Kudrat (1981)
A precursor to both Hong Kong’s Dream Lovers (1986) and Hollywood’s Dead Again (1991) (with a late plot twist that foreshadows Stir of Echoes (1999)), Chetan Anand’s Kudrat may be the least polished of the three films, but take away its slow and uneventful start (and consider that you don’t have to deal with a hokey Kenneth Branagh performance) and this reincarnation romance manages to be a fairly arresting slice of cinema with technical merits that were undoubtedly far more impressive during the time of its release.
Cast: Raaj Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini
