Naukri (नौकरी) 1978

Published on March 1, 2012 in Cinema

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Banner	R.S.J. Productions Combine
Director	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Writer	Salil Chaudhry, Bimal Dutt, Biren Tripathi
Producer	Jayendra Pandya, Rajaram Pandya, Satish Wagle
Orginal music	Rahul Dev Burman
Cinematography	Jaywant Pathare
Film Editing	Subhash Gupta, Khan Zaman Khan
Art Director	Ajit Banerjee
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Assistant Cameramen
Playback Singers	Asha Bhosle Manna Dey, Mukesh, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar

Character	Actor / Actress
Swaraj Singh 'Captain'	Raj Kapoor
Ranjit Gupta 'Ronu'	Rajesh Khanna
Ramola	Zahira
Mr. Rai, Ramola's Father	Om Shivpuri
Ranjit's Mother	Pratima Devi
Rekha	Aarti
Ranjit's Father	A.K. Hangal
	Padma Khanna
Mary	Jayshree T.
Loco	Deven Varma
Lily	Nadira
Meena	Meena Rai
Hawaldar	Keshto Mukharjee
Landlord	V. Gopal
Mr. Anderson	Tom Alter
	Habeeb
Rasik Lal	Yunush Pervez
Chandrabadani	Lalita Devi/ Lalitadevi
Raja	Master Akbar
Sanjay	Vijay Sharma
	Ayathoda
(as Satya Babu)	Satya Babu
(as Muni Raj)	Muni Raj
(as Amal Sen)	Amal Sen
	Shubhra Nath
	Habiba Rehman
	Anju Gupta
(as Jullil)	Jalil
	Siddharth Narayan

The film opens up with a distraught tensed up Ranjit watching his mother and his sister and their adopted brother closely. He is wearing a depressing look as he cannot earn and feed his family members properly being a handicapped person. He walks with help of walking stick. He decides that its better to commit suicide and die rather than giving trouble to others and also seeing his family members struggle for survival. His mother loves him a lot although he is limping and jobless. She asks him not to worry and be happy. Their landlord has asked them to vacate the premises the next day. Tension looming around his mind, Ranjit decides to go out early in the morning and jump from the bridge above the railway tracks and give away his life. Ranjit carries out his plan. In the next scenes, he starts walking without help from any stick. He meets a man who calls himself as Captain and he says that he is the only person who can see Ranjith right now. That fat man introduces himself as Swaraj Singh Captain and says that he is a ghost and that Ranjit has died and is now a ghost too. Captain takes him along everywhere and shows him how many other people are roaming as ghosts in the world after committing suicides. Captain says the ghosts attain salvation only when their unfulfilled wish gets fulfilled. Captain asks him why did he commit suicide. Ranjit tells him his story of how he was a badminton player and how rich they were. He had even fell in love with a richer girl. The rest of the story is about Ranjit's description of what drove him to poverty, how were they surviving, how his friends betrayed him and deprived him of any job, how he lost his leg and how much he feels betrayed of his girlfriend leaving him and joining hands with some one else. Captain just keeps listening to his story. The answers to the above question and rest of the story is full of suspense which needs to be seen in the movie directly.