Bullet (1976)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Vijay Anand

Writers:

Vijay Anand (dialogue)
Vijay Anand (screenplay)
(more)

Release Date:

28 December 1976 (India)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

Plain-clothes Inspector Dharam Dev is hot on the tracks of notorious underworld don, Durgaprasad, alias "D.P." But Durgraprased is not only elusive...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Investigation

Cast

Dev Anand	...	Dharam Dev
Parveen Babi	...	Sapna
Rakesh Roshan	...	Inspector Rajesh (as Raakesh Roshan)
Kabir Bedi	...	Durga Prasad / D.P.
Jyoti Bakshi	...	Roshni
Shreeram Lagoo	...	Seth. Ghanshyamdas (as Dr. Shreeram Lagoo)
Sonia Sahni	...	Mala
Jagdeep	...	Ghaforullah Khan
Ranjan
Murad
Mohan Sherry
Ranjana Sachdev
Sheela
Barkha Madan		(as Barkha)
Shahana
Shefali		(as Sheffali)
Zarina Ratna		(as Zarina)
Ratna
Jezebel		(as Jazabel)
Julie
Teresa
Shirley
Latif
Moolchand	...	Shiv Charan
Deepak Raj
Mamaji
Misra
Omi
Babu
Sudarshan Sethi		(as Sudharshan Sethi)
Kalla
Yusuf
Roy
Uttamraj
Ramesh
Jaswant
Mehra
Jullianin
Krishna		(as Kishen)

Directed by
Vijay Anand

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Vijay Anand		dialogue
Vijay Anand		screenplay
Suraj Sanim		story

Produced by
Vijay Anand	....	producer

Original Music by
Rahul Dev Burman		(as R.D. Burman)

Cinematography by
Jal Mistry

Film Editing by
Vijay Anand

Art Direction by
T.K. Desai

Makeup Department
Vasant Desai	....	makeup artist
Madhav Kadam	....	assistant makeup artist
Philomina	....	hair stylist (as Philomena)
Hariram Sharma	....	makeup artist
Shirley	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Sidharth Anand	....	production manager
Kumar Butani	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ravi Berry	....	assistant director
Swaroop Kumar	....	assistant director
Manohar Rangroo	....	chief assistant director

Art Department
Ramesh Abitkar	....	assistant art director (as Ramesh)
Bhaskar L. Deokar	....	assistant art director (as Baskar)

Sound Department
Ashfaq Ahmed	....	assistant sound (as Ashfaq)
Mangesh Desai	....	sound re-recordist
T.R. Malhotra	....	assistant sound
Arun Sharma	....	audiographer
Kuldip Sood	....	associate re-recordist (as Kuldeep Sood)

Special Effects by
M.A. Hafeez	....	assistant: opticals (as M.A. Hafez)
K.K. Mathur	....	titles design
Suresh Naik	....	opticals

Stunts
Jaswant	....	assistant stunt coordinator
A. Mansoor	....	action coordinator
Surendra Shetty	....	assistant stunt coordinator (as Surendra)

Camera and Electrical Department
M. Ashfaq	....	assistant camera
Kadar R. Khan	....	assistant camera (as Kadar)
Riyasat	....	assistant camera
Kulwant Singh	....	assistant camera
P.N. Swamy	....	chief assistant camera (as P.M. Swami)
Vasu	....	chief electrician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Amarnath	....	wardrobe
Balchand	....	wardrobe
Rafiq	....	assistant wardrobe
Shreeram	....	costumes

Editorial Department
Ashok Bandekar	....	assistant editor
Achyut Gupte	....	color consultant
Babu Sheikh	....	associate editor

Music Department
Asha Bhosle	....	playback singer (as Asha Bhonsle)
Basu Deo Chakravarty	....	assistant musical director (as Basu)
R. Kaushik	....	song recordist (as Kaushik)
Kishore Kumar	....	playback singer
Lata Mangeshkar	....	playback singer
Maruti Rao	....	assistant musical director (as Maruti)
Manohari Singh	....	assistant musical director (as Manohari)

Other crew
Anand	....	production assistant
Vijay Anand	....	presenter
K.K. Chugh	....	publicist
Bruno D'Mello	....	production assistant (as D'Mello)
P. D'Souza	....	office staff (as Mrs. P. D'souza)
Gangadhar	....	office staff
Jaitly	....	office staff
Bhanu Kandalkar	....	office staff (as Bhanu)
Amit Khanna	....	business executive
Amit Khanna	....	production controller
C. Krishna	....	general manager
S. Mani	....	production assistant
Shankar Nandedkar	....	production assistant (as Shankar Nandekar)
P.A. Pisharoti	....	chief accountant
Raman P.	....	office staff
Joseph Quadros	....	production assistant (as Joseph)
T.M. Ramachandran	....	public relations officer
K.N. Ramchandran	....	office staff (as Ramchandran)
Somnath Rangroo	....	production planner
Shanta	....	dance assistant
Pandurang Shinde	....	production assistant
Teresa	....	dance assistant
Oscar Unger	....	choreographer (as Oscar)
Vijay	....	dances

Thanks
Dinesh Kapadia	....	acknowledgment (as Shri Dinesh Kapadia)
A. Yusuf	....	acknowledgment (as A. Yusuf)

Other Companies

• Kamat Foto Flash  stills
• Lekhraj & Co.  junior artists supplier

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Trivia:

Jyoti Bakshi was Vijay Anand's find. This film marked her debut.

Indianised Just Another Sucker

Bullet was a slick production from the house of Vijay Anand. Made to celebrate the silver jubilee of Navketan, this film had all ingredients for a nice, entertaining thriller. Definitely one of Dev Anands sane films, as most of his films have bordered on the juvenile.

Dharam Dev (Dharam Dev Anand) is a police office who is on the trails of conman DP, played by Kabir Bedi. DP is a sly businessman who sells company shares to public promising the sky. In reality the shares are decoys as the company is actually bankrupt and has no business to back the promises made to the public and the financiers.

Dev hires the services of DP 's secretary Sapna (Parveen Babi), who in turn falls for him , but plans to move out once she finds out that Dev is a policeman. But after getting a view of the real picture of the future of the shares, she extends help to Dev as she senses that the public is being taken for a big ride.

DP too has aces up his sleeve. He gets Dev jailed on account of a fabricated drunk on duty charge, and later, with the help of his mistress, generates a master plan to rake in millions and eliminate Dev totally by getting him framed on a murder and ransom charge.

Now it is up to Dev to try and exonerate himself and pin the actual mastermind behind all the ploys Good, catchy music by Rahul Dev Burman adds to the color of the film.

Bullet is a well made film. Pity it was ahead of its time in content and treatment.