Ek Hasina Thi (film)

Ek Hasina Thi
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Directed bySriram Raghavan
Written bySriram Raghavan
Pooja Ladha Surti
Produced byRam Gopal Varma
R. R. Venkat
StarringUrmila Matondkar
Saif Ali Khan
Aditya Srivastava
Seema Biswas
CinematographyC. K. Muraleedharan
Edited bySanjib Datta
Music byAmar Mohile
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox[1]
Release date
  • 16 January 2004 (2004-01-16)
Running time
139 minutes[2]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹4 Crores[3]
Box office₹10 Crores[3]

Ek Hasina Thi (English: There Was A Beautiful Woman) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir action thriller film directed by Sriram Raghavan and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. It stars Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan, and the screenplay was written by Sriram Raghavan and Pooja Ladha Surti.

The film borrows elements from the Sidney Sheldon novel If Tomorrow Comes.[4] Critic Ronjita Kulkarni said it's "loosely based" on Double Jeopardy, while "the film also adapts a scene from The Bone Collector."[5] The film premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival.[6] Although a commercial failure upon its release,[3] the film is considered one of the best works of Matondkar, Khan and Raghavan.[7]

  1. ^ "20th Century Fox to leave India". Hindustan Times. 29 January 2005. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Ek Hasina Thi". British Board of Film Classification.
  3. ^ a b c "Ek Hasina Thi – Movie – Box Office India". boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  4. ^ Rangan, Baradwaj (22 January 2004). "Review: Ek Hasina Thi / Bhoot". Baradwaj Rangan. Archived from the original on 18 May 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  5. ^ Ronjita Kulkarni (15 January 2004), "Who's better: Urmila or Saif?" Archived 20 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Rediff. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  6. ^ David (16 June 2006). "The Films of Ram Gopal Varma – An Overview". Cinema Strikes Back. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  7. ^ Singh, Jai Arjun (28 July 2019). "'Ek Hasina Thi' (2004): Truth, disguised as lies". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 13 December 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2022.