Bollywood romantic family drama , Khandan, directed by Anil Ganguly was released on July 18, 1979. The movie starred Jeetendra and Sulakshana Pandit in lead roles while Bindiya Goswami, Nirupa Roy, Sujit Kumar, A. K. Hangal, Rakesh Roshan, Bindu and Sunder Purohit also played important characters in the film. The hit melodious music of the movie was directed by the veteran music director Khayyam while the songs were rendered by Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Nitin Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar etc.

Gaurishankar Srivastav ( Sunder Purohit ) is living a middle class lifestyle alongwith his family in the city. His family consisits of his wife and two sons, Ravi ( Jeetendra ) and Vikas ( Sujit Kumar ). Vikas is the elder one. Gaurishankar is working as a government employee and is just about to reach his retirement age. Vikas is married to a women named Nanda ( Bindu ) and they are happily married. But the biggest problem of the family is that the whole family is totally dependent on Gaurishankar’s income and he is too reaching to his retirement age.

Ravi is in college right now and is completing his education. He is in love with a beautiful girl named Usha ( Sulakshana Pandit ). Usha belongs to a wealthy family and obviously her parents are not happy with her relationship with Ravi. Gaurishankar’s family’s life gets upturned when Vikas borrows money from someone to start a new business but the money get stolen. The blame comes on Ravi and he is sentenced to three months jail term in the court.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Tum hi mere mandir
2. Ye mulakaat ek bahana
3. Mana teri nazar
4. Badi der bhai
5. Main na bataogee