Kaala Patthar

A disgraced ex-captain befriends an engineer and faces his guilt while defending fellow miners against an escaped convict, eventually saving lives and overcoming a greedy boss, but at the cost of one friends life and another friends injury. Kaala Patthar is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language Action Drama movie featuring Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Raakhee, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh and Sheri Mohan. The movie is based on Chasnala mining disaster. Kaala Patthar was Produced by Yash Chopra. Kaala Patthar is written by Javed Akhtar, Salim Khan and Salim Javed and it is directed by Yash Chopra. Yash Raj Films acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Kaala Patthar was released on 24th August 1979 and takes a screen time of 171 mins. The Film was successful at box office. Kaala Patthar was made on a budget of ₹1 crore and it was a super hit at box office gross of ₹135 crore. Cinematography was done by Kay Gee. The music was composed by Rajesh Roshan along with Salil Chowdhury.