Ek Naya Rishta

Ek Naya Rishta
Directed by	Vinod Pande
Produced by	Vinod Pande
Screenplay by	Vinod Pande, J.P. Dixit
Story by	Vinod Pande
Starring	Rekha; Raj Kiran; Mazhar Khan; Om Shivpuri; Urmila Bhatt; Nitin Sethi; Rabia Amin; Yunus Parvez; Vinod Pande; Pooja Saxena; Helena Luke; Anjan Shrivastava; Satish Kaushik; Marc Zuber guest appearance;
Music by	Khayyam
Cinematography	Nadeem Khan
Release date	6 June 1988
Country	India
Language	Hindi/Urdu

Ek Naya Rishta is a 1988 Indian drama film. The film was produced and directed by Vinod Pande, starring Rekha, Raj Kiran, Mazhar Khan and Om Shivpuri among others. The film is a modern take on relationships, business, independence, interdependence and the institution of marriage and hints at indirect surrogacy. It was perhaps the first movie of its time to talk about surrogacy. It also highlighted how society forces the helpless to fall prey to the murky business of prostitution and lesbianism. Many scenes in the 2001 hit Chori Chori Chupke Chupke are a direct lift off from Ek Naya Rishta and the story of Chori Chori Chupke Chupke in essence is taken from this movie.

Plot

Raj Kiran and Rekha in one of the sequences of the film

Womanizer and alcoholic Rajiv Tandon lives a wealthy lifestyle with his widowed industrialist dad, Shankardayal in a palatial house. Rajiv is not interested in marriage, or in any permanent relationship with any woman. His dad dies, he wills that all his wealth and money will only be inherited by Rajiv after he gets a son within 18 months of his death. Thus follows a series of incidents, where he starts searching for a suitable woman who would give birth to his child sans any demand of marriage. He readily offers a huge sum and a luxurious lifestyle to a woman whose willing to give birth without becoming his permanent responsibility.