I am a Bollywood addict so it should
come as no surprise that I have a day dedicated to the industry and its movies.
Today is my normal Throwback Thursday and throughout the night, Yeh Vaada Raha
songs kept playing through my mind.
Anyone who was born in the 70s and 80s
gotta know the movie… I think back then, probably because Nollywood hadn’t been
in people’s faces, our parents took pride in watching Hindi movies, a lot!
While growing up, my house was filled
with so many Indian movies and I fell in love with them from then.
Today, let me take you back to the
ground-breaking love Vikram Rai Bahadur ( Rishi Kapoor) had for Sunita Sikand ( Poonam
Dhillion) in Yeh Vaada Raha (The Promise), a 1982 movie .
The story takes you into the caste
system in India back in the days. While Vikram is the only son of Mrs.
Sharda, and sole heir to a vast business and estate,
Sunita’s father was hanged for a crime and she was an orphan and poor at that.
They meet by fate at the temple where
Vikram went to pray and he follows her, playing all the pranks he knows how to
win her. One time, he had his artiste friend Raja draw a replica of Sunita
which he made copies of and pasted round the entire town. After series of
falling in and out of trouble, singing and imaginations, he finally wins the
love of beautiful Sunita.
Their love, from the word go was faced
with a lot of obstacles. First, Vikrams mother despises Sunita on first meeting
and refused their marriage. Secondly, while they journeyed secretly to the
temple to wed along with their friend Raja, they were involved in a ghastly
motor accident which changed Sunita forever.
She lost her face and held on to her
love for Vikram but that too was snatched from her when Vikram’s mother lied to
him telling him Sunita was dead. He mourned her and lost hope for months. Even the
lady (Rita) his mother found for him to marry from an affluent home had no
place in his heart. His heart belonged to Sunita.
It took a very long time for Sunita to
recover after she was transferred to another hospital for a facial surgery. In that
hospital, Dr Mehra gave her a new face, new life and a new father.
He took her like his child.
The minute her new face was ready, she
hurried to call Vikram on the phone but the face she saw on the mirror while
she listened to the beep of the phone had her dropping the receiver in shock. She
was staring at a stranger.
Her face had changed after the surgery
and she didn’t even recognize herself. She wept because if she couldn’t recognize
herself, how did she expect Vikram to recognize her?
She changed her name to Kusum Mehra
adopting the Doctors surname. She was unaware that Vikram thought she was dead.
Fate kept playing cruel games on the
two lovers but Sunita’s voice kept haunting Vikram. That voice was one he could
never forget.
Somehow, after we have been taken on an
exciting journey of love, hate and rediscovery, the movie ends with the two
lovers resounding the promise they made to each other.
I have watched this film many times
that I remember every tiny detail of it. Do you remember the film? Which old
movie do you remember today?
Let me refresh your memory with this song from Yeh vaada Raha...
And this... Remember now?
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