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Do Hanky

Do Raste was a movie by Raj Khosla that released in 1969. This was a momentous year for Rajesh Khanna. Here was a genuine boy next door who wore bush-shirts over slim fit trousers. His diction (or should I say dialouge delivery) was to die for. He had worked in some avant garde movies like Ittefaq and Aakhri Khat. His Aradhana was a super duper hit. He was well on his way to his Phenomonen status and unequalled adulation.

But what to do, it was the time of the CLICHE. You would take a look at a girl in a saree with the palloo draped over her head and you said, ahhh here is the girl who will make my ghar a swarg. A …

If a team of Raj Khosla, Dev Anand, Jal Mistry, Rajindra Singh Bedi decides to make a film then its understood that direction will give us many thrilling moments to watch in the film and Cinematography will be of top quality. Rajindra Bedi’s story, inspite of having some inspirations from O Henry’s short story A Double Dyed Deceiver becomes unconventional when Bedi inserts incestuous angle in the plot and it was certainly a shocking theme for those days hindi cinema.

Dev Anand provides that valuable input to the character which is required to uplift this kind of story of crime, punishment and atonement.

Suchitra Sen produces that persona and performance which may compel Dev Anand’s character to go against social norms.

On surface it has incestuous angle but no it is not The Cement Garden and It does not even take route of Desire Under …