Love Story (1981 film)

Love Story is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language romantic film directed by Rahul Rawail. The film stars Rajendra Kumar alongside his son Kumar Gaurav and Vijayta Pandit, both making their film debuts.[1] Vidya Sinha, Danny Denzongpa, Amjad Khan and Aruna Irani appear in supporting roles.[2]

Love Story
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRahul Rawail
Written byMirza Brothers
Produced byRajendra Kumar
StarringRajendra Kumar
Kumar Gaurav
Vijayta Pandit
CinematographyRadhu Karmakar
Edited byDavid Dhawan
Music byR. D. Burman
Distributed byAryan Films
Release date
  • 27 February 1981 (1981-02-27)
Running time
165 min
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Box Office India declared it a blockbuster.[3]

Plot

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Vijay Mehra is a wealthy builder and loves Suman, who also loves Vijay. Ram Dogra is a civil engineer who loves Suman. Ram and Suman were friends in college.

But Vijay leaves Suman because he feels jealous of Ram and Suman's friendship and marries another girl, and Suman marries Ram, but Vijay's wife dies after giving birth to a baby boy, Bunty, while Suman and Ram welcome a baby girl, Pinky.

Years later, Bunty and Pinky meet as strangers, Vijay wants Bunty to become a builder with him, but Bunty wants to become a pilot, due to this reason, Bunty leaves home, and Pinky also leaves the home because her father wants her to marry.

Bunty and Pinky meet again, but Hawaldar Sher Singh, who is assigned the job of finding the missing boy and girl, handcuffs them together, after some the good and bad circumstances, both fall in love with each other, they go somewhere unknown place and build a small cottage and live happily.

But, not ever after. Ram enters the scene and forcibly takes away Pinky. Now, Vijay is ready to accept his son's love, but Ram plans to get his daughter married against her wishes.

Bunty and Pinky run away from home again, but a gang of robbers follow them, suddenly, Vijay and Ram come to save their children and Bunty saves Ram's life. Ram changes his mind, and in the end Bunty and Pinky marry.

Cast

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Soundtrack

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The music was composed by R. D. Burman, with lyrics by Anand Bakshi.

Song Singer
"Kaisa Tera Pyar, Kaisa Gussa Hai Tera, Tauba Sanam" Lata Mangeshkar, Amit Kumar
"Dekho Maine Dekha Hai Yeh Ek Sapna" Lata Mangeshkar, Amit Kumar
"Teri Yaad Aa Rahi Hai" (Duet) Lata Mangeshkar, Amit Kumar
"Teri Yaad Aa Rahi Hai" (Solo) Amit Kumar
"Yeh Ladki Zara Si Deewani Lagti Hai" Asha Bhosle, Amit Kumar
"Kya Ghazab Karte Ho Ji" Asha Bhosle

Awards

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29th Filmfare Awards:

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Nominated

References

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  1. ^ "When Sanjay Dutt had said he can 'shed blood' for Kumar Gaurav: 'Love him immensely'". The Indian Express. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  2. ^ Kahlon, Sukhpreet. "40 years of Love Story (1981): The flash-in-the-pan stardom of Kumar Gaurav". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Boxofficeindia.com". 22 September 2012. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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