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Ata Pata Laapata (2012)

Ata Pata Laapata poster
Original title
अत पता लापता
Directed by
Rajpal Yadav
Genre
musical film
Country
India
Runtime
2h
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man finds that his house has vanished from its construction site. He goes to the police for help but ends up becoming a suspect himself.

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What happens

Ata Pata Laapata (transl. Whereabouts missing) is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language musical satire film directed by Rajpal Yadav and produced by his wife Radha Yadav. Rajpal makes his directorial debut with the film and also plays the protagonist who enlists the help of law when his house goes missing from the constructed site, and finds himself suspected instead. Other than Yadav, the film stars the ensemble cast of Asrani, Om Puri, Ashutosh Rana, Manoj Joshi, Govind Namdev, Dara Singh, Vikram Gokhale, Vijay Raaz and Satyadev Dubey. Released on 2 November 2012, the film was a commercial failure and panned for its script. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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