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1980 Indian film
Khwab
Poster
Directed byShakti Samanta
Produced byShakti Samanta
StarringMithun Chakraborty
Ranjeeta Kaur
Naseeruddin Shah
Yogeeta Bali
Music byRavindra Jain
Production
company
Shakti Films
Release date
  • 22 February 1980 (1980-02-22)
Running time115 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

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 travels from Shyamnagar to Bombay, and is hired by his father's friend, Ram Prasad. He rents a room in a Chawl in Borivali's 'Asha Manzil' where his friend, Gopal Mathur and his attractive sister, Maya 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 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

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