Pyari Behna (1985) User Reviews

One Of The Best Performance By Mithun Chakraborty

[ravisinger86 · 8/10 · 6 January 2017]

Pyari Behna Directed By Bapu is A Family Drama. It is Remake Of Tamil Movie "Mullum Malarum" Starring Rajnikanth Based On Mullam Malarum Novel By Umachandran. Hindi Version is Frame To Frame Copy Of Tamil Version. Screenplay & Casting is Great. Action & Dialogues Are Well Executed. Direction & Editing is Perfect.

Kali(Mithun Chakraborty) is A Winch Operator At a Village Power Plant. Kaali And His Younger Sister Seeta(Tanvi Azmi) Were Orphaned During Their Childhood. When A Poor Wanderer Named Mangla(Padmini Kolhapuri) And Her Aged Mother Arrive In The Village With No Assets And No-One To Assist Them, Seeta Helps Them And Brings Them Home.

The Power Plant's New Supervising Engineer is Vinay Verma(Vinod Mehra).His Relationship With Kali is Difficult, Worsening After He Sees The Latter's Negative Side in a Series Of Incidents, An Enraged Vinay Suspends Kali From His Job The Following Day For Dereliction Of Duty. Kali Becomes Drunk And Faints in the Middle Of The Road; A Lorry Runs Over His Left Arm, Which is Later Amputated. Followed By His Struggle & Love For Seeta.

Mithun Chakraborty Gives One Of His Best Performance Ever. Tanvi Azmi is Praiseworthy For Her Performance On Debut. Vinod Mehra is As Usual. Padmini Kolhapuri is Good in Parts. Deven Verma & Shakti Kapoor Are Just Fine.

Music By Bappi Lahiri is Average. "Main Tera Bhaiyya Bhi" Rakhi Song By S.P. Balasubramanium is Best Of The Lot. Must Watch For Anyone Who Likes Real Cinema.

From gender perspective very problematic film

[santoshkumarmamgain · 6/10 · 3 August 2020]

As a film this is well acted directed and written and is a decent watch but the character of Mithun in the film is so problematic that you would like to punch him on his face. So there is a man who hates his boss for his own faults, who emotionally manipulates and controls her sister to get her married to a lewd man for his selfish reasons, he physically harms his wife by beating her mercilessly and in the end he doesn't even apologize. It seems like the director ended up a male chauvinistic figure. I think there was a caste angle to the story which was not explored further. Acting wise, Vinod Mehra gives the best performance of the lot with a subtle and dignified role. He was one of the finest actors in supporting roles. Mithun was good especially in the emotional scenes and his chemistry with Tanvi Azmi is really nice. If only his charcater was not so uni dimensional and problematic. Tanvi Azmi gives a really nice performance on her debut. Padmini Kolhapure doesn't have anything to do in the first half and she appears to be a dumb glam doll but in the second half she appears to be the only sensible character in the film where others fell prey to patriarchal cliches she appears to be the voice of reason and is able to stand against his own husband to secure marriage between Vinod Mehra and Tanvi. Shakti Kapoor and Deven Verma are adequate even though unnecessary comic scenes hampers the flow of the film and action scenes were also not required. Music is pathetic to say the least. All the songs and their lyrics are so bad that had there been good music in te film the impact of the film would have been doubled. Watch it for an emotional experience