''Khwab'' () is a 1980 Indian

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-language

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film directed by

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, starring

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, Naseeruddin Shah and

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. The film was loosely based on the 1951 film A Place in the Sun which itself is based on the 1925 novel ''

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'' by

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Plot

Pratap Kumar Srivastav (

) travels from Shyamnagar to Bombay, and is hired by his father's friend, Ram Prasad ( Madan Puri). He rents a room in a Chawl in Borivali's 'Asha Manzil' where his friend, Gopal Mathur ( Naseeruddin Shah) and his attractive sister, Maya (

) also live. Pratap's main aim is to succeed in life, become rich, and buy a flat in posh Malabar Hills. He succeeds considerably, woos his boss' daughter, Indrani (

Ranjeeta Ranjeeta "Robby" Kaur (born 22 September 1956) is an Indian actress. She was trained at Film and Television Institute of India, FTII. She has appeared in around 47 films. She has portrayed a variety of characters and her films include: ''Lai ...

) and is soon promoted to the position of Deputy General Manager. On the day of his engagement to Indrani, he goes missing, and subsequently she and her father are notified that he has been arrested and charged with the homicide of a pregnant Maya.

Cast

as Pratap Kumar Shrivastav *

as Indrani Prasad * Naseeruddin Shah as Gopal Mathur *

as Maya (Gopal's sister) *

Ashok Kumar Kumudlal Ganguly (13 October 1911 – 10 December 2001), better known by his stage name Ashok Kumar and also by Dadamoni, was an Indian actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema and who was a member of the cinematic Ganguly family. He ...

as Advocate Joshi * Madan Puri as Ram Prasad (Indrani's father) *

Sujit Kumar Sujit Kumar (7 February 1934 – 5 February 2010) was an Indian actor and producer. He appeared in over 150 Hindi films in the 1960s through the 1990s, and in at least 20 Bhojpuri films. Sujit played the major lead actor in many films in ...

as Biharilal Khanna *

Utpal Dutt Utpal Dutta () (29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little The ...

as Public Prosecutor Dalaal

Soundtrack

References

External links

* *http://www.ibosnetwork.com/asp/filmbodetails.asp?id=Khwab 1980 films 1980s Hindi-language films Films directed by Shakti Samanta Films scored by Ravindra Jain {{1980s-Hindi-film-stub