Sangram (1950 film)

Sangram is a 1950 Bollywood film about a spoilt child in adulthood directed by Gyan Mukherjee and starring Ashok Kumar. A boxoffice success, the film became the sixth highest earning Indian film of 1950, earning an approximate gross of Rs. 1,00,00,000 and a nett gross of Rs. 55,00,000. Sangram is a precursor to the copfathercriminalson that later came to be a favourite Bollywood theme, though it was made in noir style cinema that had begun to inspire filmmakers, and Gyan Mukherjee was no exception. An intense, bold 139minute violent crime drama, and Ashok Kumar daring to essay a negative character at a time he was in great demand as a hero. And he excelled in it. First of the many such films he went on to star in during the early 50s.

A cop brings up his motherless son, spoiling him by succumbing to even his unnecessary demands, resulting in his getting familiar with ruffians and even gambling. The boy Kunwar Shashi Kapoor even once carries his fathers pistol and fires it at a chum in a fit of rage. Timely help from father Nawab saves him from the lockup.On growing up Kunwar Ashok Kumar, moves to a city and starts running a casino in the guise of a hotel. But he is betrayed by one of his own confidantes, and the police raid the hotel, and although gets hurt, manages to escape, and happens to meet his childhood companion Baby Tabassum who has grown up to be an attractive young woman Nalini Jaywant. Kunwars dark past catches up with him in the form of an old accomplice Tiwari, who blackmails him as he is about to get married. He steals his deceased mothers jewellery helped by the dancing girl in his casino who, unwittingly, gets arrested. ........

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