‘This film will flop’: Mahesh Bhatt cried after hearing this, but after release, film ran in theatres for 50 weeks, film is…, lead actor was…

Directed and produced by Raj Khosla, the film Do Raaste was based on Marathi writer Chandrakant Kakodkar's novel Nilambar.

May 21, 2025 - 21:30
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‘This film will flop’: Mahesh Bhatt cried after hearing this, but after release, film ran in theatres for 50 weeks, film is…, lead actor was…

The most important ever Indian to be known as a megastar in Bollywood was no one else but Rajesh Khanna. Fondly known as Kaka by his followers and household participants, Rajesh Khanna made his debut within the 1966 movie Aakhri Khat, which was India’s first official Academy Awards entry in 1967. With his first movie, Rajesh made a name for himself within the industry. Then again, in 1969, there came a movie that was announced to be a flop. It featured Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz within the lead role.

Then again, while everyone concept that the movie was a flop, it did fully the opposite. The movie ran on the extensive shows for 50 weeks. If which you may very neatly be wondering which movie we're talking about, then the movie in dialogue is Raise out Raaste.

Directed and produced by Raj Khosla, the movie Raise out Raaste was in step with Marathi creator Chandrakant Kakodkar’s recent Nilambar. The movie Raise out Raaste clashed with Rajesh Khanna’s diverse movie Aaradhana. When both the motion pictures had been on the extensive show hide, Vaman Bhosle and Mahesh Bhatt had been at Bombay’s Royal Opera Home.

A characterize by Times of India finds that the creator of the biography Amborish Roy Chowdhury writes within the e book, “A manager named Desai came to Bhatt and Bhonsle and told them that Aaradhana is housefull whereas Raise out Raaste had no viewers and probability is there that the movie will doubtless be a flop.” Upon paying consideration to this, Mahesh, who was in his 20s, was left devastated and turned emotional, as he was extremely hooked up to the movie.

The crisply-written e book titled Raj Khosla: The Authorized Biography also finds that the movie before everything place ended with some “touching lines in regards to the mum-son relationship,” which didn't swimsuit the viewers.

After this, Raj approached actress Sadhana, with whom he did four motion pictures. “Over the years, she had change correct into a confidante and a sounding board. He confirmed her his motion pictures, and she or he told him what she felt,” writes Roy Chowdhury.

Sadhana suggested ending the movie with a clip of the music “Bindiya Chamkegi,” which later turn out to be the No. 1 note on the radio countdown original Binaca Geetmala in 1971.

Raise out Raaste “ran for more than 50 weeks at the equivalent Opera Home where the workers had written the movie off.”

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