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{{Infobox film
| name = Kalicharan
| image = Kalicharan 1976 film poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Subhash Ghai]]
| producer = N. N. Sippy
| screenplay = Ram Kelkar
| narrator =
| starring = [[Shatrughan Sinha]] [[Reena Roy]] [[Prem Nath|Premnath]] [[Ajit Khan|Ajit]] [[Madan Puri]] [[Danny Denzongpa]]
| music = [[Kalyanji-Anandji]]
| cinematography = [[K. K. Mahajan]]
| editing = WamanGuru
| studio =
| distributor =
| released = 7 February 1976
| runtime =
| country = [[India]]
| language = Hindi
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''Kalicharan''''' is a 1976 Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[action drama film]] directed by [[Subhash Ghai]], starring [[Shatrughan Sinha]], [[Reena Roy]], [[Prem Nath|Premnath]], [[Ajit Khan|Ajit]], [[Madan Puri]] and [[Danny Denzongpa]]. The film became a box office hit.<ref>http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=182&catName=MTk3Ng== {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020100250/http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=182&catName=MTk3Ng%3D%3D |date=20 October 2013 }}</ref> The film was the directorial debut of [[Subhash Ghai]] and was the breakthrough role for stars [[Shatrughan Sinha]] and [[Reena Roy]]. It was later remade into the [[Telugu language|Telugu]] film ''Khaidi Kalidasu'' (1977), the [[Kannada]] film ''[[Kaalinga]]'' (1980), the [[Tamil language|Tamil]] film ''[[Sangili (1982 film)|Sangili]]'', (1982) and the [[Malayalam]] film ''[[Pathamudayam]]'' (1985).<ref>https://www.rediff.com/movies/030815movies-quiz.xml</ref>

== Plot ==
Dindayal ([[Ajit Khan|Ajit]]) is supposedly an honest rich and clean-hearted man. However, all this is a facade as he is a terror called LION in the world of crime. He is the man under whom black-marketing, smuggling and robberies flourish. No one has an idea about his evil deeds. Not even his close friend IG P.N. Khanna ([[Prem Nath|Premnath]]). Khanna is very worried at the sorry state of affairs in the city and state. He requests the government to bring back Inspector Prabhakar ([[Shatrughan Sinha]]) to the city as he is an honest and fearless cop. Prabhakar comes to town and starts cracking on the criminals with an iron hand. Prabhakar is a widower who has 2 small children. Besides them, IG Khanna loves him like his own son and treats the children as his grandchildren. After making substantial raids, Prabhakar comes to know that Din Dayal is a corrupt man and a demon for society. He plans to spill the beans in front of everyone, but is killed by Din Dayal's men. Before dying, he leaves a typical clue for the police to nab the criminal, but nobody is able to understand what the clue says.

Khanna is heartbroken and he loses hope in life. Due to a friend, he comes to know that there is a ferocious prisoner Kalicharan ([[Shatrughan Sinha]]) in a jail who resembles Prabhakar. Khanna visits him, but finds him a beastly figure. Still, in an attempt to trace the criminals, he gets him released and takes him to a hill station where he attempts to transform him. But Kalicharan is a tough nut to crack. However, after some time it is Prabhakar's sister who wins the heart of the fugitive. Kalicharan was in prison as he had murdered the people who had raped his sister. He was still in search of the main culprit Shetty, who was a fellow shooter with Kalicharan in a circus, but wanted to rope in his talent in the killing of a man. Kalicharan makes peace with Khanna and slowly but steadily transforms into a police inspector. He manages to win the heart of Sapna ([[Reena Roy]]) and even the kids of Prabhakar accept him as their father. He finds the truth behind Prabhakar's murder and brings Din Dayal to the hands of law. In the process, he manages to win friends like Shaka ([[Danny Denzongpa]]) and eliminate his old enemy Shetty.

== Cast ==
* [[Shatrughan Sinha]] as DSP Prabhakar / Kalicharan (Dual Role)
* [[Reena Roy]] as Sapna
* [[Prem Nath|Premnath]] as I.G. Khanna
* [[Ajit Khan|Ajit]] as Dindayal / Lion
* [[Madan Puri]] as Jagir Singh
* [[Danny Denzongpa]] as Shaka
* Alka as Anju
* [[Viju Khote]] as Hawaldar Kishan
* [[David Abraham Cheulkar|David]] as Jailor David
* [[Dinesh Thakur]] as Manav
* [[Krishan Dhawan]] as Avtar Seth

== Production ==
N. N. Sippy initially wanted [[Rajesh Khanna]] to play the title role, but [[Subhash Ghai]] chose the then less popular [[Shatrughan Sinha]] because "I felt that more than a star, I needed an actor who would be apt for the character".<ref>{{cite web |title=Producers wanted to cast Rajesh Khanna in 'Kalicharan', not Shatrughan Sinha: Subhash Ghai |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/producers-wanted-to-cast-rajesh-khanna-in-kalicharan-not-shatrughan-sinha-subhash-ghai-682292.html |website=[[CNN-News18]] |access-date=1 June 2021 |date=2014-04-19}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==

All the songs were composed by [[Kalyanji-Anandji]].

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singer
|-
| "Ja Re Ja O Harjaee"
| [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|-
| "Ek Bata Do, Do Bate Char"
| [[Anuradha Paudwal]], [[Babla & Kanchan|Kanchan]]
|-
| "Yeh Pal Chanchal Kho Na Dena Kahin, O Deewane"
| [[Kishore Kumar]], '''[[Asha Bhosle]]'''
|-
| "Yeh Log Bhala Kya Pehchane, Tum Jano Ya Hum Jane"
| [[Mohammed Rafi]], '''[[Asha Bhosle]]'''
|-
|}

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|0214832|Kalicharan}}

{{Subhash Ghai}}

[[Category:1976 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Subhash Ghai]]
[[Category:Films scored by Kalyanji Anandji]]
[[Category:Hindi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:1976 directorial debut films]]

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