Amitabh Bachchan and Moushami Chatterjee starrer suspense thriller, Benaam, was released on october 18, 1974. The movie was written and directed by Narendra Bedi. The other starcast of the movie includes Madan Puri, Kadar Khan, Prem Chopr, Rajan Haksar, Satyendra Kapoor, Jagdish Raj, Sharat saxena, Iftekhar and Shubha Hote in important roles. The hit evergereen music of the movie was composed by none other than veteran music director Rahul Dev Burman while the songs were crooned by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle etc.

The movie starts with a couple, Amit Srivastava ( Amitabh Bachchan ) and his wife, Sheela ( Moushami Chatterjee ). They are living a happy life alongwith their son named Raju. One night, while driving for a party, Amit and Sheela witnesses a man getting stabbed by some goons. Amit immediately stops his car in order to help that guy. He takes him to the hospital and leaves immediately as he does not want to get involved in any police case. The guy who is taken to hospital by Amit is a crime reporter by profession named Mr. Verma, who has some important information about an influential and wealthy person.

Problem arises when the reporter dies and Amit starts recieving some telephone calls from a unknown warning them to not share any information they have from Mr. Verma with any one. Amit has no clue about what information Mr. Verma had. Things doesn’t stop here and he also starts facing strange incidents. Conditions becomes even worse when Raju is abducted by someone and the kidnapper demands for the information which Mr. Verma had delievered to Amit.

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Yaara ho yaara ho gaya main to
2. Ek din hasana ek din rulana
3. Raat jati hai