A young architect takes a job at an advertising agency, solely because her boss resembles her dead boyfriend, and although he is married, she is determined to make him fall in love with her.
Nisha (Raakhee) is an accomplished and much sought after professional Architect. She is reclusive after the tragic death of her boyfriend, Shashi Saigal (Shashi Kapoor). When Karan Saxena (Rishi Kapoor) offers her employment with his advertising agency, she accepts. Only she knows that the reason of accepting this employment offer is that Karan, newly married, resembles Shashi a lot, and she will anything in her power to make him her's.
A review of the film
This weekend with no releases to catch, I thought of catching up with the stock of films at home. So, I watched a Yash Chopra film called Doosra Aadmi. Doosra Aadmi stars Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh and Rakhi Gulzar.
The film is a love triangle with Rishi and Neetu playing the couple, happily married at a young age...film I guess suggests that they are only college pass outs, so not very old. Although they don't look very young but then who looked very young in that era?
Rakhi is a woman with a past who falls in love with Rishi and so does Rishi. Now you may ask what's interesting?
First this film is a 70s film where the issue of young marriages was never ever brought up. I liked the fact that Karan's (Rishi) father takes the pain of pointing out that at such a young age they should perhaps not consider marriage which is a lot of responsibilty.
Second, I like the way Nisha (Rakhi Gulzar) has been portrayed. She's a strong willed woman, modern and a career woman, so difficult to find in that era. Also, she's looking beautiful in the film. Rakhi for her soft looks has been portrayed in ample films as the soft, beaten in spirit heroine or at times a revenge seeking mother. Here, she's different and very convincing.
Thirdly, it is one of the better films of Rishi Kapoor. Rishi is a fantastic actor. I always believe his potential was never tapped to the fullest. This film gives him a lot of scope to perform. His bumbling, his charm, his short-temperedness comes across fully in this film.
The love triangle is not treated in a flimsy or trivial manner. There are no guilt pangs, there are compromises. There are no morality lessons, there are however bindings of relationships. There are no blackmails, no giving in or giving up, but there surely is demanding and wielding.
But there are surely some hiccups.
You might find yourself getting impatient with the film at times because the humor in parts is very slapstick. Editing is extremely loose but with a beautiful premise, this film goes on to become one of my favorites from the Yash Chopra camp.
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