In regard to the film itself, it really is a wasted chance, having a good story but a terribly exaggerated script with overdone emotions and dialogues, pathetic fantasy-like action sequences, and some really retarded characters. Patil displays the right emotions without being carried away by the film's whiny nature. Actually, her role in this film is not that bad - she plays a young, married but childless woman whose inability to conceive makes her insecure (how ironic, that's what actually in a way brought to her untimely death in real life) and how much more so upon finding about her husband's adultery: a coincidental one-time affair with her own servant. She was one of the finest female actors of Hindi cinema, and even here we can see it, because she did not let the awful, melodramatic script take away from the quality of her performance, and was thoroughly natural and convincing. Despite the fact that it is quite a terrible film, I don't regret having watched it, the reason behind it being the presence of Patil in it. Nazrana is one of them, and that's something that prompted me to watch it. Over ten movies starring Smita Patil were released after her tragic death at the end of 1986. Not very often does one get to see two such megatalents in the same screen space throughout most of the film and this is one of those movies, albeit a bad one, where the viewer at least has the joy of watching them perform together. I would recommend this movie only for the performances of the two lead actresses. Priti Sapru deserves special mention as she effectively pulls off the role of a calculating and manipulative vamp. Both actresses are terrific and Smita proves yet again (against popular belief) that she can pull off a glamorous role. There is a camaraderie between them that is disrupted when Rajat could no longer keep it in his pants.
Their on screen relationship is that of mistress and servant but not the conventional kind. It is a delight to watch Patil and Sridevi interact. The best moments are the scenes between Sridevi, Smita Patil and Priti Sapru. Oh and the songs are downright forgettable. There's a sequence where Sheetal points a gun towards him and his laughably bad response is proof enough. Despite the poor characterization, Rajesh Khanna is terrible.
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Such retarded mentality is expected of lower class citizens but when an educated, well-cultured and sophisticated member of society acts like a humping dog, based on skin colour, that's going a little too far especially when this is presented as something normal and okay. Watch his reaction in the scene where he watches Tulsi dance in the rain and the tan colour pour down her body revealing the real skin colour. But, what is most frustrating is when Rajesh Khanna's character, who is supposed to be this well educated agent, all of a sudden can't keep it in his pants when he discovers that Tulsi is actually light skinned. It is understandable that such low-class goons won't even bother noticing a dark skinned woman (considering the cultural history where people are taught that light skin equals beauty and dark skin equals ugly). Sridevi's character has to tan her skin in order to appear dark to protect herself from goons that are raping the young light-skinned women of the neighbourhood. Ravi Tandon's direction is quite poor but this may be due to the terrible script he has got to work with. Actually, what 'Nazrana' really has going for it is Smita Patil and Sridevi. There is nothing wrong with the way the two perform. If only there was a good director and writer who had cast them together.
However, it is a pity that this is wasted in a bad movie. It is quite rare when two powerhouse performers, like Sridevi and Smita Patil who have such a different approach to acting, share screen in one film.
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