Long before there was Rangeela, Ghulam and Ghajini, long before Aamir Khan’s on-screen persona started toggling between the defiant, goofy and the angry, there was Rakh. Had this film been released before Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Aamir would have immediately ascended to the pantheon of great actors, with the likes of Naseeruddin Shah and Dilip Kumar. He can now claim that spot anyway, true, but many a year later.
Aamir has never looked as vulnerable, and, therefore, as dangerous, ever after. If Ghajini was about eight-pack abs, Rakh is about the eight-fold path to hell. The plot is simple and unpretentious: Aamir plays a young lover who links up with a dysfunctional cop (Pankaj Kapur), to avenge the rape of his girlfriend (Supriya Pathak). The film was based 10 years ahead of its time, in a world where the legal system has collapsed.(This story appears in the 19 June, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
So true to the aphorism that in India one cannot take the Fillum out of its people,, you have a "film" column too..
on Jun 19, 2009