| 1 | '''Rihaee''' |
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| 4 | 1988 158’ col Hindi |
| 5 | d/s Aruna Raje pc Gaahimedia dial Suraj |
| 6 | Sanim lyr Babu Rangpura, Suraj |
| 7 | c S.R.K. Moorthy m Sharang Dev |
| 8 | lp Hema Malini, Naseeruddin Shah, Vinod |
| 9 | Khanna, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ila Arun |
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| 12 | First solo feature by Aruna Raje whose previous |
| 13 | films were co-directed with Vikas Desai and |
| 14 | signed jointly as Aruna-Vikas. It is set in a |
| 15 | Rajasthan village where the men migrate to |
| 16 | Bombay to seek work (and visit prostitutes) |
| 17 | while their wives at home become victims of |
| 18 | rapacious outsiders like Mansukh (Shah). |
| 19 | Mansukh seduces the virtuous Taku (Malini) |
| 20 | who becomes pregnant. When her husband |
| 21 | (Khanna) returns, she informs him of her |
| 22 | decision to defy the village elders’ diktat and to |
| 23 | have her child. The husband supports her |
| 24 | against a group of villagers determined forcibly |
| 25 | to terminate her pregnancy. Addressing the still |
| 26 | unexplored theme of female sexuality, the film |
| 27 | allows itself to be derailed into a conventional |
| 28 | morality tale. |
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| 30 | [[Film]] |