In the final scene of Junoon (1979), a film adaptation of Ruskin Bond’s novel A Flight of Pigeons set in the backdrop of the 1857 revolt, the moment finally arrives for the married, middle-aged, feudal chieftain Javed Khan, played by Shashi Kapoor. Ruth, the young English girl he is obsessed with, for the first time in the film calls him by his name – Javed. Javed is almost too stunned to sink in the reciprocity. He leaves immediately, exuding a sense of relinquishment, intense longing, loss, and the pointlessness of pursuit.
