Bollywood movie, Rampur Ka Lakshman, directed by Manmohan Desai was released on July 26, 1972. The movie starred Randhir Kapoor and Rekha in lead roles while Shatrughan Sinha played the role of anagonist in the film. The superhit music of the film was given by veteran music director Rahul Dev Burman while the songs were sung by Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhonsle. The film was a box office hit and was appreciated specially for its melodious songs.

The movie starts with Lakshman Kumar Bhargav ( Randhir Kapoor ), who visits Bombay in search of his close friend, Prakash. Prakash was working with a jeweller in the city but made no call from quite some time making his father and friend worry about him. But when Lakshman arrives there, he finds out that Prakash has been arrested by Police in the charge of killing a man named Kundan Kumar. Prakash tells him that he is innocent but has been sentenced to be hanged by the court.

Now Lakshman decides to find out the real killer so that he can prove Prakash innocent. He enters in a goons gang with the name of Louis D’Souza. He came to know that the gang is been runned by KUmar ( Shatrughan Sinha ). Later he learns that Kumar is none other than his real brother, Ram, who was lost in the childhood. Now Lakshman has to make one choice either to save his friend Prakash or Ram? What will he do now?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Gum hai kisi ke pyaar mein dil subah shaam par tujhe likh nahi paaon main us ka naam haye ram
2. Rampur ka lakshamn hoon main lakshman mera naam
3. Pyaar ka samay kam hai jahan ladte hai log kaise wahan kyun mere yaar maine bhi aaj kya baat kahi de taali