Love's labour lost!
A long film recap (where's the review?!).
Writer Surajit Agarwal has spent a lot of the page's real estate on simply narrating and re-telling the story of the film. Published immediately after the film's release (and long before social media and the internet as we now know it!), for those who hadn't seen the film, there are too many spoilers and reveals.
Excerpt:
"The same old love story Lamhe is not. Yes, a Bollywood offering and like so many other movies in recent times, it is also all about love.
But that is about the only thing Lamhe has in common with other movies. Oh, there is one more thing - the cast.
Anil Kapoor and Sridevi play the lead roles. In fact Sri plays a double lead. For Anil Kapoor, it's been quite a journey from Woh Saat Din to Ram Lakhan to Lamhe. One that has taken its toll on him. Not only has he lost his famous moustache but his whacky sense of humour, on display in Ram Lakhan, was also conspicuously absent. Not only does he not laugh, he condescends to smile in only a couple of scenes.
The new-look Anil Kapoor is a NRI who comes to his home-state Rajasthan for a visit and falls in love with a buxom beauty dancing in the rain. The lady in question, Sridevi, turns out to be older than him. No problem for our Romeo for, as he says, "one of us has to be older." So he traipses across the desert, listens to morni baga ma bole aadhi raat ma, and Keeps Pallavi's (Sridevi) payal when it accidentally drops.
Then tragedy strikes..."
Sunday Mail, December 1991
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