Bollywood action thriller movie, Haathkadi, directed by Surendra Mohan was released on January 15, 1982. The movie starred Shatrughan Sinha and Reena Roy in lead roles while Sanjeev Kumar, Rakesh Roshan, Dev Kumar, Mazhar Khan, Ranjeeta kaur, Simi Grewal, Jeevan, Raj mehra, Ramesh Deo and Prem Chopra also played important characters in the film. The hit melodious music of the movie was composed by the well known music director Bappi lahiri while the songs were beautifully sung by Shabbir Kumar, Amit Kumar Ganguly, Asha Bhonsle etc.

Harimohan ( Sanjeev Kumar ) is living a middle class lifestyle alongwith his wife named Shanta ( Seema Deo ) and his young son named Sunil ( Shatrughan Sinha ). Harimohan’s boss has lust for his wife and wants to get her on bed with him. One night, he sends Harimohan out for some urgent work and tries to molest Shanta. But Harimohan returns early because of bad weather and gets into fight with him. Harimohan ends up killing his boss and in order to save himself from police, he escapes from there. He meets with an accident and it is assumed that he is nor alive.

Years later, Sunil is now a grown up guy and has just joined the police force as a police inspector. Sunil works as an undercover cop. He meets with a guy named Baldev ( Rakesh Roshan ), who is the only son of a wealthy businessman named Gopaldas Mittal ( sanjeev Kumar ). Sunil arrests Baldev in the charge of killing a girl named Sunita ( Ranjeeta Kaur ). Gopaldas interrupts and Sunil get shocked to learn that he is his biological father.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Jiyo jiyo pyare
2. Kabhi tum aag
3. Ek baar milke
4. Chaila ne chaila