Shaque (1976)

 ●  Hindi ● 2 hrs 7 mins

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Vinod Joshi lives a middle-class existence with his wife, Meena, and a young son. He would like to improve upon his living conditions and ensure that his child enjoys life thoroughly. One day Vinod returns home in a bloodied state, and tells Meena that there has been a homicide at his place of work, and a large amount of money has been stolen. The police are called in to to investigate, and as a result a fellow-employee by the name of Subramaniam is arrested and sentenced to jail. Then the Joshi family gets wealthy all of a sudden, and move to a different and more spacious location, and start enjoying their lives to the fullest. Meena finds out that another co-worker of Vinod's, Maan Singh, has been telling people that Vinod was the one who stole the money, and also killed the employee in the process. Meena goes to meet Maan Singh to confirm this, and he does so, and even writes a letter to her to that effect, and threatens to inform the police. When Meena confronts Vinod, he vehemently denies ever stealing nor killing anyone, but has no explanation to offer for their new-found wealth. As Meena attempts to trace the origin of this wealth, and gets more and more convinced about his guilt, she and Vinod finds themselves growing further apart from each other, and Meena coming to the shocking conclusion that she has been sleeping with someone who may have killed another human being. Then Maan Singh's girlfriend, Rosita, is killed. The police find Vinod's fingerprints on the knife. Upon seeing the police, Vinod asks Meena to get ready to run, which they do, with the police in hot chase after them. How long will Vinod continue to elude the police, and did he really commit those murders?

Cast: Shabana Azmi, Utpal Dutt, Vinod Khanna

Crew: Aruna Raje (Director), Vikas Desai (Director), Apurba Kishore Bir (Director of Photography), Vasant Desai (Music Director)

Rating: U (India)

Genres: Drama

Release Dates: 31 Dec 1976 (India)

Hindi Name: शाके

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Did you know? The censor board did not approve the scene where Shabana and Vinod Khanna's legs are intertwined on the bed. They felt it look like they were having sex. Director Aruna Raje explained to them there was no way they could have sex in that position, but the censor board did not budge and the scene had to be deleted. Read More
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Film Type:
Feature
Language:
Hindi
Colour Info:
Color
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Mono
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
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Music Label: Saregama India Limited
02:09

Music Director: Vasant Desai
Lyricist: Gulzar Kalra
04:03

Music Director: Vasant Desai
Lyricist: Gulzar Kalra
Playback Singer: Asha Bhosle
Trivia:
The censor board did not approve the scene where Shabana and Vinod Khanna's legs are intertwined on the bed. They felt it look like they were having sex. Director Aruna Raje explained to them there was no way they could have sex in that position, but the censor board did not budge and the scene had to be deleted.

While filming the bedroom scenes, Shabana Azmi would complain to the director and Vinod Khanna that she did not know what exactly to do because she wasn't married. Vinod and Aruna Raje had a good laugh. Shabana was seeing Shekhar Kapoor at the time.