Ek Nai Paheli

Name: Ek Nai Paheli
Genre: Drama
Released: 1984-06-29
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Raaj Kumar, Hema Malini, Kamal Haasan

1984

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

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Drama

Bhairavi, a renowned singer, sees a revolutionary Sandeep badly injured and takes him home for treatment. Sandeep had left his father Upendra as Sandeep had taken to terrorism. He hated wome... Read allBhairavi, a renowned singer, sees a revolutionary Sandeep badly injured and takes him home for treatment. Sandeep had left his father Upendra as Sandeep had taken to terrorism. He hated women and music, but Bhairavi's company mellowed him and he fell in love with her. She was, ho... Read allBhairavi, a renowned singer, sees a revolutionary Sandeep badly injured and takes him home for treatment. Sandeep had left his father Upendra as Sandeep had taken to terrorism. He hated women and music, but Bhairavi's company mellowed him and he fell in love with her. She was, however, a mother of Kajvi by a spouse Avinash who had ditched her. Kajri started living wit... Read all

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Trivia
Kamal Hassan stated the film was a disaster while filming. Things went haywire from the word go. There was no team work, it was everyone for himself. Raaj Kumar would constantly interfere with the script and scenes.

Connections
Remake of Apoorva Raagangal (1975)

Soundtracks
Is Mann Ko Ek Thes Lagi Hai
Music by Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar & Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma
Lyrics by Anand Bakshi
Perform by Lata Mangeshkar

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Featured review

6/10

Beautiful but not bold enough..

Ek Nai Paheli review :

After the super success of Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981), director K. Balachander made this film repeating Kamal Haasan as the main lead. Ek Nai Paheli was was remake of Bhagyaraj's own award winning 'Apoorva Raagangal (1975) which was based on a riddle in Betal Pachchisi where Vetal asks about a king marrying a daughter while son marrying her mother. This Tamil original is ever memorable for the debut of Superstar Rajinikanth.

Sadly, the magic couldn't be recreated in Hindi. The plot involving Kamal Haasan in love with the older Hema Malini while her daughter Padmini Kolhapure falls for Kamal's dad Raaj Kumar was too much for the '80s audience to digest. The bold and daringly different quadrangle was outright rejected at the box office.

On the performance front, Hema Malini was brilliant as the mature singer Bhairavi. She brought a tremendous dignity to her character. Kamal Haasan, always a super fine actor, reprised his role from the Tamil original perfectly. Raaj Kumar experimented with this film playing a flawed alcoholic character with no histrionics. Padmini looked pretty and graceful as ever.

While the subject itself was bold, Balachander went wrong by not stressing on the intimacy between the lovers. There is no chemistry at all between Hema and Kamal as well as Raaj Kumar and Padmini which at times, confuses you about the nature of their relationship. Is it sexual or just platonic? Why are they marrying then? The tame climax is another downer.

Flaws aside, Ek Nai Paheli is one of the better films from the South entourage. Significantly better than those mindless comedy actioners churned out by Jeetendra in the '80s. This one at least had its heart in the right place. It lacked the guts to be more bolder though...

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.