Karamdaata (1986)

Rai Bahadur is a very rich man. Neeta, his daughter, elopes with a taxi driver who later is revealed that wanted her only for her money. Desperate, Neeta commits suicide, abandoning her little daughter to Rai Bahadur's arms to raise her. When young Pinky grows up and also falls in love with the taxi driver Govinda, Rai Bahadur, afraid that the same misfortune will now plight his grandaughter, tries to seperate them. But Pinky's father will return from the shadows to claim what is his.

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Top billed cast

Mithun ChakrabortyGovinda
Amrita SinghPinky
Shammi KapoorRai Bahadur
Shakti KapoorPinky's father
JagdeepMajnu
Aruna IraniStreet dancer
Dina PathakGovinda's mother
Swaroop SampatNeeta
Dinesh HingooBhagwan Das
Om PrakashKhan

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