Silsila (film)

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Silsila
Directed by	Yash Chopra
Produced by	Yash Chopra
Written by	Preeti Bedi (story) Yash Chopra (screenplay) Sagar Sarhadi (screenplay) Romesh Sharma (dialogue director)
Starring	Shashi Kapoor Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Rekha
Music by	Hariprasad Chaurasia Shiv Kumar Sharma
Cinematography	Kay Gee
Editing by	Keshav Naidu
Release date(s)	29 July 1981
Running time	182 min.
Language	Hindi
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Silsila is a 1981 Bollywood movie directed by Yash Chopra. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Jaya Bhaduri, Sanjeev Kumar and Rekha. The film is said to be based on Amitabh Bachchan's personal life.

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Orphaned at very young ages, Shekhar and Amit Malhotra are survivors and lead independent lives with Shekhar being a Squadron Leader with the Indian Air Force, and Amit a struggling writer. While Shekhar has fallen in love with lovely Shobha, Amit woos an attractive Chandni. Both brothers plan to marry together. But fate has something much worse in store for them when Shekhar is killed in a plane crash, leaving behind a pregnant and devastated Shobha. Taking pity on Shobha's plight, Amit marries her and writes to Chandni to forget him. This news breaks Chandni's heart, and she goes on to marry Dr. V.K. Anand, who is very much in love with her. Tragedy strikes once more, and Shobha loses her child in a car accident. With no child to tie them together, both drift apart, Amit meets Chandni and they secretly rekindle their romance. They meet on the sly, until one day when Chandni accidentally hits a passer-by. The police get involved, but Amit manages to hush the matter up. But their secret meetings will no longer be secret anymore for the Police Inspector in charge of this accident is none other than Shobha's cousin, Kulbhushan, and he is determined to expose Amit's affair with Chandni.