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1983 in film

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 Hindi-language Indian

Cinema of India

The cinema of India consists of films produced across India, which includes the cinematic culture of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal. Indian films came to be followed throughout South Asia and...

 feature film

Feature film

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 directed

Film director

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 by Sawan Kumar Tak, starring Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna

Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....

, Tina Munim

Tina Munim

Tina Munim is an Indian film actress who had a successful Bollywood career during the late seventies and early eighties. She is married to Anil Ambani. She is involved in a number of philanthropic and charity activities and is currently running an NGO and a hospital.-Early life and...

, Padmini Kolhapure

Padmini Kolhapure

Padmini Kolhapure is an Indian actress who appeared in Bollywood films during the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:Padmini Kolhapure is from a Maharashtrian family. Her father, Pandharinath Kolhapure is a classical singer whose family was from Kolhapur and Goa. Her mother, whose family hailed from...

, Prem Chopra

Prem Chopra

Prem Chopra is an actor in Hindi and Punjabi films. He has acted in over 400 films. He is famous for his soft spoken diction despite being a villain in most films.-Personal life and education:...

 and Pran. The film is a family drama. It was written by Kamleshwar

Kamleshwar

Kamleshwar was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and script and dialogue writer for Hindi cinema and television...

, with music by Usha Khanna

Usha Khanna

Usha Khanna is an Indian music director. Regarded as the first established female music director in the Indian film industry, she remained active for more than 3 decades from 1960s to 1980s. She is still active making some music for some movies and television-serials, more than 40 years after her...

. The song "Shayad Meri Shaadi" became especially memorable.

Plot

Shyam is an ambitious man who meets Rukmini, a millionaire, and falls in love with her. They get married despite strong opposition from Rukmani's family. Now Shyam wants to become a father, but Rukmani is not interested in becoming a mother; the relationship between Shyam and Rukmini worsens. Shyam leaves Rukmini. Radha, daughter of Shyam's employee shows light in Shyam's life. What happens to Rukmini forms the climax of the story.

Cast

• Rajesh Khanna ... Shyam Mohit
• Tina Munim ... Rukmani Mohit (Ruku)
• Padmini Kolhapure ... Radha
• Pran ... Raisaheb Prannath Pasha
• Prem Chopra ... Sampatlal
• Shreeram Lagoo ... Gopal (as Dr. Shreeram Lagoo)
• Shashikala ... Renu Prannath Pasha (as Shashi Kala)
• Paresh Rawal ... Mr. Jain
• Vijay Arora ... Vijay
• Satyendra Kapoor (as Satyen Kapoo)
• Roopesh Kumar ... Bingo (Photographer)
• Yunus Parvez ... Defending Lawyer

Nominations

• Filmfare
  Filmfare
  Filmfare is an English-language tabloid-sized magazine about Indian cinema. Published by The Times Group, India's largest media services conglomerate, in Mumbai , it highlights the doings of the Bollywood film scene...
  
   Nomination for Best Supporting Actress--Padmini Kolhapure
  Padmini Kolhapure
  Padmini Kolhapure is an Indian actress who appeared in Bollywood films during the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:Padmini Kolhapure is from a Maharashtrian family. Her father, Pandharinath Kolhapure is a classical singer whose family was from Kolhapur and Goa. Her mother, whose family hailed from...
  
  
• Filmfare
  Filmfare
  Filmfare is an English-language tabloid-sized magazine about Indian cinema. Published by The Times Group, India's largest media services conglomerate, in Mumbai , it highlights the doings of the Bollywood film scene...
  
   Nomination for Best Music--Usha Khanna
  Usha Khanna
  Usha Khanna is an Indian music director. Regarded as the first established female music director in the Indian film industry, she remained active for more than 3 decades from 1960s to 1980s. She is still active making some music for some movies and television-serials, more than 40 years after her...
  
  
• Filmfare
  Filmfare
  Filmfare is an English-language tabloid-sized magazine about Indian cinema. Published by The Times Group, India's largest media services conglomerate, in Mumbai , it highlights the doings of the Bollywood film scene...
  
   Nomination for Best Lyricist--Sawan Kumar for the song "Zindagi Pyar Ka Geet Hai"
• Filmfare
  Filmfare
  Filmfare is an English-language tabloid-sized magazine about Indian cinema. Published by The Times Group, India's largest media services conglomerate, in Mumbai , it highlights the doings of the Bollywood film scene...
  
   Nomination for Best Lyricist--Sawan Kumar for the song "Shayad Meri Shaadi"
• Filmfare
  Filmfare
  Filmfare is an English-language tabloid-sized magazine about Indian cinema. Published by The Times Group, India's largest media services conglomerate, in Mumbai , it highlights the doings of the Bollywood film scene...
  
   Nomination for Best Male Playback Singer--Kishore Kumar
  Kishore Kumar
  Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...
  
  for the song "Shayad Meri Shaadi"

Snippets

This movie is based very much on Howard Fast's "The Immigrants", Indianizing all characters of course