Sridevi and Mithun in the unreleased Raasta (1986)

Launched in 1986, Raasta was meant to have Mithun and Sridevi in the lead. But the film, after its launch and pre-publicity stills, was never made. For reasons unknown.

Yet another film to add to the long list of shelved and unreleased films. We imagine there's some vault with reams of incomplete films somewhere. In many cases, movies were launched with great fanfare (click on the links below!) but most never even started production. Bollywood in the 1980s was disorganised-chaos, led by the lets-make-a-deal-era that never went anywhere. Long before corporatisation, organisation and insurance and legal consequence - the government didn't recognise it as an industry until recentally - which is ridiculous. 

As an avid collection of film magazines from the 1980s and 90s, we have so many stills of mega projects launched... but never saw the light of day. Eg:

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A list of Sridevi's incomplete and/or unreleased films:
Garajna

Partially shot:
Khabardaar
Zameen

Launched but never started;
Ram ki Sita Shyam ki Geeta
Teerandaz
Bus Conductor
Govinda
Raasta


PS: If you know of other films, esp with info and images, pls drop us a note to add to the above. 

Left: Sridevi and Anil Kapoor on the sets of... unknown film...