Raaj Tilak (1984) User Reviews

Multi Star Movie gone all wrong

[gurdeepmann59 · 4/10 · 27 January 2014]

Rajkumar Kohli bringing together a huge star cast is very attracting though sometimes we question whether it's a complete waste of a star cast (JAANI DUSHMAN: EK ANOKHI KAHANI)or one of those average multi-starer movies that turns out to be good (NAGIN, JAANI DUSHMAN)

The film is just a copy of BAGHAVAT ('82) and DHARAM VEER ('77) both starring Dharmendra. IRONIC!!!

Pran has a son - Sunil Dutt. Ajit has a son - Raj Kiran. Rajmata (dont know the actress's name) has a son Kamal Hassan

Ajit and Madan Puri are the bad guys so they launch an attack on the palace. Raaj Kumar, Raza Murad and Pran do their best to save the prince aka Kamal Hassan. The sword fight is so fake and stupid in this scene but is better later

Rajmata believes her son to be dead so Pran gives his son Sunil Dutt to her. But uh-oh. Ajit swaps Sunil Dutt with Raj Kiran while Ajit goes onto adopt Sunil Dutt. Meanwhile Kamal Hassan is revealed to be alive and is adopted by Om Prakash and Raaj Kumar is portrayed as a bad guy/villain by Ajit

MANY YEARS LATER ...

Sunil Dutt has grown up to be a dashing Rajput who is continually mistreated by his supposed father Ajit. He has a sister Hema Malini who was probably born after the baby swap

Raj Kiran is the Prince and is the bad guy who is about to get married to Reena Roy but dun-dun-dun who does she fall in love with - Kamal Hassan!

Kamal has grown up to be a gypsy whom Sarika likes but he likes Reena Roy so LOVE TRIANGLE!

Dharmendra and Rajeev Anand are the sons of Pran who were born after the baby swap. Rajeev Anand likes Ranjeeta Kaur but she likes Sunil Dutt so 1 MORE LOVE TRIANGLE meanwhile Dharmendra gives his heart to Hema Malini

Raaj Kumar is the guy who runs some kind of sword-fighting / martial arts club in some abandoned cave. He has trained Kamal Hassan, finishes training Sunil Dutt and is about to train Dharmendra in whatever he teaches

I won't reveal the rest of the story because apparently the more engrossing the movie starts, the more lazy and boring it becomes. However it is kind of fun seeing Raaj Kumar, Kamal Hassan, Dharmendra and Sunil Dutt together

PERFORMANCES

Sunil Dutt- average but too old to be the leading man. At age 54 he tries to play some 30-35 guy. His age isn't that much visible and his role is basically an extension of Lakhan from JAANI DUSHMAN ('79)

Dharmendra- don't understand what he was doing and I don't think the movie would have much too much difference if he wasn't in the movie. However he is passable

Hema Malini- though she is 35/36 in this movie, she still looks kinda young. This movie is kinda like evidence that even at age 36, she can still live up to her Dream Girl status. Her role is like Dharmendra's and mainly appears to give brother-sister advice to Sunil Dutt or talk romantically to Dharmendra

Reena Roy- not given as much scope as she deserved. Due to the million sub plots and plots the movie tries to force in, she doesn't manage to do anything that remarkable. However she's beautiful and gives her best in all the scenes she gets

Kamal Hassan- manages to give 1 or 2 funny moments but because his character has been copied from Bhagawat ('82) he cannot impress the audience as he could have done. He is almost lost in the 2nd half which gives more scope to Dharmendra, Sunil Dutt and Raaj Kumar. Kamal was relatively new to Bollywood that time so I don't blame him being overshadowed by anyone

Ranjeeta- don't really like her as she isn't mass-appealing. Her role is small so I guess Rajkumar Kohli would just have to pick a low-key actress. She's is tolerable

Sarika- her character is copied from Bhagawat ('82) and in this movie, you will notice she has been sort of portrayed as a sex siren with her ridiculously small clothes which of course, didn't worked. As expected, she dies

Ajit- always a good character actor and shines with every role given

Pran- plays a role he has played in DHARAM VEER

Raj Kiran- intolerable. Watch the movie and you will realise it looks like he's saying the same dialogue over and over again

Raaj Kumar- you can easily tell he was born to play this role

Watch this if you like multi-starer movies (who doesn't) but the movie is enjoyable if you don't get confused who is whose son

The last song "Aagye Aagye" is great fun

Don't Watch it

[ajitdubey · 1/10 · 9 September 2010]

If People crack Jokes on Hindi Cinema, because these kind of movies made in 8o's. Producer-Director Rajkumar Kohli had good connection with Stars of 70's and he pored them all. It has no story, no continuity, Action funny and scenes come out as if the whole film is written on shooting location. Story starts with confusion who is the son of whom and director maintain this confusion throughout the film. One of the biggest star cast of Dharmendra, Sunil Dutt, Raaj Kumar, Kamal Hassan, Hema Malini, Rina Rai was a total waste. Rajkumar Kohli made one good movie "Naagin" and he just tried to repeat the multi-cast affair in all his films. It is one of the Stupid Film of 80's Try to avoid it at any cost.

Khan Review - Encyclopedia of 80's bollywood.

[zkzuber · 1/10 · 22 November 2022]

You should such 80's bollywood to someone you have and desperately want to revenge grew up with such movies in 80's so I am not surprised but some one from 2000 for them this will be like a shocking. Three hours complete trash by Kohli one of the big name that time, he made similar kind of multi starrers in 80's like Jani dushman, Nagin, Badle ki aag but this takes the cake of the biggest trash from kohli. All big stars doing this movie which is like small kids playing among them selves. No body even the audience's wouldn't know what is happening on screen. The credit also goes to the writer for being so confident of coming up with kind of idea and calling it a story. If any one wants to experience the worst period of bollywood of 80's this is a MUST WATCH.

Worth watching for the star cast in it.

[jackievasquez · 8/10 · 8 August 2016]

This film was actually okay. Not great but not bad either. It was good. Above average. However it is the actors that make this film worthwhile and worth watching. NOT the script. Raaj Kumar as usual delivers a great performance. Sunil Dutt looked pretty young even though he was a 54-year-old actor trying to play a young character. The one actor who is given the most justice in here is Raaj Kumar. Dharmendra is just average in this film. Kamal Hassan was average in this film as well. The dialogue delivery done by Raaj Kumar is just amazing. The other actors like Hema Malini, Reena Roy, Ajit etc are just okay okay in this film. Ummmmmmmmmmmmm. The action was above average. The item songs were good. I'm amazed at how young Raaj Kumar & Sunil Dutt look despite being so old. Other than that their isn't very much to say. Watch this film just for the actors not for the script. The script isn't even that bad it's an above average one.