Locket (film)

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Locket
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byRamesh Ahuja
Written byMadan Joshi (dialogues)
Gauhar Kanpuri (lyrics)
Screenplay byD.P. Maurya
Aruna Jhalani
Story byD.P. Maurya
Produced by Tahir Hussain
Starring Jeetendra
Rekha
Vinod Mehra
CinematographyAnil Mitra
Edited byRamesh Pai
Music by Bappi Lahiri
Production
company
T.V. Films [1]
Release date
  • 11 April 1986 (1986-04-11)
Running time
156 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Locket is a 1986 Indian Hindi-language action film, produced by Tahir Hussain on T.V. Films banner and directed by Ramesh Ahuja. Starring Jeetendra, Rekha, Vinod Mehra and music composed by Bappi Lahiri. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Plot

The film revolves around a valuable heritage treasure belonging to a royal dynasty. Its heritor Rajasaab is surrounded & slaughtered by his spiteful cousin Tagore Veer Pratap Singh. Before dying, Raja Saab entrusts the route map and his heir Rajkumar Anil Pratap Singh to his stanch Diwan Sardarilal. Diwan makes the map into two pieces and hides it in two identical lockets. The first he places to Rajkumar and the second is given to his son Shankar. In that chaos, Diwan is clutched by Veer Pratap, Rajkumar is rescued by a few villagers, and Diwan’s daughter Sonia is adopted by a wealthy couple whereas Shankar remains with his mother Lakshmi.

Years roll by, and Shankar a valiant village guy, arrives in the city to find out his long-lasting sister Sonia. Rajkumar / Raja is a daredevil ruffian and associates with Veer Pratap as an unbeknownst. Destiny befriends Shankar & Raja,and Veer Pratap gazes at Shankar‘s caliber. So, to snare him, he triggers Shalu that forcibly grabbed into the profession who civilizes him and they crush. Sonia’s beau Inspector Vijay is a diehard to Veer Pratap. Raja endears a girl Sunita and turns as an undercover cop to seize Veer Pratap. Meanwhile, Shankar learns about his father‘s existence through Shalu, so, he becomes a white knight to Veer Pratap, acquires his credence, and works as a squealer to Vijay. Parallelly, Lakshmi in search of Shankar lands at the city when she accidentally meets Sonia and detects her via her mole. After crossing many hurdles Shankar approaches his father and gets knowledge about the treasure map inside his locket. Eventually, he detects Raja as the prince by his locket. Being cognizant of it, Veer Pratap abducts Lakshmi & Sonia too. At last, Shankar & Raja with Vijay cease him and safeguard the treasure. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriages of love birds.

Cast

Soundtrack

#SongSinger
1"Bhole Shankar" Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
2"Jo Bhi Kehna" Suresh Wadkar, Preeti Sagar
3"Main Gulbadan" Usha Uthup
4"Sholay Sholay" Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
5"Suno Satpalji" Kishore Kumar, Mahendra Kapoor, Shailendra Singh

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