Permission (1987)
8/10
A subtle poetry of love
16 December 2010
The movie deals with love story. But in a very different sense.

Mahinder (Nasir) is in love with Maya (Anuradha Patel). His family has formally engaged him to Sudha (Rekha). He confides in Sudha that he loves Maya and Sudha lets him go. But now Maya has somehow walked away from his life. No reason mentioned here but in later half one gets a feeling that Maya does have some psychological problem with the kinds of act she does. Mahinder walks back to his family and marries Sudha.

Mahinder still cannot forget Maya. Sudha understands this fact and does not force Mahinder into anything. This understanding of her makes Mahinder love Sudha in a different way. Time passes and one fine day Maya arrives and calls up Mahinder congratulating him for his marriage. Mahinder tries to be aloof from her. This shows that slowly but surely Mahinder now loves Sudha. But Maya tries to commit suicide and Mahinder comes near to Maya just to comfort her and make her understand that he now belongs to Sudha.

With growing closeness of Mahinder and Maya, now Sudha thinks that she is coming in their way of love. She walks away from their life and Mahinder just can't bear her separation. He tries a lot to bring her back and today he has met her accidentally. The whole story above is in flashback, where today Mahinder and Sudha have met each other in a railway waiting room. The truth which Mahinder and Sudha disclose to each other as what happened when they were separated for this period is something which leaves the viewers stunned till the end.

What a depiction of love story!!! Mahinder is torn apart by the sacrifices of the two females where for that matter the females wanted happiness for him. Gulzar has woven this tale of love with beautiful poetic verses. The actors have given their excellent romantically emotional expressions. I don't remember Nasir and Rekha in any other movie and here their chemistry blends so brilliantly. This fits very well with the classy music of R.D. Burman.

If one adores deeply rooted love stories, this one is not worth missing.
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