Parvarish

Plot synopsis:
Deputy Superintendent of Police Shamsher Singh (Shammi Kapoor) captures the notorious bandit Mangal Singh (Amjad Khan) just as Mangal's wife is about to give birth. She dies at childbirth, but not before extracting from the DSP his promise to take care of her son. Subsequently, DSP Singh raises the boy alongside his own. Though ironically, DSP Singh's natural son Kishen (Vinod Khanna) has a wicked streak, while Mangal's son, Amit (Amitabh Bachchan), is endowed with an honest nature.
Released after 14 years in jail, Mangal finds out that his son is with his old enemy. He mistakes Kishen to be his son and instigates him to fight against Shamsher's family. They join the underworld gang and spread havoc. Amit becomes an honest police officer and is assigned the task of nabbing the gang. After a misunderstanding, Kishen comes to believe he is actually Mangal's son and falls under the bandit's influence, though he continues to live in the inspector's home.
The remainder of the film deals with how Kishen and Amit find out the truth about their origins and how they react to the situation.

Tags: revenge, murder, flashback

Review:
Vinod Khanna all the way!!. The movie was brilliant for its time. After the success of Deewar and Sholay, most of the directors kept the best roles in the movies for Amitabh Bacchan. Here as well, Manmohan Desai projected Amitabh as the honest good cop, intending all the sympathies and attention from the viewers but who steals the show? It's Vinod Khanna! Vinod Khanna was fabulous in the movie, he always stole the show even if the roles written for him may or may not be bigger than his co-actors. He is the ultimate grey shade hero of the Indian cinema. No one can beat his personality, his charisma, his style, the panther walk and his brilliance in adopting any role thrown to him. He clearly beats Amitabh here. The movie was the great Indian entertainer with the top two superstars of the 70s.. Amitabh Bachchan Steals the Show. A GREAT film with a good STORY LINE, HAS a GREAT CAST but ONE STAR STANDS OUT OF THEM ALL, Mr.Amitabh Bachchan,What can we say,Which hasn't already been said about Amitabh Bachchan, He turns an hit film into a blockbuster with the performance's he delivers, Thn with Vinod Khanna and Shammi Kapoor providing good performances as well, but as always Amitabh Bachchan stands out.The film runs very smoothly and with negative role by Amjad Khan and Kader Khan Parvarish had something for everyone. Parvarish is a must watch if your Amitabh Bachchan or a Vinod Khanna fan, its great in script, Some great songs which change the mood of the film and that ain't just placed in the film they fit in with the story. If you liked Suhaag, Amar Akbar Anthony and Khoon Pasina this is a much watch film, a film you can watch over and over again.. VINOD KHANNA the hunk!. Brilliant movie, trend setter for the future movies to follow. It was a huge blockbuster and had two of the biggest superstars who were ruling the box-office at that time. Amitabh and Vinod. Great performances by Shammi Kapoor, Kadar Khan and the rest of the cast. Nitu Singh and Shabana were good as well, however the one who stood out was Vinod Khanna. His role was more important than Amitabh's. Amitabh's role had just one shade into it, Vinod had to change the shades and emotions as the movie runs to the climax, he surely portrayed it meticulously. The grey shades in his role were captured by him perfectly. His screen presence, his persona, his acting, he really gave Amitabh a tough time. He was a trend setter and an icon which he proved in this movie. The movie rocked, surely some scenes look dated now but that is because of the fact that they have been copied over and over again by other movies in the last 40 years.. It's Not a Movie.. It's a Desai Movie !. Naturally you'll have a lost and found kid, at least one revenge story, and many twists and surprises. The evil guys are like James Bond ones ; classy, living in lavish lairs, and killing in strangely sophisticated ways. The street girl is sweet, loyal and funny pickpocket. The cop is young, handsome, and easy to fool. And there is, always and forever, time for 2 lovers (sometimes 4 or 6) to sing in anywhere! The cadres are so colorful, the music is so Hindi, and everything is elegant. The action is directed like a musical number, and the musical number is directed like an action. You'd never get board or confused despite how many the story lines are. The melodrama, the action, the music, the romance, and yes the comedy all are present and in one balanced formula where the performance can't be over the top, maybe over the enjoyment.What I like about (Manmohan Desai)'s movies, aside from being so "movies", is that the melodramatic stories are nothing but what all the old legends told us, yet in modern catchy and commercial flick. Forget about it as ordinary movie. It's a folk story however with dazzling cinematic images, vivid atmosphere and good escapist production, where there is no hard violence or sexiness, and the pure love and justice will triumph at the end.(Parvarish) assures that genes got nothing to do with being a criminal or else. It says that in amusing story about the son of the officer who was raised by the criminal to be a criminal, and the son of the criminal who was raised by the officer to be an officer. It's explicit message about how the upbringing, the title's meaning, is the main – if not the only – reason why for someone to be a criminal or not. But this time the meaning is said al a' masala.All of the aforementioned elements are available and nicely made. The climactic sequence in a submarine was ambitious, Bond himself did something like it in (The Spy Who Loved Me) strangely in the same year of (1977). True it wasn't as huge as what other cinemas can do, but it was fair considering that we're in Bollywood in the 1970s. Among some recurring elements of (Desai) there are the electronic walls in villas that open suddenly to hide the cars; watch him reusing that 4 years later in (Nesseb). Or the mud that swallows people like quicksand; it would play dangerous role 9 years later in (Mard).I liked the calm acting of the 2 male leads, especially Bachchan who maybe his baritone voice wasn't discovered yet, so his vocal performance was so cinematic and totally out of exaggeration. (Amjad Khan) did a wonderful job as the evil man who ran soft at the end. And I haven't seen (Neetu Singh) more sexy in a movie before, OH MY GOD, her exceptionally beautiful face, fascinating black hair, and bubbly spirit, she was sultrily exploding with many BIG talents; and I'm not referring to her big black eyes only. Obviously (Desai) himself felt the same, so put her voluptuous figure in always very tight pants. I even suppose that he made, or made up, the strange, totally unnecessary, number of (Aahiye, Shoukh Se Kahiye) to utilize her beauty more erotically, no matter how inserted and forced that scene looked.The movie's melodies bewitch me. (Hum Premi Prem Kar Na Jaane) is a piece of magic. While being originally a drama song, it could be sung and remembered more than any – say – romantic one. Plus no contemporary Indian song can hold a candle to it, which forces me to ask; was the music's cleverness a phase that ended in Bollywood ? Other songs like (Bandh Aankh Se Dekh Tamashathen), (Sab Janta Ka Hai Yethe) or else make this movie enjoyable and immortal indeed. It's a sin talking about the soundtrack without mentioning the presence of singer (Kishore Kumar). He used to lend his voice to most of the Indian cinema's stars as a playback singer during 4 decades from 1946 to 1987 through something over 600 movies; for instance in 1977 he made, else Parvarish, 41 movies! However, still his ever charming singing is an enough legacy for being legendary.I can't find something that could be bad, or rather representing any dissonance in this harmonic formula. Maybe things like how (Vinod Khanna) managed to hide his secret life as a tiptop criminal for 20 years ? Though there is no where to even ask a rational question like this in here, it's totally silly to be that meticulous in a well-meaning well-made dream. Therefore when it comes to things like how fast (Khanna) got out of prison at the end despite his long history with crime.. sure you'll work it out in the back of your mind since it's made for the sake of the lovely happy end which overwhelms it quickly later. Simply I believe with that amount of solid enjoyment you may forgive slight points like this anyway. I just hated the shadow dancers at the lair with their uninterrupted dancing; that was unbelievable to highly comic extent ! (Desai) made 20 movies as a director, 13 of them were super hits. In 1977 he was the happiest man in India, making four of the highest grossing movies for the year : (Dharam Veer), (Chacha Bhatija), (Parvarish) and (Amar Akbar Anthony). The man wasn't Mr. lucky inasmuch as a moviemaker who knew how to move the audience, play with their feelings, excite their ardor, and overpower their emotions to the max of satisfaction. (Parvarish) is a delightful little example that gives a quick idea why so many critics, before usual viewers, call him : The Master.