Salma (1985 film)

Salma is an Indian drama musical romance film directed by Ramanand Sagar which was released on 1985. It stars Raj Babbar, Salma Agha and Shoma Anand in the lead roles.

Plot

The story revolves around Lucknow-based Nawabzaada Aslam (Raj Babbar) lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his dad, Bakar and mom. He writes poem under the pen name of Raj Lakhnavi and is a close friend of Iqbal. One day he meets and falls in love with Salma Banarasi (Salma Agha), a banarasi-based courtesan. When his parents arranged his marriage with his foreign-returned cousin Mumtaz (Shoma Anand), he informs them that he loves salma and incurs their displeasure so much so that his dad shoots him, and he gets hospitalized. When he recovers fully he is shocked to find that salma has not only accepted Iqbal as her lover, but has also taken lot of money and jewelry from his mother. He takes to alcohol in a bing way and swears to exact vengeance against salma by getting married to mumtaz and forcing salma to sing and dance at his wedding.

Cast

• Raj Babbar as Nawaabzada Aslam/ Raj Lakhnavi
• Salma Agha as Salma Banarasi
• Shoma Anand as Mumtaz
• Farooq Shaikh as Iqbal
• Pradeep Kumar as Nawab Bakar Ali
• Sushma Seth as Mrs. Bakar Ali
• Sujit Kumar as Akbar Mirza
• Prema Narayan as Courtesan
• Dilip Sood as Dalip Sud
• Chandrashekhar as Thakur Balwant Singh
• If Tekhar as Ustad ji
• Raj Rani as Salma's Bua
• Tun Tun as Lady Singer

Soundtracks

External links

Salma at IMDB