, 2h10 GenresDrame ThèmesMythologie, Religion ActeursKanan Kaushal, Bharat Bhushan, Anita Guha, Mahipal Singh, Leela Mishra Note63% The film opens in Dev Lok or "the world of the gods," a Hindu heaven located above the clouds, where we witness the "birth" of Santoshi Ma as the daughter of Ganesha, the elephant headed god of good beginnings, and his two wives Riddhi and Siddhi ("prosperity" and "success"). A key role is played by the immortal sage Narada, a devotee of Vishnu, and a cosmic busybody who regularly intervenes to advance the film's two parallel plots, which concern both human beings and gods. We soon meet the maiden Satyavati (Kanan Kaushal), Santoshi Ma's greatest earthly devotee, leading a group of women in an aarti (song and ceremony of worship) to the goddess. This first song, "Main To Arti Utaru", "I perform Mother Santoshi's arti," exemplifies through its camerawork the experience of darshan —of "seeing" and being seen by a deity in the reciprocal act of "visual communion" that is central to Hindu worship.
GenresDrame, Policier, Romance ActeursSaira Banu, Jeetendra, Danny Denzongpa, Mohan Choti, Iftekhar, Satyen Kappu Note56% Safecracker criminal Ravi (Jeetendra) ends his life of crime for an honest living, and joins a carptenters, owned by (Satyen Kappu), and his daughter, Reena (Saira Banu). When Ravi heroically saves the daughter of the local police chief by opening a safe, who gains great respect in the community and attracts the attentions romantically from Reena, and they fall in love. Living honestly and respectablely, one day however he is visited by his former partner in crime Robert (Danny Denzongpa) and his girlfriend, Julie (Padma Khanna) and is tempted back into his former life of crime.
ActeursAmitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Pran Krishan Sikand, Mac Mohan, Ramesh Deo, Sulochana Note59% Sapna (Hema Malini), a slum dweller of Bombay seeks refuge from a drunken outburst of her foster father (Satyendra Kapoor). Heera (Ramesh Deo), a playboy smuggler, has an eye on Sapna and wants to have her for his pleasure.