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Title
Sooryavansham
Cast Amitabh Bachchan, Soundarya
Director E.V.V Satyanarayana
Genre Drama
Year 1999
Thakur Bhanu Pratap Singh (Amitabh Bachchan), a Zamindar of Bharatpur village
, has a God like image among the villagers. Heera is the youngest son of Bhanu
Pratap. Gouri who is brought up by Bhanu Pratap attends the same school as Heera.
Intimate childhood friendship develops between Heera & Gouri. Once, when the
teacher is punishing Gouri at school, Heera retaliates and decides to quit
school. This attitude of Heera towards education creates differences between
father & son. As a punishment Gouri is sent to the city for education and Heera
and Gouri are seperated. Gouri returns from the city well qualified whereas
Heera is still uneducated. Heera wishes to marry Gouri Bhanu Pratap however is
very reluctant to give the nod, but eventually he agrees, but Gouri rejects
Heera since she feels they are no match at all. This rejection strikes Heera
like a bombshell. But, unable to face a situation where his father's decision
has been rejected, and also unable to force his decision on Gouri to marry him,
Heera takes the blame on himself for the marriage that doesn't happen.Radha (Soundarya),
a socially aware city girl comes to Heeras village, when she finds out about
Heera's sacrifice ,she instantly falls in love with him . Meanwhile Radha's
parents fix her marriage with Deshraj Thakur's (Mukesh rishi) son. Radha's
mother extracts a promise from Bhanu Pratap that Heera should not marry Radha
and Bhanu Pratap in turn takes a promise for his son Heera that he will not
marry Radha. Ultimately when the marriage of Heera and Radha takes place by
sheer force of circumstances an enraged Bhanu Pratap throws his son out of the
house. Heera & Radha start life from scratch and and go on to become very
successful. The couple are blessed with a boy. Heera becomes a richman of social
standing, and with his active support Radha pursues the ISA exam and becomes a
collector and gets posted to the same district. In a strange situation Bhanu
Pratap meets his grandson and friendship blossoms between them. Heera constructs
a 'Charity Hospital' and names it after his father. This makes Bhanu Pratap feel
proud of his son. Gradually, all the hatred for Heera is forgotten. Deshraj who
is a village bad man and has once gone to jail beacuse of Bhanu Pratap, plans to
kill Bhanu Pratap through his innocent grandson, by mixing poison in the 'kheer',
the boy is carrying for his grandfather, and wants to implicate Heera for the
murder of his father. The poisoned Bhanu Pratap is hospitalized. The cunning
Deshraj succeeds in convincing the people that Heera has planned to kill his
father. Suddenly Bhanu Pratap enters the scene and unfolds the evil designs of
Deshraj Thakur to the villagers. Both the father and the son are united.
   
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