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Nazrana (1987 film)

Nazrana
Directed by Ravi Tandon
Produced by C.V.K. Shastry
Judah Solomon
Screenplay by Vijay Kaul
Story by Gulshan Nanda
Starring Rajesh Khanna
Smita Patil
Sridevi
Shafi Inamdar
Priti Sapru
Gita Siddharth
Dalip Tahil
Jayshree Gadkar
Abhi Bhattacharya
Pinchoo Kapoor
Om Shivpuri
Iftekhar
Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal
Release date
  • 27 January 1987 (1987-01-27) (India)
Running time
130 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi

Nazrana (Hindi: नज़राना) is a Hindi film starring Rajesh Khanna paired opposite two heroines Smita Patil and Sridevi. The film was directed by Ravi Tandon. The music was given by Laxmikant Pyarelal and lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi. In the film credits, its mentioned that this film is dedicated to late Smita Patil who died a month before the film's release. This film had collections worth 2.80 crores in Indian box office in 1987. The critics gave the film 3.5 stars.

The story starts with a courtroom scene where Rajat Verma (Rajesh Khanna) is being accused of the murder of Sheetal Puri (Priti Sapru). At this point, Tulsi (Sridevi) steps into the witness box and recollects the whole story.

As the film goes into flashback, it is revealed that Rajat is the head of a leading advertising firm. Sheetal is an upcoming model who will stop at nothing to reach the top and stay there. She even makes advances on Rajat, who rejects all of them.

Then Rajat meets Mukta (Smita Patil) and they fall in love. Rajat and Mukta get married and everything is hunky-dory for some days. Sheetal, however, is unhappy as her need for power is increasing. She starts spreading false rumours about Rajat and her having an affair. Mukta is disturbed by the rumours. Rajat tries to assuage her and assures that there is no such thing going on. However, with each day, Mukta's suspicion and bitterness towards Rajat grow stronger. Finally, Rajat too is unable to take this and calls it quits. The duo go through a divorce and get separated.

After that Rajat goes downhill. He starts drinking excessively and causes headlines for all the wrong reasons. Rajat terminates Sheetal's contract with his firm. This causes huge financial losses to Rajat's firm, as Sheetal has become famous and almost no model is ready to step into her shoes.

Meanwhile, Mukta discovers that she is pregnant with Rajat's child and starts to repent of what she did. She tries to reconcile, but Sheetal coldly informs her that she has lost Rajat to Sheetal for good, no matter what the case appears to be. When Sheetal learns of Mukta's pregnancy, she sees to it that Rajat never learns about it.


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