Anokha Rishta

Anokha Rishta is a 1986 Hindi film directed by prominent Malayalam director I.V. Sasi and starring Rajesh Khanna in the lead supported by Smita Patil, Sabeeha, Tanuja, Shafi Inamdar, Satish Shah and Karan Shah. A remake of the directors own 1984 Malayalam film Kanamarayathu, the story revolves around three characters played by Rajesh Khanna, Smita Patil and Sabeeha.

Anokha Rishta is the story of an unusual relationship between Mary Sabeeha and Robert Brown Rajesh Khanna. Teenager Mary is a 19yearold orphan and lives in an orphanage run by nuns. She is good at studies and scores 92.5 in her last year of school exams and is artistically talented. Until her adulthood, her school education was being sponsored by a philanthropist old Rajesh Khanna. Her sponsor, a rich old man whom she has never met but has only corresponded with through the nuns, passes away, leaving her dreams of a college education in shambles. Though she has never met her sponsor, the old man, she loves him but she is never given the name of that old man by Mother Superior, chief of the orphanage run by nuns. Her sponsor one day dies but this is not told to Mary as she would get depressed and also since at the time of his death, Mary was giving exams and she never had seen him. Mother Superior is aware that Mary and old man used to write to each other lots of letters and that Mary respected and loved him a lot. That old deceased sponsor persons son says he is not interested in funding college education of Mary. Mother Superior then decides to find a new sponsor for her education but since it would take a further month to find a new sponsor and by that time admission process would get over in colleges, Mother decides to convince old mans son one last time. Mother Superior of her orphanage Tanuja meets up old philanthropists son Robert Bob young Rajesh Khanna to continue to sponsor her college education till the time the orphanage finds a solution to what Mary will do in future. Mr. Robert Brown Bob, who is now at the helm of affairs of his fathers business, agrees to continue her sponsorship only after consulting his fathers trusted aid Nasir Khan who makes Robert go through files containing letters written by Mary to his father over the years. Robert asks his own mother Sukumari on whether she was aware of his Dads charity activity of sponsoring Marys school edu

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