Prem Granth

Revisiting Rajiv Kapoor’s Prem Granth(It Deserved Better)

Prem Granth(1996), the only film that Rajiv Kapoor directed, was no ordinary experience. It was one of the most ambitious films of the 1990s, and it qualifies easily as an honourable failure. Everything about the film, every frame, screams ‘epic’. And though it is a laudable attempt to delineate a woman’s journey from from carefree girlhood to wretchedly dark womanhood, Prem Granth ended up pleasing neither the critics nor the audience. Here’s why: the film is too much in awe of Raj Kapoor’s cinema. More than Raj Saab’s other two sons Randhir a | Click Here...