Aamir Khan’s crime-drama Raakh is now screening at Bandra Film Festival

Aamir Khan had acted in a film named Raakh 3 decades ago. This film directed by Aditya Bhattacharya can be easily termed ahead of its time. Along with Aamir, the film also featured Pankaj Kapur, Supriya Pathak and Homi Wadia. Raakh was a dystopian drama, in which the star plays the character of a young man who was helpless to watch his girlfriend being raped by a group of powerful crime lords. He is overwhelmed to see them get away with the crime. He then and during  this phase he finds himself destroyed from inside.

This masterpiece is screening currently at the Bandra Film Festival. The director Aditya Bhattacharya said, “More than three decades later, I am quite overwhelmed by the continuing affection and respect for my first-born, RAAKH – It is something that I couldn’t have imagined whilst shooting this as a 24 year old…”