Kasme Vaade

Kasme Vaade (lit. 'The Sworn Promises') is a 1978 Hindi action thriller film produced and directed by Ramesh Behl. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee, Randhir Kapoor, Neetu Singh and Amjad Khan. Randhir Kapoor earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Supporting Actor, the only nomination for the film.[2] Rekha makes a guest appearance as a dancer. The music is by R. D. Burman and the lyrics by Gulshan Bawra. The film was declared a semi-hit by Box Office India.[3] The film was remade in Telugu as Chesina Basalu (1980), in Sinhalese as Nawatha Hamuwemu (1986) and in Tamil as Dharmathin Thalaivan (1988).[4]

Kasme Vaade
Poster
Directed byRamesh Behl
Produced byRamesh Behl
Written byIshraq-Suja
StarringAmitabh Bachchan
Raakhee
Randhir Kapoor
Neetu Singh
Amjad Khan
Music byR. D. Burman
Release date
  • 21 April 1978 (1978-04-21)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box office₹4.7 crores(equivalent to ₹97 crores or US$13.6 million in 2019)[1]

Plot

Suman (Raakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother, Raju (Randhir Kapoor), and Raju already calls Suman "Bhabhi". Amit is a teacher in a college, but Raju is unemployed and a little bit spoiled by Amit and Suman's pamperings.

Raju gets into bad company, and as a result lands in trouble. When Amit comes to help Raju, he is killed. Suman dons the garb of a widow and plan not to marry again.

Then one day a look-alike of Amit, named Shankar enters Suman and Raju's life. Guilt-ridden, Raju thinks that he has gotten his brother back, and tries to make amends by hiring Shankar, not knowing that Shankar is a wanted criminal, and is looking for an escape route from the authorities.

Raju's guilty unconditional support and love along with the, for obvious reasons, confusing for both, but electric attraction between Shankar and Suman eventually wins Shankar over from his past evil ways. Nevertheless, Shankar can not so easily escape his past.

Suman is kidnapped in order to force Shankar to aid a kingpin by using an international car rally championship as cover to smuggle diamonds. With Raju's help, of course, good prevails over evil and symbolically, Shanker is wounded protecting Suman and as they role free of the shooting and explosions and come to rest, it is seen that Suman's forehead has been marked crimson by the blood of her soul mate. Raju has learnt a heart-crushing lesson in the dangers or excess and frivolity but in the end, there is hope and greater wisdom.

Neetu Singh also had a small role as the fiancée of Raju (Randhir Kapoor). Amjad Khan was the main villain while Vijayendra Ghatge played the killer of Amit. The film's songs "Aati Rahengi Baharen". "Mile Jo Kadi Kadi, Ek Zanjeer Bane" and the title song "Kasme Vaade Nibhayenge Hum" had become very popular.

Cast

Soundtrack

All the songs[5] were composed by Rahul Dev Burman and lyrics were penned by Gulshan Bawra. The song "Kal Kya Hoga Kisko Pata" is partly based on "Hafanana" by Afric Simone.[6]

#TitleSinger(s)Duration
1 "Kasme Vaade Nibhayenge Hum" - I Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar 04:45
2 "Aati Rahengi Baharen" - I Kishore Kumar, Amit Kumar, Asha Bhosle 05:14
3 "Kal Kya Hoga" R.D.Burman 04:59
4 "Mile Jo Kadi Kadi" Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar 05:48
5 "Aati Rahengi Baharen" - II Amit Kumar 02:50
6 "Kasme Vaade Nibhayenge Hum" - II Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar 02:04

References
  1. "Amitabh Bachchan Hits, Flops and Blockbusters : Box Office Analysis".
  2. "Filmfare awards" (PDF).
  3. "Box Office 1978". Archived from the original on 8 August 2009.
  4. Lokapally, Vijay (27 February 2015). "Kasme Vaade (1978)". The Hindu. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  5. "Kasme Vaade : Lyrics and video of Songs from the Movie Kasme Vaade (1978)". HindiGeetMala.
  6. Srinivasan, Karthik (18 December 2018). "How A 1975 African Song Was Unofficially Tweaked For 3 Bollywood Films". Film Companion. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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