Pyaar Ka Saaya (1991) User Reviews (4)

For those of you who haven't seen this...(SPOILER)

[Liquid-Snake · 1 August 2004]

...it is a Bollywood re-make of "GHOST" - Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze - with nothing much changed except with some songs put in.

My memory might be a bit dodgy cos it's been about 10 years since I watched this but it was like a dubbed version of the Hollywood version - I can't remember anything different happening!

The settings are the same, the characters the same, the story the same - just all Bollywoodised. Rahul Roy as Swayze, Amrita Singh as Whoopi Goldberg and Mohnish Behl as the best friend/turned villain. Even the ghost guy from the subway is there (played by one of the bad guys from "AGNEEPATH")!

Worth watching if only to p*ss yourself from laughing at the blatant copying that Bollywood at the time was prone to.

Actually...

One thing was different - the title: shouldn't it have been called "BLAA"?

Terrible copy of the Film "Ghost"

[sauravjoshi85 · 1/10 · 2 April 2024]

Pyaar Ka Saaya is a romantic thriller film directed by Vinod Verma and starring Rahul Roy, Sheeba, Amrita Singh and Mohnish Behl.

Avinash is murdered and comes back as a ghost. He communicates through Maya and tries to warn his wife that her life is in danger.

This film is a cheap copy of the English classic 'Ghost' in which Rahul Roy plays the role of Patrick Swayze, Sheeba plays the role of Demi Moore, Amrita Singh plays the role of Whoopi Goldberg and Mohnish Behl plays the role of Tony Goldwyn. Even the ghost who can touches the object is copied, the way Rahul Roy irritates Amrita Singh by singing badly is copied, the scene where Rahul Roy uses his dog to stare the thief away is also copied with the only difference that in the original version it was cat and in the scene where Rahul Roy convinces Amrita Singh to impersonate the identity of a queen to withdrew money is also copied. The only difference in Pyaar Ka Saaya and Ghost is that Pyaar Ka Saaya has songs in it and has some cringe Hindi cinema touch.

The acting is terrible, I've never considered Rahul Roy and Sheeba as good actors and they were pathetic in this film. Amrita Singh though being a talented actress overacted in the film and irritates. Mohnish Behl had done similar roles and was decent.

Screenplay of the film was unbearable and I also watched the film into parts. Songs of the film were good and some of the songs were popular at the time of release of the film. Climax of the film is also copied.

Please do not waste your precious time in the badly copied film.

romance humor drama

[arun_singh300-1 · 10/10 · 26 March 2009]

Pyar ka Saaya is inspired from ghost.the plot is quite like the Oscar winning Hollywood movie.though the treatment and a number of hit romantic and some great dance numbers songs by Nadeem Shravan make it quite different.direction and acting is good,song no.s like

1 pyar ka says in two versions 2 Tumse Thoda sa main door hoon, 3 Ek Phool Sa Chehra Hai, 4 Teri Dosti Se, 5 Aaja Aaja Aa Bhi Ja, 6 Tu Chahat Hai

make it great to watch.it has romance,humor and drama.the two heroines Sheeba and Amrita Singh give good performance.Amrita Singh is quite funny in her role.

Frame by frame remake of Hollywood's Ghost

[nadkarnisumeet · 6/10 · 8 December 2020]

Pyaar Ka Saaya review :

Two films inspired from the same Hollywood source Ghost (1990) released back to back at the same main theatre Minerva (Mumbai) in December 1991and met with somewhat similar fate at the ticket counters. Maa performed better than Pyaar Ka Saaya but still both couldn't qualify as a hit of that year.

Pyaar Ka Saaya was almost a frame by frame remake of Ghost with even the iconic clay moulding scene replicated for the Hindi audience. Produced by B Subhash, it had Rahul Roy and Sheeba as the newly wedded couple whose life is destroyed after Rahul is stabbed to death by a goon. Amrita Singh played Whoopi Goldberg's role of a medium who can communicate with the dead. Her brilliant performance earned her a Filmfare award nomination that year. Rahul and Sheeba sizzled together in Nadeem Shravan's melodious songs. Even Avtaar Gill left a mark in one scene he got. Since it was a cut copy paste job of Ghost, the critics trashed the film and even the audience gave it a thanda response.

I prefer Pyaar Ka Saaya than Maa as I had a crush on the sexy Sheeba at that time (my school days, tee hee!!) and saw the film multiple times on VHS just for her. Till date, I own a DVD of this B Subhash bomb (pun intended).

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.