Bollywood yesteryear hit movie, Samadhi, directed by Prakash Mehra and written by Mukhram Sharma was released in the year 1972. The movie starred Dharmendra and Asha Parekh in lead roles while Jaya Bhaduri, Madan Puri, Tun Tun, Abhi Bhattacharya, Leela Mishra and jagdeep also played important roles in the film. The evergreen hit music of the film was composed by the veteran music director duo Rahul Dev Burman while the songs were crooned by Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Asha Bhonsle etc.

Lakhan Singh ( Dharmendra ) is a dacoit. He performs robbery in a village and get smitten by the beauty of a village girl namedChampa ( Asha Parekh ). He forcibly brings Champa alongwith him. Lakhan tries to molest her but she bravely faces him and manage to injure him. Lakhan get impressed with Champa’s bravery and decides to leave her to her home. But there Champa learns that her family is no more interested in keeping her alongwith them and she decides to go back to Lakhan. She ask Lakhan to marry her with the condition that Lakhan will leave all his bad activities.

Lakhan leaves his criminal activities and starts leading a new life with Champa. Champa soon delivers a baby boy. Unfortunately Champa dies because of lack of resources to cure her disease. Champa’s death enrages Lakhan and he once again returns to his gang. While running away from police he finds a nice man praying at the temple and drops his child in his car. Lakhan is arrested by police and is sentenced to a long time prison. What about his son? Will Lakhan ever be able to meet his son in future?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Bangle ke peeche teri bairi ke neeche aha re piya kaanta laga hai laga
2. Jaan-e-jaana jaao kal phir aana phir kisi mod pe mil jaana
3. Jab tak rahe tan mein jiya
4. Maine dekha ek sapna kya dekha bolo na
5. Yeh khel hai takdeer ke do chehre tasveer ke