Achanak

Major Ranjit Khanna and his wife Pushpa are in love with each other. His commanding officer, Lt. Col. Bakshi, is his father-in-law. Ranjit is happy in his married life, until he finds out about his wife’s affair with his best friend. He kills both of them and surrenders to the police. Then, he escapes from the police to go to the , as he wants to fulfill his wife’s desire to leave her Mangalsutra in the river. However, in his escape attempt, the police shoot him, and he is injured. He is then admitted to the hospital, where he becomes emotionally attached to the doctors and nurses. When he is finally sentenced to death, they are moved to tears. The entire film production was completed in 28 days. Achanak was based on a Khwaja Ahmed Abbas story, , which had appeared in the magazine called Imprint. In 1973 N.C Sippy’s sons, Romu Sippy and collaborated with partner to produce and they approached Gulzar to direct it. Gulzar approached Vasantrao, a background score composer to compose the score for this film since it would have no songs otherwise. Background music was composed by .