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Someone has nixed up the tv drama with the feature film ,pictures are from tc play ,novie description is poor incomplete and from the feature film which was a big hit in 83 and has the immortal melody by madam noor jehan -uff allah bedard na ban ,one of her greatest ever treasures

this is a unique effort from Indian cinema which convincingly portrays a woman suffering from a double identity crisis with one of the best performances ever given by the lead actress ,who plays the split personality with an ease that looks casual but is an artistic triumph of the highest order,she is supported by a cohesive script with great dialogues and a haunting musical score with some great musical numbers as well as great choreography and camera-work ,for once the musical numbers enhance rather then interfere with the psychological milieu of this dramatic thriller and the director succeeds in creating a psychic classic out of a love story with astonishing verisimilitude ,fully deserving of it's national and international awards this puts modern day cinema to shame by it's sheer intelligence and craftsmanship.the monochrome enhances the mood of this unique effort to make it absolutely memorable .

-it is notoriously tough to adapt a great book into a fabulous script but for once this is fluidly established by a gifted script writer and embellished with a truly dignified performance by the female lead-Hema Malini who plays a widow who after her husband's gruesome murder is obliged to marry his younger brother according to the religious tradition.

the sensitive story is subtly executed with intelligence rather then melodrama and the supporting cast is just as good ,yet the soul of the movie lies in the pragmatic ,bereaving widow who has to take a tough decision and that is where the strength of the story lies as she is torn between the past and future but has to act to save her children's present ,a classic book made into a sensitive drama that will haunt you for a long time after it has ended ,the songs are kept to a minimal and there are no clichés as in mainstream Bollywood movies ,i am sure the Rajinder Singh Bedi will be very pleased with this marvellous adaptation which does full justice to his literary classic.this is a movie for people with a taste for the unusual and deserves a special distinction by all criterion .a culturally correct setting enhances it's authenticity as it portrays rural India with painstaking details and the art direction and cinematography capture the picturesque fields as fluidly as the subtle expressions on the faces of its ensemble cast .a must see for the connoisseurs .ultimately it is a tribute to the matriarchal spirit of the great Indian womanhood and a triumph for the female -oriented intelligent cinema ,Rishi Kapoor brings a passive frustration to the role of the younger man who has to accept the older woman as his wife ,but the transformation is subtle and the quiet acceptance by the children of their father's role by their uncle is very tasteful yet truly heart-rending at times ,but this is a movie which shows the ugly side of life which describes the truth of compromises and the facts are rather bitter ,which might explain the failure of this classic commercially in India . the controversial nature of the religious tradition might be blamed but the fact it is widely practised for the pragmatic side of the convenience to preserve the familial structure cannot be denied . Poonam Dhillon played the tragic girl who has to give up her first love as he is now bound to a woman she had adored secretly as a mother figure ,the complexities here are phenomenal but the director is gifted indeed and he is able to make great cinema out of great literature . it is sad that this movie missed out on tax exemption as well as national awards as no other work of art is more deserving of those rewards then this gem cultural representation which is almost revolutionary in concept and execution .

its rather bizarre this classy reincarnation epic from 1981 was made by Emma Thompson as dead again in 1988, was it a coincidence or deliberate ,but its not mentioned in the credits, the female lead wears a necklace which is replaced by an anklet in the British version, i prefer this any day over the malnourished dead British version. the lead actors and the composer redeem themselves with a superb script and camera work as well as a chilling climax , with great performances from an ensemble cast and a hauntingly melodious soundtrack which will linger in your mind forever as will the powerful dialiogues and the moral ambiguity of this period epic.

this is enhanced by some brilliant acting in the court room sequences ,the British raj and the period details of forties are painstakingly captured in the reincarnation drama .the director was a master storyteller and this is a marvel he has lovingly created , the lead actress looks and acts like a truly beautiful reincarnation and the locales are equally eye-catching in the eternal Himalayas , encore