Lahu Ke Do Rang

About the film

Lahu Ke Do Rang (transl. The two colours of blood) is a 1979 Hindi movie directed by Mahesh Bhatt. This was his first movie as director. The film stars Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Danny Denzongpa, Helen, Ranjeet. The music and lyrics for the film are by Bappi Lahiri and Farooq Qaiser respectively.

The story, screenplay and dialogues of the film are written by Suraj Sanim. The film was shot in Hong Kong and India. The film was rated a "hit" at the box office.

Plot

Shamsher Singh (Vinod Khanna) is part of the Indian army led by Subhas Chandra Bose to fight the British out of India. When the British pursues him in Hong Kong, he is rescued by Suzy (Helen). Suzy falls in love with him and soon becomes pregnant with his baby. But she lets Shamsher go back to India as he is on a greater mission, after extracting a promise to return.

Back in India, Shamsher is already married to Ladjo (played by Indrani Mukherjee) and they have a son Raj. Shamsher's friends Shankar (Ranjeet) and Mac (Mac Mohan) betray him in connection with a consignment of gold and kill him. But Mac hides the looted gold before he is jailed.

Years later Shamsher's son Raj Singh (Vinod Khanna in double role) joins the police force and is interested in finding the murderers of his father. Mac, who finishes his jail time, is released and is hunted by Shankar (who has changed his name to Devi Dayal) for the looted gold. Mac reveals that the gold is buried in a car that is at the bottom of a deep lake. To fetch the gold, they hire an excellent diver Suraj (Danny Denzongpa). Suraj is the son of Shamsher and Suzy and is angry about how his mother was betrayed by Shamsher who never returned to fetch them back to India as promised.

Music

Composed by Bappi Lahiri, the songs are penned by Faruk Kaiser. Anil Mohile & Arun Paudwal assisted Bappi Lahiri in this movie.

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