Ahinsa

Ahinsa

1979 · 103 min · ★ 10.0 · Action, Drama

A chance encounter between two widows who lost their husbands and sons to violence sets the story going. Birju (Sunil Dutt) has received the highest military honour in battle. He returns home to his village and promptly becomes an outlaw leader (dacoit). He crosses swords with a vicious dacoit called Raka.

Directed by Chand

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

4h 25m together

A close match in mood and era.

More from ChandSee all →

Garam CoatGaram Coat · 1955
Garam Coat
★ 9.01955
MovieDrama
Girdharilal lives a poor lifestyle in Delhi along with his wife, Geeta, and two daughters, and a son. He works as a Money Order Clerk in the Post Office, earns Rs.110/- per Mensem, and wears a torn coat that his wife is tired of stitching. One day at work, he makes an error in a money order but does manage to fix it, collects his pay, and returns home, refusing to drink...
Kanoon Meri Mutthi MeinKanoon Meri Mutthi Mein · 1984
Kanoon Meri Mutthi Mein
★ 9.01984
MovieAction
Film from K. Prasad
DharmaDharma · 1973
Dharma
★ 8.01973
Movie
Chandan Singh is a dacoit living with in isolation with his followers Bhairav Singh, Mangal Singh and his wife Parvati amongst others. The police, led by Inspector Ajit Singh are fast on the track of Chandan Singh, and soon catch up with him.
Zulm Ka BadlaZulm Ka Badla · 1985
Zulm Ka Badla
★ 7.01985
MovieActionCrime
Verma adopts Geeta, the orphaned daughter of his friend, who grows up to marry his son, Anil. However, when a gangster Anil is investigating turns up dead, both men suspect that Geeta is responsible.
Shankar ShambhuShankar Shambhu · 1976
Shankar Shambhu
★ 6.01976
MovieActionDrama
Inspector Ranjit Singh's family is torn apart after a bank robber named Kundan attacks them in revenge, causing their jeep to plunge into the river. Though Ranjit saves his wife and later imprisons Kundan, their two children are lost and raised separately under new identities—one by a bandit and the other by a petty thief. Years later, the grown-up siblings unknowingly cross paths with both Kundan and their father.
SazaaSazaa · 1972
Sazaa
★ 6.01972
MovieCrime
An intelligence officer disguises himself as a thief to try and recover a fortune worth of stolen gold.
Khoon Aur PaaniKhoon Aur Paani · 1981
Khoon Aur Paani
★ 5.21981
MovieDramaAction
Singh is a farmer and lives a poor lifestyle along with his wife, and two sons, Ram and Laksman. The region is drought stricken, while in contrast there is plenty of water being pumped to bath the dogs of Thakur Vikram Singh. When Ram decides to divert some water for their parched fields, Vikram kills his father. An enraged Ram goes to avenge his death, manages to kill Vikram's brother, but is seriously injured, loses his memory and ends up with a gang of bandits and is renamed Thanedar Singh as he was dressed in the clothes of a police inspector. Lakshman gets separated from his mother and is found near a river bank by Police Commissioner Bhalla, who adopts him. Years later the two brothers are fated to meet again albeit as strangers and mortal enemies as Lakshman is a incognito CBI Officer, while Ram is dreaded bandit Thanedar Singh who is unable to recall his childhood, and loses control whenever he hears the sound of a water-pump.

More Like This

Om Shanti OmOm Shanti Om · 2007
Om Shanti Om
★ 7.12007
MovieComedyThriller
In the early 70s, aspiring actor Om Prakash Makhija, and a famous starlet Shantipriya, are murdered. Thirty years later, his reincarnation Om Kapoor sets out to discover the mystery of their demise.
Like Stars on EarthLike Stars on Earth · 2007
Like Stars on Earth
★ 8.02007
MovieDrama
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
Rang De BasantiRang De Basanti · 2006
Rang De Basanti
★ 7.12006
MovieComedyDrama
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
WaterWater · 2005
Water
★ 6.82005
MovieDramaRomance
In 1938, Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies sweep across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go reside with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter