Waris (film)

The film is about a royal dynasty, whose heir Prince Ram Kumar goes away due to his father Raja Raghunath's high-handedness. After 20 years, Raja Saab, before dying asks Birbal, Thakurain, and James to find Ram Kumar. Raja Saab also asks them to marry his Diwan‘s daughter Geeta to Ram Kumar, Geeta is entrusted with looking after Ram Kumar’s kid sister Munni. After Raja Saab’s death 3 people claiming to be Ram Kumar reach the kingdom, Claimant 1 Ravi, gains the affection of Munni and the heart of Geeta. Claimant 2 is shown to the audience to be as Murthy, the real son of Rukmani, who has been the foster mother of the real Kumar during his exile. The real Kumar has been abducted and locked up by Murthy, who is a member of a criminal gang. Claimant 1/ Ravi is a sibling of Kumar’s beau Komal and Claimant-3 is CBI officer Rajan assigned to find the real Ram Kumar

Rukmani's reaches the kingdom and is asked to identify Ram Kumar, Murthy convinces her to point him out as Ram Kumar, Ravi and Rajan seek time but Murthy is seen as the successor and preparations begin for his coronation.

Ravi & Rajan find and free Ram Kumar who is startled to know about Rukmani’s arrival Afterwards he divulges the facts to her. Then, she brings the truth to the limelight which is denied by Murthy. Eventually, Murthy again seizes Kumar with Rukmani and plots to get Geeta. Ravi & Rajan stymie him and flee with Geeta and the testament. To acquire it, Murthy extorts Komal by threatening to kill Ram Kumar. So, she snatches it and surrenders it. Ravi fights Murthy’s gang and routs it. Rukmani sacrifices her life while guarding Kumar and kills Murthy. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriages of Ravi & Geeta and Ram Kumar & Komal.

• Jeetendra as Ravi/Ram Kumar #2
• Hema Malini as Geeta
• Neetu Singh as Baby Sonia
• Master Sachin as Young Ram Kumar
• Prem Chopra as Murthy/Ram Kumar #1
• Mehmood as CID Inspector Rajan/Ram Kumar #3/ Rajan's mother
• Aruna Irani
• Kamini Kaushal as Rukmani
• Shylashri
• Nazima as Komal
• Sudesh Kumar as Original Ram Kumar
• David as Diwanji
• S.A. Ashokan as Samson

The film was well received by the audience.

Mehmood and Aruna Irani had made a successful comedy team in Aulad (1968), produced a year earlier. Their next pairing was Waris and the audience's appreciation helped in their working together in several films. Mehmood won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role for this movie.^[4]

The film's score was composed by Rahul Dev Burman and lyrics were penned by Rajendra Krishan. It had playback by Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi.^[6][7] A popular number was the parody song, "Chahe Koi Mujhe Bhoot Kaho" where Burman mixed a medley of numbers from different films like Junglee (1961), Brahmachari (1968) and An Evening In Paris (1967).^[8] All Shanker JaikIshen compositions.