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Chakravyuha is a film of genre Action directed by Basu Chatterjee with Rajesh Khanna
Chakravyuha (1978)
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Add to a movie listChakravyuha is a 1978 Bollywood film directed by Basu Chatterjee and written by Jainendra Jain. The film stars Rajesh Khanna and Neetu Singh in lead roles and supported by Vinod Mehra, Simple Kapadia, Pradeep Kumar, Om Shivpuri, Dina Pathak, Master Raju Shrestha and others. The music was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. The film was critically acclaimed and classified as Gold by critics upon its release in the book Collections.
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Rajesh Khanna plays a man drawn unwillingly into a nest of enemy spies and intrigue with the future of his country riding on his shoulders.Chhaya (Neetu) and Amit Narayan (Rajesh) are in love and Chhaya wants to get married. Amit doesn’t see why they have to get married and wants to keep things as they are. Wedding dates are set and then moved, to her great frustration.This is really their only point of discord.Amit lives alone, and is also very fond of Chhaya’s family: father (Om Shivpuri), mother (Dina Pathak), little brother Raju (Master Raju Shrestha)and sister Maya (Rozeena).It is Diwali, and as children burst crackers and set off potentially limb-severing fireworks, Amit’s upstairs neighbor Raman (Vinod Mehra) has been watching a group of men in a tent just outside the building’s courtyard. They also appear to be keeping tabs on him, and have his manservant in their pay. Now Raman tosses furniture about the room and loads a pistol and then takes a body out of a trunk, lays it out on the floor, sprinkles it with whiskey and as another set of firecrackers explode outside, he shoots the poor dead guy’s face off.Actors
Rajesh Khanna
(Amit Narayan)
Vinod Mehra
(Raman)
Neetu Kapoor
(Chhaya)
Simple Kapadia
(Nandita)
Pradeep Kumar
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