Bollywood action packed thriller flick, Shankar Dada, directed by Shibu Mitra was released on July 22, 1976. The movie starred Shashi Kapoor and Neetu Singh in lead roles while Ashok Kumar, Anwar Hussain, Pran, Rajan Kapoor, M.B. Shetty, Mohan Choti, Roopesh Kumar, Bindu, Anjali Kadam, Rajan Haksar, Navin Kumar and Jankidas alos played impportant roles in the film. The melodious music of the movie was directed by the veteran music director Sonik Omi while the songs were rendered by Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Ranu Mukherjee etc.

Babubhai ( Anwar Hussain ) is a notorious gangster who is single handedly ruling over a region. But he starts facing problems when a new gangster with the name of Shankar Dada ( Shashi Kapoor ) enters in his region. Shankar soon becomes a headache for Babubhai. Babubhai then hires a beautiful girl named Bindiya ( Bindu ) to make Shankar get involved in a fifty fifty partnership with him. Bindiya entraps him in her beauty and Shankar agrees to get into a fifty-fifty partnership with Babubhai.

Babubhai reveals that Shankar has a twin brother named Ram ( Shashi Kapoor ), who is a police inspector by profession. Unfortunately Ram is posted in the same area to stop the crime activities in the region. Babubhai ask Shankar to kidnap Ram so that he can replace him with Ram. Shankar agrees to do so and Ram is replaced by Shankar. But little does Shankar knows is that this change of role will bring a very important change in him.

Hit songs of the movie are listed below:

1. Tune jalwe nahi dekhe
2. Ek main ek tu
3. Hai mar ja
4. Garibon ko tum