Bollywood action thriller, Barood, starring Rishi Kapoor and Shoma Anand in lead roles was released in the year 1976. The movie was directed by Pramod Chakraborty and written by Sachin Bhowmick. The other starcast of the film includes Ashok Kumar, Reena Roy, Raje Mehra, Madan Puri, Prem Chopra, Asrani, Ajit, David Abraham, Birbal, Shreeram Lagoo, Raj Mehra and Sujit Kumar in importnat roles. The melodious music of the film was composed by the well known music director Sachin Dev Burman while the songs were rendered by Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, Sushma Shresta etc.

Anup Saxena aka Pappu ( Rishi Kapoor ) lives alongwith his widower father, Durgaprasad ( Shreeram Lagoo ) in Bombay. His father is a police inspector by profession. Anup witnesses his father’s murder by four mens. Now he seeks revenge from the killers. He works hard and spends his childhood arranging a huge amount of moeny to avenge his father’s death. He starts making a dangerous plan for assualting his father’s killer and in the process kidnaps the daughter of one of the killer.

Seema Bakshi ( Shoma Anand ) is abducted by Anup as her father was also the one of the killer of Anups’ father. But little does Anup knoes is that his father’s close friend, Balraj Gupta ( Ashok Kumar ), who is a criminologist by profession is also after him. Soon Anup finds him self in a big trouble as the police of two countries are after him and they are determined to arrest him at any cost..

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Matlab jo samjhe
2. Tu shaitano ka sardar hai
3. Samandar samandar
4. Ek dushman pe paayr aaya