Ram Balram

About the film

Ram Balram is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Vijay Anand. The film stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Rekha, Helen, Ajit Khan, Amjad Khan and Prem Chopra.

Plot

Ram and Balram are two young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however, kills the boys' parents. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents have been killed in an accident and promises to raise them himself.

He forces the older brother Ram to become a thief (Ram also works as a mechanic to conceal his thefts). He enrolls the younger brother Balram in school and eventually sends him off to join the police force. Jagatpal has a tight hold on the boys, even when Ram is an adult, he still gives all his wages to his uncle and is only allowed to keep a few rupees for pocket money.

When Balram returns as a fully fledged police officer, Jagatpal finally reveals his plan. He is going to use Ram to target the biggest smugglers in India. Now that Balram is a police officer, he will protect his brother from getting arrested. Ram and Balram have reservations, but Jagatpal threatens to beat them just as he did when they were boys; he has a needle at the edge of his cane and whenever the boys would do something Jagatpal dislikes, he would put the pointy and dangerous needle on the boys' neck.

Soundtrack

Music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Lyrics penned by Anand Bakshi. Mohammed Rafi playbacked for Dharmendra, Kishore Kumar playbacked for Amitabh Bachchan, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle sang for Zeenat Aman, and Asha Bhosle sang for Rekha.

Box office

Lifetime collection of Ram Balram was ₹ 4.7 crore.

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