| Bada Kabutar | |
| Director: | Deven Verma |
| Producer: | Deven Verma |
| Starring: | Ashok Kumar Deven Verma Rehana Sultan |
| Music: | R. D. Burman |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Hindi |
Bada Kabutar is a 1973 Bollywood action comedy film produced and directed by Deven Verma.[1]
The film features the life of the youngest member of a family line of criminals. After serving seven prison sentences, he wants to reform. But he is pressured by his uncle and his mother into joining the uncle's latest heist. It involves kidnapping the son of a wealthy smuggler.
Mama Rampuri (Ashok Kumar) comes from a long line of criminals and is contemplating his latest scheme. He plans to enlist the services of his nephew Bhola (Deven Varma). Bhola however has had quite a few bad experiences with Mama and has been in and out of prison seven times trying to carry out Mama's mostly disastrous robbery plans.
However, his mother, (Leela Mishra) does not listen to his pleas of wanting to live an honest life selling bananas or banyans and tries to inspire him by narrating the glorious deeds of his late father (her husband) who went to the prison no less than seventeen times and yet never complained. She pretends to have a heart disease and gets herself admitted in a hospital. Poor Bhola is wrongly convinced that a large amount of money is needed for her treatment.
Bhola reluctantly joins hands with Mama who recruits club dancer Rita (Rehana Sultan) alongside his trustworthy gang members Abdul (Keshto Mukherjee) and others to plan the heist of kidnapping the only son of millionaire businessman cum antisocial smuggler Seth Dharamdas (Pinchoo Kapoor). There is also Mama's old nemesis Ghaffoor (Madan Puri) who tries to thwart his plans and harm him at all stages.
| Song | Singer |
|---|---|
| "Bada Kabutar Ud Jayega" | Bhupinder Singh |
| "Hay Re, Hay Re, Yeh Dil Mera, Hay Re, Hay Re" | Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle |
| "Raaz Ki Ek Baat Hai" | Asha Bhosle |
| "Chanda Mama Bole" | Asha Bhosle |
| "Mubarak Ho Yeh Raat" | Asha Bhosle |