Ek Duuje Ke Liye

Review By Kamal K

One of the finest love stories of India. This movie proves that love knows no language barriers, caste,or regional boundaries. Rati Agnihothri looks stunningly beautiful and Kamal Hasan acted his best. This film has beautiful music with all super hot songs and fantastic locations. It is a classic cult tragic love story. A must watch for every young boy or girl,who is thinking of falling in love.

Loved the story. I have seen it atleast 5 times and I still love it. It is an amazing movie and would recommend everyone to watch it. The entire family members can watch it and enjoy it. I still remember seeing it at my hometown the very first time with all the ender members of the family. All of us enjoyed alot.

The scene is a small town in India before liberalisation and globalisation. In fact, I don't think America or any foreign country is mentioned in the script or any picturisation done there. contrast this with Bollywood of 2000s where the only Indian part is language and actors.

The people are simple and the life of young ones are sans complications. If today's Indian youth were not panting after career, America etc., then they would fall in love exactly like this.

The story is well executed on screen. There are no contemporary obsessions like morality, or Indian versus American values or saas-bahu conspiracies. Even the numerous plots by girl's mother (Shubha Khote) to separate the lover duo are almost poetic and are received by the lovers as tests of the path of love.

The songs and the ending are the highpoint of the film. Rakesh Bedi adds comic relief. This is one of the few films where no villain / negative characters is trying to marry either lover.

Stunning music, acting and direction The film is quite well directed and shot, and it captures the beauty of Goa exceedingly well. The romantic sequences were extremely well handled and are of the film's most entertaining. But then the movie has its turn when the youngsters' love has to withstand a test. This was a rather unconvincing phase and from then on the film became quite melodramatic and occasionally boring. Some scenes in which the heroine's mother tries hard to morally deter her were particularly peculiar, although I personally was curious about the film's next proceedings.

Ek Duuje Ke Liye has several songs composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Some of them were okay, like "Tere Mere Beech Mein" but none was really great. At times the songs came across as totally unnecessary (and I'm actually not one of those who are against song numbers in Hindi movies). The film's acting is generally good. Kamal Hassan does very well as the main lead. Towards the second half he even manages to bring a new dimension to his character. Also, his classical dance numbers were fantastic. Rati Agnihotri suits her part and is extremely pretty. At times she stared angry eyes at her mother and it was a bit repetitive but overall it was a good debut and I liked her in a number of her subsequent films so let it be. Madhavi was very good in whatever little she was given. But the film's biggest flaw is obviously its ending. It is unexpected and surprising, and I don't mean to say it as a compliment. I was totally disappointed and could not figure why the writer in his own mind would think of such a melodramatic twist, which was not necessary and did not really conclude the story well. I mean, the film was not a fairytale saga, so why end it like.

Tamil-speaking young man who moves to Goa with his family. There, he meets Sapna (Rati Agnihotri), a North Indian Hindi-speaking girl. Despite the language barrier and cultural differences, they fall deeply in love. Their relationship becomes the talk of the town, but their respective families are vehemently opposed to their union due to their different regional and linguistic backgrounds.

Their love is constantly tested by family, society, and even fate. After mounting pressure from their families, the two are forcibly separated for one year, with the condition that if they still want to be together after that time, their families will consider the marriage.

However, even during their separation, things don't go smoothly. Vasu moves to Hyderabad and faces immense emotional turmoil. Meanwhile, Sapna is also forced into an engagement by her family and suffers mental harassment. Eventually, the two lovers try to reunite, but their paths are riddled with trauma, misunderstanding, and cruelty from others.