Pyar Ka Karz

So, Mr. Mithun Chakraborty comes up with another of his masala ventures where he plays the dancing star à la Disco Dancer so if to conclude his string of roles of this kind. After all, time flies by when you're having fun, and it's the 1990s already, and it's time to move on. Sadly, this is not a worthy project to do it, although I strangely found it watchable despite its many shortcomings. Pyar Ka Karz is messy, overloaded with many subplots and just never convincing as a story. In terms of filmmaking, it is plain atrocious and watchign some of the action scenes could perfectly explain why. Also terrible is the overdone cruelty of the villains, who are all caricatures from old fairy tales.

Where the film does well is in the appearances of the actors, including the charismatic Mithun, the beautiful and refined Meenakhi Sheshadri, who always makes me wonder how come she never got her due in the film industry despite her amazing beauty and dramatic prowess, and the equally beautiful Neelam, who plays a stereotypical former drug addict but still managed to make me feel for her character. There's a silly subplot with Kader Khan and Aruna Irani. Generally comic subplots are of most annoyance to me, but these two were so wonderfully in sync with the comic tone of their portions that theirs were among my favourite scenes. Dharmendra is also here in a nice and lengthy cameo.

The ending of the show is just as typical as one would expect from a film that just keeps walking that line of high melodramatic sentimentality. I'm not sure anyone except for fans of Mithun Chakraborty would be fond of this film.