Film

Faasle

Name: Faasle
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: 1985
Cast: Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Rohan Kapoor, Farha Naaz, Farooq Shaikh

Faasle is a 1985 Hindi family drama about love tested by class and parental disapproval. It's a serious, beautifully acted examination of how families fracture over impossible choices, where romance isn't the point—the cost of defiance is. For anyone who's felt the weight of expectation clash with desire.

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