Rihaee (1988 Film)
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Promotional Poster
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| Directed by | Aruna Raje |
| Produced by | Aruna Raje |
| Written by | Aruna Raje Suraj Sanim (dialogue) |
| Starring |
Vinod Khanna Hema Malini Naseeruddin Shah Neena Gupta Reema Lagoo Ila Arun Mohan Agashe Pallavi Joshi |
| Music by | Shaarang Dev |
| Cinematography | S.R.K. Murthy |
| Edited by | Aruna Raje |
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Release date
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31 August 1988 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Rihaee (Devnagari: रिहाई, English: Liberation) is a 1988 Hindi film directed by Aruna Raje, starring Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini, Naseeruddin Shah and Mohan Agashe in lead roles. The film dealt with the promiscuity of male migrant workers to urban India, and also the sexuality of women, left behind the rural regions.
Hema Malini received a nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her role in the film
The story is set in a remote village in Gujarat. Menfolk here, like in many other villages across India go to the cities to work, leaving behind their families. Mansukh (Naseeruddin Shah) after working for a long time in Dubai, returns to his native village. This is the village where all the men have gone to work in the cities. The lonely women of the village are all excited with the arrival of Mansukh and many are after him. Especially Sukhi (Neena Gupta) and Reema Lagoo. Taku (Hema Malini) wife of Amarji (Vinod Khanna) is a woman with an attitude. She is an independent and strong women who is different from the group. Mansukh becomes interested in her and he goes after her. After his persistent attempts he succeeds & they start having a relationship.
After a while Mansukh leaves the village. The women Sukhi and Taku later find out that they are both pregnant. How they deal with their pregnancies is the movie.
This is a staggering movie that shakes some of the fundamental rules of Indian society. It talks about equal opportunity to females on all aspects.
The movie starts with the introduction of the village characters through a postman (Harish Patel). Later,the movie targeting the men folks on their attitude towards women, hooks them with a common man's dream story. A man in a village filled with longing women. Then it slowly turns and constructs through various threads to tell how women is differentiated in the eyes of the society, what a baby means to a woman and what is real manliness.
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