Reviews by V. Manohar

Super Star Rajesh Khanna's Insaaf Main Karoonga - 1985


Director : Shibu Mitra
Producer : S.K.Kapur
Music Director : Bappi Lahiri
Country : India

Language : Hindi

Star cast :

Super Star Rajesh Khanna
Tina Munim
Padmini Kolhapure
Shakti Kapoor
Joy Mukherjee
Aruna Irani
Om Shivpuri
Chandrashekhar
Tej Sapru
Bob Christo


Introduction :

Insaaf Main Karoonga is a 1985 Hindi film directed by Shibu Mitra and produced by S.K.Kapur. This film has Rajesh Khanna in the lead opposite Tina Munim and Padmini Kolhapure. The 2 songs are sung by Kishore Kumar for Rajesh Khanna and another 2 songs picturised on Rajehs Khnana are sung by Bhappi Lahiri - the song Ek Baras Mein Ek Baar Hi and Honey Honey Kuch Maanga Toh Dena. It is a remake of the Malayalam movie Thushaaram.

Synopsis :

"INSAAF MAIN KAROONGA" (meaning "I will deliver justice") became an obsessive point of directive in the mind of Captain Ravi Khanna, when his young, beautiful and loving wife committed suicide. Seema was an orphan whom Khanna fell in love with. One night when Ravi goes out of city for one of his assignments, his wife Seema is raped and commits suicide.

After the suicide takes place he manages to trace the person and becomes vindictive and shoots the culprit point blank and surrenders to military court.

At this juncture the whole scene changes. As the proceedings of the court were about to start, the news of culprits having survived gets broken to him. This makes the Captain more ferocious and gets provoked to become free, so that on an appropriate opportunity he could fulfill his urge to kill him.

Ravi flees from the army force and on the way he meets his friend Khan who gives him shelter. On one night Ravi and Khan decide to go to the Hospital, where the culprit was convalescing his wounds so that they could kill him. But Captain is not able to shoot him as some of the army officers see him and try him to capture him. Accidentally the culprit’s daughter comes in the way. Ravi then takes hold of her so that he can escape from that place comfortably.

Captain then decides that he will keep Pinky with him and make it look like a kidnap and will drive the culprit that mad that he will himself surrender to police and accept that he was the person who drove his wife to commit suicide. Rest of the story is how Ravi is able to catch the culprits and how relation develops between Pinky and Ravi and what all problems Ravi has to face on his way to attain justice for his beloved late wife.

Music :
• "Aap Ki Nazroan Se Dil Pe Goli Chalne Lagi" - Kishore Kumar
• "Socha Kaha Tha Aisa Bhi Hoga" - Kishore Kumar
• "Ek Baras Mein Ek Baar Hi Ye Raat Ati Hai Yaaroan" - Bappi Lahiri
• "Honey Honey Kuch Maangu Toh Dena" - Asha Bhosle, Bappi Lahiri
• "Yaar Tere Ehsaanon Ka Kiase Dun Jawab"
• "Mera Naam Hai Salma Kaun Banega Mera Balma"

Classic movie of Super Star Rajesh Khanna - Mehbooba (1976)

Director: Shakti Samanta
Writer: Gulshan Nanda
Release Date: 19 July 1976
Genre: Drama / Family / Action / Fantasy / Romance
Language: Hindi

Cast:

Super Star Rajesh Khanna as Prakash / Suraj
Hema Malini as Ratna / Jhumri
Prem Chopra as Appa
G. Asrani as Sinha
Asha Sachdev as Rita Malhotra
Sujit Kumar as Dr. Vinod
Manmohan Krishna as Bandhe Ali Khan
Madan Puri as Sardar
Meena T. as Gauri
Nasir Hussain as Guruji
Leela Mishra as Jhumri's mom
Harindranath Chattopadhyay as Rita's Father
Abhimanyu Sharma
Raj Rani
Uma Dutt

Summary:

A singer by profession, Suraj (Super Star Rajesh Khanna) gets stranded in rest house in the coutnry side during a rainstorm. While there he experiences ununsual feelings, as if he has been there before. He feels himself transported to another time and era, to another birth, and drawn to a woman named Ratna (Hema Malini). He is unable to leave this experience behind him, and decides to find out what this means. He discovers that in his past life he was a Chief Singer in the emperor's court, his name was Prakash and he had fallen in love with a courtesan named Ratna, much to the chargin and anger of his family and the emperor's and his officials. They are tragically separated. He subsequently comes across a portrait of Ratna, and shortly after he meets a gypsy, Jhumri (also Hema Malini) who looks exactly like Ratna. Soon Jhumri is also able to recollect her past life, and her love for Prakash. This does not auger well with Rita Malhotra (Asha Sachdev) who loves Suraj, and Appa (Prem Chopra), the son of the leader of the gypsies (Madan Puri), who will not stop at anything to make Jhumri his wife. Appa steals the portrait, and instigates the gypsies against Suraj, so that he can marry Jhumri, and perhaps separate the two lovers again in this birth also.