Pyaar Zindagi Hai

K.C.Bokadia rose to fame as a producer with the blockbuster film Pyar Jhukta Nahin which was directed by Vijay Sadanah. Very surprisingly they didn't work together again for the next 16 years. Pyar Zindagi hai was their collaboration after 16 years and though the film is no great shakes it is quite watchable precisely for the brilliant performance by Mohnish Bahl. Had he delievered this performance in a successful film he surely would have got a nomination for best supporting actor or best actor in a negative role. Apart from him the performances are quite ordinary especially by the leading actors. Both the actors lack spark and chemistry was missing between them which is death knell for a romantic film. Also there is a lot of stuff in the film which reminds you of Pyar Jhukta Nahin precisely the song situations, the lyrics and even certain scenes are taken from Pyar Jhukta Nahin but they are not as impactful as the former and makes the film predictable at times. Songs are hummable and good for such a low budget film. But as I said the songs and their placement are similar to Pyar Jhukta Nahin. One of the song goes like "honge na juda milke" which is obviously inspired by the song "Chahe laakh toofan aaye....milke na honge juda". The title song will remind you of "Tumse milkar na jane kyun". Rajesh Khanna is pretty ordinary and doesn't have much to do except in the climax. Overall a decent film because of Mohnish Bahl if not anything else. I personally don't like the movies of K C Bokadia except Pyar Jhukta Nahin and it is nice to see him returning to romantic genre after making dozens of violent assembly line productions.