Namak Haraam (नमक हराम) 1973

Published on June 6, 2013 in Cinema

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Banner	R.S.J. Productions
Director	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Writer	Sampooran Singh Gulzar, D.N. Mukherjee, Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Producer	Jayendra Pandya, Rajaram, Satish Wagle
Production executive	C.R. Panchal
Music Director	R.D. Burman
Cinematography	Jaywant Pathare
Film Editing	Das Dhaimade
Art Director	Ajit Banerjee
Camera Operator
Assistant Cameramen	Prakash Anandkar
Playback Singers	Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar

Character	Actor / Actress
Somnath / Chander Singh	Rajesh Khanna
Vikram Maharaj	Amitabh Bachchan
Manisha	Simi Garewal
Shyama	Rekha
Dhondu	Asrani
Bipinlal Pandey	A.K. Hangal
Damodar Maharaj	Om Shivpuri
Jai Singh	Manmohan
Somu's Mother	Durga Khote
Alam	Raza Murad
Courtesan	T. Jayshree
	Yogesh Chhabra
	Darshan
	Neelam
	Lalita Kumari
	Habiba Rehman
	Kamaldeep
Sarla	Manisha Koirala
Rama (Pandey's assistant)	Manju Asrani

Plot
Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take bed-rest for two months, Vicky fills in his father's shoes, has a confrontation with a senior employee and union leader, Bipinlal Pandey, which results in a strike. His father intervenes, asks Vicky to apologize to Bipinlal, which Vicky does, and everything returns to normal. Vicky confides about his humiliation with Somu, and both conspire to teach Bipinlal a lesson. As a result, Somu accompanies Vicky to Calcutta, gets a job as a laborer in his mill, befriends his fellow-workers, gets some monetary relief to injured workers, amongst other benefits, is elected as the union leader replacing Bipinlal. With Somu as the union leader and Vicky as the boss there is no stopping these two - until Damodar finds out and decides to put a stop to Vicky being influenced by Somu's middle-class ideas and ideals. Damodar starts a chain of events that get out of control, events that may well see the death of one of the friends at the hands of the other. Will Vicky's and Somu's friendship see them through or will it also be a casualty?

Plot

Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take bed-rest for two months, Vicky fills in his father's shoes, has a confrontation with a senior employee and union leader, Bipinlal Pandey, which results in a strike. His father intervenes, asks Vicky to apologize to Bipinlal, which Vicky does, and everything returns to normal. Vicky confides about his humiliation with Somu, and both conspire to teach Bipinlal a lesson. As a result, Somu accompanies Vicky to Calcutta, gets a job as a laborer in his mill, befriends his fellow-workers, gets some monetary relief to injured workers, amongst other benefits, is elected as the union leader replacing Bipinlal. With Somu as the union leader and Vicky as the boss there is no stopping these two - until Damodar finds out and decides to put a stop to Vicky being influenced by Somu's middle-class ideas and ideals. Damodar starts a chain of events that get out of control, events that may well see the death of one of the friends at the hands of the other. Will Vicky's and Somu's friendship see them through or will it also be a casualty?