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Badnam Farishte

Badnam Farishte
Directed by Qamar Narvi
Starring Rajesh Khanna
Sharmila Tagore
Yash Tandon
B. N. Sharma
Sona
Bharat Kapoor
Pinchoo Kapoor
Release date
1971
Country India
Language Hindi

Badnam Farishte is a 1971 Bollywood court drama film. The film has Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore as the lawyers who fight for unemployed youth getting into crime world. These two actors made extended guest appearance in this film. The introduction commentary was done by Dharmendra. The cast included mostly the newcomers and struggling artistes of that time. The film was the first box office flop in the career of Rajesh Khanna since the beginning of his 17 consecutive hits from 1969 to 1971. There were other Khanna's films which were running well at the box office due to which this social film was not screened by in many theatres by distributors, due to which producers suffered losses. Khanna had another 10 hit films in the year 1972, with only Maalik (1972 film) being box office failure.



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