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Ahista Ahista (2006)

Ahista Ahista poster
Original title
आहिस्ता आहिस्ता
Directed by
Shivam Nair
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 02m
Rated
U
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lonely man who works as a watchman meets a woman who is waiting for someone. They spend time together and share their feelings, but something holds them back from being together.

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What happens

Ahista Ahista (transl. Slowly Slowly) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language romance film starring Abhay Deol, Soha Ali Khan and Shayan Munshi. It was released in August 2006. This film marks the directorial debut of Shivam Nair with a story adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1848 short story, White Nights, on which an earlier Raj Kapoor film Chhalia was also based. Nair and Imtiaz Ali had earlier directed a telefilm Witness for Star Bestsellers, with the same story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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