Woh Saat Din, or Woh 7 Din,is a 1983 Bollywood Hindi film. Produced by Surinder Kapoor, it stars his son Anil Kapoor along with Padmini Kolhapure and Naseeruddin Shah.It was Anil Kapoor’s first lead role.Anil Kapoor’s role,Naseeruddin’s acting and the film’s music were considered strengths of the filmThe music was done by Laxmikant Pyarelal while Anand Bakshi wrote the lyrics.It is a remake of K.Bhagyaraj’s Tamil movie Antha Ezhu Naatkal.
The movie starts off with a typical lower-middle class marriage ceremony in a traditional Indian style showing a rather depressing Maya (Padmini Kolhapure) getting married to Dr.Anand (Naseeruddin Shah).On the first day of their marriage,Maya tries to commit suicide.Being a doctor,Anand does a timely rescue of Maya but is highly disturbed by the incident.Already troubled with the health of his ailing mother (Dina Pathak) lying on her deathbed,Anand reveals to Maya that it is only on his mother´s request that he decided to get married again.Grossly troubled by Maya´s actions,the highly compassionate doctor promises to help her out if she told him the truth that led her to such drastic actions.On demanding explanation,Maya tells Anand about her past life and her romantic involvement with Prem Pratap Patailawale (Anil Kapoor). The movie goes into a flashback showing Prem Pratap Patailawale and his sidekick Chottu (Master Raju) coming to Mumbai with the dream of becoming a music director.

Looking for a room to rent,they find shelter in Maya´s house. After a series of hilarious sequences and some lovey-dovey scenes, Maya falls for Prem Pratap and with the help of Chottu tries to win over Prem Pratap.However,Maya’s family doesn´t approve their relationship and forcefully get her married into the wealthy family of Dr.Anand.Touched by her story,the benevolent doctor promises to find Prem Pratap and unite Maya with her lover.However,Anand makes a sincere request to Maya and asks her to stand by him as a wife in course of his mother´s illness until she departs for her heavenly abode and that is when he would fulfill his promise.What happens next ? Does Anand find Prem Pratap ? Does Prem Pratap accept Anand´s utopian offer ? Bapu answers these questions and much more in a remarkably efficacious manner and the way he has handled the subject display his adroit narrative skills.The script/screenplay is written with tremendous sensitivity by K. Bhagyaraja (also the writer of the original movie) and has a very well fabricated and interwoven relationship between the lead characters.The characters have been defined with remarkable depths and the resonating dialogues enrich the depth of the characters multi-fold.Witness Naseeruddin Shah deliver “Climax ka Matlab yeh hota hai ki ..Do jismon ko alag karna aur do dilon ko milana” or watch the emotive depth of each character when Anil Kapoor delivers “Meri premika bhale hi kisiki patni ban jaaye…Kisiki patni meri premika kabhi nahin ban sakti…Bin bihaye ladki ka dil hota hi hai aaine ki tarah..jo bhi samne pad jata hai usiki parchayye usmein dikhne lagti hai”.The flow of the movie is maintained extremely well and while the first half is full of light hearted comedy sequences,the second half has an extremely strong emotional punch.The comedy sequences in the first half are some of the most natural and genuine comedy sequences you might have witnessed.The famous “Nada” sequence between Anil Kapoor- Nilu Phule and Anil Kapoor´s mannerisms when adjusting the same, will have you in splits.As a director,this has to be Bapu´s best work in Hindi cinema.

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