Silsila

Silsila (1981)

Love is faith... and faith is for ever

When his brother's tragic death leaves his pregnant fiancée devastated, playwright Amit selflessly marries her to protect her from societal contempt. However, when fate brings him face-to-face with his former flame, love proves to be stronger than marital vows.

Date of release
1981-07-29
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (21)
Runtime
3h 2m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Yash Chopra

Casting

Interesting facts

Silsila (transl. Continuation) is a 1981 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film co-written, directed, and produced by Yash Chopra. The story revolves around the love triangle of a romantic playwright Amit, his wife Shobha, and his former lover Chandni (Rekha). The soundtrack was composed by Shiv–Hari, with lyrics from Javed Akhtar, Hasan Kamal, Mirabai, Nida Fazli, Rajendra Krishan, and Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

Production

Silsila was directed and produced by Yash Chopra for his banner Yash Raj Films. He co-wrote the screenplay with Sagar Sarhadi, who also co-wrote the story with Preeti Bedi. According to Sarhadi, Chopra "fell madly in love with the subject". The dialogue was written by Romesh Sharma.

Chopra's biographer Rachel Dwyer described the casting as complicated, for which the film was controversial before release. Speculations about the relationship between Amitabh Bachchan, who was married to Jaya Bachchan, and Rekha was common in gossip magazines and newspapers at the time. Chopra called his ability to cast the three his greatest achievement.

Silsila was shot by Raju Kaygee. Filming was done from November 1980 to May 1981, starting in Kashmir and later Amsterdam, Bombay (now Mumbai), and Delhi. Wanting no exposure from the media, Chopra did the filming privately with the entire cast and crew. He described the production as "real life coming into reel life" but said that there are no incidents on the sets and all the lead actors were co-operative.

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