Haadsaa (1983) User Reviews

A meeting with Smita Patil

[Peter_Young · 4/10 · 24 May 2010]

Haadsa is a film directed by Akbar Khan. It is supposed to be a thriller but it just fails to impress in all accounts. The script is badly written, the dialogues are very poor, and Khan's direction is not good, though the story could have worked had it been directed by a more experienced and competent director. But there is one reason to watch the film, and it is Smita Patil. She plays Asha, a mentally unstable woman who is also sexually frustrated because of her old husband's impotence. Her meeting with a motor mechanic named Jai makes her believe it is her childhood friend Guddu (for whom she even killed her alcoholic stepmother). There starts an affair and Asha keeps chasing him everywhere. Jai, however, has no interest in the weird Asha, and later falls for a girl named Robby, who is also the daughter of Asha's psychiatrist. But an obsessed Asha would not leave it at that. This good story was unfortunately too amateurishly done at places, and some sequences were really unbearable. The film's music does not work either, and the romance between Jai and Robby is totally unconvincing. However, as already mentioned, Smita Patil's performance really elevates the level of the otherwise boring film. She does the best of her obsessive, mentally ill and frustrated Asha, a role which in itself is not that well written either. She looks really sizzling in some scenes and raises above the poor script with her impressive and disturbing act. Akbar Khan is average in his role, Amrish Puri is hardly there, Ashok Kumar is wasted, and Ranjeeta looks ravishing but she too is wasted. Haadsa is watchable to an extent for Smita Patil, but she too could not make it good enough to be worthy of even a one-time watch.

Remembered only for its title song.

[nadkarnisumeet · 4/10 · 29 September 2020]

Haadsaa review :

Akbar Khan (the legendary Feroz's younger bro) plays a car mechanic seduced by the much older and married lady Smita Patil. Ranjeeta Kaur is his love interest. Haadsaa was too bold for 80s audience who rejected it outright.

My two positive takeaways from the otherwise forgettable film :

Smita Patil looking absolutely gorgeous and giving an awesome performance like always.

And secondly, "Yeh Bombay sheher haadson ka sheher hai" song which appears at the very start and has achieved cult status. Infact, it is the theme song of this maximum city today.

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

Khan Review -Ahead of time but failed.

[zkzuber · 3/10 · 12 December 2022]

Haadsaa was a kind of bold movie for 80's , the plot iss taken from hollywood movies but failed because of poor script, direction. "Ye bumbai seher.. " Was popular and it still is, the song is good but the way it was picturised poorly can predict how the movie must have been made. Akbar though was good looking but did not have the on screen personality tried to make some thing new but only if he had worked hard not only on himself but the movie as a whole. Smita patil had a good role she did her part good but the director could have used her talent and given her character more screen presence. Ranjeeta by the time the movie was released was not doing good career wise, don't know in the entire movie she seems to be dull & sad. Any ways the movie will be remembered for the title song.