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Sun Sajna
Description Mithun Chakraborty, Ranjita, Jagdeep
Director Chander Bahl
Genre Drama
Year 1982
It is everything a fairy tale is made of: Rajkumar, a Prince Charming, and
Basanti, his lady fair! He, a popular singing star; she, a beautiful innocent
girl, who lived and loved beneath the grandeur of the Himalayas. A love as tall
as the mountains where it all began.
Who would nonot have said that Rajkumar and Basanti had, in perfection, been made
for each other? Perhaps Gopi, Basanti's childhood companion who, with the coming
of youth, had visions of winning her hand in marriage. But the appearance of
Rajkumar who came on the wings of spring and stole Basanti's heart away had
crushed Gopi's fond hopes, for true love comes to a woman but once.
With the happy approval of both families, Rajkumar and Basanti would be united
in wedlock, but it is ordained that the path of true love never runs smooth. On
his way to the wedding, Rajkumar met with a terrible accident in which his
mother was killed instantly. Though Rajkumar survived, his eyesight was gone for
ever.
More truly could it now be said that Basanti's love was blind. Though unaware of
the tragedy, Basanti refused to believe that Rajkumar could have forsaken her,
even as the auspicious hour of marriage slipped by. She indignantly refused to
even consider well meaning advice that she forget Rajkumar and marry someone
else. Gopi perhaps. No, Basanti would wait till her Prince Charming came and
claimed her as his own.
Time passed by and the Rajkumar did not come. To add to her misery, Basanti fell
victim to a dreaded disease. The doctor advised her immediate removal to the
sanatorium at Kasauli if she were to be saved. Basanti would not budge; she
dreaded the thought of what would happen when Rajkumar arrived and found her
missing. She would wait, and wait for happiness ever after.
Gopi, whose love for Basanti was true, could not bear watching her wasting away.
He went in search of Rajkumar whom he believed was unfaithful. Only when Gopi
found him blind did he realise the truth.
Gopi arrived with Rajkumar, but it was already almost too late. The lovers fell
into each other's arms with the saddest thought - `It might have been'.
Marriages, they say, are made in Heaven. Let us not forget that it is in Heaven
that the world's greatest lovers have invariably been united.
   
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