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Mrs. Preeti Bedi (story)
Yash Chopra (screenplay)
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Release Date:
29 July 1981 (India) more
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Love is faith... and faith is for ever
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A story of love lost and found, but twisted by society's demands and conventions to appear as adultery. full summary | add synopsis
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(7 articles)
Yash Chopra to direct in 2010
(From indicine. 22 October 2009, 11:29 PM, PDT)
Yash Chopra all set to don the director’s hat again!
(From GoBollywood. 22 October 2009, 9:45 AM, PDT)
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not good to watch second time more (9 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Shashi Kapoor | ... | Sqdr. Leader Shekhar Malhotra | |
| Amitabh Bachchan | ... | Amit Malhotra | |
| Jaya Bhaduri | ... | Shobha Malhotra (as Jaya Bachchan) | |
| Rekha | ... | Chandni | |
| Sudha Chopra | ... | Shobha's mom | |
| Sushma Seth | ... | Actress | |
| Ravi Dubey | |||
| Sharmila Roy Chowdhry | (as Sharmila Roy Chowdhary) | ||
| Jagdish Raj | |||
| Vikas Anand | |||
| Ranvir Raj | (as Ranbir Raj) | ||
| Shyam Arora | |||
| Raj Bharti | |||
| Gauri Shanker | (as Mrs. Gauri Shankar) | ||
| Damyanti Puri |
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The Affair (India: English title)
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182 min
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This was the last movie of Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha. As of 2009, they have not been paired, possibly because of their controversial affair in the late 70s/early 80s. more
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Referenced in Traffic Signal (2007) more
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Yeh Kahaan Aa Gaye Hum more
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I've been dreaming of watching Silsila since 1981 and recently it has come true. I read an annotation in CineBlitz and Yash Chopra's interview in one of the Russian newspapers and thus expected to see something outstanding. Unfortunately I was disappointed at the plot. Shobha turned out to be a 100% selfish person. Amit was striving for his happiness and love but did not have enough strength and courage to win. Chandni was tearing apart yet she made her choice however Amit betrayed her again... Yash Chopra challenged moral principles speaking about adultery but even here those principles (or maybe stereotypes??) were not broken. How happy Amit and Chandni were when dancing at the festival! Do they not deserve to be together? I think they do. And remember the last words of Amit that he has burned his love and that Shobha is his wife and he is her husband. Looks like there is no parallel between love and marriage. And that is sad. However I got a pleasure from watching the movie. Nice actors and tears-provoking acting but not good to watch second time due to the above said.