Dhanwan (1981 film)

Dhanwan
Directed by	Surendra Mohan
Produced by	Sohanlal Kanwar
Starring	Rajesh Khanna Reena Roy Rakesh Roshan Aruna Irani Om Prakash
Music by	Hridaynath Mangeshkar
Release dates	1981 (1981)
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Dhanwan is a 1981 Hindi film starring Rajesh Khanna in the lead role, paired opposite Reena Roy and produced by Sohanlal Kanwar.^[1] The supporting cast includes Aruna Irani, Rakesh Roshan, Shakti Kapoor, Om Prakash and Vijayendra Ghatge. Rakesh Roshan was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor at the Filmfare Awards, the only one for the film. Reena Roy plays the role of a defiant widow who reforms the egotistical Rajesh Khanna in the film.

Synopsis

Vijay (Rajesh Khanna) is a very proud rich man who thinks money can buy anything. He harbors love for Asha and tries to win her but she rejects him for his arrogance. He gets angry as well as disappointed when Asha marries an account clerk instead. Soon after he is involved in car accident in which he loses his eyesight completely, and the doctor thinks Vijay will need a new pair of eyes. Vijay orders for eyes, but it isn't as simple as Vijay thought, the doctor explains to him that it's difficult to find an eye donor. That is when Vijay realizes that money cannot buy everything in life. Then he starts believing in God and starts chanting prayers. Only a few days after, he finds a donor and his eyes are operated upon. Now Vijay can see and he also has realized that money is indeed very useless in certain circumstances.

On inquiry he comes to know that the eyes implanted on him are of Anil, his accounts clerk and the person who married Asha. Now Asha is a widow as Anil has been executed after being falsely implicated on a case of theft. It now becomes an aim of the now big hearted generous tycoon Vijay to protect Asha and find the truth as to how Anil got into trouble and to prove the world that Anil was innocent.

Reception

It received four stars in the Bollywood guide Collections.^[2] The film grossed 3.9 crores at the box office in 1981.

Cast

• Rajesh Khanna as Vijay
• Reena Roy as Asha
• Rakesh Roshan as Anil

Music

• "Idhar Aa Aa Bhi Jaa" – Kishore Kumar
• "Maro Bhar Bharke Pichkari" – Kishore Kumar
• "Yeh Ankhein Dekh Kar" – Lata Mangeshkar, Suresh Wadkar
• "Kuchh Log Mohabbat Ko" – Lata Mangeshkar
• "Balle Balle Bhai Reshmi Dupatta" – Mahendra Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar

References

External links

• Dhanwan at the Internet Movie Database