40 years of Saaransh: Mahesh Bhatt recalls, Sanjeev Kumar was hit by this movie very hard because he himself was dealing with imminent demise 40 : Bollywood News [Video]

40 years since its release, Saaransh, clearly the centrepiece of Mahesh Bhatt’s career, remains relevant and resonant.

40 years of Saaransh: Mahesh Bhatt recalls, “Sanjeev Kumar was hit by this movie very hard because he himself was dealing with imminent demise”

Said Mahesh, “What Saaranshdid was to touch the human experience that has been coursing through the human heart since the dawn of time. All that man loves, he will one day part with. The anguish of losing your loved ones suddenly, and how one copes with that irreparable loss with dignity and grace, without resorting to the tales that religion has crafted to cushion man from the finality of death, is what the film grapples with. In the middle-class abode of Shivaji Park, the characters of Anupam Kher and Rohini Hattangadi, playing B.V. Pradhan and Parvati, arrive at that irrefutable truth. B.V. Pradhan says, touching the flowers that have bloomed from the ashes of his son …