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big-screen-movie |
| genre |
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action/thriller/drama |
| length |
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126
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theatrical
release
certificate |
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India:
December 23, 1978 |
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dates |
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India - April 20, 1979 |
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| PRODUCTION |
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| country
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India |
| production |
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C.S.
Productions |
| executive
producer |
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K. L.
Chitkara |
| screenplay |
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Faiz
Salim (also dialogue), based on a story by R. K.
Bannerji |
| music |
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MUSIC: Ravindra
Jain
LYRICS: Ravindra Jain, Dev Kohli
SINGERS: Mohammed Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur, Sulakshana Pandit, Hemlata
Aakhri Kasam has four songs.
The second part also has an instrumental song, set in a nightclub
and based on the 1970s song "Gimme some lovin'..." by
the Spencer Davis Group.
TITLES:
'Hum se chhipa na' Hemlata, Suman Kalyanpur
also: 'Humse chupao na jee ka haal, hum hai tere saathi purane'
- a duet by two friends teasing each other about being in love
'Le daal de saiyad'
also: 'Le daal de daal de sayyad beri paaw mein, jo haskar jaal mei'
- against her will, Bijli performs an enticing dance for the zamindar, who is
consumed
by lust
'Tera rang bada hai gora' Mohammed Rafi
also: 'Tera rang bada hai gora, gora ho gora, gora nazar tainu lag'
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open-air duet, including a wet sari scene... Ram: "May no evil befall you"
'Jai bhawai'
also: 'Jay bhawani, 2 dyani, kahi kaamroop kamkya, kahi bhesh' Hemlata
- at the temple, celebrating goddess Kali of Calcutta
released: HMV Records |
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| art
design |
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Ganesh
Basak |
| choreography |
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P.L.
Raj, Kiran Kumar, Satyanarayan |
| director
of action |
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Azim
Bhai |
| cinematography |
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Jasminder
Singh |
| distribution |
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Sareen
Entertainment |
| filming
location |
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India |
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| DIRECTOR |
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Dinesh
Ramnesh |
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| CAST |
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Yogeeta
Bali (Champa, orphan
girl, adopted and raised by the malang baba)
Mumtaz Begum
Urmila Bhatt (zamindar's wife)
Helen
Nazir Hussain (Mangal, Bijli's father)
Imtiaz (Sangram Singh, dacoit)
Satyen Kappu (Jagga, farmer)
Vinod Mehra (Inspector
Ram)
Meher Mittle
Ranjit Nihar
Priyadarshinee
Madan Puri
(special appearance)
Mohan Sheri
Om Shivpuri (Thakur Ranvir Singh, zamindar)
Meena T.
SUPPORTING CAST
Lata Sinha, Seema Kapoor, Master Ravi and Master Rajesh (brothers
Kishan and Ram as children), Negruma Das, Reeta, Manek
Chowdhry, Nihar, Ranjit, Samar Roy |
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| SUMMARY |
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Small
farmer Jagga enjoys a hard but rewarding life in the fertile
valley of the River Chambal in Rajasthan.
It will soon be time
to bring in the harvest.
Jagga is pleased with his crop, and
he has some good friends. He loves his attractive
wife Malti and is proud of his son Birju, who is working hard
in school.
But one day, as Jagga is away,
a henchman of the landlord Thakur Ranvir Singh forces his way
into the couple's house on horseback
and kidnaps Malti as a terrified Birju looks on. When Malti struggles
against the attacker, Birju is injured.
Malti
is taken to Thakur, the zamindar.
The landlord is a brutal man,
an alcoholic feared by all the villagers because of his violence.
Thakur's wife knows about his activities, but does not confront
her husband. Thakur, drunk yet again, rapes Malti. She manages
to stagger home, only to find her son, dying from a head wound.
Malti,
clutching a dead Birju, jumps into a well in despair.
Jagga,
on his return, is blinded by rage over the death of his wife
and son, and decides to confront the zamindar. However,
he only finds Thakur's wife and their two sons, Ram and Kishan,
in the house. Jagga grabs one of the children and threatens to
sacrifice the boy to the goddess Kali. His own pain makes him
indifferent to the desperate cries of the child's mother, asking
him to return her first-born son. Although Thakur's men try to
stop him, Jagga manages to escape with his hostage.
A malang baba (holy man) convinces Jagga there is a better way
to avenge Birju than to kill Thakur's innocent son. The boy,
Kishan, is renamed Badal and brought up to live a life of righteousness.
Jagga now decides to get Kishan/Badal to confront his murderous
father when he is old enough.
Thakur, living
in fear of Jagga, sends his other son, Ram, to be brought up
in the city. Ram grows up with his uncle, a policeman.
It
is now 20 years later.
Jagga has never forgotten
his plans for revenge.
Badal (Kabir Bedi) is now about 25, a handsome free spirit who
is an expert rider and marksman. He is always to be found where
people suffer danger or injustice, saving girls from a raging
bull or delivering villagers from the zamindar's tax collectors.
For despite his age, Thakur's reign of terror has not abated.
But
Badal, a devotee of the goddess Kali, has no idea that his
younger brother Ram is now a police inspector and is about
to
be posted to the very village where their father Thakur holds
sway over the terrified population.
Ram and Badal's paths cross.
As the noble outlaw and the honourable policeman both believe
in truth and justice, they grow to respect
each other. But neither knows they are brothers.
Thakur promises
a reward for Badal's capture and forges an alliance with the
powerful dacoit (bandit) Sangram Singh, who roams the
nearby villages with his gang. Inspector Ram however refuses
to make common cause with his criminal father, so that Thakur
soon has both his sons turned against him.
Badal, ever a knight
in shining armour, saves people on many an occasion and even
recaptures a stolen offering to Kali, handing
it back to Inspector Ram.
Raised without a mother, Badal discovers
the unquestioning loyalty of Thakur's wife and his daughter as,
injured by the inspector
in a manhunt, he runs to them for succour. The elder woman is
even prepared to go to prison if that is what it takes to save
the mysterious stranger to whom she feels deeply indebted. Badal/Kishan
does not suspect the two are his mother and sister.
This time,
however, Inspector Ram has no choice but to arrest Badal, who
is suspected of stealing. Losing his chance to win
Thakur's reward for Badal's capture, bandit Sangram Singh kidnaps
Thakur's daughter on her wedding day, as well as her mother,
and demands a ransom.
Freed from jail by the villagers, Badal
finds out that Thakur is his father, and joins forces with his
brother Ram to free
their sister and mother from the bandit's clutches in an explosive
finale!
But what about Jagga's plans to use Thakur's own son to
exact revenge for his 20-year-long suffering???
Will bandit Sangram
Singh be punished for his greed???
What will Sangram Singh do with
Jyoti, Badal's and Ram's sister???
Will Police Inspector Ram fight
free of his violent father???
Will hero Badal survive Jagga's revenge???
And
will Jagga finally find peace??? |
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MORE
PICTURES WITH KABIR BEDI STARRING IN AAKHRI KASAM |
| KABIR
BEDI DETAILS |
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| Kabir's
part |
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Kabir
stars as Kishan, the kidnapped
son of the thakur.
After his abduction, he is called "Badal".
Please note:
Kabir was synchronised in Aakhri Kasam (Hindi
version), his own voice wasn't used. |
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| Kabir's
showstopper |
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Aakhri
Kasam - a film for Kabir fans who also loved him as Sandokan
About 20 minutes into the movie, Kabir has
his first scene as 25-year-old Badal, about 20 years after his
abduction by Jagga,
riding into view on a horse of the Indian Marwari breed.
The good-looking hero has many scenes wearing a half-open jeans
shirt, leather belt amd bell bottoms, in typical 70s style. He
is often on horseback or in other alluring poses. Wearing a talisman
dangling on a leather strap, Kabir/Badal is a loner with a troubled
relationship with the law, even though he is righteousness itself.
At one point, he describes himself as a 'vagabond'.
But you'd
better take Kabir/Badal's
fashion statements seriously - the mysterious horseman nearly
always carries a loaded gun!
Kabir/Badal is
not one to shy away from a challenge, even if this often results
in a good fistfight, with all the slapstick
elements typical of a masala movie. But he will only act for
a good cause, like saving innocent villagers from the zamindar's
extortionate tax inspectors, or damsels in distress from a raging
bull. Kabir/Badal visibly enjoys turning a scarecrow into a deadly
weapon. Nor is there much of a future for one villain at the
wheel of his car, as our clever hero weaves a larger-than-life
spider's net.
In another scene, Kabir/Badal,
wearing his beatific smile, catches his loot using a fishing-rod.
Kabir has no trouble
outsmarting any scoundrel, and so it's no wonder that Champa
is so smitten by Kabir/Badal
that it takes the claxon on Inspector Ram's jeep to bring her
down to earth again.
Some of Kabir's action
scenes were shot by stuntmen.
You can usually tell from their
slightly darker hair, narrower face,
less impressive chest and smaller figure.
Since the sound track was added later, as was customary at the
time Aakhri Kasam was shot, there are quite a few scenes where
the sounds do not match the action or are out of place altogether.
In one scene, Kabir tosses away a wooden stick which falls to
the studio floor with a loud metallic clang.
Aakhri Kasam, with its two heroes bound by friendship - a popular
movie formula at the time - is a typical Bollywood product of
the 1970s, made only for the domestic market.
Kabir and Vinod
Mehra are the main heroes, while the comic part - also de
rigueur in Bollywood - is played by the police inspector's assistant. |
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want to
see Kabir in it?
check TV listings of Kabir's work - current/archives |
| not
to be confused with |
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J. Om
Prakash's social drama Aap Ki Kasam (1974) starring Rajesh Khanna
and Sanjeev Kumar. |
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HIT!
yum! |
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Good
conquers evil in the rollicking melodrama just as in any other
Bollywood film. But what if the bad guy is capable of last-minute
redemption and the victim's halo is more than a little jaded? |
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MISS!
eek! |
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Unfortunately,
Kabir's wonderful voice is absent, and the storyline has quite
a few gaps. The second half is particularly confusing. The movie,
shot for the Indian market, is driven by action and looks a little
outdated after all these years... |
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| IN
SHORT... |
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Kabir 'Robin Hood' Bedi enlists a scarecrow to confound the wicked
- and has a few more unusual tricks up his sleeve in Aakhri
Kasam, a typical 1970s masala movie. |
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| INFORMATION -
GENERAL INFORMATION |
• some quotes from
the movie:
• Kabir, his very first words: "Glory
to Mother Kali!"
• Kabir: "I don't mention
my name without showing my deeds!"
• Kabir: "Glory to Goddess
Bhavani!"
• Kabir: "You seem sincere
with your words, we'll see what your deeds are."
• Kabir: "Will you punish
a child for his father's sins?"
• A few other remarkable quotes from the movie:
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Biyli, dancing in front of the lecherous zamindar: "Come, shackle me if
you
can!"
• "Don't jump too high to pluck tamarind."
• "You're like a golden peacock in a garden."
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"Don't hide your heart matters from me, I'm your old friend." |
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• Yogeeta Bali starred alongside Kabir also
in SAZAA (1972), YAUWAN (1973),
in the blockbuster NAGIN (1976),
and in DAKU AUR
MAHATMA (1977). |
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