Produced by B.R. Chopra and directed by Yash Chopra, this murder mystery was inspired by the Gujarati play Dhummas, which in turn was definitely borrowed from the English play Signpost to Murder (1964). Way ahead of its occasions, Ittefaq was shot in a non-quit schedule of 20 days and was devoid of songs as effectively as an intermission. Rajesh Khanna, who was nevertheless to attain superstardom heights, was paired with the incredibly well-liked at the time, Nanda. Here Dilip Roy, a painter, is convicted of murdering his wife in addition to getting declared mentally unstable by the court. Escaping from prison, he lands up at the desolate home of a lady, and threatens her at gunpoint. But a thing is terribly incorrect in the empty home, and the plot thickens major to a spectacular finale.
Ittefaq was remade with Akshaye Khanna, Sonakshi Sinha and Siddharth Malhotra, 3 years ago, made by Abhay Chopra – grandson of B.R.Chopra.
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