Rukhsat

Rukhsat Directed By Simi Gerewal is a Family Drama Kind Of Flick With Few Action Sequences. Direction From Simi Gerewal is Above Average. Plot is Taken From Ken Follett's Novel The Man From St. Petersburg. Screenplay is Good But Editing is Quite Roughly Done.

Arjun(Mithun Chakraborty) is An Auto Mechanic. Sapna(Anuradha Patel) Loves Arjun. She Comes From A Wealthy Family. Jagdish Chopra(Amrish Puri) Provides Arjun, Money To Start His Business. He is Falsely Accused And Lands In Prison. Sapna Marries Gautam(Marc Zuber).

Now Arjun Works As A Hit-man For Jagdish Chopra. He Assigns Arjun To Kill Gautam. They Live In USA. He Moves To USA And Comes To Know That Sapna Has A Daughter, Her Name is Komal(Sona Sardesai). Komal is Whose Child ? Will Arjun Kill Gautam ?

Acting By Mithun is Awesome in Few Of The Emotional Scenes. Anuradha Patel & Marc Zuber Are Equally Good. Rest Of The Cast is OK

Music is Fine By Kalyanji Anandji. "Deewana Main Hoon Tera" By Kishore Kumar is Best Track. Must Watch For Mithun Fans.

Among those many films starring Mithun Chaborty in the mid-to-late 1980s, which were often more or less a rehash of the same formula and only relied on his undeniable star quality, viewers could easily overlook one, and it is the drama Rukhsat. Indeed, in many ways, it stands out. One can also easily fail to notice that the one who directed this film is none other than the famous actress and talk-show host Simi Garewal. Who would have thought that she might even have an interest in directing films? Also the film's screenwriter, Garewal's western sensibilities come to the fore here, as watching this film is unlike anything Mithun or any other actor did in those years in mainstream Hindi cinema. Rukhsat is atypically quiet, subtle, and it almost works as a psychological, character-driven drama.

In this regard, Rukhsat is almost European in style and execution. Everything about this film is different - the story, which is very unusual and traditionally defiant, the matter-of-factness of the relationship between the two leads (including premarital sex which isn't made a big deal of), the lack of high melodrama, the turn of events - everything is treated with great delicacy. The serenity of the narrative is a little slow at times and it may be one of its greatest pitfalls, but then the film is professionally shot, and the cinematography is so different I actually went to check who the cinematographer is, to learn there's two of them actually: US-based Austin De Besche and Indian award-winning Jehangir Choudhary. The minimalist dialogue by the poet Rahi Masoom Raza complements Garewal's script.

Mithun Chakraborty gets a very uncommon character to play, and he does it with incredible restraint and sensitivity. Many of his ardent fans don't actually know that their Mithunda (his nickname) is actually an accomplished, professionally trained actor who was in many ways drawn into the world of mainstream Hindi films by either pure circumstance or a conscious decision to make use of his charisma for financial survival. This film shows Chakraborty in his element (well, he always is in front of the camera no matter the film) in a performance that is realistic, understated and deeply affecting. The beautiful Anuradha Patel is first-rate as his female lead, so is Marc Zuber and even the young girl as their daughter. Even Amrish Puri's villain is unusual and isn't a caricature. The film concludes on a heartbreaking note and leaves a mark.

Rukhsat 1988 Directed By Simi Gerewal is a Family Drama Kind of Flick With Few Action Sequences. Arjun Rai lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay, and works as an auto mechanic for a living. He and wealthy Sapna are in love with each other, much to the chagrin of Sapna's dad, who wants her to get married to someone wealthy. Arjun decides to buy his own garage and borrows money from a client, Jagdish Chopra. He works hard and is able to save some money. When he goes to propose for Sapna's hand, her dad asks his watchmen to throw him out, while doing so they find out he was armed, as a result police are summoned and he is arrested. Sapna re-locates to the U.S. to stay with her aunt, who subsequently convinces her to get married to Gautam Saigal. Nine years later Arjun and Sapna are destined to meet again - this time Sapna will be a mother of a girl, Komal, and wife to Gautam; while Arjun will be an assassin, who has been hired to locate and kill Gautam at any and all cost

super acting By Mithun is Awesome in few of The Emotional Scenes. Anuradha Patel & Marc Zuber Are Equally Good. Rest of The Cast is fine. wonderful music By Kalyanji Anandji. "Deewana Main Hoon Tera" By Kishore Kumar is Best Track. Mithun chakraborty,Kishore Kumar,Kalyanji Anandji in the 80's :) Must Watch For Mithun Fans.

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...