A mother's water phobia drowns her son's love story in this lost '80s Hindi melodrama.
The mother of Amar (Rajiv Kapoor) has long believed that water will be the cause of her son's death, so when she meets Rinku (Dimple Kapadia), the girl he is in love with, she tells her to keep Amar away from anything that could drown him. But a short time later, he is involved in an accident that sweeps him down a waterfall. He manages to survive but is lost for six months, during which time his mother mourns for him. When Amar does finally return, he discovers Rinku has married another man.
Acting
Asha Parekh's prophecy-obsessed mother is gloriously unhinged.
Cinematography
Those waterfall sequences serve actual drama, not just spectacle.
Director
Ravindra Peepat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rajiv Kapoor's brief leading-man era ended shortly after this; 'Lava' remains one of his rare solo hero vehicles.
The 'water death' prophecy taps into classic Hindi cinema's obsession with maternal intuition as both protective and destructive force.
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