''Seepeeyan'' is a 1984

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n drama film produced and directed by Akash Jain. The film was edited by Venketesh Naik. The film revolves around a woman who plunges into a river after her boyfriend refused to marry her, but is saved by another man of inferior caste whom she marries. It stars

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and

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in the leading roles. The music of the film was composed by

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. The film created ripples in the eighties due to its themes of pre-marital sex.The film received mixed reviews from the critics and was a hit at box office.

Plot

Kalyani is a young beautiful woman who falls in love with a young man named Jeetu. Jeetu confesses his love for Kalyani and promises her to be always by her side. Kalyani and Jeetu make love. After her mother's death, Kalyani proposes to Jeetu to get married. Jeetu declares that he is not willing to spend the rest of his life with Kalyani. Kalyani feels like she has been deceived and loses all the yearning for her life. She plunges into a river they were standing beside and is drifted to somewhere else where a man named Gokul finds her unconscious on the surface of the water. Gokul brings her to his home and cures her well. Kalyani marries Gokul. Eventually Jeetu learns that Kalyani has been married to a man of an inferior caste. Jeetu meets her and confesses that he is contrite for what he told her earlier and now he wants her back in his life. He also tries to persuade her that she cannot spend the rest of her life with a man like Gokul who belongs to an indigent lower caste. Gokul overhears what Jeetu says to Kalyani and he insists that she return to Jeetu. But she remains resolute. She declares that she has fallen for Gokul and is not willing to leave him at any cost. Gokul is overjoyed to have heard this and they embrace.

Cast

as Jeetu *

as Kalyani *

as Gokul *

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Music

#" Aayenge Tere Dwar Maata" -

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#"Jeevan Pal Do Pal Ka Saathi" -

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#"O Badhau Na Mohe Dibiya" -

Reception

The role played by

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was reviewed as a borrowed idea from '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' by

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as her character gets seduced and deceived by the male lead played by

. Filmzack wrote: "Her role, somehow reminds us of Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, whose innocence is ripped apart by the debauched manhood." Roy gained mixed review for her performance. She was adulated for her

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but criticised as well for her whimpering performance in some of the sequences especially when Kalyani learns her mother has passed away.

was applauded for his role in the film. Filmzack wrote: "It's a real hard thing to find out a single rift in his performance and this time also, there is no exception."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 2784992 1984 films 1980s Hindi-language films