Silsila (The Affair)

Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) a poet decides to bury his past life along with his love for Chandni (Rekha) when he meets Shobha (Jaya Bachchan). Shobha’s life has come to a standstill after her fiancé and Amit’s brother Shekhar (Shashi Kapoor) dies in a plane crash.

Amit had only come to mourn the death of his brother with Shobha but ends up sacrificing his own love and life in an attempt to give Shobha a new lease of life. When fate brings Amit and Chandni face to face again, both are married to different people - but neither can ignore their feelings for each other.

SILSILA is a story, thwarted by society’s demands, which reappear as adultery but can it survive in the face of society?

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Sudha Chopra, Sushma Seth, Ravi Dubey, Sharmila Roy Chowdhary, Vikas Anand, Ranbir Raj, Shyam Arora, Raj Bharti, Mrs. Gauri Shankar, Damyanti Puri, Nirupama Verma, Kimti Anand, Feroz Khan, Manek, Ashok Verma, Pratima Puri, Sanjeev Kumar
Guest Appearance: Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Deven Verma
Director: Yash Chopra
Producer: Yash Chopra
Writer: Sagar Sarhadi
Screenplay: Sagar Sarhadi, Yash Chopra
Dialogue Director: Romesh Sharma
Story: Mrs. Preeti Bedi
Director of Photography: Kay Gee (W.I.C.A.)
Music: Shiv-Hari
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar, Rajendra Krishan, Nida Fazli, Hassan Kamal, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Editor: Keshav Naidu (A.F.E.)
Art: Sudhendu Roy
Choreography: Suresh Bhatt
Sound: M. A. Shaikh
Song Recording: S. Das Gupta, S. Subramanium
Re-Recording: Mangesh Desai
Art Work: Diwakar
Stills: Vijay Hangal
Dress Designer: Pamela Chopra, Jenifer Kapoor, Leena Daru
Costumes: Kachins, Artistic, Debonair
Special Effects: Danny Desai
Opticals: Prasad Productions Pvt. Ltd. (Madras), M. A. Hafez, S. A. Azim