Lal Patthar is a 1971 Indian Hindi-language drama film, produced by F. C. Mehra, and directed by Sushil Majumdar.
[1][2] The film stars Raaj Kumar, Hema Malini, Raakhee, Vinod Mehra, Ajit.
Raghav sexually assaulted a peasant woman named Sonmai during one of his village raids, and made her his wife.
As a kid, Gyan stopped his drunk father Anand Shankar from sexually assaulting a maid in their palace.
To become the ruler, Gyan has to marry, but he has decided not to, as he fears that he will ruin a woman's life due to Sonmai's curse.
After killing the tiger, Gyan manages to fight off a group of bandits that were carrying a palanquin.
The bandits escape and Gyan finds a woman named Saudamani (Hema Malini) inside the Palanquin.
Gyan finds that Saudamani is the widow of Gokul from a nearby village, which was plundered by bandits a few days ago.
Gokul's mother is scared by the guns of Gyan's guards and is forced to accept Saudamani.
Gyan runs away from his palace, and comes across a singing function, where he meets a much younger woman, Sumita (Raakhee).
Gyan finds that Sumita's father Harishchandra Chakraborty is a gambler and in heavy debts.
Sumita had a childhood sweetheart, Shekhar (Vinod Mehra), and was coming to India from London, to marry her.
Sumita tells Shekhar that she was forced to marry Gyan, as Harish was beating Madhu relentlessly.
Gyan invites Sekhar to view the fort of Fatehpur Sikri with him on full moon night.
Lal Patthar was one of the films featured in Avijit Ghosh's book, 40 Retakes: Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed.
The song "Geet Gata Hoon Main", written by Dev Kohli and sung by Kishore Kumar stood at number 18 on the Annual 1972 listing of Binaca Geetmala.
Another memorable number in the film is the Ghazal, "Unke Khayal Aaye To", a composition based on Bageshwari / Gara ably sung by Mohammed Rafi.