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User Rating:
7.6/10   1,381 votes
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Director:
Sriram Raghavan
Writers:
Sriram Raghavan (writer)
Pooja Ladha Surti (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
24 February 2004 (Kuwait) more
Genre:
Crime | Romance | Thriller more
Plot:
Sarika and Karan are employed in a big city called Mumbai in India. They meet, have a date, and find that they are attracted to each other... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 11 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(5 articles)
Saif swears by Raghavan's magic - News
 (From GlamSham. 26 April 2009, 11:30 AM, PDT)

Kareena officially becomes 'Choti Begum'
 (From India.com. 8 April 2009, 8:09 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Interesting thriller but far too long more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Saif Ali Khan ... Karan Singh Rathod
Urmila Matondkar ... Sarika Vartak
Seema Biswas ... ACP Malti Vaidya
Aditya Srivastava ... Kamlesh Mathur
Pratima Kazmi ... Pramila (as Pratima Kajmi)
Madan Joshi
Zakir Hussain ... Sanjeiv Nanda
Abhay Bhargav
Rasika Oak
Seema Adhikari ... Dolly
Gopal Singh ... Abhijeet
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rajendra Sethi ... Sarika's neighbour
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
There Was a Beautiful Girl (India: English title)
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Country:
India
Language:
Hindi | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital EX
Company:
K Sera Sera more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Loosely based on Sidney Sheldon's novel "If Tomorrow Comes". more
Goofs:
Continuity: Karan's beard appears and disappears throughout the movie. more
Movie Connections:
References Double Jeopardy (1999) more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Interesting thriller but far too long, 26 July 2007
6/10
Author: springsunnywinter from United Kingdom

I'm very keen in revenge thrillers and Ek Hasina Thi was quite different & interesting about Sarika, a happy, independent, single girl working in Mumbai. Karan a globe trotting financial whizz who sweeps Sarika off her feet. Life is beautiful, until one day a chance even plunges Sarika into a nightmarish situation with the police. Charged under the Maharashtra control of organised crime act, Sarika finds herself in jail. Karan assures Sarika that he will get her out very soon. But a tough as nails lady cop is determined to break Sarika. Prison, thrown in with a bunch of hardened women, Sarika has to kill the person she once was and discover herself anew. That is why the film is called Ek Hasina Thi and she really was looking beautiful with her long hair but when she cut it in jail then she was looking like a different person. The running length was far too long although it was about 140 minutes and with only one song but still it could of been cut down to about 90 minutes. The first half was straight forward then it got slow in the second half. Overall it is OK to be watched once and I can not watch it again.

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