Dharm Aur Qanoon
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| Directed by | Joshiy |
| Produced by | Pranlal Mehra |
| Story by | B. R. Ishara Bhushan Banmali |
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Rajesh Khanna Dharmendra Asha Parekh Vinod Mehra Danny Denzongpa Jayapradha Om Shivpuri Iftekhar Dheeraj Kumar Manmohan Krishna Mazhar Khan |
| Music by | Kalyanji Aanadji |
| Cinematography | Baba Azmi Kishan Maheshwari Thomas Xavier |
| Edited by | N. Chandra |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Dharm Aur Qanoon is a 1984 film starring Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Vinod Mehra, Asha Parekh and Danny Denzongpa, with Jaya Prada, Supriya Pathak, Manmohan Krishna, Ifthekar and Om Shivpuri the supporting roles. It had box office collection of 6.5 crores in 1984 and went on to become a moderate hit at the Indian boxoffice. The film was remade in Tamil that same year as Ezhuthatha Sattangal ('Unwritten Laws') directed by K. Shankar. The director Joshiy himself remade this film in Malayalam as Umaanilayam in 1984.
Justice Diwan lives in a bungalow with his wife, Sharda, and a son named Rajan. Diwan was a very famous advocate in his younger days and today has become a name to reckon with. His admirers include the superintendent of police Kader whom he knows since his younger days. Diwan has been appointed as the judge in the court. Diwan’s wife Shanta considers Rahim Khan as her brother. Rahim visits Diwan’s house daily to give her flowers to wear and for presenting them to her house temple.
Diwan doesn't get along with his son Rajan even though both love each other a lot. Eventually Rajan moves out to live in a nearby slum area with Rahim in his house. Dr. Bashir Khan is Rahim’s brother and lives in a bungalow next to Rahim’s small house. It's not that Rahim and Bashir are not attached to each other: Bashir has become a doctor thanks to Rahim’s efforts. Rahim wants to spend the rest of life staying in that small house, as this is the house where his wife died. It is also a practice that Diwan, Rahim and Shardha have breakfast together in the morning and sometimes Kader joins them at Diwan’s house. Bashir has been in love with Reshma since their school days and this fact is unknown only to Rahim Khan. All others including Reshma's father Kader and his closest friend Justice Diwan and his family is aware of them being in love.
Bashir Khan hopes to marry Reshma soon. Meanwhile Rajan starts loving a fisherman's girl named Shanta. Rahim Khan makes a living for himself by collecting Hafta from the fisherman; he saves them from the Bhuree and his men who keep attacking the fisherman for they want them to vacate the premises and want to construct a building complex. Bhuree’s men fear Rahim Khan so give warnings to fishermen in his absence from the village. Later in a case, Diwan sentences Tejaa, the head of the group of Buree and his men for life imprisonment. But Tejaa manages to get bail with help of his advocate. After coming out of the prison, Tejaa decides to take revenge from Diwan. Within a few days Dr. John, Bashir's senior, is killed and the evidence points at Bashir being at the place of crime (the worker had seen Bashir with a knife full of blood). Bashir is arrested and, in the court, Justice Diwan finds him guilty after examining the witnesses and orders that he be hanged. Bashir gets lodged in jail. Rahim asks Diwan to help Bashir and to prove somehow that he is innocent. Diwan says he knows Bashir being Rahim’s brother and being a doctor cannot commit the crime, but he as a judge has to announce judgements according to evidence. Bhuree has an eye on Shanta, too, and so decides to give her father lots of wine. When he is unconscious, he rapes Shanta. The next day Bhurre is found dead, and the evidence points to Rajan, who is arrested and produced before Justice Diwan, who finds him guilty, and sentences him to death. Rajan says to his mother that he has not killed Bhuree and that he would have been happy to kill Bhuree.
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