Rajput (lit. ’Prince’) is a 1982Hindi romantic action filmstarring Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini, Tina Munim & Ranjeeta Kaur. It was directed by Vijay Anand. The film took many years for its completion and despite being delayed was critically acclaimed and became a commercial hit upon its release. As per box office of India, it was the 9th highest grossing film of the year 1982.
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- Plot
- Cast
- Music
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Plot
An amendment in Independent India comes where kingdoms are seized and people from Royal family are no longer rulers. One such kingdom is about to be seized from Vipin Kumar who refuses to lose his position. He continues to rule the jurisdiction as king and compels people to pay tax to him. People protest against this and one such person is police Inspector Dheerendra Singh (Rajesh Khanna). Because of this, he is transferred to a small village. His parents arrange his marriage with Janki (Hema Malini) who is the daughter of Dheerendra’s father’s childhood friend. But Janki is in love with Manupratap Singh (Dharmendra). Due to an enmity between two families, Janki’s aunty warns her that their love would not be accepted by Janki’s father, Pratap Singh (Rehman), but both of them are strong in their love and have an intimate affair. Manupratap Singh’s younger brother Bhanupratap (Vinod Khanna) is in love with an orphan girl Kamli (Ranjeeta). All are happy until Raja Jaipal Singh (Ranjeet) rapes Kamli and she runs away from the village. Meanwhile, Jaipal Singh says he wants to marry Janki, which angers her father as he is the father of teenage girl even if he’s a King.
Manupratap and Bhanupratap protest against the king, Bhanupratap becomes a dacoit. Both Manupratap’s father and Janki’s father strongly oppose their love. Janki is forcefully married to Dheerendra Singh against her wishes. When Janki leaves for her husband’s home she is kidnapped by Jaipal Singh’s nephew who tries to rape her. But Manupratap shoots him dead and he falls on Janki who faints due to falling from a horse. Dheerendra misunderstands that Janki was raped and he will not touch her. After two months he comes to know that Janki is pregnant and thinks it’s a result of rape and tells her to abort the baby, but Janki knows it’s Manupratap’s child and refuses and insists that she will walk out of Dheerendra’s life. But Dheerendra, out of his love for Janki, permits her to give birth to the baby.
Janki gives birth to a son and she goes to jail to inform Manupratap about it. But Manupratap, who finds Dheerendra a nice man, advises Janki to live with her husband and forget him. Janki obeys him and apologizes to Dheerendra for all the misery caused by her. Dheerendra initially refuses to see the child, but accepts her baby promising that he will consider the baby as his own child.
Jaipal Singh sends his daughter Jaya (Tina Munim) abroad for education to stop her from questioning him. Manupratap and Bhanupratap’s father is killed by Jaipal Singh and Bhanupratap waits to take revenge on him.
Seven years pass by and now Dheerendra Singh is Superintendent of Police. He finds many dacoits have come together and they plunder many areas and the root cause of this is Jaipal Singh, but he has no evidence to prove that.
Bhanupratap, now a bandit named Bhavani, steals money and helps the poor. Manupratap is released from jail and he stays for one night in Dheerendra Singh’s house. There he meets his son, who is very affectionate towards his father Dheerendra. Though he cannot reveal who he is, his affection towards the child is very high.
Kamli lives an illegitimate life with her son outside the village. Jaya, daughter of Jaipal Singh returns from abroad. Bhanupratap kidnaps her to take revenge on Jaipal Singh, who once raped his lover.
Later, Bhanupratap forces Jaipal to marry Kamli by threatening to kill Jaya. Jaya understands about her father and sides with Bhanupratap. She finds Bhanupratap a well-educated kind man and both fall in love.
Manupratap misunderstands that his father and brother were killed by a bandit Bhavani and sets off to kill him without knowing that Bhavani is his brother Bhanupratap.
Dheerendra comes to arrest Bhavani on a kidnapping charge, but Jaya admits she is there on her own wish. Dheerendra finds that the people are oppressed by Jaipal and want to protest against him. Dheerendra advises them to not take the law in their hands and that he would take action against him lawfully. He gathers evidences and goes to arrest Jaipal. But he drops the action when he finds out that Jaipal has kidnapped his son.
Dheerendra finds that Manupratap is the real father of the child. He decides to save the child and give it to Janki and let her live with Manupratap and her son and leaves to arrest Jaipal.
Manupratap promises Janki that her marriage will not be destroyed and he sets out to save Dheerendra. After much struggle and fight Jaipal is killed by Manupratap.
Manupratap is injured by a gunshot when he protects Dheerendra from Jaipal’s shot.
Manupratap tells Dheerendra that a man cannot be a father just because he gives pregnancy and tells Dheerendra that he can be the father of Janki’s son and dies in his arms. Dheerendra lets the child light the funeral pyre of Manupratap, and Bhanupratap understands the truth about the child on seeing Janki. Dheerendra unites with Manupratap’s child and Janki.
Cast
- Dharmendra as Manupratap ” Manu” Singh
- Rajesh Khanna as Inspector / SP Dheerendra Singh
- Vinod Khanna as Bhanupratap Singh / Bhavani
- Hema Malini as Janki Singh
- Ranjeeta as Kamli
- Tina Munim as Jaya
- Ranjeet as Raja Jaipal Singh
- Rehman as Thakur Pratap Singh
- Nazir Hussain as Police Commissioner Siddheshwar Singh
- Iftekhar as Ram Avtar Singh
- Mohan Sherry as Diwanji
- Indrani Mukherjee as Roopmati
- Om Shivpuri as Thakur Sangram Singh
- Murad as Raja Sahib
- Tej Sapru as Jaipal’s Nephew
Music
All songs composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal and Lyrics by Anand Bakshi.
| Song | Singer |
|---|---|
| “Doli Doli Ho Doli” | Mohammed Rafi |
| “Kahaniyan Sunati Hai” | Mohammed Rafi |
| “Akela Gaya Tha Main” – 1 | Kishore Kumar |
| “Akela Gaya Tha Main” – 2 | Kishore Kumar |
| “Yahi Pe Humko Jeena Hain, Yahi Pe Humko Marna Hain” | Mahendra Kapoor, Manhar Udhas, Hemlata |
| “Bhaagi Re Bhaagi Re Bhaagi Brijbala, Kanha Ne Pakda, Rang Dala” | Asha Bhosle, Mahendra Kapoor, Manhar Udhas, Dilraj Kaur |