Khaamosh!

Film: Badla

Year of release: 1974

Spoken by: Raju Dada (Shatrughan Sinha)

Spoken to: Shankar Dada (Sudhir)

Dialogue writer: Jagdish Kanwal

Some dialogues are so closely linked to some stars that it's difficult to separate the two. Pran and BarKhurdaar, Om Prakash and Bhaagvaan, Jeevan and naaraayaN naaraayaN and even Raaj Kumar and Jaani. The moment I say Khaamosh, the name and face that immediately springs to mind is Shatrughan Sinha. Ironically, in his biography 'Anything But Khamosh', Shekhar Suman reveals that Khamosh was not really derived from any film, but it was Shatru imitating Prithviraj Kapoor from Mughal E Aazam. So that dialogue should bring Prithviraj to mind. But not Shatru. I set about trying to discover the origin of this dialogue in a Shatrughan film. I discovered this 1974 film. 

So the dialogue 'Khaamosh' was first used by Shatrughan Sinha in this film.

Shankar goes to Bhaskar's (CS Dubey) 'daru ka aDDaa' or liquor vend, to avenge the bashing up and destruction of a vend run by Heera that is under his protection. 

When the lackey in Bhaskar's vend comes and tells him that Raju dada is coming everyone runs away. But the goons stay back. 

When Raju enters the bar by opening the closed doors, Macmohan throws a knife at Raju but misses. It lodges itself in the door frame.

Raju says, "abhi tak vo chaaku taiyyaar nahin huaa hai, jo Raju ko lag jaaye. Gulel lekar pahle chiDiyaa maarnaa seekho, chiDiyaa. 

Sudhir says (Shankar dada) "bako mat"

And then comes the dialogue that is featured here.

"Khaamosh!"
"ख़ामोश"

It's totally anodyne and lacks the punch that such an iconic dialogue should have had. So ideally Khaamosh should be credited to Baadshah Akbar i.e. Prithviraj Kapoor instead of Shatrughan Sinha.

This dialogue comes at about 11 minutes run time. You can watch it here.

You can watch Prithviraj Kapoor say the original dialogue here. Make up your own mind about who deserves credit for this dialogue.