Mithun Chakraborthy and Sridevi starrer patriotic action thriller, Watan Ke Rakhwale, was released in the year 1987. The movie was directed by Rama Rao Tatineni. The other starcast of the movie includes Dharmendra, Sunil Dutt, Asha Lata, Moushami Chatterjee, Sudhir Dalvi, Prem Chopra, Birbal, Puneet Issar, Lalita Pawar, Ashok Kumar, Shakti Kapoor and Kadar Khan in important roles. The melodious music of the movie was composed by the well known music director duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal while the songs were rendered by Mohammed Aziz, Mahendra Kapoor, Suresh Wadkar, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Anuradha Paudwal.

Radha Pratap ( Sridevi ) is beautiful girl, who belongs to a wealthy family. She leaves alongwith her businessman father, Raja Pratap ( Sudhir Dalvi ). Her father meets with an accident and dies. After the death of her father, her marriage is arranged with a wealthy guy named Naresh Puri ( Dhan Dhanoa ), But just before their marriage, a guy named Arun ( Mithun Chakraborthy ) claims that Rahda is already married to him. However, Radha refuse to reognize him.

Radha decides to sign a divorce petition on the saying of her uncle, Dr, Narendra Pratap ( Prem Chopra ) so that she will be free to marry with anyone. But she refuses to do so at the final time. She accepts that Arun is her husband. Arun lives alongwith his Jailer brother, Suraj Prakash ( Sunil Dutt ) and his wife, Laxmi ( Moushami Chatterjee ). And he is pretending to be Radha’s husabnd for some very important reason.

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Jab jab pyaar kiya iqraar kiya
2. Tere mere beech mein
3. Watan ke rakhwale