Karz

Karz (Hindi: क़र्ज़, Urdu: قرض, pronunciation: qarz, translation: in-debt) is a 1980 Hindi film directed by Subhash Ghai. Laxmikant-Pyarelal won a Filmfare Best Music Director Award for this film. The director Subhash Ghai admitted that Karz was partly inspired by the 1975 American film The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, mixed in with Indian beliefs on reincarnation. In turn, both Karz and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud may have been inspired by... more

Karz (Hindi: क़र्ज़, Urdu: قرض, pronunciation: qarz, translation: in-debt) is a 1980 Hindi film directed by Subhash Ghai. Laxmikant-Pyarelal won a Filmfare Best Music Director Award for this film. The director Subhash Ghai admitted that Karz was partly inspired by the 1975 American film The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, mixed in with Indian beliefs on reincarnation. In turn, both Karz and The Reincarnation of Peter Proud may have been inspired by the 1958 Hindi film Madhumati. Karz was itself remade several times: as the Kannada film Yuga Purusha (1989), the Tamil film Enakkul Oruvan (1984), and more recently the Hindi film Karzzzz (2008). Karz may have also inspired the American film Chances Are (1989). The evil don Sir Judah (Premnath) has his eyes on the estate and business empire of the eminent businessman Shanta Prasad Verma. But Shanta Prasad's son Ravi Verma (Raj Kiran) foils Sir Judah's attempts to take over the estate. Sir Judah is mute (and communicates by tapping on glasses... less