Ek Hasina Thi (film)
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| Ek Hasina Thi | |
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| Directed by | Sriram Raghavan |
| Written by | Sriram Raghavan Pooja Ladha Surti |
| Produced by | Ram Gopal Varma R. R. Venkat |
| Starring | Urmila Matondkar Saif Ali Khan Aditya Srivastava Seema Biswas |
| Cinematography | C.K. Muraleedharan |
| Edited by | Sanjib Datta |
| Music by | Amar Mohile |
| Distributed by | R. R. Movie Makers |
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Running time | 137 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹42.50 million[1] |
| Box office | ₹68.80 million[1] |
Ek Hasina Thi (lit. 'There Was A Beautiful Woman') is a 2004 Indian neo-noir thriller film directed by Sriram Raghavan, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, and starring Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan in the lead roles. The screenplay was by Sriram Raghavan and Pooja Ladha Surti. The film borrows elements from the Sidney Sheldon story If Tomorrow Comes.[2] The film was premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival.[3]
Plot
Karan is a rich, suave businessman. But he can also be very possessive of Sarika. His temper can flare at slightest pretext. After Karan involves Sarika in looking after a suitcase full of illegal firearms belonging to his friend, a hitman, she is arrested for having links with the underworld and is remanded to judicial custody. Karan claims innocence to her and sends her a defence attorney to fight her case. The attorney advises her to confess the crime, arguing that there is no proof exonerating her.
After being convinced that the judge will give her a light sentence and might even set her free for co-operation, Sarika complies. But, the judge sentences her to seven years hard labour without parole. Sarika then realises that Karan is an associate to the underworld and that he had her framed to keep police eyes away from him. This realisation is soon followed by the death of her father, the ongoing ordeal of prison life and hatred towards Karan. She beats up an abusive inmate Gomati who constantly bullies her. An elder inmate Pramila (Pratima Kazmi), who has contacts outside the prison, decides to help her. Sarika undergoes a complete change of appearance.
Sarika changes from inside and outside which begins with her getting rid of her fear of rats. ACP Malti Vaidya (Seema Biswas) sets out to find Sarika after she escapes from prison. She first confronts Mathur, killing him after learning Karan's whereabouts. She is angered to see Karan enjoying his life with a new girl. With the news of Mathur's mysterious death, Karan becomes a suspect. Karan soon learns that Sarika has escaped but is not able to put two and two together. Sarika learns that Karan is working for a businessman (Abhay Bhargava) who has many illegal operations under his garb.
After she kills the businessman's brother, Karan gets trapped as he was the last man to see the person alive. Karan is shocked at the development but chalks it to the work of rival gang. Meanwhile, Sarika pretends to run into him. She pretends to have sympathy for him. Seeing that she still has not seen through his game, Karan decides to play with her for some time. Karan confronts a man whom he suspects to be a traitor, but he believes that somebody else could have sneaked in after Karan went out. Before the man can say anything, Karan kills him, too.
Sarika is amused as Karan gets entangled in a cat-and-mouse game. She steals money from Karan's boss, for which Karan is again made a patsy. However, Karan soon realises the plot. After he confronts and assaults her, she shocks him by telling him that she has burnt the money. Karan takes her to his boss and makes her confess at gunpoint. But she feigns ignorance and claims that Karan made her say so. As Karan is attacked by his boss's goons, he breaks into a fight. Just then, the ACP enters with the police.
In a shootout, the ACP succeeds in killing Karan's boss. The gang is either killed or apprehended. While the ACP herself gets shot, Karan succeeds in escaping. His success is short-lived: suddenly, Sarika emerges from his back and holds him at gunpoint and makes him drive to a secluded spot. After knocking him out, she chains him in a cavern infested with rats. As Karan regains consciousness, Sarika tells him how she used to be scared of rats and she chose this spot because she wanted him to go through the pain and suffering that she went through while she was in prison. Karan is baffled at her talk, but she leaves him in the cavern, with light from a flashlight pointing towards him.
Karan screams, but nobody hears as he is in a secluded place. Soon the flashlight goes out and Karan loses strength. The rats attack and kill him brutally (shown by dimming of lights and screams). Karan dies a long and painful death. With her mission of exacting revenge from Karan accomplished, Sarika eventually surrenders to the police, turning in the bag of money that she stole from Karan's boss to the ACP. The film ends showing Sarika spending the rest of her life in prison.
Cast
- Urmila Matondkar as Sarika Vartak
- Saif Ali Khan as Karan Singh Rathod
- Seema Biswas as ACP Malti Vaidya
- Aditya Srivastava as Adv.Kamlesh Mathur
- Pratima Kazmi as Prisoner Pramila
- Kavita Kaushik as Karan's Girlfriend in Delhi
- Zakir Hussain as Sanjiv Nanda
- Seema Adhikari as Dolly
- Rajendra Sethi as Sarika's Neighbour
- Gopal K Singh as Abhijeet
- Madan Joshi
- Murali Sharma as Lawyer
- Ravi Kale as S.I.
- Abhay Bhargav as Karan's boss
- Rasika Joshi as Prisoner Gomati
References
- ^ a b "Ek Hasina Thi – Movie – Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ Rangan, Baradwaj (22 January 2004). "Review: Ek Hasina Thi / Bhoot". Baradwaj Rangan. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ David (16 June 2006). "The Films of Ram Gopal Varma – An Overview". Cinema Strikes Back. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
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