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Khoon Pasina (खून पसीना)

Khoon Pasina (खून पसीना) is a 1977 Hindi-language action drama film directed by Rakesh Kumar and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, and Rekha in the lead roles.¹ It was released on 21 January 1977.² The film belongs to the cycle of 1970s Hindi masala films built around the "angry young man" figure that Amitabh Bachchan embodied during that decade.³

Key fact	Detail
Release	21 January 1977, in Hindi²
Director / writers	Directed by Rakesh Kumar; story by Rakesh Kumar, screenplay by K.K. Shukla, dialogue by Kader Khan⁴
Producers	Babboo Mehra and Prakash Mehra⁵
Lead cast	Amitabh Bachchan as Shiva/Tiger, Vinod Khanna as Aslam Sher Khan/Shera, Rekha as Chanda⁴
Music	Kalyanji-Anandji (composers), Anjaan (lyricist); playback singers included Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, and Asha Bhosle⁵^•⁴
Runtime	3 hours 30 minutes (IMDb); Indian Film History lists 3 hr 31 min¹^•⁵
IMDb rating	6.0/10 from 452 votes¹

Spoilers

Plot

The story begins when Professor Rahim and his friend Ram witness the gangster Zaalim Singh beating a man and lodge a police complaint against him. In retaliation, Zaalim Singh orders his men to foment religious riots in which Ram and Rahim are killed and Rahim's infant son is separated from his mother.¹

Years later, Ram's son Shiva has grown up with Rahim's widow (played by Nirupa Roy) and fights against injustice and oppression, becoming the neighborhood strongman known as Tiger. Rahim's son Aslam, lost in the upheaval, has grown into a bandit called Shera, a dacoit with a good heart.⁶ The two childhood friends, unaware of each other's identity, are set on rival paths.⁵

Shiva meets and falls in love with Chanda (Rekha), and they marry. She has no idea what work he does until she realizes that the area they live in fears him; shocked by his criminal acts, she asks him to give them up, and he promises to do so.⁵ Shiva's life turns when he is wrongfully accused of killing a man named Mohan Sharma, a charge that intertwines his fate with Shera's and Zaalim Singh's once and for all.⁶ The former friends, now enemies, ultimately come together at the end.⁵

Cast and crew

The credited cast pairs Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna as the two leads, with Rekha as the female lead. Supporting roles include Nirupa Roy as Aslam's mother, Kader Khan as the villain Thakur Zaalim Singh, Ranjeet as the gangster Raghu, Asrani as Mohan Sharma, Aruna Irani as Shantimohan Sharma (Shanti Devi, also called Shanno), Helen as a dancer, and Mac Mohan among Zaalim Singh's flunkeys.⁴

Behind the camera, the film was produced by Babboo Mehra and Prakash Mehra, photographed by Ishan Arya, edited by Ramchandra Mahadik, and designed by art director Maharudra Shetty. The stunt and action work was directed by Veeru Devgan, with Mohan Baggad as assistant action coordinator, and choreography was credited to Suresh Bhatt, Sujata Bakshi, and Kamal.⁵^•⁴ The Cineyseries database lists the filming location as Kashmir, India.⁷

Music

The score and songs were composed by the Kalyanji-Anandji duo, Anandji Veerji Shah and Kalyanji Veerji Shah, with lyrics by Anjaan.⁵ Playback singers on the soundtrack included Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, and Asha Bhosle, with Frank Fernand conducting and Babla as assistant musical director.⁴ Indian Film History lists the songs "Raaja Dil Maange" (Asha Bhosle) and "Main Teri Ho Gayi" (Lata Mangeshkar) among the film's tracks.⁵

The tiger sequence and reception

The film is remembered for a sequence in which Bachchan's character, challenged by Chanda to back up his bragging, wrestles a tiger. Bollywood Hungama ran a retrospective piece titled "Throwback Thursday: When Amitabh Bachchan fought a real tiger during Khoon Pasina," and the scene is a recurring touchstone in viewer recollections of the film.⁸^•⁹

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.0/10 from 452 votes.¹ Rotten Tomatoes lists it under the English title Blood Sweat with a 40% audience score from more than 50 ratings and no critic reviews tallied.¹⁰ Retrospective reviews describe it as a typical 1970s masala film, praising the performances of Bachchan, Khanna, Rekha, and Aruna Irani while criticizing the staging of its action scenes.¹¹

Remake and context

Indian Film History describes the film as a successful action-crime film that was remade in Tamil by N.T. Rama Rao.⁵ The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema indexes it as Khoon Pasina (Rakesh Kumar, H, 1977), confirming its place in the Hindi filmography of 1977.¹² Aaj Tak's filmography of Amitabh Bachchan lists खून पसीना among his releases of 1977, a year that also included Amar Akbar Anthony, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, and Parvarish.¹³

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Indian films (individual works) › Hindi films of the 1970s › Released 1976 to 1979

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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