Inquilaab

About the film

Inquilaab (transl. Revolution) is a 1984 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi in lead roles, with Utpal Dutt, Kader Khan, Ranjeet, Shakti Kapoor and others in supporting roles. Nirupa Roy also appears as the mother of Amitabh Bachchan's character in one scene. The movie was produced by N. Veeraswamy and V. Ravichandran, and the music was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. It is a remake of 1983 Kannada film Chakravyuha (1983), which was also produced by V. Ravichandran.

Plot

Amarnath aka Amar is an educated-young man, who has not received any qualified job as all positions force him to compromise his morals. A new politician, Shankar Narayan promises an end to corruption, but he is disrespected by the crowd and stoned. Amar rescues him. This impresses Shankar, who then trains Amar to be a cop. Amar completes his IPS exam and is posted as an ACP. He serves the state honestly in this role. Amar meets Asha, who is the only daughter of a wealthy businessman, Seetharam. The two fall for each other and after some convincing by Amar Seetharam accepts the relationship.

Amar discovers a criminal network that includes Shankar as well as Seetharam. He goes on to discover, much to his chagrin, that he has been manipulated into serving this criminal syndicate - that he has been made a pawn in their criminal schemes.

Amar is blackmailed into collaborating with them when they show him a photograph of Seetharam's partner receiving a briefcase from him (Amar) - the implication being that it is a bribe.

Reception

Despite completing a silver jubilee, the film was considered to only be an average hit.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, while the lyrics were by Anand Bakshi. The film contains 5 songs, all sung by Kishore Kumar (including 2 duets with Asha Bhosle).

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