Suhaag

Suhaag (1979)

Durga and Vikram Singh have been married for years. Vikram has taken to crime in a big way, and as a result has antagonized a rival gangster, Jaggi. Durga gives birth to twins, and Jaggi steals one of them, and sells him to a bootlegger, Pascal. Durga is upset when she finds her son missing, but is devastated when Vikram abandons her. With a lot of difficulty, Durga brings up her son, Kishan, and has given up on finding her other son. Kishan has grown up and is now a dedicated police officer. On the other hand, Pascal has exploited Amit, kept him illiterate, doing petty crime, and alcoholic. This gets him in confrontation with Kishan, but ironically the two settle their differences and become fast friends. Vikram is still alive, and is not aware of his two sons and wife being alive.

Date of release
1979-10-29
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (12)
Runtime
2h 44m
Genres
Action, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Director
Manmohan Desai

Casting

Interesting facts

Suhaag is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Manmohan Desai, and written by Kader Khan, Prayag Raj and K.K. Shukla. It stars Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha and Parveen Babi in lead roles with Amjad Khan, Nirupa Roy, Kader Khan, Ranjeet and Jeevan in supporting roles. The music was composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. It was also remade by K. Raghavendra Rao in Telugu (1981) as "Satyam Shivam" with casting NTR, Sridevi & ANR, Rati Agnihotri.

Production

Many scenes were filmed at Film City, Mumbai and London. Desai filmed a middle and climax chase scene in Mumbai and London and edited them in such a way that these scenes appear to take place in Mumbai. "Teri Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" song was filmed in Richmond Park, London with a UK-based Punjabi dance group from Southall. "Ae Yaar Sun" song was filmed in Film City and at Birla Mandir, Shahad near Ulhasnagar in Thane district of Maharashtra.

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