Khwab

1980 Indian film

22 February 1980 (1980-02-22)

Running time

115 min.CountryIndiaLanguageHindi

Khwab (Hindi: ख्व़ाब, transl. Dream) is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Shakti Samanta, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Ranjeeta Kaur, Naseeruddin Shah and Yogeeta Bali .

The film was loosely based on the 1951 film A Place in the Sun which itself is based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser.

Plot

Pratap Kumar Srivastav (Mithun Chakraborty) travels from Shyamnagar to Bombay, and is hired by his father's friend, Ram Prasad (Madan Puri). He rents a room in a Chawl in Borivali's 'Asha Manzil' where his friend, Gopal Mathur (Naseeruddin Shah) and his attractive sister, Maya (Yogeeta Bali) also live. Pratap's main aim is to succeed in life, become rich, and buy a flat in posh Malabar Hills. He succeeds considerably, woos his boss' daughter, Indrani (Ranjeeta) and is soon promoted to the position of Deputy General Manager. On the day of his engagement to Indrani, he goes missing, and subsequently she and her father are notified that he has been arrested and charged with the homicide of a pregnant Maya.

Cast

Mithun Chakraborty as Pratap Kumar Shrivastav
Ranjeeta Kaur as Indrani Prasad
Naseeruddin Shah as Gopal Mathur
Yogeeta Bali as Maya (Gopal's sister)
Chaman Puri as Dayal landlord
Tarun Ghosh as Bholaram
Yunus Parvez as Bhulakiram Tripathi
Dinesh Thakur as Comrade Lobo
Birbal as Lala Satyanarayan
Subroto Mahapatra as Bahadur
Ashok Kumar as Advocate Joshi
Madan Puri as Ram Prasad (Indrani's father)
Sujit Kumar as Biharilal Khanna
Jagdish Raj as Inspector Shinde
Hari Shivdasani as Judge
Utpal Dutt as Public Prosecutor Dalaal

Soundtrack

Song	Singer
"Tu Hi Woh Haseen Hai"	Mohammed Rafi
"Banjara Main Nahin Magar"	K. J. Yesudas
"Hum Khwab Ko Badal Denge"	K. J. Yesudas, Hemlata
"Ek Aas Liye, Vishwaas Liye"	Suresh Wadkar, Hemlata, Jaspal Singh