Chor Machaye Shor
Chor Machaye Shor is a 1974 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Ashok Roy and produced by N. N. Sippy. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Mumtaz, Danny Denzongpa, Madan Puri, Asrani and Asit Sen in main roles. The music is by Ravindra Jain. Asrani earned a Filmfare nomination for best performance in a comic role, the only nomination for the film. The film became a "superhit" and earned the second spot at the box office in 1974. It was filmed at the Pratapgad fort in Maharashtra.
Producer, cast and music composer teamed up again for Fakira, which also became a box office hit.
"Le Jayenge, Le Jayenge Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge" is a very popular song from the film which Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge later adopted it as its film title. The film was remade in Telugu as Bhale Dongalu.
Plot
Vijay Sharma, an engineer, is in love with a rich girl Rekha. Rekha's father disapproves because Vijay is not wealthy and arranges her to marry the son of an evil politician. Rekha's father and the politician frame Vijay for a crime that he didn't commit, and he goes to jail. There, Vijay becomes friends with three other prisoners and all four escape from the jail.Vijay reconnects with Rekha and they all go to save a small village Shantinagar, being terrorized by the evil politicians and bandits. The evil politician is arrested. Vijay and his prisoner friends go back to jail. Rekha's father feels remorse and accepts Vijay as his future son-in-law. The film ends on an optimistic note hinting that prison sentences of all four will be shortened.
Cast
- Shashi Kapoor as Vijay Sharma
- Mumtaz as Rekha
- Madan Puri as Seth Jamunadas
- Danny Denzongpa as Raju Ustad
- Asrani as Bhalua
- Meena T as Chandramukhi
- Tarun Ghosh as Kalua
- Kamal Kapoor as Rekha's father
- Asit Sen as Thanedar
- Chaman Puri as Mukhiya
- Sajjan as Amritlal
- Moolchand
- Sajjan
- Ram Mohan
- Uma Dutt
- Chandrima Bhaduri
- Shyam Kumar
- Master Chintu
- Hangama