Red Rose (1980 film)

Red Rose
Directed by	Bharathi Raja
Produced by	M.P. Jain Ravi Kumar Associate Producers: Mrs. Santosh Jain Mrs. Era Kalra Mrs. Chandrika Shah
Written by	K. Bhagyaraj (story & screenplay) Lyrics : Nida Fazli Vitthalbhai Patel Dialogues: Charandas Shokh
Starring	Rajesh Khanna Poonam Dhillon
Music by	R.D.Burman
Cinematography	P. S. Nivas
Release date	June 6, 1980
Running time	138 minutes (approx.)[1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Red Rose is a 1980 Hindi-language psychological thriller film, starring Rajesh Khanna and Poonam Dhillon. It was a remake of the Tamil movie Sigappu Rojakkal, made by the same director Bharathi Raja and the same cinematographer P. S. Nivas.

The original Tamil movie was reported to be loosely inspired by Raman Raghav's grisly crimes and was dubbed in Telugu as Erra Gulabilu, and was also remade in Japanese as Red Roses and in Russian as Krasnyye Rozy. ^[2][3]

Plot

Anand (Rajesh Khanna) is a successful businessman with a dark side. He preys on nubile girls and rapes and kills them. These proceedings are video-recorded and watched by his adoptive father and mentor, another deranged woman-hater who, as with Anand, had a disillusioning experience with the female sex in his past. The old man stays holed up in a far corner of Anand's mansion watching his son carry out what he is too infirm to do. The murdered girls are buried in Anand's garden and a rosebush is grown above them.

Anand chances upon an undergarments salesgirl, Sharada (Poonam Dhillon), and develops an attraction for her. Sharada, a conservative woman, insists that Anand must marry her if he wants to have his way with her. The romance proceeds, and appears to be Anand's salvation before things begin to collapse for him. On his marriage day, Sharada stumbles upon a diary containing details of his deranged life along with names of the girls he had killed scribbled on the walls of one of the rooms in his large house.

Sharada, meanwhile stumbles upon Anand's father, whom Anand had told her was retarded and was not to be disturbed, and gets the shock of her life. She somehow manages to shut him in and tries to run out, but as she prepares to leave, Anand returns. As Sharada tries to act normal while planning to escape, Anand finds that his father has been locked in and when he saves his father, he realizes that Sharada knows the truth about his deeds. A tense chase ensues, which ends in a graveyard in the dead of night, with Anand stumbling and falling on a cross which pierces him. In the ensuing chase, Anand is caught by the police.

He is subsequently jailed, but gets mentally retarded and loses his bloodthirsty ways. He keeps repeating Sharada's name, as it is his only coherent thought, and all other memories have been erased from his mind.

Cast

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• Rajesh Khanna as Anand "Munna"
• Poonam Dhillon as Sharada
• Aruna Irani as Sheela^[5]
• Om Shivpuri as Shera
• Satyen Kappu as Anand's foster father
• Keshto Mukherjee as the man who came to buy brassiere for his girlfriend
• Master Mayur as Young Anand "Munna"
• Anjana Mumtaz as Anjana
• Shammi as Roopsagar Clothing Stores Manager
• Padmini Kapila as Chitra

Soundtrack

Music composed by R. D. Burman.

References

External links

• Red Rose on IMDb