Bollywood movie, Mahaan, directed by S. Ramanathan was released on April 29, 1983. The movie starred Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman in lead roles while Ashok Kumar, Waheeda rehman, Parveen Babi, Amjad Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Kadar Khan, Aruna Irani and Sujit Kumar also played significant characters in the film. The music of the film was directed by veteran music director Rahul Dev Burman while the songs were sung by Amit Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle, Rahul Dev Burman and Amitabh Bachchan. The movie did well at the box office window.

Amit ( Amitabh Bachchan ) tries to do settlement between Vikram ( Amjad Khan ), who was arrested by police in the charge of possession of drugs, and Rajan ( Sujit Kumar ). Vikram is in anger as he was framed by Rajan in the fraud charges. Amit tries to do settlement between the two but the argument ensues resulting in the death of Rajan. Unfortunately Amit too commits a murder in his self-defense but police didn’t listen to his plea leaving behind no other option for Amit than to run away from them. Amit is now on a run from the law.

Amit’s pregnant wife, Janki ( Waheeda Rehman ) ask him to run away somewhere until his file is closed by police. She herself too relocates to another city. Janki gives birth to twins but unfortunately one child get seperated from them. Years later, Janki has a grown up son named Shankar ( Amitabh Bachchan ) and is still looking for Shankars’ twin brother, Guru. Will the whole family will ever be able to meet again?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Pyaar mein dil pe maar de goli le le meri jaan
2. Asli kya hai
3. Yeh din to aata hai ek din jawaani
4. Zidhar dekhoon teri tasveer