Ek Hi Raasta (1939)

Original title

एक ही रास्ता

Directed by

Mehboob Khan

Genre

drama

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 29m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Hindi social drama from 1939 about the problems in society and its laws. It follows characters caught in conflicts shaped by these wrongs.

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What happens

Ek Hi Raasta (Hindi: एक ही रास्ता, The Only Way) is a 1939 Hindi social film directed by Mehboob Khan. The director of photography was Faredoon Irani with story by Babubhai A. Mehta and Wajahat Mirza. The film was produced by Sagar Movietone. The cast included Arun Kumar Ahuja, Sheikh Mukhtar, Anuradha, Kanhaiyalal and Harish. This was the debut film of Sheikh Mukhtar, who went on to act in and direct several successful films, and Arun Kumar Ahuja, a prominent actor in the 1940s. Ek Hi Raasta is a film about wrongs of society and its laws. It was one of the early Hindi films to make a noticeable application of WW II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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