The action thriller movie, Maati Maangey Khoon was released on April 6 1984. Raj Khosla directed while Pawan Kumar and Lakhan Sinha produced the movie. The star cast of the movie involved Shatrughan Sinha, Raj Babbar, Reena Roy, Rekha, Amjad Khan and Om Puri while Tanuja, Sudhir Dalvi and Om Puri played the supporting roles. Rahul Dev Burman gave music for the movie and Lata Mangeshkar sung the songs.

Hariharan Singh also known as Hariya ( Shatrughan Sinha ) lived like an orphan unaware of the where abouts of his family. One day after a quarrel with the goons of Thakur Balram Singh ( Raj Babbar ), he is left to die on the stairs of a temple in an unconscious state. When he is there fighting in for his life lying over there a madwoman ( Tanuja ) in the temple prays for him who sometime later is revealed to be his mother by the temple priest. His father Ram Singh also dies when the Thakur took away his land leaving him with nothing.

His father died of the shock and his mother was left to live like a lunatic. After sometime he regains his health and sees his mother die. He then swears to take revenge and the land from the Thakur who was solely responsible for all his problems. Thakur transfers the land to his nephew who happens to be good friends with Hariya in order to make the two of them fight. The nephew also ends up helping his plans as he finds out that the love of his life Sharda ( Reena Roy ) was with Hariya and he could not bear that and plans to fight Hariya.

The Hit songs of Maati Maangey Khoon are:
1. Chhup Jaa Chaand Sitaaron Ki Niyat Thik Nahin
2. Yeh Dil Yeh Paagal Dil Mera Kyon Bujh Gaya Aavaargi
3. Sang Sang Saari Duniya Le
4. Lo Saahib Phir Bhool Gayi Main
5. Main Ghunghat Na Kholungi To