Raftaar (1975 film)

Raftaar
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रफ़्तार
Directed by	Dinesh-Ramanesh Ramesh Puri
Produced by	S. I. Shivdasani
Written by	Rajvansh
Starring	Vinod Mehra Moushumi Chatterjee Danny Denzongpa Madan Puri
Music by	Sonik Omi
Cinematography	Chaman Kadalbaju
Edited by	Govind Dalwadi
Production company	Chitrashala
Release date	1975
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Raftaar (Speed) is a 1975 Bollywood action drama film directed by Dinesh-Ramanesh and produced by S. I. Shivdasani. Its music was composed by the music directors Sonik Omi. The story writer was Rajvansh, while screenplay and dialogues were by K. B. Pathak.The lyricists were Verma Malik, Omkar Verma and Abhilash.Vinod Mehra was cast in the main role as Vikram. Mehra had started his career in Roop K. Shorey's Ek Thi Reeta (1971) and became an established star following Anuraag (1973); Raftaar was noted as one of his prominent films in the 1970s. The cast included Moushumi Chatterjee, Danny Denzongpa, Madan Puri, Ranjit, Arpana Chowdhary, and Jankidas.

Raftaar was a romantic action thriller film with drama. It involves a young city man sent to a village to work. He falls in love with a village girl who dies but mysteriously reappears in his life under another identity.

The film was given a three star rating, with its music by Sonik Omi cited as being "good".

Rani (Moushumi Chatterjee) is a village girl living with her ever-grumbling step-mother (Lalita Kumari) and father (Jankidas). At the start of the film, she is shown playing kabaddi with other girls. They trouble the village simpleton Banelal (Birbal) and are reprimanded by his father (Sunder). While trying to get water from the village well Rani slips and falls inside. Vikram (Vinod Mehra), who works for Pramod Kumar (Danny Denzongpa) as a manager is sent to the village to get some job done. He stops to fill water in his car, which has heated up and helps Rani by pulling her out of the well. Vikram falls in love with her and promises to marry her when he saves her from committing suicide to avoid an arranged marriage. Kumar arrives at the village and on seeing Radha demands of his housekeeper (Paro), who also supplies him women, to get Rani for him. He sends Vikram on a pretext to the city and rapes Rani. Rani is seen jumping into the river by the housekeeper. Rani, however, is saved by a kind-hearted Christian gentleman (Madan Puri), who lost his daughter, Rita, several years ago.