Heck, if Khanna himself had played it 10 years earlier, everyone in the hall, including the projectionist, would have swooned.Īnyway, Anand asks Sharda for a handkerchief with a rose on it, which she is strategically wearing around her waist. But note that if exactly the same scene had occurred in a straightforward romantic Hindi movie where the (roguish but basically goodhearted) hero was teasing the heroine, it would have been seen as acceptable, even cute. This scene is creepy because we already know there’s something very wrong with Mr Anand. “Aap.” he says, and after a significant pause that gives her time to gasp, “.ke paas koi roomal hai?” Or Mark and Helena in Peeping Tom.) This is a garment-shop salesgirl named Sharda and played by Poonam Dhillon (who looks fearful and uneasy, and is possibly wishing she had stuck to maturer assignments like “Gapuchi Gapuchi Gam Gam”).
The main plot of Red Rose begins with Anand meeting the woman who might yet redeem him. It’s the sort of thing that howls out for subtextual analysis. Now, a decade later, when his market value had plummeted, this film casts him as a Lothario who slays women immediately after seducing them. For an inexplicable period between 19, Khanna had the loins of every Indian woman (and most Indian men) all a-flutter. Knowledgeable friends tell me the original is better, and I can imagine Hassan giving a more convincing performance in the lead, but who cares: the use of Rajesh Khanna in this remake is so much more intriguing. Red Rose is a remake of the Tamil film Sigappu Rojakkal, starring Kamal Hassan and Sridevi.
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