Anokha Rishta is a 1986 Indian Hindi film, directed by prominent Malayalam director I.V.

[1] A remake of the director's own 1984 Malayalam film Kanamarayathu starring Mammootty, the story revolves around three characters played by Rajesh Khanna, Smita Patil and Sabeeha.

The original film was written by prominent Malayalam writer P. Padmarajan and was loosely based on Jean Webster's 1919 novel Daddy-Long-Legs.

Her sponsor, a rich old man whom she has never met, but has only corresponded with through the nuns, passes away, leaving her dreams of a college education in shambles.

Mother Superior meets with his son Robert 'Bob' Brown to continue to sponsor her college education till the orphanage finds a solution to what Mary will do in future.

Bill is immature and along with his friends makes a trip to a famous doctor Dr. Miss Padma Kapoor and he tells her he has a problem with his reproductive organ.

Beena explains it to him saying he was in love with Doctor Padma, but the couple decided they won't go against their respective father's wishes and so till date both are unmarried.

Bill gets dejected after numerous attempts to impress Mary fail and starts working sincerely in Bob's company as an employee.

Her problem is that she cannot share her feelings and mental agony (of not getting a positive response from Robert) with "her uncle" because all the incoming and outgoing letters of Mary are screened first by Mother Superior.

Bill confuses her by telling her that Robert and Dr. Padma were in love for a long time and that they knew each other since school days.

But they couldn't marry because Robert's father and Padma's parents were opposed to their alliance as their religions were different.

Mary is extremely frustrated after hearing this and in a fit of rage goes to Padma and lies to her that she is pregnant with Robert's baby.

Finally the responsibility falls on the shoulders of Robert to do something to prevent Mary from taking this drastic step of becoming a Nun and that leads to the highly emotional and impressive climax.

Bob reveals that he was the sponsor (her uncle) that was unknown to her for so long and comforts her and says that he wants her to marry Bill.