Ghulami

Ghulami
Promotional Poster
Ghulami
Directed by	J.P. Dutta
Starring	Dharmendra Mithun Chakraborty Naseeruddin Shah Reena Roy Smita Patil Kulbhushan Kharbanda Raza Murad
Narrated by	Amitabh Bachchan
Music by	Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Cinematography	Ishwar Bidri
Distributed by	Nadiadwala Sons Bombino Video Pvt. Ltd.
Release date	June 28, 1985
Running time	201 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Ghulami
Film score by Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Genre	Feature film soundtrack

Ghulami ("Slavery" in Hindi) is a 1985 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by J.P. Dutta. The film has an ensemble cast comprising Dharmendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Mazhar Khan, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raza Murad, Reena Roy, Smita Patil, Anita Raj, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Shivpuri, Lyrics by Gulzar & Music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. It was shot at Fatehpur, Rajasthan. Amitabh Bachchan narrated the film.

The film focuses on the caste and feudal system in Rajasthan. Ranjit Singh is the son of a peasant living in a village which is dominated by a rich landlord family. As a teenager studying in the village school, Ranjit is rebellious and defiant. He is bullied by the two sons of the landlord, who are of his own age. Two girls who also study in the same school are sympathetic to Ranjit. These are the daughter of the school-master and the daughter of the rich landlord (sister of the bullies). Sick of the exp;itation he sees around him, Ranjit runs away to the city.

Several years later, Ranjit's father dies and a telegram summons Ranjit back to the village to perform the last rites. Ranjit returns, to find that nothing has changed in the village. He is also told that his father had taken loans from the landlord to pay for his medicines and healthcare, and that Ranjit now is required to repay those loans, or forfeit his lands and house, which was the collateral for the loan. Ranjit feels that this is a great injustice. His logic of reasoning is that the peasants have been tilling the land and working hard for many generations, that the landlord only owns the land and does no work, and therefore if the landlord has lent money to a peasant, the loan does not need to be paid back. A long and emotional monologue delineates this logic for the benefit of the viewers.