Faraar

Faraar ('Absconding') is a 1975 Bollywood crime film drama. The film is produced by Alankar Chitra and directed by Shanker Mukherjee. The film stars Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Sulochna, Sajjan, Agha and Bhagwan Dada. The music is by Kalyanji Anandji.

Plot

The film is based around a middle-class man, Rajesh (Bachchan) living with his sister. He is in love with a young woman, and he intends to marry her once he has found a potential husband to take care of his sister. However, one day the sister is raped and murdered and the police are unable to find any clues and it is left to Rajesh to find the murderers and avenge her death. He traces the murderer and kills him, and is therefore now on the run from the police himself. Rajesh abducts a child as a hostage and seeks refuge in a house only to later learn that the child is the son of his former lover, who is now married to a Police Inspector. Rajesh is torn in two - whether to release the child, or to use him to make an escape.

Faraar (2015 film)

Faraar (English - Absconding, Escape) is a Punjabi film starring Gippy Grewal and Kainaat Arora in lead roles.Gippy Grewal played a double role character in the movie. Movie was released on 28 August 2015.

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Reception

Box office

Faraar collected overall ₹1.07 crore (US$160,000) from 84 screens at the overseas box office in the first weekend making it third highest opening of 2015 after Sardaar Ji and Angrej. In India, Faraar collected ₹3.7 crore (US$540,000) in its opening weekend.Faraar in its second week grossed a total of ₹1.94 crore (US$290,000) in the international markets in 10 days.