Lekin... (1990) Online
Samir Niyogi lives in India and is assigned by the Government to travel to Rajasthan, evaluate a princely castle that once belonged to Raja Param Singh, take stock of all items, the condition of the building, and report back to the Government. Enroute to his destination by train, he permits a woman to enter his compartment, goes to sleep, and when he awakens finds her gone. A few days later, when he goes to the castle, he finds the very same woman cooking within the premises. When both enter the castle, he finds himself back in time and witnesses a scene that happened eons ago. When he recovers, he finds himself alone, and locked in. He breaks out and narrates this incident to his friend and local Collector, Shafi and his wife, Sharda. He does meet the woman again in the dead of night, and after showing him the way, she disappears. Then Sharda asks Samir to wear a amulet at all times as it will protect from evil spirits. He does meet the woman again, this time in the middle of the ...
Complete credited cast: | |||
Vinod Khanna | - | Samir Yogi | |
Dimple Kapadia | - | Reva | |
Amjad Khan | - | Shafi Ahmed Sidiqqui | |
Alok Nath | - | Ustad Meraj Ali | |
Hema Malini | - | Tara (Guest Appearance) | |
Moon Moon Sen | - | Pammi | |
Vijayendra Ghatge | - | Raja Param Singh | |
Beena Banerjee | - | Sharda Ahmed Siddiqui (as Beena) | |
Ajit Vachani | |||
Manohar Singh | |||
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Sapna Awasthi | - | Rewa - Tara's daughter | |
Ram Mohan | |||
Rashmi |
Gulzar made the mistake of releasing the film in the Indian Panorama film festival. This put the film in the art film category. Due to this no distributor was willing to touch the film. This caused delays in the films release .
Gulzar and Vinod Khanna come together after about 20 years. They had worked together in 1970's in Mera Apne & Achanak.
Lekin is the only Hindi produced film of Lata Mangeshkar.
The film was first offered to Sri Devi.
Sunny Deol came hand in hand with Dimple Kapadia to the films premiere. This made all headlines and magazines.
Lata Mangeshkar, who was the producer of this film, wanted Sridevi to play the lead role in this movie but Sridevi rejected the movie because of date hassles and because she was going through tough personal times as her father passed away and her mother's health was deteriorating. Then Lata Mangeshkar approached Dimple Kapadia who agreed to do the role.
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