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Saathi Hara is a very entertaining film with Mala Sinha and Uttam Kumar in lead roles. Mala Sinha as Rupa, a gypsy girl gave a wonderful performance specially her song and dance sequences. It is a love story between two members of a gypsy troop who make living by singing and playing with monkeys and other shows. She was very lively and perfectly matched the character with her free flowing performance. Uttam Kumar as Kundan, her partner also gave a good performance with supporting actors Tarun Kumar and Kajari Guha. The songs are memorable with Hemanta Mukherjee as music director and the songs by Geeta Dutta were wonderful.Overall it a very nice film to enjoy and I gave it a eight out of ten.

I myself was a victim of Hindu Muslim riot while living in Dhaka and this film reminded me in vivid details of what happens in real life during a communal riot. The film is a masterpiece in a sense that conflict between and muslims in India is so prevalent and common occurrence and for all these years with hundreds of movies made I have finally found one that dealt with this issue in real terms. The story is about Shekhar Mishra ( Arvind Swamy ) falling in love with Shaila Bano ( Monisha Koirala ) a Muslim girl and eventually marrying her without the blessing of their parents on both sides. They settle in Bombay where Shekhar works as reporter and have twin boys. The story is written in the backdrop of the Auyodha mosque attack during the 1990's and a communal riots breaks out. The director Mani Ratnam has handled the story very well with realistic scenes of the riot with the burning of vehicles and rampant killing on the streets as well as the chaos and confusion of the people and the government. Both Arvind Swamy and Monisha Koirala gave commendable performance in the two leading roles with good support from the others. The music and cinematography is above average. This is a good film to watch . I gave it a nine out of ten.