Love Story (1981 film)

Love Story is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language romantic film directed by Rahul Rawail. The film stars Rajendra Kumar alongside his son Kumar Gaurav and Vijayta Pandit, both making their film debuts.^[1] Vidya Sinha, Danny Denzongpa, Amjad Khan and Aruna Irani appear in supporting roles.^[2]

Love Story
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rahul Rawail
Written by	Mirza Brothers
Produced by	Rajendra Kumar
Starring	Rajendra Kumar Kumar Gaurav Vijayta Pandit
Cinematography	Radhu Karmakar
Edited by	David Dhawan
Music by	R. D. Burman
Distributed by	Aryan Films
Release date	27 February 1981 (1981-02-27)
Running time	165 min
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Box Office India declared it a blockbuster.^[3]

Plot

Vijay Mehra is a wealthy builder and loves Suman, who also loves Vijay. Ram Dogra is a civil engineer who loves Suman. Ram and Suman were friends in college.

But Vijay leaves Suman because he feels jealous of Ram and Suman's friendship and marries another girl, and Suman marries Ram, but Vijay's wife dies after giving birth to a baby boy, Bunty, while Suman and Ram welcome a baby girl, Pinky.

Years later, Bunty and Pinky meet as strangers, Vijay wants Bunty to become a builder with him, but Bunty wants to become a pilot, due to this reason, Bunty leaves home, and Pinky also leaves the home because her father wants her to marry.

Bunty and Pinky meet again, but Hawaldar Sher Singh, who is assigned the job of finding the missing boy and girl, handcuffs them together, after some the good and bad circumstances, both fall in love with each other, they go somewhere unknown place and build a small cottage and live happily.

But, not ever after. Ram enters the scene and forcibly takes away Pinky. Now, Vijay is ready to accept his son's love, but Ram plans to get his daughter married against her wishes.

Bunty and Pinky run away from home again, but a gang of robbers follow them, suddenly, Vijay and Ram come to save their children and Bunty saves Ram's life. Ram changes his mind, and in the end Bunty and Pinky marry.

Cast

• Rajendra Kumar as Vijay Mehra
• Kumar Gaurav as Bunty Mehra
• Vijayta Pandit as Pinky Dogra
• Vidya Sinha as Suman Dogra
• Danny Denzongpa as Ram Dogra
• Amjad Khan as Constable Sher Singh
• Aruna Irani as Dancer
• Beena Banerjee as Sushma Mehra; Vijay's Wife
• Bharat Kapoor as Basheera

Soundtrack

The music was composed by R. D. Burman, with lyrics by Anand Bakshi.

Song	Singer
"Kaisa Tera Pyar, Kaisa Gussa Hai Tera, Tauba Sanam"	Lata Mangeshkar, Amit Kumar
"Dekho Maine Dekha Hai Yeh Ek Sapna"	Lata Mangeshkar, Amit Kumar
"Teri Yaad Aa Rahi Hai" (Duet)	Lata Mangeshkar, Amit Kumar
"Teri Yaad Aa Rahi Hai" (Solo)	Amit Kumar
"Yeh Ladki Zara Si Deewani Lagti Hai"	Asha Bhosle, Amit Kumar
"Kya Ghazab Karte Ho Ji"	Asha Bhosle

Awards

29th Filmfare Awards:

Won

• Best Male Playback Singer – Amit Kumar for "Teri Yaad Aa Rahi Hai"

Nominated

• Best Supporting Actor – Amjad Khan
• Best Music Director – R. D. Burman
• Best Lyricist – Anand Bakshi for "Teri Yaad Aa Rahi Hai"

References

1. "When Sanjay Dutt had said he can 'shed blood' for Kumar Gaurav: 'Love him immensely'". The Indian Express. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
2. Kahlon, Sukhpreet. "40 years of Love Story (1981): The flash-in-the-pan stardom of Kumar Gaurav". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021.
3. "Boxofficeindia.com". 22 September 2012. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2021.

External links

• Love Story at IMDb
• Cult of Kumar