Anubhav

Anubhav review :

Much before the Masti and Grand Mastis minted money at the ticket counters, Bollywood made a true blue sex comedy called Anubhav which can be counted as Shekhar Suman's first and only box office success.

Shekhar played the street smart sheheri babu who comes home to marry the gaon ki gori Padmini Kolhapure who is naive and unaware of marital life. Fed up with her, Shekhar falls for the village hottie Richa Sharma who accompanies him back to the city and they stay together as husband-wife.

The film became quite controversial for its steamy scenes between Shekhar Suman and the pretty Richa Sharma. Sujit Kumar, the producer, played Shekhar's Mamaji while the buxom Padma Khanna was the mami. Rakesh Roshan turned in a guest appearance.

Anubhav mixed sex and humour seamlessly in the narrative and was lapped up by the audience in the era where there was no internet or OTT content. Its popularity led to many regional remakes later including the Marathi film Shikari as recent as 2018.

I had seen Anubhav during one of its re-runs in late 80s at Kohinoor cinema, Dadar. Interestingly, I saw Shikari also at the same place - Inox Nakshatra - which came up later in place of Kohinoor cinema.

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.