Aahuti is a 1978 Hindi family drama film directed by Ashok V. Bhushan. The films stars Rajendra Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Rakesh Roshan, Parveen Babi, Zaheera and Madan Puri.

Plot

The story unfolds with Custom Officer Harnam Prasad (Ajit) as apprehending a smuggling racket being run on the high seas by Heeralal (Madan Puri), wherein Heeralal is seen by two fisher women, one of whom he kills so that she is not able to testify against him, which is seen by Harnam. On Harnam's testimony in the courts as eyewitness to both the smuggling racket and murder of the fisher woman, Heeralal is jailed. Heeralal's gang now seeks revenge against the family of devout Harnam which comprises his wife, Kaushalya (Kamini Kaushal) and three sons. They sabotage the picnic bus of his two sons, Ram and Laxman, leading it to being thrown off a cliff and burnt, wherein people assume both to be dead. Harnam is attacked on his boat in the sea, with his third son Bharat, by the same gang's assailant, which leads to the boat crashing on the rocks, and both being assumed, to be missing or dead. Kaushalya is attacked by this gang with kerosene fire which burns down their house and she loses both her legs in the inferno. Having lost her family to her husband's duty she goes to commit suicide, but is saved by a woman (Dulari) who takes her to her humble abode.