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Ram Balram
Ram Balram
	Poster
Directed by	Vijay Anand
Written by	Vijay Anand
Produced by	Tito
Starring	Dharmendra; Amitabh Bachchan; Zeenat Aman; Rekha; Ajit; Amjad Khan; Prem Chopra; Sujit Kumar
Cinematography	Fali Mistry
Edited by	Vijay Anand
Music by	Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Distributed by	Navjeevan Productions
Release date	28 November 1980;
Running time	171 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

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Ram Balram is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Vijay Anand. The film stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman and Rekha.

Plot

Ram and Balram are two young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however, kills the boys' parents. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents have been killed in an accident and promises to raise them himself.

He enrolls the younger brother Balram in school and eventually sends him off to join the police force. The older brother Ram becomes a mechanic. Jagatpal has a tight hold on the boys, even when Ram is an adult, he still gives all his wages to his uncle and is only allowed to keep a few rupees for pocket money.

When Balram returns as a fully fledged police officer, Jagatpal finally reveals his plan. He is going to use Ram to target the biggest smugglers in India. Now that Balram is a police officer, he will protect his brother from getting arrested. Balram has reservations, but Jagatpal threatens to beat him just as he did when he was a boy; he has a needle at the edge of his cane and whenever the boys would do something Jagatpal dislikes, he would put the pointy and dangerous needle on the boys' neck.

Balram is still unhappy with Jagatpal's plan, so he tells his superiors in the police force that his brother intends to infiltrate the smuggler's underworld so that Balram can arrest them. Ram becomes a police informer for Balram.

The plan goes well. Ram becomes one of the lieutenants of one of the biggest smugglers Sulaiman and Balram's excellent arrest rate makes him one of the force's most successful officers. Jagatpal becomes enormously wealthy from Ram's illicit gains. The brothers also find love. Balram with Shobha, the daughter of a college professor and Ram with Madhu, a girl who has moved to the area with her mother looking for her father. Unbeknownst to Ram, the girl believes her father to be Jagatpal. She, along with her courtesan mother, attempt to extort money for Jagatpal but he refuses to believe he is the father. His suspicions are confirmed when he catches the mother paying off a former customer. The man is confronted by Jagatpal and confesses that the girl is not Jagatpal's daughter.

Jagatpal's plan comes unstuck however when the boys' mother returns. She did not die after all. She reveals Jagatpal's actions to the two brothers and they unite to take him down.

Cast

Dharmendra as Ram aka Bholu Ram
Amitabh Bachchan as Inspector Balram
Zeenat Aman as Madhu^[1]
Rekha as Shobha^[1]
Ajit as Jaggu / Chaudhary Jagatpal Singh
Amjad Khan as Sulaiman
Prem Chopra as Chandan Singh
Sujit Kumar as Daku Satarawala
Utpal Dutt as Professor (Shobha's Father)
Asit Sen as Inspector Mukherjee
Urmila Bhatt as Saraswati Devi
Helen as Tarabai

Soundtrack

Music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Lyrics penned by Anand Bakshi.

Song	Singer
"Ek Rasta, Do Rahi, Ek Chor, Ek Sipahi"	Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi
"Ladki Pasand Ki Mushkil Se Milti Hai, Mil Gayi, Mil Gayi"	Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
"Ab To Ram Hi Jaan Bachaye, Bera Paar Lagaye"	Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Dilraj Kaur
"Humse Bhool Ho Gayi, Humka Maafi Dai Do"	Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle
"Yaar Ki Khabar Mil Gayi, Pyar Ki Nazar Mil Gayi"	Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle

References

^ ^a ^b "When Zeenat Aman And Rekha Signed Their Only Collaboration To Date". News18. 29 September 2023.

External links

Ram Balram at IMDb

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[auto-1] "When Zeenat Aman And Rekha Signed Their Only Collaboration To Date". News18. 29 September 2023.

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+| starring       = [[Dharmendra]]<br>[[Amitabh Bachchan]]<br>[[Zeenat Aman]]<br>[[Rekha]]<br>[[Ajit Khan|Ajit]]<br>[[Amjad Khan (actor)|Amjad Khan]]<br>[[Prem Chopra]]<br>[[Sujit Kumar]]
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+'''''Ram Balram''''' is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language [[action thriller film]] directed by [[Vijay Anand (filmmaker)|Vijay Anand]]. The film stars [[Dharmendra]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Zeenat Aman]] and [[Rekha]].
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+*[[Dharmendra]] as Ram aka Bholu Ram
 *[[Amitabh Bachchan]] as Inspector Balram
+*[[Zeenat Aman]] as Madhu<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.news18.com/movies/when-zeenat-aman-and-rekha-signed-their-only-collaboration-to-date-8597010.html|title=When Zeenat Aman And Rekha Signed Their Only Collaboration To Date|date=29 September 2023|website=News18}}</ref>
-*[[Zeenat Aman]] as Madhu
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 *[[Amjad Khan (actor)|Amjad Khan]] as Sulaiman
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 |"Ladki Pasand Ki Mushkil Se Milti Hai, Mil Gayi, Mil Gayi"
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 |"Ab To Ram Hi Jaan Bachaye, Bera Paar Lagaye"
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 |"Humse Bhool Ho Gayi, Humka Maafi Dai Do"
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 |"Yaar Ki Khabar Mil Gayi, Pyar Ki Nazar Mil Gayi"
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-[[Category:Indian films]]
 [[Category:Films directed by Vijay Anand]]
 [[Category:Films scored by Laxmikant–Pyarelal]]
-[[Category:Masala films]]
+[[Category:1980s masala films]]
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