Batwara

A conflict arises in a post-independence village over a new land law and leads to revenge killings between the Thakurs and farmers, as well as a game of cat and mouse between two rival gangs, eventually resulting in the death of both gang leaders and childhood friends. Batwara is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language Action Drama movie starring Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Mohsin Khan, Shammi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Amrita Singh and Amrit Pal. Swastik Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Salim Akhtar. The film is written and directed by J.p. Dutta. Aftab Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Batwara was released on 14th July 1989 and takes a screen time of 175 minutes. Cinematography was done by Ishwar R. Bidri and editing by Deepak Wirkud. The music was composed by Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar along with Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma and Laxmikant Pyarelal.