 1939 – 8 July 2020), better known by his stage name Jagdeep, was an Indian actor and comedian who appeared in more than 400 films. He played Soorma Bhopali in ''Sholay'' (1975), Machchar in '' Purana Mandi ...
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Plot

A mother gives birth to their twins children named as Rajesh and Ritesh and also a girl who was younger sister of them. Shamsher Singh is wanted smuggler who gets arrested by the twins father. And when he is released he want to take revenge on him and one day when he was going in car he and his gang attacks on him and he kills him on off and both the twin children are separated and their sister is being killed one goes to city and becomes a singer and another one becomes a wanted thief. Rajesh is a crook. But one day Ritesh is rescued from the jail and he for she goes to find the truth why he was arrested and learns that it was because of his lookalike thief. And one day Rakesh's mother comes doubt on him. And he give give influence to Rakesh for doing all this works. When Rakesh was going to his daily work his mother follows him and he goes to grave and when he finds doing all those things he is shocked and fell down by dizziness by seeing all those things from his son. After that he removes a big pit and tries to cheer her when she is alive before that Ritesh stops him and they both start fighting when Rajesh mother's getups she sees both of them fighting and she also discovers that Ritesh is her son and stops both of them. She tells them what happened when they were children and the brothers kill Anthony and his gang. Before Anthony dies he shoots Rakesh and the police comes and arrest the gangsters. Rakesh falls into his mother's hand, tells Ritesh that take care of his mother and dies.


Cast

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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 ...
as Rajesh a.k.a. Rakesh / Ritesh (double role) *
Zarina Wahab Zarina Wahab is an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Hindi and Malayalam films. Known for critically acclaimed roles in ''Chitchor'' and '' Gopal Krishna'' in Hindi and Malayalam cinema with films like '' Madanolsavam'', '' Chamaram' ...
as Ruby (Ritesh's girlfriend) *
Raj Mehra Raj Mehra (born 20 May 1913 – 10 April 1993) was an Indian character artist and film actor in Hindi language films, especially known for his role as a father of leading actors. During his career, he worked in over 300 Hindi films. Some of hi ...
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Abhi Bhattacharya Abhi Bhattacharya (20 November 1921 – 11 August 1993) was an Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema, who is most remembered for his roles in films of the 1950s and the 1960s, such as '' Yatrik'' (1952), ''Jagriti'' (1954), '' Anuradha'' (1 ...
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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 Shamsher Singh / Anthony *
Keshto Mukherjee Keshto Mukherjee (7 August 1925 – 3 March 1982) was an Indian actor and comedian. He was born in Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India. He specialised in comic drunkard roles in Hindi films. Though he was famous for his drunkard typecast ...
as Robert *
Jagdeep Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffrey (19 March 1939 – 8 July 2020), better known by his stage name Jagdeep, was an Indian actor and comedian who appeared in more than 400 films. He played Soorma Bhopali in ''Sholay'' (1975), Machchar in '' Purana Mandi ...
as Jaggu *
Bharat Bhushan Bharatbhushan Gupta, better known as Bharat Bhushan (14 June 1920 – 27 January 1992) was an Indian actor in Hindi language films, scriptwriter and producer. He was born in Meerut, and brought up in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Career 1941– ...
*
Mukri Mohammed Umar Mukri (5 January 1922 – 4 September 2000), popularly known as Mukri, was an Indian actor, who worked as a comedian in Hindi films. Born as Muhammad Umar Mukri in Uran. He started his film career with the film ''Pratima'' along ...


Soundtrack

To this movie all musics were composed by
Bappi Lahiri Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da, was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and ...
with lyrics by Anjaan.The song "Naa jaane Ek Nigah Nigah Mein" from Gundaraj was inspired from the film Taxi Chor's song " Vada Hain Kya. The song "Vaada Hain Kya" was partly sampled from Santa Esmeralda song "Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood".


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* 1980 films 1980s Hindi-language films Films scored by Bappi Lahiri {{1980s-Hindi-film-stub