Legal availability
Where to watch
Streaming availability can change. We only link to official platforms.
Credits and facts
Movie details
- Release date
- 14 January 1977
- Runtime
- 155 minutes
- Country
- India
- Languages
- Hindi
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Crime
- Director
- Desh Mukherjee
- Writers
- Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar
- Cast
- Shashi Kapoor as Mohan Kumar Saxena, Sanjeev Kumar as Kabir Das, Amitabh Bachchan as Ahmed Reza, Rekha as Durga, Aparna Sen as Shyamlee, Helen, Prem Chopra
- Producers
- Premji
- Production company
- Suchitra Films Pvt. Ltd.
Spoiler-free synopsis
Ahmed and Mohan are petty crooks who make money as false witnesses around the Bombay courts. After meeting the principled Kabir Das, they try to reform, but honest living proves difficult. When Kabir is arrested for a murder he says he did not commit, the two men set out to uncover the real killer and are drawn into escalating criminal danger.
For families
Editorial guidance
Context for discussing the story and deciding whether it fits your household.
Positive messages
Constructive themes or examples.The film can support discussion about responsibility, consequences, loyalty, empathy and the social values reflected in Indian cinema of its period. Where characters face family or community pressure, viewers can compare harmful choices with more constructive responses. The 1977 production context also offers older children and teenagers an opportunity to discuss how storytelling, gender roles and social expectations have changed over time.
Negative behaviours
Conduct that may need context.Parents should be ready to contextualise crime, physical violence, threats, death and morally troubling behaviour. Some conduct may be treated melodramatically or according to social conventions of the 1970s rather than current expectations. Because detailed scene-by-scene advisory documentation is incomplete for this legacy title, absence of a reported issue should not be treated as proof that every scene is free of mild violence, romance, smoking, alcohol or upsetting material.
Topics to discuss
Conversation starters after viewing.Useful discussion topics include how characters respond to pressure, whether harmful behaviour is challenged or normalised, what consequences follow deception or aggression, and how family and community expectations shape individual choices. Families can also discuss the historical context of a 1977 Indian production and distinguish an editorial age recommendation from an official CBFC certificate, which is preserved unless independently verified.
Final recommendation
Our family-viewing take
Recommended from about age 15 based on the available evidence. This is better suited to teenagers and adults than to children. The strongest concerns are crime, physical violence, threats, death and morally troubling behaviour. Because no exact title-specific CBFC public record was verified during this research pass, this recommendation is editorial guidance only and does not replace an official Indian classification. Shared viewing is preferable when a child is close to the suggested minimum age.
Continue browsing
More Like This
Automatically matched using shared tags, genres, language, family suitability, and release period.
Help improve this guide
Was this movie guide accurate?
One tap is enough. We store privacy-safe hashes for spam prevention and never publish visitor IP addresses.