Bollywood movie, Zabardast, directed by Nasir Hussain and written by Sachin Bhowmick was released on June 21, 1985. The movie starred Sanjeev Kumar, Sunny Deol and Rati Agnihotri in lead roles while Rajiv Kapoor, Jayapradha, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri, Geeta Siddharth, Rajendra nath and Ravindra kapoor also played significant characters in the film. The melodious music of the movie was directed by the well known music director Rahul Dev Burman while the songs were rendered by Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle etc.

The movie starts with Ratan Kumar ( Sanjeev Kumar ), who lives a middle class life alongwith his wife, Pushpa and son, Sunder ( Sunny Deol ). He performs a crime for a deadly criminal, Balram Singh ( Amrish Puri ) but keep the diamonds for himself. Balram gets mad with this and sets his house to fire. Ratan assumes that his wife is dead now and therefore runs away from there alongwith Sunder. He is helped by a guy who brings them to Maharani Maanwati’s ( Tanuja ) house. Maanwati is devastated with the news of her husband and child’s death.

She is convinced that Sunder is her son. Maharani finds out that Ratan resembles her husband and marries him. But just after their marraige, Ratan’s wife Pushpa comes into existence and she survived in that fire incident. Maanvati goes to kill Ratan but ends up killing herself. But before dying she ask Sunder to take revenge of her death from Ratan. ratan is arrested by police and is sentenced to jail for several years. He gets released from jail after completing his prison time and becomes a criminal don. His only motive is to kill Balram at any cost?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Karega zamana kya
2. Aaise na thukrao ae sanam
3. Suno sitamgar mere
4. Dekho idhar janabe
5. Bhool ho gayi jaane de
6. Jab chaha yaara tumne