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Directed by: Satyen Bose Music: Laxmikant-Pyarelal Lyrics: Anand Bakshi
Starring: Mala Sinha, Biswajeet, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ameeta, David, Praveen Paul, Jagdeesh |
I'm not a great fan of Mala Sinha. Even less do I like Biswajeet. So when YouTube threw Aasra - a film that starred the two, on the side bar as a 'recommendation', I was flummoxed. What had I done to deserve this? Since my insomnia had resurfaced, and I was rifling through to find a movie to watch, I decided to see if there was a synopsis somewhere. Well, there was. Only, it wasn't - shall we say? - particularly attractive. Long, melodramatic, 'suffering women' films aren't really my cup of tea, since I'm more likely to wish they stopped sniffing and did something about their fates. However, I'd already spent an hour or so looking at, and rejecting, most of the films on YouTube. It was past 1 a.m, and I decided that I might as well watch this film; perhaps it would put me to sleep?
The funny thing is, it didn't. It was an unexpectedly decent film, with several progressive characters, a heroine who didn't resemble a wet dish rag (nor was she a doormat), a reasonably cohesive story with flawed - not evil - characters and, what was a bonus (for me, at least), very little of Biswajeet. Of course, it was only the morning after that I realised the film was directed by Satyen Bose. That explained a lot.
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