Rukhsat

Rukhsat review :

The only film directed by the eternally young Simi Garewal; Rukhsat was a film way ahead of its time. Mithun Chakraborty is in love with Anuradha Patel but she gets married to Mark Zuber. The old lovers meet again but Anuradha doesn't know Mithun is actually an assassin hired to kill Mark. The plot and execution was highly stylised and westernised for the '80s.

Simi Garewal filmed some wonderful scenes and Rukhsat will easily rank as one of Mithunda's highly underrated performances. He was simply superb but unfortunately, the audience was just not ready to accept a movie from an anti-hero point of view. The production delays and censor trouble also took its toll and this well made engaging film tanked at the box office.

Later, the same plot was recycled in Sajid Nadiadwala's Jeet (1996) where Sunny Deol played Mithun da's character, Karisma Kapoor was Anuradha while Salman Khan was cast in Mark Zuber's role. Jeet turned out to be a hit. As they say, time time ki baat hai!!

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

P. S. Rukhsat is particularly memorable for the lovely Anuradha Patel who has never looked more beautiful...