The Showman's triumph Raj Kapoor again directs a great film. The story starts with the the boy meets girl syndrome(Naren, played by Rajiv Kapoor meets Gunga, played by Mandakini).They start loving each other and get married. But when Naren goes back home, he finds that his marriage has been fixed to another girl. Kunj, his maternal uncle goes to fetch Ganga, but they had already left for Calcutta with a son. The film draws an analogy between the protagonist "Ganga" and the river Ganga. Ganges starts from Gangotri and merges in the Bay of Bengal, it is pure in the starting, but becomes polluted during its way. The protagonist is the living embodiment of the river. Along the way, she is trafficked, raped and beaten. By the time she reaches Kolkata, her purity had gone, just like the Ganges. This movie seemed to be contrast to his 1962 classic "Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai". That film boasted about the country and the Ganges and optimistic in tone. While RTGM denounces the evils present in the country and raises its voice against it. The music of the film is quite good, especially the title song.But the film takes a beating at acting. Mandakini is average while Rajiv Kapoor is just plain bad, he can't convey emotions properly.(Quite strangely, the movie is (in)famous for the nude scene. It has much more to it than that. Do watch it. You won't be disappointed.)