Chakra (film)

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Chakra
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Directed by	Rabindra Dharmaraj
Written by	Jaywant Dalvi
Starring	Smita Patil Naseeruddin Shah Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Release date(s)	1981
Country	India
Language	Hindi
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Chakra is a 1981 Hindi movie directed by Rabindra Dharmaraj. The film stars Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.

[edit] Plot

Amma (Smita Patil) and her son Benwa (Ranjit Chowdhry) move to Bombay’s slum-dwellers when her husband killed a moneylender who tried to rape her. The husband was then shot trying to steal some tin to build a hut. In Bombay she live with the vain pimp and petty crook Lukka (Naseeruddin Shah) , Benwa’s idol. Lukka is banned from Bombay by the police and Benwa marries the young Chenna (Anjali Paigankar). Amma acquires another lover Anna (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a truck driver and become pregnant. Lukka reappears, ravaged by syphilis and drugs; he kills a chemist to feed his habit and hides in Amma’s hut. The cops find him and arrest both him and Benwa, beating them up in the process. Amma has a miscarriage in the scuffle. In the end, bulldozers arrives to flatten the entire slum place. [1]