| Director | H. S. Rawail, Harnam Singh Rawail |
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| Runtime | 130 min |
| Country | India |
Sagai revolves around the depiction of a love triangle. In such triangles two people typically compete for the exclusive romantic attention of a single person, such as two women competing for the sole love interest of a particular man. Whereas Sagai is not about love triangles per se, the film demonstrates how a love triangle is deployed as a storytelling device in a Bollywood film.
In Sagai the complexity of the triangular love relationship begins with Chandni. When she returns home from London, her father feels that she has come of age and informs her of her engagement (her sagai) to a groom he had selected for her when she was a child. When he asks her to marry him, Chandni declines to do so, runs away from home and ends up joining Fooman and Dhaboo on a successions of explorations. One such exploration lands them aboard a ship captained by Prem, who is transporting Princess Shehzadi to her native land, Jagira.
Over the course of their journey to Jagira, both Chandni and Shehzadi fall in love with the handsome and charming Captain Prem, and so begins the conflict that arises in a classic love triangle when two women fall in love with the same man. What further complicates this love triangle is that when the ship reaches Jagira, Shehzadi’s brother, the King, insists that Prem marry Shehzadi and imprisons him when Prem refuses to do so. The King then proposes to Chandni who is already engaged to the man her father had selected for her years ago. The film progresses with the resolution of the conflicts that arise in this complex love triangle.