In 1974, a small, unassuming film called Rajnigandha came out, and Hindi cinema lovers fell in love with it. Advertising It was a `love triangle´, starring unknown faces, and it was truly different. Directed by Basu Chatterjee, it had an actual plot, depth, and real characters. Deepa and Sanjay are in a steady relationship, in itself a radical thing for a Bollywood besotted by love-at-first-glance callow couples who sang a few songs, bickered over a few more, and then rode into the sunset, happily ever after. Deepa and Sanjay are, refreshingly, adults, inhabiting a world of middle-class concerns jobs, incomes, ambitions, life goals. And then one day Deepa bumps into old flame Naveen, and...
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