Zehreela Insaan

<p>Arjun is an ill-tempered but soft-hearted man whom others view as a bad person. His teacher (Masterji) is the only person who understands him and appreciates his good qualities so Arjun obeys him. Arjun loves Aarti and wants to marry her, but Aarti’s father opposes this alliance and forcibly marries her off to a man of his choice. Arjun is dejected, and soon finds love in Margaret, his Christian college mate. While on a business trip to another city, Arjun finds that Aarti is a high society call girl. Margaret’s uncle and mother are against her marrying Arjun. Arjun and Margaret flee to the hills; Masterji catches up with them and tries to pacify Arjun, but refuses and accidentally pushes him down the hill to his death. Traumatised, Arjun asks Margaret if she will join him and both jump to their deaths. is a remake of the 1972 Kannada film , itself based on three different novels: , and by . , who directed the Kannada film, returned to direct the Hindi remake, which was produced by Virendra Sinha under Pragati Chitra International. Cinematography was handled by Sudarshan Nag, and the editing by V. P. Krishna. Ambareesh, who played a character named Jaleel in , reprised his role in . Much of the film was shot in , with the song “O Hansini” being shot at . The soundtrack was composed by while the lyrics were written by . The song “Saanp Se Badhke” is based on “Haavina Dwesha” from . It was released on . was released on 20 November 1974, and did not succeed commercially. Rishi Kapoor later admitted it was a “mistake”, feeling that he should have accepted a film similar to his earlier (1973) and not something that was “drastically different”.</p>