Underplayed Gems

Ratha Sapthami (1986)

Ratha Sapthami poster
Directed by
M.S. Rajashekar
Genre
musical film, romance film
Country
India
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young couple faces a sudden tragedy that sends the heroine into depression. She is sent away from home to recover and is shocked to see a man who looks like her lost love.

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What happens

Ratha Sapthami is a 1986 Indian Kannada-language romantic musical film directed by M. S. Rajashekar and produced by S. A. Govindaraj. It stars Shiva Rajkumar in his second venture after Anand. Debutant actress Asha Rani and playwright Parvathavani also star in the movie. The musical score was composed by Upendra Kumar, while the lyrics, screenplay and dialogues were written by Chi. Udaya Shankar. P. Vasu was the co-screenplay writer of this movie. Co-screenplay writer P. Vasu remade the movie in Tamil in 1996 as Love Birds. The story is based on a Kannada novel of the same name by Vidyullatha Sasanoor. Ratha Sapthami opened on 12 December 1986 and was declared a musical blockbuster. The interval twist of the film where the hero supposedly dies in an accident and the second half of the film where the heroine is sent out of her hometown to overcome her depression but is shell-shocked to catch a glimpse of hero's lookalike in a vehicle nearby, and later finds him dancing merrily in a discotheque — went on to be reused in the 2000 Hindi film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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