Haisiyat

Haisiyat
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Directed by	Dasari Narayana Rao
Produced by	Srikanth Nahata
Written by	Kader Khan (dialogues) Indeevar Anjaan (lyrics)
Screenplay by	Dasari Narayana Rao
Story by	Dasari Narayana Rao
Based on	Sita Ramulu (1980)
Starring	Jeetendra Jaya Prada
Music by	Bappi Lahiri
Cinematography	S.V. Srikanth
Edited by	D. Venkataratnam
Production company	Vijayalakshmi Pictures
Release date	10 August 1984 (1984-08-10)
Running time	145 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Haisiyat (English: Status) is a 1984 Indian Bollywood drama film produced by Srikanth Nahata on Vijayalakshmi Pictures banner and directed by Dasari Narayana Rao. Starring Jeetendra, Jaya Prada in pivotal roles and music composed by Bappi Lahari. This film was remake of Kanavan Manaivi starring R.Muthurama and Jayalalithaa in 1976 directed by A. Bhimsingh. The Telugu remake was Sita Ramulu (1980), starring Krishnam Raju, Jaya Prada in lead roles.

Ram is a sincere and hardworking young man in a mill located in Bombay, India. He is the mill's union leader as well, and attempts to get a good deal for all the workers from the mill management, and succeeds. In this process, he meets the mill's new owner, Sita, and both fall in love with each other, and eventually get married. Soon there are conflicts between the management and the workers, and Ram must decide if his duty is first to his "management" wife or to his union and the workers.