''Surakksha'' (English: ''Protection'') is a 1979

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- language film directed by

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. The film stars

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, Jeevan,

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. Based as a spy thriller (with hero's code of Gunmaster G9), it was the first of a two of such films with Mithun in the lead, the other being ''

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''. It was a "Super-duper Hit" film at the box office and the ninth highest grossing movie of 1979. The film is only big success in the year 1979, where big stars films were failed or just a moderate success but Surakksha is a huge hit of 1979, and Mithun Chakraborty becomes a rising star.

Plot

Shiv Shakti Organization (SSO) intends to spread terror in India. The CBI Chief (

) learns about this and calls for Officer Gopi ( Mithun), aka Gunmaster G-9, to investigate into the matter. The trouble starts when a plane flown by Captain Kapoor (

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) is attacked by a stream of deadly signals force landing it. Soon after, agent Jackson (

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) is replaced with his look-alike. Gopi doesn't take long to get to this and sets out to rescue his agent. During this, he happens to encounter Priya (

), who's out to investigate her father's death, supposedly by Gopi. After a few chance encounters, both start to check about the organisation and its high command. Further course of investigation leads them to the Hiralal ( Jeevan) working with his men using hi-tech gadgets for this organisation. After few interesting stunts, car-chases, fights, dancing with scantily-clad girls, some romance and comedy by agent Khabri (

), they happen to meet the patchy-eyed SSO chief, Doctor Shiva ( K. Balaji). The rest of the story show on handling this chief and his organization by the CBI.

Cast

as CBI Officer Gopi/Gunmaster G-9 *

as Priya * Jeevan as Hiralal *

as Khabari * Iftakar as CBI Head *

as Ruby *

Prema Narayan Prema Narayan (born 4 April 1955) is a former Model and Bollywood actress-dancer. She has acted in Hindi and Bengali cinema. She was the Femina Miss India World 1971, and represented India at Miss World 1971. Early life Prema Narayan was born i ...

as Maggie *

as Jackson 'Jackie' * Balaje as Doctor Shiva, SSO Chief *Mala Jaggi as Neelam *

as Captain Kapoor

Crew

*Direction – Raveekant Nagaich *Story – Rajvansh *Screenplay – Ramesh Pant *Dialogue – V.D. Puranik *Production – B. Subaash, Raveekant Nagaich *Production Company – Gopi Enterprises *Editing – Shyam Mukherjee *Cinematography – Raveekant Nagaich *Music Direction –

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*Lyrics –

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, Ramesh Pant *Playback – Annette Pinto,

, Dilraj Kaur,

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Soundtrack

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0246261, सुरक्षा
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