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This film was made during action, violence and cheap Mahala films' age, but it was the guts of Rajesh Khanna who performed in such a nice film during totally negative environment. The character of a honest postman was portrayed by him superbly and the song Dakia Dak Laya can only match with him in Indian cine world. A real all time family household film, which can be watched with daughter to grand-mother without any hesitation. In my opinion today's generation of stars never think over to perform in such type of sober films, which has no cheap duologue, song or item dance etc. No such type of film is found in the career of the so called Big B (?), or SRK or Hrithik etc. Actually no director can even imagine them to perform in such type of sober characters.

Dard is a completely standard social movie produced during the age of action, sex, violence era. The story of the film is so emotional that fully justifies its title Dard. And to portrait its central character: a double role of Father-Son in a versatile manner, there is no alternative except Rajesh Khanna himself. There is no doubt that nobody else except him can justify the emotional father and stylish foreign returned son so effectively and life like natural way. After Aradhana, Rajesh Khanna again played a double role of Father-Son with tremendously brilliant touches of inner feelings of human being. In the total film, it is unbelievable that the old prisoner/gardener and the foreign returned lawyer are the same person; what a classic performance by a classic actor. The other performers of the film are as usual as per their limitations; but Late Mazhar Khan deserves special mention. He also performed very well in aged role villain. Overall the film is excellent in term of story, songs, direction, and above all classic characterization of Father-son by Rajesh Khanna.

Yes, this is the grand film of the Super star Rajesh Khanna, which brought him back commercially in the lime light during the most down trodden trend of Hindi commercial film world. About 90% films were picturised during that time on action, sex, violence without acting, especially Amtibah brand cheap entertaining films. During completely adverse environment,Super Star Rajesh Khanna characterized a glorious characterization in this film with a completely brilliant depth touches of human feelingsand proved that the genuine extraordinary talent can not be suppressed longer. The character played by him in this film is slightly with negative touch and most of the scene performed by him were simply excellent. Special mention is required here to signify the scene, where he returned his own home after being insulted by Sabana Azmi and he went upstairs; his facial expression is classic in this scene.

Actually this particular scene is based only his classic extraordinary excellent facial expression as there was no dialogue in the scene. Apart from this, he entered an excellent glamour in the character, which only suited on him. The overall story of the film is most ordinary, but the class acting of Mr. Khanna made this film extra ordinary. Other performers of this film are also very good with their limitations/scope. But this film is basically centrally oriented around Rajesh Khanna and he proved the fact that he really deserves for this. It is surprising why Best Actor Award has not been extended to him for this film.