Jagir

<p>Pramod Chakravorty’s multi-starrer, is the story of three musketeers – Shankar, Sangha, and Danny, who fight to help the needy and punish the greedy. Many years ago, Maharaj Shoor Veer Singh gets killed by a dacoit Lakhan, when he tries to stop him from robbing his royal locket, which concealed the map to the treasure of Anjangadh. Maharaj’s loyal Mangal Singh helps the Maharaj’s son escape the evil dacoit Lakhan. An accident causes the Maharaj’s son to lose his memory. he gets raised in humble surroundings as Shankar, unaware of the precious locket he wore around his neck. Over the time, Lakhan becomes an industrialist and called himself Thakur Saheb. Despite his wealth, he continues to dream of attaining the treasures of Anjangadh that are guarded by the watchful eyes of Shamsher Bahadur – a . Shankar – the true heir and Seema, Sangha, and Asha, along with Danny, set out to protect the treasures of Anjangadh from falling into the hands of evil. During the making of in 1974, was planning to adapt (1973) in Hindi, with as the screenwriters. Dharmendra, and , the trio of , was planned to bring back on-screen by him. Despite the lead actors being signed, the film could not be finalized due to taking extra time. In November 1976, Pramod Chakravorty undertook the project and launched it as “Teen Farishtey”, produced by Tarun Guru Dutt under the banner of Koncord International. Dharmendra and Bachchan were approached again, while , and were offered another pivotal roles. replaced Kapoor after he opted out of it. Later, it got delayed after Salim–Javed declined to sign as its screenwriters. In 1980, Sachin Bhowmick decided to take up the story, on Chakravorty’s request, and gave it to Tarun Guru Dutt. Then it was titled as “Jagir”, and Chakravorthy himself took over as producer. Bachchan stepped into Dharmendra’s role, Rishi Kapoor stepped into the role that was to be earlier done by Bachchan, and Mithun Chakraborty stepped into Vinod Khanna’s role. The film once again saw delays due to Bachchan’s schedule. Finally Dharmendra came back into the film in his original role, Mithun remained in the film and Danny was signed for the role Rishi Kapoor was earlier doing. Music of the film is composed by , marking his third collaboration with Chakravorty after working on (1975) and (1978). It is also his collaboration with Dharmendra for the fifteenth time after (1967), (1972), (1972), (1973), (1973), (1975), (1978), (1978), (1978), (1980), (1980), (1983), (1984) and (1984); and with Mithun Chakraborty for the fifth time after (1980), (1982), (1982), (1982) and (1984). Lyrics for were penned by in his fourth collaboration with Burman after working on (1970), (1981) and (1982). The songs was a chartbuster, especially “Emon Mojar Shohor” sung by , gained huge popularity for depicting the cultural environment of through its lyrics. The Hindi lyrics in were penned by . In the , it was the top-grossing Indian film of 1986, with 38 million admissions at the . This was equivalent to an estimated 19 million ( , ) in 1986, or ( ) adjusted for inflation in 2017. This article about a Hindi film of the 1980s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .</p>