The EVP release boasts one of the best audio tracks I've heard on a golden oldie Bollywood DVD - free from pops, crackles and other such distractions, it certainly beats the Sky and Eros discs which both offer far inferior tracks. Eros's in particular sounds quite poor, being as it is a phoney mono-spread-over-five-channels 5.1 mix. On the video front, all discs unfortunately contain PAL-to-NTSC conversions with some hiding the adverse effects better than others. The EVP video handles things best with a pseudo-progressive interlaced transfer, showing no ghosting problems. The Sky disc uses field-averaging leaving some frames prone, but worst off is again the Eros DVD where ghosting effects can be seen in nearly every frame along with some excessive pixellating too.

The print itself seems to be in pretty good shape on all discs, with some substantial damage showing up only intermittently. The EVP disc is in dire need of colour correcting though as the image looks dull, washed out and has extremely weak contrast. Sharpness is lacking also. Things improve dramatically in this area on the Sky DVD with both colour and contrast rendition looking outstanding - among the best colour grading I've seen on an Indian DVD. Image detail is a big improvement here as well. The Eros version appears to use the same transfer as Sky's, but with the colours boosted greatly leaving them oversaturated.

Other niggles to report on all three discs is the heavy amount of DNR applied, particularly on the Sky and Eros DVDs, leaving the image badly blurred during high motion scenes. Heavy cropping on various sides of the picture is also an issue on all versions. Lastly, proving that it's definitely the weakest of the three, the Eros release is further marred by a translucent logo in the top-left-hand corner of its picture for the film's entire duration. Overall, the Sky DVD gets my vote thanks to its glorious colour rendition and impressive sharpness.

NOTE: A fourth DVD, marketed by Shemaroo, is available in India which uses the same transfer as the Sky release, but with a 'Shemaroo' watermark burned into the picture much like the Eros DVD.