The banner featured the best artistes in best stories be it Jaya Bhaduri/ Uphaar/1971 Piya Ka Ghar/1972, Amitabh Bachchan paired with the magnificent Nutan in Saudagar/ 1973 or Naseerudin Shah in Sunayna/ 1979 where Rameshwari met with a fatal accident falling off the horse and damaging her eye permanently.
The 80s was a decade of multi starrers but Rajshri Pictures now operating from a sprawling office in the heart of Mumbai’s Prabhadevi still retained that content is the conscience and the king. While most of them were making crime plots Rajshri Pictures focused on smaller, meaningful cinema. They were still launching new faces – Anupam Kher in Saraansh, Madhuri Dixit in Abodh /1984and simultaneously working with established actors: Raakhee/ Humkadam, Shabana Azmi/ Ek Baar Kaho/1980. Not all these films were successful in fact there came a time when all their films: Manokamna, Jiyo Toh Aise Jiyo, Tumhare Bin, Raksha Bandhan were disasters totally unexpected out of a banner of their stature.
Something was terribly wrong somewhere and the reason Tarachand Barjatya wasn’t rattled is because he saw the solution coming…
To be continued