Angaaray (1986 film)


Angaaray is a 1986 Hindi-language film directed by Rajesh Sethi and starring Raj Babbar and Smita Patil in the main lead roles. The dialogue, screenplay and story has been written by Salim Khan. Rajesh Khanna has done a guest appearance.

Plot

Aarti is an educated girl living with her young brother Sanjay Verma and her mother. She joins as the personal secretary to Jolly. Meanwhile, Vijay develops a desire that he should marry Aarthi, although he does not propose to her directly. One day Vijay finds that Aarti's brother is a drug addict and promptly informs Aarti. She convinces her brother to join the army so that he becomes a disciplined person in his life. After a few days Jolly tries to rape Aarti and Vijay comes to the rescue.
Meanwhile, Aarti participates in a function where she is supposed to dance and there she is noticed for her dancing skills by the audience and from the audience section. After seeing her performance, Vijay's friend Ravi falls in love with Aarthi. Ravi even secures permission from his and her parents to marry her and gets engaged to her and after that Ravi goes abroad. However, Jolly manages to find a chance to rape Aarti traumatizing her. On learning the truth, Ravi's parents cancel Ravi's marriage to Aarti and at this juncture Aarti finds out that Vijay had loved her the whole time.
Vijay offers to marry her but his own mother disapproves of this alliance upon knowing that Aarti is a girl who was raped in the past. Disillusioned, Aarti goes and meets the courtesan Hirabai and becomes a Tawaif. After few months her brother returns to the town and after becoming aware of the events which took place, decides to kill Jolly. The plan backfires and Jolly kills him. To take revenge, Aarti murders Jolly. The rest of the story is about how the court cases happens and what sentence is pronounced for Aarti and whom will she marry at last.

Reception

The box office collections were Rs. 8.79 crores in 1986. It received three and half stars in Bollywood guide Collections.

Cast