''Suraag'' is a 1982

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film, directed by

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, starring

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and

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Cast

- Professor Saxena *

- Sunita/Bela *

- Dr. Ajay Gupta *

- Geeta *

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- Surinder Suri *

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- Paul Khanna *

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- Raju, Khanna's henchman (uncredited) *

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- Qawaali Singer (Guest Appearance) *

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- as herself (Guest Appearance) *

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- as herself (Guest Appearance) *

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- Qawaali Singer (Guest Appearance) *

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- Renu Lamba (Guest Appearance) *

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- Father of prospective bride (Guest Appearance) *

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- Mother of prospective bride (Guest Appearance)

Storyline

Prof. Saxena (

) and Dr. Gupta (

) are friends living at Los Angeles (USA). The professor is married, while the doctor is unmarried. The doctor decides to get married, but to an ideal Indian woman with traditional values. On the advice of club owner Paul Khanna (

), Gupta places a matrimonial advertisement in an Indian newspaper. He and the professor leave for

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to vet the responses and find himself a bride. After a few dates with women who answer to his advertisement in local newspapers, they select one who has good Indian traditional values, named Sunita (

). After a few more meetings, the doctor and Sunita get married. The doctor leaves for the US assuring her that he will send her flight tickets soon. After a few weeks, the doctor sends Sunita her tickets for Los Angeles via New York. During the flight, another woman plants cocaine in Sunita's vanity case. Sunita clears customs without the drugs being detected and reaches New York. She calls the doctor to inform him of her arrival at New York and that she will board the flight to Los Angeles. The doctor, the professor, and the latter's wife Geeta (

) wait at Los Angeles airport, but Sunita does not arrive as expected. Instead, they get a message that Sunita has been kidnapped. Dr. Gupta pays a $200,000 ransom, but the kidnappers do not release his wife. Meanwhile, while watching a movie, Geeta spots Sunita onscreen as an extra in a song sequence. This leads to the discovery that Sunita is really Bela, an aspiring actress, whose behavior as a traditional Indian woman was merely the role of a lifetime. Saxena is determined to track down Sunita/Bela and her co-conspirators. He initially suspects Surinder Suri (

), a businessman in desperate need of cash to cover his gambling debts. Suri admits to having used Sunita as a patsy to smuggle cocaine into the country in order to recoup his losses. However, he claims to nothing about her disappearance, which has caused him severe problems as the cocaine has disappeared with her. But if he's telling the truth, where is Sunita/Bela? Has she disappeared of her own accord, or has she really been kidnapped?

Soundtrack

The songs were composed by

Bappi Lahiri Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and ...

and penned by

Kaifi Azmi Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others he participated ...

References

External links

* 1982 films 1980s Hindi-language films Films scored by Bappi Lahiri Films directed by Jag Mundhra {{1980s-Hindi-film-stub