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Avtaar is a 1983 drama film starring Rajesh Khanna and Shabana Azmi. It was directed by Mohan Kumar, and the music was by Laxmikant Pyarelal, and lyrics by Anand Bakshi. Avtaar was critically acclaimed and earned around ₹8 crore worldwide. The film earned several Filmfare award nominations. Rajesh Khanna received an All-India Critics Association (AICA) Best Actor Award for his performance in this film in 1983.
The film was later remade into the Telugu film O Thandri Theerpu (1985), starring Murali Mohan and Jayasudha, in Kannada as Kaliyuga (1984), starring Rajesh and Aarthi, in Malayalam as Jeevitham (1984), starring Madhu and Unni Mary and in Tamil as Vaazhkai (1984), starring Sivaji Ganesan and Ambika.
The film starts with wife Radha Kishan garlanding her husband Avtaar Kishan's bust while she mourns his death, then flashes back thirty years. Radha, is the only daughter of Seth Jugal Kishore, a billionaire businessman in Mumbai, and is in love with Avtaar, a Punjabi Hindu refugee from West Punjab, working as a mechanic. Her father disapproves, so the two elope and marry.
After various hardships, the couple ultimately succeed; after three decades, Avtaar is the owner of a small house and a fortune. They have two sons, Chandar and Ramesh. Chandar is married to Renu, while Ramesh is married to Sudha. Avtaar also has a servant named Sewak, whom Avtaar had found in Mumbai as an orphan.
Chandar marries the only daughter of Seth Laxmi Narayan a millionaire businessman of Mumbai and becomes a Gharjamai against Avtaar's wishes. Meanwhile, Ramesh registers the house under his wife's name instead of Radha's, going against his father's wishes. This enrages Avtaar and he leaves his home, accompanied by Radha and Sewak.
With the help of a moneylender, Avtaar starts his own garage. Avtaar faces an uphill task, since he has no money to buy equipment, is aged and his right hand gets crippled in an accident. Sewak helps his master by illegally donating blood to arrange for funds, but when Avtaar assumes Sewak has resorted to asking for help from Avtaar's sons, Avtaar's former boss Bawaji reveals the truth. Moved, Radha and Avtaar come to regard him as a true son.
Meanwhile, Avtaar's best friend, a fellow Muslim car mechanic called Rashid Ahmed who is very aged suffers at the hands of his cruel daughter-in-law, Zubaida who has made a slave out of him and doesn't even feed him properly and mistreats him very horribly. His son Anwar works in Dubai and has just arrived home. Old Rashid suddenly becomes very sick due to the ill treatment by Zubaida. Anwar expels him from the house saying he cannot afford to pay for his treatment etc. Avtaar sees this and opens an old-age home for people who are suffering from their cruel relatives and names it "Apna Ghar" (Our Home in Hindi).
Meanwhile, both Ramesh and Chandar are enjoying their lives. Avtaar's luck suddenly changes and the carburetor he is working on gives a successful resulting in him obtaining a patent for it. Avtaar starts manufacturing the engine parts, and creates an industrial empire headed by himself, his wife and Sewak.
Avtaar
Avtaar is a 1983 drama film starring Rajesh Khanna and Shabana Azmi. It was directed by Mohan Kumar, and the music was by Laxmikant Pyarelal, and lyrics by Anand Bakshi. Avtaar was critically acclaimed and earned around ₹8 crore worldwide. The film earned several Filmfare award nominations. Rajesh Khanna received an All-India Critics Association (AICA) Best Actor Award for his performance in this film in 1983.
The film was later remade into the Telugu film O Thandri Theerpu (1985), starring Murali Mohan and Jayasudha, in Kannada as Kaliyuga (1984), starring Rajesh and Aarthi, in Malayalam as Jeevitham (1984), starring Madhu and Unni Mary and in Tamil as Vaazhkai (1984), starring Sivaji Ganesan and Ambika.
The film starts with wife Radha Kishan garlanding her husband Avtaar Kishan's bust while she mourns his death, then flashes back thirty years. Radha, is the only daughter of Seth Jugal Kishore, a billionaire businessman in Mumbai, and is in love with Avtaar, a Punjabi Hindu refugee from West Punjab, working as a mechanic. Her father disapproves, so the two elope and marry.
After various hardships, the couple ultimately succeed; after three decades, Avtaar is the owner of a small house and a fortune. They have two sons, Chandar and Ramesh. Chandar is married to Renu, while Ramesh is married to Sudha. Avtaar also has a servant named Sewak, whom Avtaar had found in Mumbai as an orphan.
Chandar marries the only daughter of Seth Laxmi Narayan a millionaire businessman of Mumbai and becomes a Gharjamai against Avtaar's wishes. Meanwhile, Ramesh registers the house under his wife's name instead of Radha's, going against his father's wishes. This enrages Avtaar and he leaves his home, accompanied by Radha and Sewak.
With the help of a moneylender, Avtaar starts his own garage. Avtaar faces an uphill task, since he has no money to buy equipment, is aged and his right hand gets crippled in an accident. Sewak helps his master by illegally donating blood to arrange for funds, but when Avtaar assumes Sewak has resorted to asking for help from Avtaar's sons, Avtaar's former boss Bawaji reveals the truth. Moved, Radha and Avtaar come to regard him as a true son.
Meanwhile, Avtaar's best friend, a fellow Muslim car mechanic called Rashid Ahmed who is very aged suffers at the hands of his cruel daughter-in-law, Zubaida who has made a slave out of him and doesn't even feed him properly and mistreats him very horribly. His son Anwar works in Dubai and has just arrived home. Old Rashid suddenly becomes very sick due to the ill treatment by Zubaida. Anwar expels him from the house saying he cannot afford to pay for his treatment etc. Avtaar sees this and opens an old-age home for people who are suffering from their cruel relatives and names it "Apna Ghar" (Our Home in Hindi).
Meanwhile, both Ramesh and Chandar are enjoying their lives. Avtaar's luck suddenly changes and the carburetor he is working on gives a successful resulting in him obtaining a patent for it. Avtaar starts manufacturing the engine parts, and creates an industrial empire headed by himself, his wife and Sewak.