| Khel Khel Mein | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ravi Tandon |
| Produced by | Ravi Malhotra |
| Written by | Sachin Bhowmick |
| Starring | Rishi Kapoor Neetu Singh Rakesh Roshan Aruna Irani |
| Music by | R.D. Burman Gulshan Bawra |
| Cinematography | M.R Vasudev |
| Editing by | Waman B Bhosle, Gurudutt Shirali |
| Release date(s) | 1975 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Khel Khel Mein (Hindi: खेल खेल में; English: In each game) is a 1975 Indian Hindi film directed by Ravi Tandon. The film's music (Ek main aur ek tu, and also Khullam khulla pyaar karenge) was composed by R.D. Burman and the lyrics written by Gulshan Bawra. The film stars Rishi Kapoor , Neetu Singh and Rakesh Roshan as college students, who play a prank and get involved with a notorious criminal. The film turns fast from fun and frolic to a taut thriller. Iftekhar and Aruna Irani also star in the film.
The story has been adapted from the English novel "Good children don't kill", written by Louis Thomas, the blind writer, and published in 1967.
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The music for the movie was directed by R. D. Burman.
Ajay(Rishi Kapoor), Vikram(Rakesh Roshan) & Nisha(Neetu Singh) are three college friends who are always up to some prank. One day they spot a rich man & send him a typewritten extortion letter, just for fun. The fun turns too real when they find out that the same night the man (Jankidas) has been murdered & that the extortionists are the main suspects.
As if this is not enough, their typewriter suddenly disappears & Vikram is mysteriously killed. To top it, a stranger(Dev Kumar) suddenly starts stalking them. To add to this, one police officer Bhupendra Singh(Iftekhar) frequently meets them threatening that very soon they are going to land in trouble. Can Ajay & Nisha save themselves from a game that has become deadly? who really the stranger is?
Ajay(Rishi Kapoor) joins a college in Mumbai for further education. He meets Vikram(Rakesh Roshan) & Nisha(Neetu Singh), two slackers in the college who just love playing pranks. Ajay is way different from them & an easy target. But after some initial hiccups, Ajay becomes friends with them. Ajay starts enjoying their company & usually works as an accomplice for them. One day, they spot a stingy Seth(rich man Jankidas) & decide to write a fake extortion letter to him, to see whether they can relieve him of his money. The next day, they find out through the newspaper that the man is dead. They also learn that police suspect the extortionists are behind the murder. Realizing they mess they are about to get in, they quickly go on to destroy their typewriter, only to find it missing. After some incidents, they realize that a stranger(Dev Kumar) is stalking them.
Ajay & Nisha decide to tell police the truth, whether they believe it or not. But even before they can tell the truth, they are horrified to find Vikram dead. They meet Inspector Bhupendra Singh(Iftekhar), who is investigating the case. The Inspector is sceptical, but gives them one chance to prove their innocence. From Vikram's personal belongings, they find out about a club singer named Sherie(Aruna Irani). Anticipating that Sherie may know as to why Vikram was killed, they go to meet Sherie.
But when they go to her dressing room after her performance, they find her dead. They realize one thing: Sherie was in some shady deals & Vikram was somehow linked with it, causing both to lose their lives. After trying to find out some information, they learn that Sherie acted as a middle person between a dreaded criminal named Black Cobra & the people who paid him. Since Vikram had a flair for such things, it seems obvious that he got involved. After learning that Black Cobra is an extortionist & the dead man was also on his payroll, blocks suddenly start falling into places.
Ajay & Nisha deduce that the rich man thought the note was from Black Cobra & that the latter had become more greedy. This customer decided to reveal Black Cobra's identity to police, for which he was killed. Black Cobra thought that Vikram & Sherie were extorting people in his name, behind his back. So he killed them. He also stole the typewriter to frame Ajay & Nisha. It becomes clear that the person following them is either Black Cobra himself, or his agent sent to find out whether the duo know anything. Though they have no concrete information about Black Cobra, they find some information secretly hidden by Sherie, that might unmask Black Cobra. The stranger confronts them, but the duo overpower him & escape.
They inform the Inspector about their findings. The Inspector calls them to meet him in an abandoned place. They give him all the incriminating evidence, but to their astonishment, the Inspector burns all of it. He then drops a bombshell on them by telling that he is no Inspector Bhupendra Singh, but Black Cobra. Suddenly the duo realize that they played right into his hands. Black Cobra coolly goes on to declare that since they know pretty much everything, he has to kill them & pin the blame of all the killings on them.
He denies that he sent any man behind them. Just he is about to pull the trigger, the stranger makes an entry & after some fight the Black Cobra is put behind the bars. To a bewildered Ajay & Nisha, the stranger drops another bombshell by saying that he is Charlie, an undercover police officer working on the murder cases. He tells that he suspected Vikram & Sherie of running the extortion racket much before the rich man's murder. He already knew about the prank of the typewriter, but was unsure whether they killed the rich man or Cobra. So he stole their typewriter.
Then Cobra killed Vikram & Sherie to keep his secret intact. Then he knew that Cobra is behind all this & used the duo to track down Cobra. He reassures Ajay & Nisha that even though Black Cobra destroyed all the proof, there is no proof against the duo either. He tells the duo to collect the typewriter from him the next day. The duo oblige, vowing never to play such pranks again.