director jalte badan
Amitabh Harivansh Rai Shrivastava Bachchan ( born 11 October 1942 ) is an Indian film actor . He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like " Zanjeer " and " Deewaar ", and was dubbed India ' s first " angry young man " for his on - screen roles in Bollywood . Referred to as the " Shahenshah of Bollywood ", " Star of the Millennium " or " Big B ", he has since appeared in over 190 Indian films in a career spanning almost five decades . Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema . So total was his dominance on the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director ___MASK25___ called him a " one - man industry ." ___MASK55___ ( 29 December 1917  12 December 2005 ) ( born Chandramauli Chopra ) was an Indian film director . He is most famous for making the " Ramayan " television series , a 78 - part TV adaptation of the ancient Hindu epic of the same name , starring Arun Govil as Lord Ram and Deepika Chikhalia as Sita . The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2000 . Jalte Badan is a 1973 Bollywood drama film about the perils of drug addiction . Kiran ( Kiran Kumar ) is a young man who goes to Bombay to study . While his university is caught up in a student strike , Kiran descends into drug use , encouraged by an evil mobster and the peer pressure of his fellow students . Kiran ' s only hope is that a kindly cabaret dancer Malti ( Padma Khanna ) will take pity on him and call for his snake charmer girlfriend ( Kum Kum ) to rescue him with her true love . Padma Khanna ( born 10 March 1949 ) is an Indian actress , dancer and director . She appeared mainly in Hindi and Bhojpuri films in the 1970s and 1980s . She is most remembered for her role in the film " Saudagar " with Amitabh Bachchan and also as Queen Kaikeyi in ___MASK55___ ' s epic series " Ramayan " ( 1987  1988 ). She has acted in two Telugu films with N . T . Rama Rao " Desoddarakulu " and " Rajaputra Rahasyam ".