is still waiting for Vasu. Seeing their true love, Sandhya sacrifices her love and decides to unite Vasu and Sapna. She tells the truth to Vasu and cancels their wedding, urging him to go to his beloved Sapna as their one-year contract was completed. Sandhya's older brother hears that the wedding is cancelled and thinks that Vasu abandoned his sister. In a drunken, angry state, he phones his criminal friend in Goa and asks him to 'completely get rid' of Vasu. When Vasu arrives back in Goa, and is about to meet Sapna in their favorite beach spot, Sandhya's older brother's criminal friend and a gang brutally beat up Vasu. Meanwhile, Sapna is heading to the beach to meet Vasu. The lascivious bookstore clerk tries to attack her, Sapna tries to escape him and falls from the second floor. The bookstore clerk seeing her almost dead from the fall, still violently rapes hers! Sapna and Vasu meet after the clerk and the goons flee. However, Vasu is badly injured. Distraught, feeling they can't live without each other, they join hands and leap off the cliff together, a symbol of doomed love. Cast Kamal Haasan as Vasudevan "Vasu" Rati Agnihotri as Sapna Madhavi as Sandhya Raza Murad as Danny Rakesh Bedi as Chakram Poornam Viswanathan as Vasudevan's Father Satyen Kappu as Jagannath Shubha Khote as Mrs. Kundanlal Asrani as Hari Arvind Deshpande as Kundanlal Athili Lakshmi as Vandana Sunil Thapa as Librarian Production The production team had earlier thought of titling it Ek Aur Itihas, but it went on to become Ek Duuje Ke Liye. Leading lad Kamal Haasan and supporting heroine Madhavi were cast in the film after appearing in director K. Balachander's previous Telugu film Maro Charitra (1978), which Ek Duuje Ke Liye was based on. The leading actress Rati Agnihotri was relatively unknown at the time, and did not appear in Maro Charitra. Music The music was composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi. It was the first Hindi film for South Indian singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam; the composers were initially against including him, feeling that the "Madrasi" would not do justice to a Hindi composition, but Balachander cited that if the lead character played by Haasan could not speak Hindi well, then even if Balasubrahmanyam blemished the song, it would "capture the character." Two portions of "Tere Mere Beech Mein" were later sampled