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by guilt when an accident caused by him, Qatl (1986):
kills the fiancé of dancer Aarti (Hema
Malini). Later, in trying to tell her the truth
and make amends, he is responsible for
Aarti losing her vision. Taking on another
name, he helps her get back on her feet and
resume her dancing career. When she finds
out that he was the one who ruined her
life, she breaks up with him. Eventually,
she realizes that she was wallowing in her
past and turning down the love of a good In RK Nayyar’s film, Sanjeev Kumar
man. (In 2010, Pradeep Sarkar directed played a pianist who loses his sight while
Lafangey Parindey, starring Deepika trying to save his wife (Sarika) from being
Padukone and Nein Nitin Mukesh), using crushed by a falling chandelier. He goes
the same basic plot. abroad to get treated, but when he returns,
he finds his wife in an affair with his best
Sparsh (1980): friend (Marc Zuber). He kills them both,
and has to prove in court that he is blind,
so he could not have committed the crime.
Sanjeev Kumar’s performance as a blind
man, who later has to pretend he cannot
see, was what made this film watchable.

Sangeet (1992):

Sai Paranjpye’s film sensitively portrayed
the character of a visually challenged
Aniruddh (Naseeruddin Shah), who heads
a school for blind children. Kavita (Shabana
Azmi), still coping with the trauma of
recent widowhood, volunteers at the school,
on the suggestion of a friend. She becomes
popular with the students, but it takes time Madhuri Dixit played the double role of a
for the prickly and fiercely independent mother who abandons her infant daughter
Aniruddha to accept his feelings towards born out of wedlock, in this K.Vishwanath
her, or accept that her love for him is film. The blind girl is raised by a woman,
genuine, and not just pity. His well who makes her a dancer, discovered by folk
thought-out performance won Shah the singer Jetho (Jackie Shroff) performing a
Best Actor National Award. Interestingly, vulgar dance and getting lewd comments
Shah played the villain in Mohra (1994), a by male audiences. He gets her out, and
man putting on a sightless act, and he did over time falls for her, and also reunites her
that equally well. with her contrite mother.

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