Kasme Vaade

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Kasme Vaade
Raakhee
  • Randhir Kapoor
  • Neetu Singh
  • Amjad Khan
    • Music byR. D. Burman
    Release date
    • 21 April 1978 (1978-04-21)
    CountryIndia
    LanguageHindi
    Box office₹4.7 crores(equivalent to ₹97 crores or US$13.6 million in 2019)[1]

    Kasme Vaade (transl. Sworn promises) is a 1978

    Gulshan Bawra. The film was declared a semi-hit by Box Office India.[3] The film was remade in Telugu as Chesina Basalu (1980) and in Tamil as Dharmathin Thalaivan (1988).[4]

    Plot

    Suman (Raakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother, Raju (Randhir Kapoor), and Raju already calls Suman "Bhabhi". Amit is a teacher in a college, but Raju is unemployed and a little bit spoiled by Amit and Suman's pamperings.

    Raju gets into bad company, and as a result, lands in trouble. When Amit comes to help Raju, he is killed. Suman dons the garb of a widow and plans not to marry again.

    Then one day a look-alike of Amit, named Shankar enters Suman and Raju's life. Guilt-ridden, Raju thinks that he has gotten his brother back, and tries to make amends by hiring Shankar, not knowing that Shankar is a wanted criminal, and is looking for an escape route from the authorities.

    Raju's guilty unconditional support and love along with the, for obvious reasons, confusing for both, but the electric attraction between Shankar and Suman eventually wins Shankar over from his past evil ways. Nevertheless, Shankar can not so easily escape his past.

    Suman is kidnapped in order to force Shankar to aid a kingpin by using an international car rally championship as cover to smuggle diamonds. With Raju's help, of course, good prevails over evil and symbolically, Shanker is wounded protecting Suman and as they role free of the shooting and explosions and come to rest, it is seen that Suman's forehead has been marked crimson by the blood of her soul mate. Raju has learned a heart-crushing lesson in the dangers of excess and frivolity but in the end, there is hope and greater wisdom.

    Neetu Singh also had a small role as the fiancée of Raju (Randhir Kapoor). Amjad Khan was the main villain while Vijayendra Ghatge played the killer of Amit. The film's song "Aati Rahengi Baharen". "Mile Jo Kadi Kadi, Ek Zanjeer Bane" and the title song "Kasme Vaade Nibhayenge Hum" had become very popular.

    Cast

    Soundtrack

    All the songs

    Polydor now Universal Music Group. The song "Kal Kya Hoga Kisko Pata" is partly based on "Hafanana" by Afric Simone.[6]

    Title Singer(s) Duration
    "Kasme Vaade Nibhayenge Hum" - I Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar 04:45
    "Aati Rahengi Baharen" - I Kishore Kumar,
    Amit Kumar, Asha Bhosle
    		 05:14
    "Kal Kya Hoga"
    R.D.Burman
    		 04:59
    "Mile Jo Kadi Kadi" Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle 05:48
    "Aati Rahengi Baharen" - II Amit Kumar 02:50
    "Kasme Vaade Nibhayenge Hum" - II Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar 02:04
    "Pyar Ki Rang Se Tu Dil Ko" Asha Bhosle, Anand Kumar.C. 08:11

    References

    1. ^ "Amitabh Bachchan Hits, Flops and Blockbusters : Box Office Analysis". 20 December 2018. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
    2. ^ "Filmfare awards" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
    3. ^ "Box Office 1978". Archived from the original on 8 August 2009.
    4. ^ Lokapally, Vijay (27 February 2015). "Kasme Vaade (1978)". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
    5. ^ "Kasme Vaade : Lyrics and video of Songs from the Movie Kasme Vaade (1978)". HindiGeetMala. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
    6. Film Companion. Archived
      from the original on 19 December 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.

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