Dharmatma (1975)

Original title

धर्मात्मा

Directed by

Feroz Khan

Genre

crime film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 43m

Rated

A

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is an Indian crime film from 1975. It follows a man whose family is involved in a criminal underworld, and he gets drawn into a conflict between loyalty and righteousness. The story was one of the first Indian attempts to adapt the Godfather story to a local setting.

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What happens

Dharmatma (lit. 'Righteous Soul') is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language thriller film produced and directed by Feroz Khan. The cast includes Khan, Hema Malini, Rekha, Premnath, Imtiaz Khan, Danny Denzongpa, Farida Jalal, Ranjeet, Helen, Madan Puri, Jeevan, Iftekhar, Dara Singh, Satyen Kappu and Sudhir. The music is by Kalyanji Anandji. It was the first Indian film to be shot in Afghanistan and the film also has scenes featuring Buzkashi, a Central Asian sport on horses, including aerial shots, which in turn won the film's cinematographer, Kamal Bose, the Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer. Dharmatma's plot is loosely based on The Godfather (1972), the first attempt in India to localise the American film, and the character of Premnath was inspired by the life and times of the then king of Matka gambling, Ratan Khatri. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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