Plot No. 5

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Plot No. 5
Directed by Yogesh Saxena
Produced byJerooant Yogesh
Starring Uttam Kumar
Music by Salil Choudhury
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Plot No. 5 is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language drama thriller film directed by Yogesh Saxena [1] and produced by Jerooant Yogesh. [2] This film was released on 23 January 1981 under the banner of Visual Productions. It was released after the death of Uttam Kumar, one of the key actors of the film. [3]

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Plot

The plot revolves around a series of mysterious murders where the victims are young ambitious girls. Police officer Khan discovers that all the murders are committed near the house named Plot No. 5. Two brothers, Ajay and Sanjay Mehra, live there with a servant, among whom Sanjay is wheelchair-bound. Mr Verma, a friend of the Mehra brothers and a family doctor often come there. The police suspect all of them. Finally it is revealed that Sanjay had killed all those girls who had taken pity on his disability. Ajay had tried to take his brother's crime on himself due to his guilt emerging from the fact that he had unintentionally made his brother disabled.

Cast

Music

Salil Choudhury was the music director of the film. This is the only film where Chowdhury scored the background music, as well as a disco song Chic Chic Chica Chica.

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