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Director
  
Atma Ram

Duration
  

Screenplay
  
Ram Govind

Country
  
India

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Thriller

Release date
  
January 18, 1980 (India)

Producer
  
Atma Ram

Language
  
Hindi

Release date
  
18 January 1980 (1980-01-18) (India)

Writer
  
Ram Govind (dialogue), Ram Govind (screenplay)

Genres
  
Bollywood, Action Film, Thriller, World cinema

Cast
  
Reena Roy
(Pretty),
Navin Nischol
(Prakash),
Amjad Khan
(Prince),
Mehmood Ali
(Jagat),
Suresh Oberoi
(Captain Usman)

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Khanjar (Hindi: ख़ंजर; transliteration: Dagger) is a 1980 Hindi language film produced and directed by Atmaram. This action thriller casts Navin Nischol in the lead with the support cast of Reena Roy, Suresh Oberoi, Amjad Khan, Jankidas, Jayshree T., Jeevan, K. N. Singh, Mehmood, Murad, Reeta Bhaduri, Sajjan, Shekhar Kapur. Nitin Mangeshkar scored the music for this film, with the lyrics written by Maya Govind.

Contents

The story, in brief, is about a dagger used in a criminal investigation, and the mysterious deaths around the life of its custodian.

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Plot

Prakash (Navin Nischol), a librarian, lives with his daughter. One day, his friend and private detective Captain Usman (Suresh Oberoi) visits him and gives him a diary along with a dagger (Khanjar) to safeguard them. He also informs about their importance for a case under his investigation and threatens by some gangsters about them. Soon after this, Prakash learns that Usman is murdered. He also receives a call from a stranger enquiring about Usman's diary and the dagger. Meanwhile, a smart girl named Preeti (Reena Roy) starts to flirt and get closer to him to know about the diary and the dagger. Prakash notices her acts, illustrates to the police the story of Usman's diary, the dagger, his murder and Preeti's attempts for them. They instruct him to follow her to learn about the gangsters she works with. Upon his insistence, Preeti informs about her activities under the instructions of Prince (Amjad Khan). Soon Prince learns about her behaviour and kills her. After few days, his brother-in-law Ramesh (Shekhar Kapur), married to his younger sister Jyothi (Rita Bhaduri), is also found murdered. Disturbed by these mysterious murders leading to the dagger, Prakash and his magician friends Jagat (Mehmood) and Rasvanti (Jashree T.) visit an old town Udaigarh, famous for Swamiji (Amjad Khan). One mystery leads to a deeper mystery and a series of thrilling events unravel the mystery of the khanjar.

Cast

  • Naveen Nischol as Prakash
  • Reena Roy as Nisha/Preeti
  • Suresh Oberoi as Captain Usman
  • Amjad Khan as Prince/Swamiji
  • Jayshree T. as Rasvanti
  • Mehmood as Jagat
  • Reeta Bhaduri as Jyothi
  • Shekhar Kapur as Ramesh
  • Gauri Verma
  • Jankidas
  • Jeevan
  • K. N. Singh
  • Manek Irani
  • Mridula
  • Murad
  • Raja Duggal
  • Sajjan
  • Sunder Taneja

    • Crew

  • Direction – Atmaram
  • Story – Ram Govind
  • Screenplay – Ram Govind
  • Dialogue – Ram Govind
  • Production – Atmaram
  • Production Company – Gurudutt Films
  • Editing – E. G. Shinde
  • Cinematography – K. R. Murthy, Yusuf
  • Art Direction – L. G. Patil
  • Costume Design – Leena Shah, Mani Rabadi
  • Action Direction – Ravi Khanna
  • Choreography – Kamal
  • Background Music – Anil Mohile, Arun Paudwal
  • Music Direction – Nitin Mangeshkar
  • Lyrics – Maya Govind
  • Playback – Anjali, Arati Mukherjee, Aziz Nazan, Jaspal Singh, Mahmood, Usha Timothy

    • Soundtrack

    All lyrics written by Maya Govind; all music composed by Nitin Mangeshkar.

    References

    Khanjar (1980 film) Wikipedia
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    Khanjar (1980 film) IMDb