In the film Agha played Niloufer, a college educated woman who has a mind of her own but is tossed between two men who love her for different reasons and not allowed to be her own person thanks to the laws that govern a modern Muslim woman. What made Nikaah stand out was that BR Chopra infused his outlook into an antiquated genre and the result was something that looked classical yet was as modern as one would expect Chopra sahab to be. In a period where Hindi cinema, both mainstream as well as art-house, was pushing the envelope as far as characters or stories went and wanted to break away from the old world, Nikaah was a throwback on the classical popular Hindi cinema.Īlthough it was a Muslim social, a genre that might have started with the promise to showcase the little changes that were taking place within the the Muslim society such as Mehboob Khan’s Najma (1943), by the time Nikaah released the genre had not only regressed but couldn’t look beyond the ornate sets and lilting music, et al. In many ways Agha was an anomaly when it came to leading ladies of the 1980s. One of the earliest Pakistani actors to get mainstream recognition in India, Agha had a dream debut in BR Chopra's Nikaah, a rare Muslim social that tried to rise above the trappings of the genre (more on that later) but couldn't make much of her dream debut. Back then and now as well, Agha is still best recalled as the actor-singer who delivered one of the biggest hits of the 1980s, Nikaah (1982).
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