Namak Halaal

<p>Bhim Singh works as a manager and personal bodyguard to Seth Raja Singh and saves him from many murder attempts planned by Raja’s step brother, Girdhar Singh. One day Raja Singh appoints Savitri, Bhim Singh’s wife as trustee to their property and guardian to his toddler son Raja Kumar. On the same day, he and Bhim Singh die at the hands of Girdhar Singh. Savitri promises her husband that she would take care of Raja Kumar at any rate. Everyone including Bhim Singh’s father Dashrath Singh blames Savitri thinking that she killed her husband and employer for money. Savitri hands over young Arjun to Dashrath Singh and settles herself as Raja Kumar’s mother to protect him. Later Arjun grows up to be a naive youngster under the care of Dashrath Singh. He moves to the city to build his life on his own and joins as a bellboy in a five star restaurant. There he meets Poonam and they both fall in love. That hotel is owned by Raja Kumar and run by Savitri. Hotel manager Ranjit Singh is the son of Girdhar Singh and plans to kill Raja. They manage to show Savitri as a culprit and Raja believes that and suspects Savitri. Gradually Arjun learns that Savitri is actually his, not Raja’s mother and swears that he would protect Raja at any rate, just like his father did. Meanwhile, Raja meets a beautiful young dancer Nisha and gets attracted to her. She is actually hired by Ranjit Singh to kill Raja, but Nisha falls in love with Raja and couldn’t kill him. Finally she arranges a party on a boat to execute her plan, but Arjun foils it. Finally goons kidnap Arjun’s and Raja’s family members and blackmail them to transfer all his property to Ranjit’s name. Arjun and Raja beat all bad guys and save their loved ones. Raja marries Nisha and Arjun marries Poonam at the end and they reconcile with their mother Savitri. Mehra originally considered for the role of Raja Singh, because Khanna and Bachchan starred in a decade earlier, and it would be poetic justice to reverse roles in . Complications led Mehra to next consider for the role, which eventually went to Shashi Kapoor. Bachchan portrays the protagonist Arjun Singh, who was influenced by the character , the protagonist of the 1968 Hollywood film ; Hrundi Bakshi is an Indian character portrayed by British comedian . scored music for the first time for a film, after association with . Smita Patil was initially reluctant to film an intimate song ( ) in rain, She agreed after a lot of personal persuasion from co-actor Amitabh. The movie’s soundtrack, featuring music composed by , with lyrics written by , consisted of five songs and was a huge hit. Vocals supplied by Lahiri himself (for Kapoor), (for Bachchan), (for Patil and Babi), and Pandit Satyanarayan Mishra. Kumar won his fifth for the song ‘Pag Ghungroo Bandh’.</p>