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Ranjish Hi Sahi review: Another done to death boring version of the Parveen Babi-Mahesh Bhatt affair

Déjà vu all over again.’ This quote, attributed to American baseball legend Yogi Berra, leapt to mind watching yet another Mahesh Bhatt iteration of the Parveen Babi story.

We have seen this innumerable times in so many permutations and combinations – from the point of view of the wife, the mother, the other woman, the son, the transgressing husband – in Bhatt’s Arth, Zakhm, Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee and Woh Lamhe..., and also seeping into the narrative in films like Janam and Daddy that at some point during the series