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Baarish (1957)

Baarish poster
Directed by
Shankar Mukherjee
Genre
crime film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 12m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A dockworker gets caught between a powerful crime boss and a crusading priest. He struggles to do the right thing while protecting a woman he loves.

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What happens

Baarish (lit. 'Rain') is a 1957 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film with Dev Anand and Nutan in the lead roles. Based on the American film On the Waterfront, it is the directorial debut of Shankar Mukherjee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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