Yahee hai tamanna
Posted on: May 20, 2025
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‘Ek Gunaah Aur Sahee’ (1980) was produced and directed by Yogi Kathuria under the banner of Dayali Films International. The cast included Sunil Dutt and Parveen Babi in lead roles supported by Madan Puri, Gulshan Arora, Brahmachari, Ved Sharma, Manhar Desai, Sabina, Paul Kanwar etc. This was the only film Yogi Kathuria produced and directed.
The film was a crime thriller and its story seems to have been inspired from an Italian film, ‘Master Touch’ (1972) in which the lead actor, Kirk Douglas did the role of a safe breaker while in Hindi film, the lead actor, Sunil Dutt was a bank robber. In both the films, the lead actors return early from their prison terms due to their good behaviour but decide to do the heist for the last time to get well settled in their married life. In both the films, the instigators for their last heists are a gangster in the Italian film and the white-collared bank manager with a criminal intent in Hindi film. In both films, wives become tacit accompanists to the heists. The end in the Hindi film is the typical Bollywood style while in the Italian film, the end appears more realistic as the robber is cornered by the police team.
I had not heard of ‘Ek Gunaah Aur Sahee’ until recently. It is more surprising when the lead pairs in the film were Sunil Dutt and Parveen Babi. IMDb mentions that the film was in the making since 1973. This is corroborated by the fact that Jan Nisar Akhtar was the lyricist for the film’s songs who had passed away in August 1976. Fortunately, the film is available for watching on a video sharing platform albeit in an average quality. I also get the feeling that the video of the film may be a pirated version of the 35mm film reels with Arabic sub-titles.
The story of ‘Ek Gunaah Aur Sahee’ (1980) is as under:
The film opens with a monologue that Shankar (Sunil Dutt), who has been spending his prison term of six years in a jail for a bank robbery, has already completed four years. Because of his good behaviour and showing to the satisfaction of the jail authorities of his intention to be a good citizen, he is recommended for the remission of his remaining two years in prison and setting him free. However, the bank manager, Verma (Madan Puri), who is the member of the committee to decide the case of remission of the prison term opposes his release. Shankar is disappointed and goes back to his prison cell.
In the flash back, Shankar in the prison cell recalls his meeting with Paro (Parveen Babi) in Kashmir when he had saved her while she had slipped from the snow slide. Paro is a model by profession in Mumbai and she has come to Kashmir on holiday. Shankar has also come to Kashmir after he has executed a bank robbery. He introduces to Paro as a bank robber from Mumbai which, at first, she takes as a joke. Both have grown up in their own and they have no relatives. After fes days together in Kashmir, they fall in love with each other and get married. On the day of their first night of their marriage, Shankar is arrested by the police for the bank robbery and gets imprisonment for six years.
Verma is a fraudster of his bank where he works as a Manager. He also lacks moral turpitude. In the meantime, his embezzlement of Rs,20 lakhs from the bank has come to the notice. To cover up the fraud, Verma proposes a deal with Shankar through his confident, Gulshan (Gulshan Arora) that he would not opposed his remission of imprisonment from the jail in its next meeting provided he robs the bank for him from the cash vault which generally has around Rs.25 lakhs of cash. At first, Shankar rejects his offer as he wants to live a life of a honest man. Paro tells Shankar not to accept the offer as she is prepared to wait for him to complete his imprisonment term. Despite her reservation, in his eagerness to be with Paro, Shankar decides to accept Verma’s offer.
Paro goes to Verma’s house to convey him of the acceptance of his offer by Shankar to rob the bank. However, during her visit, Verma mixes in her drink with some drug and she goes into hallucination. In her state, she believes to be with Shankar. Verma rapes her, which she becomes aware after some hours. She is angry but cannot do much as he has threatened her from revealing the incidence lest Shankar’s life will be in trouble.
Shankar gets released from the prison but Paro refrains from revealing him about her rape by Verma out of fear that it may endanger the life of Shankar. But this incident makes her to be extra careful about Verma’s intent as he cannot be trusted. Paro pleads with Shankar to reconsider his decision to accept Verma’s offer. Shankar tells her that गुनाहों से छुटकारा पाने के लिए बस एक गुनाह और सही’ (To get rid of sins, just one more sin is alright). He assures her that after this bank robbery, he would live a life of a honest citizen and they would settle down far away from Mumbai. While reluctantly giving her nod, Paro insists accompanying Shankar during his bank robbery. With this, they become busy with preparatory works for the bank robbery.
Shankar successfully executes bank’s heist with the help of Paro and Gulshan, but to his surprise, he finds in the vault only Rs,5 lakhs. It becomes clear to Shankar now that Verma has double crossed him by already siphoning off Rs.20 lakhs from the vault and the robbery was a means to conceal his embezzlement.
Shankar and Paro visit Varma’s house to hand over the cash to him. Paro remains outside. Varma gives Shankar his share of 50 per cent of the loot and the flight tickets to go out of Mumbai. Before Shankar leaves, Verma is about to tell him that he has raped his wife when Paro enters the room and shoot Verma who collapses on his chair. Shankar is shocked and asks her as to why she has shot Verma. But she remains speechless. Without wasting time, Shankar and Paro run away from the place in their car. Because of the bank robbery, police has put barricades on roads to check all passing cars. Shankar, on the other hand, thinks that the police has put barricades, looking for the shooter of Verma. In this confusion, Shankar and Paro escape from the police dragnets.
Finally, Shankar and Paro reach the airport but the flight has already left. They go to railway station to catch the train where a petty thief picks up their bag containing the cash. Both Shankar and Paro follow him but he boards an outstation train. After a great chase between the train and the car, Shankar is able to get into the train. He snatches the bag by hitting him hard and making him unconscious. The police picks the petty thief and through him, the police comes to know that the bank heist was a handiwork of Shankar. The message through police control room is splashed across the city.
During their run from the police, Paro decides to surrender to the police because she has shot Verma and she is fed up with the constant run. Shankar reminds her that police is not looking for her but for him because of the bank robbery. He asks her as to why she had shot Verma. At this point, Paro reveals about her rape by Verma. Shankar is greatly upset as well as confused as to how to handle the situations arising out of the rape, Verma’s shooting and the bank robbery. However, soon Shankar gets into his senses of the unusual situations under which he as well as Paro have gone through. Now his first priority is to cross Maharashtra border so that they get some breathing time from the Mumbai police. So, both decide to spend the night in a dak bungalow at the border so that they cross the border in the early morning on the next day.
As soon as Shankar and Paro reach the dak bungalow, they find that Verma and Gulshan are already in the room. Verma gets them tied with the rope and leaves them in the forest to die. Verma returns to his house in Mumbai. However, Shankar is able to cut his rope through a broken bottle and both returns to Bombay. They confront Verma when Verma has been enjoying in his bath tub with two girls. Seeing Shankar with a gun in his hand, Verma runs away to the terrace of the building and accidentally falls from the terrace to the ground and is dead. A police team reach the spot and arrest Shankar but assure him that this time his prison sentence may be less because they have heard the confession of Verma about the bank robbery.
The film ends with Shankar getting released from the prison after completing his prison sentence and Paro is waiting outside the jail to receive him to start their new life.
The film has continuity problems in some scenes which may be due to its delay in completion of the shooting. Though nicely framed, there are longish chase scenes between a petty thief and Shankar sidelining the main theme of the film. Despite these, I liked the film because it is of about 100 minutes of duration, which is a plus point for a film with the genre of crime thriller. Another plus point is that the film is largely focused on its genre of crime drama without much mixing with other elements of box office formulae. The fast-paced thrilling tempo has been majorly maintained which makes watching the film interesting. However, the last about 15 minutes of the film has spoiled the film’s tempo, turning into usual ending of Bollywood films. It appears that the producer-director was eager to complete the film and compromised with a tame ending. For example, Verma (Madan Puri) who has been shot by Paro (Parveen Babi) and presumed dead on his chair, comes back, hail and hearty during the last 15 minutes of the film to take revenge on Shankar without giving any explanation as to how he survived from the bullet.
I believe that the film’s producer-director was trying his best to make a high-quality crime thriller. Unfortunately, a long delay in completing the film appears to have forced him to compromise with the qualitative aspect of the film.
The film had three songs written by Jan Nisar Akhtar which were set to music by Jaidev. It appears that the film’s songs were not released on gramophone records/discs. So, the audio clips of the songs are available on video sharing platforms incorporating the songs from the film’s sound track. I present the first song, ‘yahee hai tamanna yahee hai iraada’ to appear on the Blog which is rendered by Asha Bhosle. The song is picturised on Parveen Babi and Sunil Dutt after they meet in Kashmir when she has come on holiday while Sunil Dutt has come after committing a bank robbery in Mumbai. The context of the song is that Sunil Dutt proposes to marry Parveen Babi which she accepts. The song depicts the glimpses of their togetherness in Kashmir followed by the marriage and returning to Sunil Dutt’s home in Mumbai.
I am pretty sure that song is picturised in around Pahalgam as I can see the familiar wooden bridge over Lidder River which later merges with Jhelum River near Anantnag.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Yahi hai tamanna (Ek Gunaah Aur Sahi)(1980) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Jaan Nisaar Akhtar, MD-Jaidev
Lyrics:
yahee hai tamannaa
yahee hai iraadaa
yahee hai tamannaa
yahee hai iraadaa
saathh jiyenge
saathh marenge
teraa meraa waadaa
meraa teraa waadaa
teraa meraa waadaa
parwat parwat jaadoo chhaayaa
nadiyaan lauteen van leharaayaa
mere dil mein kaun samaayaa
mere khwaabon kaa shahzaadaa
saathh jiyenge
saathh marenge
teraa meraa waadaa
meraa teraa waadaa
teraa meraa waadaa
gaatee raahen dengee gawaahee
guzre thhe do pyaar ke raahee
?? unki mast nigaahen
kitnee rangeen kitnee saada
saathh jiyenge
saathh marenge
teraa meraa waadaa
meraa teraa waadaa
teraa meraa waadaa
shokh umangen kyaa kyaa chaahen
kaanten hain yaa meethi yaaden
sab kuchh kah de khultee baahen
dhadken do dil aur jiyaadaa
saathh jiyenge
saathh marenge
teraa meraa waadaa
meraa teraa waadaa
teraa meraa waadaa
yahee hai tamannaa
yahee hai iraadaa
yahee hai tamannaa
yahee hai iraadaa
saathh jiyenge
saathh marenge
teraa meraa waadaa
meraa teraa waadaa
teraa meraa waadaa
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