''Tyaag'' () is a 1977

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film directed by Din Dayal Sharma. The film stars

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and

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 ...

in lead roles. The film was produced by Sharmila Tagore's secretary, N.S. Kabir, and was co-produced by Sharmila Tagore. Rajesh Khanna's real-life secretary Gurnam Singh played the side kick Bansi to Khanna's character Chetan in this film. The film was critically acclaimed and given four stars by critics upon its release in Bollywood Guide Collections. It was the last film to be released with the music director as

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. This film was not commercially successful at the time of its release. However, over the years this film has gained a cult following in its screening on television.

Plot

The story begins in the Central Jail, where a prisoner is planned to be hanged next day morning and he is very much afraid of dying.His fears are soothed by another inmate named Chetan who tells him that he is not dying but starting a new life elsewhere in a body free from sin. The concept comforts the prisoner and makes him happy. Chetan's 10-year-long sentence for murder is to be ended by an early release for good behavior. The Jailor is curious as to how such an empathetic and honest man like Chetan got to be a murderer, so asks him to explain. And Chetan starts disclosing his past. Chetan is a penniless poet while Sunita is the daughter of a wealthy man. Both are very much in love. Chetan wants to continue writing books and develop his habit of writing stories with Sunita's full support. Sunita fears to talk before her father. Her rich father wouldn't allow any poor guy marry his daughter because when he was a poor man himself, his wife died, for he couldn't afford proper medical service for her. So Sunita's father has throughout his life dedicated on earning more money for a secure future, but all at the cost of his personal disconnection from Sunita. Sunita's father decides to marry her to Gopal, a doctor. Gopal and his mother meet Sunita in her house for the first time and they like her. Her dad decides to announce their engagement at the birthday party. Meanwhile, Sunita urges Chetan to ask her hand from her father on her birthday and invites him to the party. At the party her father is rude to Chetan and then announces engagement to Gopal. Sunita urges Chetan that they should elope and be away from her parents and live in a world of their own. Chetan replies why to elope, when they can go together to her father and tell him they want to marry and that Chetan will take care of Sunita. Sunita agrees to this, but fears that her father may attack or kill Chetan. To this, Chetan replies that it is completely unethical to run away from problems and it would bring dishonour to Sunita and to their love story and society could disapprove it.To this, Sunita declares that Chetan is cowardly and selfish and does not want to share a bit of risk by running away, when she is ready to leave her wealth and family behind. Sunita says she did not think of anything except her love for Chetan. So she angrily tells Chetan that she would now marry Gopal only, just because Chetan has belittled their love. Sunita marries Gopal and they live happily, but one day discloses to her husband that she was in love with a person in her college days. Gopal gets mad at this so starts drinking liquor and goes off to England for years to further his medical studies, abandoning Sunita to bring up their son Munna. Chetan, meanwhile, channels his despair into writing and becomes critically renowned. His greatest novel becomes ''Tyaag''—the story of his romance with Sunita. Five years after Sunita's marriage Gopal decides to return to India as he by now reckons that Sunita is a good mother and a good daughter-in-law and decides to mend their married life. Sunita's child then runs away from home to search his father and boards a train. There, he meets a passenger who turns out to be Chetan. Chetan seeing child's innocence, decides to lodge a police complaint. But the child is very hyperactive, decides to run away from him. Yet Chetan catches him and Munna agrees to go home now, so Chetan takes him home. Sunita gets angry on seeing Chetan. She tries her best to throw him out of her life. The rest of the story deals with dilemmas: Will Chetan avenge his failed love affair with her by destroying her present married life? Will Chetan make use of Gopal's absence to molest her? What will follow on Gopal's return?

Cast

as Chetan *

as Sunita *

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as Mahinder *

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as Sharmila's father *

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as Gopal *

Sulochana Latkar Sulochana Latkar (born Rangu Diwan; 30 July 1928 – 4 June 2023), better known by her screen name Sulochana, was an Indian actress of Marathi and Hindi cinema, who acted in 50 films in Marathi and around 250 films in Hindi. She was most known ...

as Gopal's mother *

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 ...

as Mangal Dada *

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as Police officer *

Raza Murad Raza Murad (born 23 November 1950) is an Indian actor who primarily appears in Hindi films. He has acted in over 250 Hindi films and has also appeared in Bhojpuri, Punjabi and other languages and on Hindi television. Early life He is the so ...

as Jail inmate * Asit Sen *

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as Dancer * Tito Khatri (Master tito) as adolescent Pappu and later big one is Satyajeet Puri

Soundtrack

Anand Bakshi has written all the lyrics, and S. D. Burman has composed all the music. This movie marked the final release featuring S.D. Burman as the music director.

References

External links

* 1977 films Indian drama films Films scored by S. D. Burman 1970s Hindi-language films 1970s Indian films 1977 drama films Hindi-language drama films {{1970s-Hindi-film-stub