Mahesh Kothare

Mere Lal (transl. My Son) is a 1966 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Satyen Bose and produced by Jyotsna Sen. It is a remake of the 1963 Bengali film Badshah, based on the story of Nihar Ranjan Gupta. The film stars Dev Kumar, Indrani Mukherjee and Mala Sinha. It focuses on a stone-hearted dacoit who, when thrust with the responsibility of bringing up a lost child he finds on a riverbank, mends his ways and becomes an honest wage-earner.

Set in a quaint Marathwada village of Maharashtra, a man tired of relentless droughts decides to take matters in his own hands by encouraging the villagers to finally put an end to the dreary odyssey of their sufferance.

Tatya Vinchu comes back to life after 20 years, and now wants to migrate into the body of Lakshya's son.

Young Adi's life changes completely when he comes to Bombay with his mother, but ends up getting kidnapped. He manages to escape from the kidnappers but is all alone in the city.

Lakshya wins his cases by lying and is unable to speak the truth. However, things take a turn when Lakshya gets a case where he needs to tell the truth to get justice for his client.

After being shot in a toy store, a gangster transfers his soul into a doll. Lakshya, a puppetry master receives this doll as a gift, which unleashes terror upon the city.

A dacoit named Lakhan Pal kidnaps a girl called Chandrika. He tries to rape her along with his gang members. Chandrika bites Lakhan's hand and applies his blood on her forehead making him her husband so that he protects her. They have a son Sunil. When his gang is attacked Lakhan escapes with his family to his wife's father's place. He gives up being a criminal but years later it still affects Sunil.

Lakshya finds a bottle, which has Gangaram trapped in it who is his lookalike. He promises to make everything possible with the sand in the bottle, but once the sand is over he will be free to go.