Benaam (1974 film)

Benaam  (lit. 'Nameless') is a 1974 Bollywood thriller film directed and co-written by Narendra Bedi. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Moushumi Chatterjee and Prem Chopra. Madan Puri appears in a different role. The core plot loosely resembles Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).

The film was remade in Kannada as Thirugu Baana with Ambarish and Aarati reprising the roles played by Amitabh Bachchan and Moushumi Chatterjee.

Plot
Sheela (Moushumi Chatterjee) and Amit Shrivastav (Amitabh Bachchan) are a married couple with a young son. One night on their way to a party, they witness a murder attempt on a press reporter. Amit admits the victim, who is in a critical condition, to a hospital. He also finds a torn part of an invitation at the place of the attempted murder which he pockets. Soon afterwards, Amit begins to receive anonymous threats to hand over the evidence.

When Amit does not comply, Amit and Sheela's son is kidnapped. An unknown voice starts blackmailing Amit into doing what that person dictates. The only way to save their child is to unravel the mystery of that person's identity. Amit, with the help of Inspector Jadhav, (Satyen Kappu) finally finds the culprit and saves his son.

Cast

 * Amitabh Bachchan as Amitabh "Amit" Shrivastav
 * Moushumi Chatterjee as Sheela Shrivastav
 * Prem Chopra as Kishanlal
 * Helen as Poonam
 * Madan Puri as Gopal
 * Iftekhar as Police Commissioner
 * Satyen Kappu as Inspector Jadav
 * Dhumal as Police Constable
 * Shubha Khote as Chachi
 * Jagdish Raj as Mr. Desai
 * D.K. Sapru as Mr. Sharma
 * Viju Khote as Salim
 * Kader Khan as voice on the phone
 * Dev Kishen as Astrologer
 * Rajpal as Tony, Amit's office colleague