Aamir Khan’s first attempt at of beat cinema, Raakh (1989) is re-releasing with digitally re-mastered prints on June 12th. The film that had practically gone unnoticed when released despite starring Aamir Khan because it had managed to get a very limited release with just six prints in three cities. The film starred Aamir Khan, Supriya Pathak, Pankaj Kapoor (in a National Award winning role), Naina Balsawer and Marathi theatre veteran actor Madhukar Toradmal. Incidentally, Aamir’s sister Nuzhat Khan has written the film’s dialogues. Nuzhat is actor Imran Khan’s mother.

Reportedly, the film is being released as a part of a joint venture between two production houses – Audacity International and Storm Enterprises. It is also learnt that the film’s director Aditya Bhatacharya and also the co-producer Asif Noor too shall be having a stake in the deal. The film shall see a big marketing blitzkrieg, just apt for any big Aamir Khan starrer.

Plot of Raakh –

Aamir Khan stars as Aamir Hussain Khan (his real name), who gets into a fight with a hoodlum and as a result his ex-girlfriend (Supriya Pathak) gets raped. Aamir accuses himself for his ex’s rape and decides to kill everyone who was involved in the rape issue. Meanwhile a cop (Pankaj Kapur) is also fed up of these hoodlums and therefore after looking at Aamir’s anger against them decides to help him out.
-Sampurn Media