Unlike ‘Teri Meherbaniyan’ (which I reviewed a while ago here - also starring Poonam Dhillion, by the way - and as a random addition, she's also in Sanjay Dutt's '80s classsic, 'Naam') I totally understand why this film is popular in Nigeria. The oh-so-warm feeling you get from the movie makes up for the fact that, for example, Sunita’s speaking voice changes completely after the accident (although her singing voice – provided by Asha Bhosle - remains the same).
Get into the spirit of this and you'll love it. The flaws in ‘Yeh Vaada Raha’ are many (about a gazillion), but that’s not important. Sunita 1 (Poonam Dhillon) - liked her better than Sunita 2 If Sunita 2’s behaviour was a bit stupid (‘I will give up my love for Vicky so he can get loads of money and enjoy it with his new wife’ – very very slightly romantic maybe, but rather daft), that’s noone’s fault but the scriptwriter’s. Despite my very marked preference for Sunita 1 over Sunita 2, both ladies did very well. Terrifying, nasty and mean, yet somehow likeable - Rakhee in 'Yeh Vaada Raha'.Īs for Sunita, I liked ‘old Sunita’ (Poonam Dhillon) much more than ‘new Sunita’ (Tina Munim) because new Sunita sometimes behaved like a diva chick doing fash-pa in secondary school (that statement can only be totally understood by someone who went to a Nigerian boarding house, anyone else, I could tell you that fash-pa is short for ‘fashion parade’ but you still wouldn’t quite get it, sorry). The music in the film is lovely, really sweet. The man who plays the miracle-working plastic surgeon is deliciously larger-than-life, and Rishi Kapoor does a very decent job as the romantic lead, Vikram (‘Vikky’) – I really liked him here. The acting is good: Rakhee gets to terrify me again as the strict mother – saw her in the more recent ‘Dil Ka Rishta’ and ‘Baadshah’, but liked her more in ‘Yeh Vaada Raha’. Yes, the story sometimes makes no sense and the plot has more holes in it than a king-sized colander, but for all its silliness, it’s a good film. So what do I think about ‘Yeh Vaada Raha’? It is good fun, really. 'Ji, Sunita, not only has the doctor given you a new face, he's tweezed your eyebrows for you while at it'. Probably not, I have a feeling the ‘new face’ thing’s been done to death).
I knew all about how Vikky and Sunita fall in love, then Sunita loses her face in an accident and gets a totally new one (I’ve blogged about fake-pretend cures before here – wonder if the people that did ‘Yakeen’ – which I reviewed here – saw ‘Yeh Vaada Raha’ and used it for inspiration. I knew the theme song and the other song (which I like to call ‘La la la la la la la la laaa’) from the movie. I knew the whole story though, I had been ‘gisted’ about it many times by a lot of my friends.
Vikram and Sunita in the theme song.Īnyway, somehow, I never saw ‘Yeh Vaada Raha’ as a kid.
'Ooh, come here, you little oochie coochie coo'.
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