Nazrana (1987 film)

Nazrana
Directed by	Ravi Tandon
Produced by	C.V.K. Shastry Judah Solomon
Screenplay by	Vijay Kaul
Story by	Gulshan Nanda
Starring	Rajesh Khanna Smita Patil Sridevi Shafi Inamdar Priti Sapru Gita Siddharth Dalip Tahil Jayshree Gadkar Abhi Bhattacharya Pinchoo Kapoor Om Shivpuri Iftekhar
Music by	Laxmikant Pyarelal
Release date(s)	February 6, 1986 (1986-02-06)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Template:Film Inida
Language	Hindi

Nazrana is a Hindi film starring Rajesh Khanna^[1] paired opposite two heroines Smita Patil and Sridevi. The film was directed by Ravi Tandon. The music has been given by Laxmikant Pyarelal and lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi. In the film credits, its mentioned that this film is dedicated to late Smita Patil. This film had collections worth 2.80 crores in Indian Box Office in 1987 and thereby became a hit.^[2] The critics gave the film 3.5 stars.^[3]

Plot

The story starts with a courtroom scene where Rajat Verma(Rajesh Khanna) is being accused of murder of Sheetal Puri(Priti Sapru). At this point, Tulsi(Sridevi) steps into the witness box & recolects the whole story.

As the film goes in the flashback, it is revealed that Rajat is the head of a leading advertising firm. Sheetal is an upcoming model who will stop at nothing to reach on top & be there. She even goes on to make advances on Rajat, who rejects all of them.

Then Rajat meets Mukta(Smita Patil) & they fall in love. Rajat & Mukta get married & everything is hunky dory for some days. Sheetal is however unhappy as her greed for power is increasing. She starts spreading false rumours about she & Rajat having an affair. Mukta gets disturbed by the rumours.

Rajat tries to assuage her & assures that there is no such thing going on. However, with each day, Mukta's suspicion & bitterness towards Rajat grows. Finally, Rajat too is not able to take this & calls it quits. The duo go through a divorce & get separated.

After that Rajat goes downhill. He starts drinking excessively & causes headlines for all wrong reasons. Rajat terminates Sheetal's contract with his firm. This causes huge financial loss to Rajat's firm, as Sheetal has become famous & almost no model is ready to step in her shoes.

Meanwhile, Mukta discovers that she is pregnant with Rajat's child & starts repenting for what she did. She tries to reconcile, but is coldly told by Sheetal that she has lost Rajat to the latter, no matter what the case really appears to be. When Sheetal learns of Mukta's pregnancy, she sees to it that Rajat never gets to know about it.

All this is witnessed by Tulsi(Sridevi), a housemaid of Rajat. She is helpless even as Rajat stumbles deeper into the mess. Little does she know that she is going to be the turning point of rest of the story.

Rajat, in utter desparation, decides to launch Tulsi as a new model, as he does not want to renegotiate with Sheetal. Tulsi has no other option but to go along his decision. Rajat transforms Tulsi & sure enough, the latter starts gaining market. Sheetal is naturally raged by this unexpected roadblock.

The rest of the story is all about how Tulsi enters the life of Rajat and how she affects the relation of Mukta nad Rajat further.Will Tulsi fall in love with Rajat? Will Tulsi marry Rajat? Will Mukta ever come to know that Rajat was innocent? Will Sheetal play spoilsport to Mukta's life even more? Will Mukta and Rajat ever be able to reconcile? What landed all of them to court?

Cast

• Rajesh Khanna as Rajat Verma
• Smita Patil as Mrs.Mukta Verma
• Sridevi as Tulsi
• Shafi Inamdar as Shafi
• Priti Sapru as Sheetal Puri
• Jayshree Gadkar as Parvati
• Dalip Tahil as Banke

Music

• "Isse Pehle Ke Yaad Tu Aaye" – Kishore Kumar
• "Kahe De Zamane Se" – Manna Dey, Anuradha Paudwal
• "O Mera Naam Tu Puchega" – Manna Dey, Lata Mangeshkar
• "Jhan Jhananan Jhan Nanana" – Lata Mangeshkar
• "Aye Babrika Aye Reeka Reeka" – Kavita Krishnamurthy

References

1. ^ http://entertainment.in.msn.com/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=4155691&page=12
2. ^ http://ibosnetwork.com/asp/filmbodetails.asp?id=Nazrana+(1987)
3. ^ http://books.google.co.in/books?ei=O-nfTY2RDoPmrAfF9YiVDw&ct=result&id=Q5UqAAAAYAAJ&dq=Collections+Update+Video+Publication%2C+1991&q=nazrana#search_anchor

External links

• Nazrana at the Internet Movie Database