Black Mail

A businessman plots to inherit a formula for generating electricity from sunlight by marrying his daughter to the inventors nephew, leading to blackmail and kidnapping until the truth is revealed and the couple reunite. Black Mail is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language Drama Musical film featuring Dharmendra, Raakhee, Shatrughan Sinha, Rakhee Gulzar, Madan Puri, Iftekhar Khan and Sopariwala. R. K. Studios was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Vinod Doshi. Black Mail is written by Vijay Anand, S Vinod Kumar and Vinod Kumar and it is directed by Vijay Anand. V. R. Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Black Mail was released on 1st January 1973 and takes a screen time of 146 minutes. Black Mail was made on a budget of ₹20 crore and at the box office it grossed only ₹19 crore. Cinematography was done by N.V. Srinivas and editing by Vijay Anand. The music was composed by Kalyanji-anandji.