Vijay Singh is a disgraced former Merchant-Navy officer who is branded as a coward after he abandons his crew during an emergency. Guilt-ridden and trying to forget his past, he takes up work at a coal mine where he gets trapped with other miners after a flood hits them.

• Yash Raj Films
• Amitabh Bachchan
• Shashi Kapoor
• Shatrughan Sinha
• Rakhee Gulzar
• Parveen Babi
• Neetu Singh
• Parikshat Sahni
• Prem Chopra