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Ekti Raat (1956)

Ekti Raat poster
Directed by
Chitta Basu
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
India
Runtime
2h 19m
Rated
U
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman meet and spend one night together. The film follows the romantic complications that arise from that single encounter.

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What happens

Ekti Raat (transl. One Night) is a 1956 Indian Bengali-language comedy film directed by Chitta Basu and produced by Harendranath Chattopadhyay based on, Bhimpalashree, a story of Bengali novelist Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay. The film stars Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen in the lead roles with Tulsi Chakraborty and Bhanu Banerjee. This film was released on 26 April 1956 in the banner of H.N.C. Productions. This film became successful at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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