Bandie

Bandie (1978)

Maharaj Brajbhan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bharatpur, India along with his wife, Badi Rani, but have been unable to conceive for Bharatpur, and have no choice but to leave it's reigns with Brajban's widowed cousin, Vikram, and his son, Kanchan. When Vikram finds out that Badi Rani is pregnant, he plots to first sully her character by having her abducted, then shunned by the Maharaj, and then decides to have her killed. But her killer has a change of heart and lets her live. She gives birth to a son, names him Bhola, and starts living a simple lifestyle in a Mandir with the help of it's Poojary. Years later Vikram finds out she is alive and kills her, as well the Poojary and the Poojary's son. Bhola witnesses this, manages to escape, starts to live with a poor widow, grows up uneducated, and makes a living through crime.

Date of release
1978-03-10
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
2h 21m
Genres
Drama, Family
Director
Alo Sarkar

Casting

Interesting facts

Bandie is a 1978 Indian bilingual swashbuckler action film simultaneously shot in Bengali and Hindi languages, co-written and directed by Alo Sircar. Produced by F. C. Mehra under the banner of Eagle Films, the film stars Uttam Kumar in dual roles, alongside an ensemble cast of Utpal Dutt, Amjad Khan, Sulakshana Pandit, Amrish Puri, Bindu, Iftekhar, Madan Puri and Prema Narayan, with Helen and Padma Khanna in special appearances.

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