Bollywood action drama, Kanhaiyaa, directed by Khalid Sami was released in the year 1981. The movie starred Raju Shreshtha and Farida Jalal in lead roles while Amjad Khan, Asha Chnadra, Ritu Kamal, Asha Sachdev, Mushtaq Merchant, lalita Kumari, Mala Jaggi, Dinesh Hingoo, Dev Kumar and Naseeruddin Shah also played significant characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was directed by Manohari Singh and Basu Deo Chakraborthy in collaboration while the songs were rendered by Mohammed rafi, Usha Mangeshkar, Sushma Shrestha, Asha Bhonsle etc.

The movie starts with a young girl named Sharda ( Farida Jalal ) who lives alongwith her widoed father. She runs away from his home alongwith a guy named Jaichand, who is a poor, much to the displeasure of her father. Problem arises when Sharda gets pregnant and Jaichand passes away. Sharda gives birth to a child and names him Kanhaiyaa ( Raju Shreshtha ). Sharda also passes away after few years leaving behind orphan Kanhaiyaa. Kanhaiyaa enters in a orphanagae run by a cruel guy named Makhanlal ( Kanhaiyaalal ). When situation becomes worse for Kanhaiyaa to live there, he runs away from there.

He then meets with two guy named Madhav Singh ( Amjad Khan ) and Rahim ( Naseeruddin Shah ), who trains the child to become theives. Kanhaiyaa is also forced to join the gang. But soon he manage to escape from their custody and ends up meeting his own grandfather. His grandfather brings him home but fails to protect him as Madhav Singh once again abducts him. What will happen now?

The songs of the movie are:

1. Main hoon kanhaiyaa
2. Kuch to hua hai
3. Aise bhi hain kuch