#5 Maan Abhimaan (1980)
Can a deep and intense love story be portrayed without the hero and heroine’s physical intimacy?
Maan Abhimaan, a 1980 film starring Raj Kiran and Rameshwari in the lead roles, is an answer to this question.
Plot
Ajay Chaudhary( Raj Kiran) returns from foreign to his home. His old father Mathuraprasad Chaudhary (Amrish Puri) perusades him to take over a huge mansion in a village where he grew up. He hides the facts and figures about the mansion from Ajay, though. Ajay comes to the town and is guided by Mathuraprasad’s evil accountant( C. S. Dubey), who poisons his mind against the mansion’s residents.
Especially for the owner’s daughter, Mallika (Rameshwari). Ajay is unaware that Mallika’s father, Thakur Sumer Singh (Iftekhar), was cheated by Mathuraprasad in business, and then the latter claimed his whole property. Now, the mansion is mortgaged and is the only thing Mallika owns. She stays there with her younger brother Somu and an old servant ( Yunus Parvez). She has promised her dying father that she will never forgive Mathuraprasad’s family for what he did.
When Ajay and Mallika meet,
He already has wrong notions about her because of the evil accountant. Mallika, too, dislikes him because she knows Ajay as an evil person’s son who has come to make her and her brother homeless. But Ajay is a golden-hearted man, which Mallika is unaware of.
Later, not only does he befriend her brother, but he also falls in love with her. Subsequently, he tries to win her heart. But self-respected and hurt that Mallika is, she never entertains Ajay.
Ajay finally finds out why Mallika hates him. But things take an ugly turn when Ajay loses his father and he returns to the city. The evil accountant tells Mallika to vacate the mansion in his absence. She blames Ajay for all this and insults him when he comes for Somu’s birthday.
Misunderstandings deepen
and Ajay finally leaves the village. While leaving, he hands over her mansion’s property papers, which shakes Mallika off her feet.
After returning to the city, he also donates money to the school where Mallika teaches. He financially helps the library where she works and also gives funds for repairing the ancestral temple of the village. She is taken aback by his generosity and big heart. But her false self-respect and ego stop her from approaching and thanking him.
Finally, Somu arranges their meeting, and they talk out matters. The film ends on a happy note.
Highlight
The highlight of the movie for me is the deep love Ajay has for Mallika. She, too, has a regard for him in her subconscious mind. They have maintained these emotions beautifully throughout. At the end, when the misunderstandings clear out, they also share an intense eye lock, and the film ends. This film is the best example of how a deep and intense love story can be filmed without any physical intimacy between the leads.
Hats off.
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