Dharam Veer (1977)

Original title

धरम वीर

Directed by

Manmohan Desai

Genre

action film, adventure film, melodrama

Country

India

Runtime

2h 45m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Twin brothers are separated at birth and grow up unaware of each other. They become best friends in childhood, then scheming villains cause them to turn against one another.

energeticmelodramaticswashbucklingnostalgiclarger-than-lifeserendipitoussentimentalcolorful

What happens

Dharam-Veer is a 1977 Hindi-language period action-drama film, directed by Manmohan Desai, produced by Subhas Desai under the Mehboob Studios and R.K. Studios banner, starring Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Jeetendra, Neetu Singh and Pran. Its music was composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal. Dharmendra's younger son Bobby Deol appears briefly playing the childhood version of his father's character. Dharam-Veer takes place in a mythical kingdom and tells the tale of twin brothers Dharam and Veer played by Dharamendra and Jeetendra respectively, who get separated at birth but still become best friends in childhood, not knowing that they were real brothers, and later turn against each other due to various conspiracies of the villains and in the end reunite. The film became the second highest-grossing film of 1977. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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