Chehraa anyone??

So there was this movie I’d seen about a decade ago, which had a great impact on me in terms of storyline and I remember going WOWW at the end of it! I was flamed with a desire to watch it with hubby again just to prove that Bollywood had long since imbibed flavorful cinema and that this movie was no exception. The movie is called “Chehraa” and has a cast of Madhoo of Roja fame, and Ayub Khan- the king of soaps and TV shows. Its much against the lines of a rich heiress getting duped by a guy that looks like her love interest. Madhoo carries off her role with finesse portrayed by a dove in love, sadness like the quiet of a cemetery, flighty hopes of sudden love, masks of terror, calculated frenzies, of love unrequited and of a conquering lioness. Its an extremely well made movie minus the musical glamour and the oomph factor which the dance divas lend to movies now. Considering the movie was released in the 90s, among a bouquet of other movies like “Biwi # 1” and “Haseena Maan Jayegi”, it had an intriguing and different theme which means it might have been ahead of its time during production.

So I search all over Google for Chehraa and come up with the newer version of it that has Bipasha Basu and Dino Morea which in no way respects the older version. Feeble storyline and Bipasha looks like she carries a poker face throughout the movie with unfortunate attempts to display emotion. Not one link for the older Chehraa. I was quite shocked. I found links to movies like “Jaani Dushman” , “Dil”, and a zillion other bollywood movies which I thought had zero fan acclaim but all turned up on Google searches! The first thing I will do if I ever procure the DVD would be to rip it on you tube!