Hathyar is the story of a simple Thakur (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), who comes to Bombay with his wife (Asha Parekh) and son, Avinash (Sanjay Dutt) only to find the same lawlessness he thought he left behind.
Acting
Dharmendra's Khushal Khan burns with wounded patriarch fury.
Direction
Dutta's Bombay is a predator city swallowing village innocence whole.
Score
Laxmikant-Pyarelal amps every stare-down to operatic hysteria.
Director
J. P. Dutta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hathyar closed J.P. Dutta's rural trilogy after Ghulami and Yateem, cementing his reputation as Bollywood's poet of masculine suffering.
The climactic dock confrontation reportedly required 12 days to film and left Dharmendra genuinely exhausted, not acting.
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