Bollywood actor Ritesh and Pooja are married and live a fairly wealthy lifestyle. When he ventures to produce a film, a huge risk considering his naivety, results in financial losses, which they have to make good by selling all their personal properties, vehicles, and belongings. They re-locate to live in a small flat, and Ritesh loses himself in an alcoholic and nostalgic world. Pooja decides to take over the reins of this family by seeking employed, much to the chagrin of her husband, who would prefer that she stay at home - a discussion that may well be the turning point of their relationship and signal the end of their marriage.
Acting
Dimple Kapadia's eyes do what pages of dialogue cannot
Direction
Mahesh Bhatt at his most autobiographically raw
Writing
Dialogue that cuts because it feels lived, not written
Director
Mahesh Bhatt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kaash emerged from Bhatt's own near-marriage-collapse with Parveen Babi, making it essentially autobiographical therapy on celluloid. The director later admitted Ritesh's arc mirrored his own alcoholic spiral.
Mehmood's bizarre 'Djinn' sequence — a fantasy musical number inside Ritesh's drunken hallucination — was studio-mandated to lighten the mood. Bhatt hated it, audiences were confused, and it remains the film's most divisive sequence.
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