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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Ek Ruka Hua Faisla<br />
| image = Ek Ruka Hua Faisla.jpg<br />
| alt = The image is a front-side view of DVD cover for film. It features eleven men at bottom around a round-table engaged in a discourse. At top the title of film appears, beside which there is face of another man.<br />
| caption = DVD Cover<br />
| director = [[Basu Chatterjee]]<br />
| producer = Basu Chatterjee<br />
| writer = Ranjit Kapur (dialogues)<br />
| screenplay = {{ubl|Ranjit Kapur|Basu Chatterjee}}<br />
| starring = [[#Cast|See below]]<br />
| music = Basu Chakravarti<br />
| cinematography = Ajay Prabhakar<br />
| editing = Kamal A. Sehgal<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{film date|1986|||India}}<br />
| runtime = 117 minutes<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[Hindi]]<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
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'''''Ek Ruka Hua Faisla''''' (English: ''A Pending Decision'') is an Indian [[Hindi-language]] thriller film, directed by [[Basu Chatterjee]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=Jun 4, 2020|title=Filmmaker Basu Chatterjee dies in Mumbai at 90|url=https://scroll.in/latest/963773/filmmaker-basu-chatterjee-dies-in-mumbai-at-93|access-date=2021-05-11|website=Scroll.in}}</ref> It is a [[remake]] of the [[Golden Bear]] winning American motion picture ''[[12 Angry Men (1957 film)|12 Angry Men]]'' (1957)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmcompanion.in/features/bollywood-features/basu-chatterjees-gentle-middle-of-the-road-cinema-was-that-of-the-people-next-door-baradwaj-rangan/|title=Basu Chatterjee’s Gentle, Middle-Of-The-Road Cinema Was That Of The People Next Door|first=Baradwaj|last=Rangan|date=4 June 2020|website=Film Companion}}</ref> directed by [[Sidney Lumet]] which was an adaptation from a 1954 [[Twelve Angry Men (Westinghouse Studio One)|teleplay of the same name]] by [[Reginald Rose]].<ref>''[[Variety Film Reviews|Variety]]'' film review; 27 February 1957, page 6.</ref><ref>''[[Harrison's Reports and Film Reviews|Harrison's Reports]]'' film review; 2 March 1957, page 35.</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
The story begins in a courtroom where a teenage boy from a city slum is on trial for stabbing his father to death. Final closing arguments have been presented, and the judge then instructs the jury to decide whether the boy is guilty of murder, which carries a mandatory death sentence. Once inside the Jury discussion room, it is immediately apparent that all jurors with the sole exception of Juror Number 8 (K.K. Raina) have already decided that the boy is guilty, and that they plan to return their verdict quickly, without taking time for discussion. His vote annoys the other jurors.<br />
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The rest of the film revolves around the jury's difficulty in reaching a unanimous verdict. While several of the jurors harbor personal prejudices, Juror 8 maintains that the evidence presented in the case is circumstantial, and that the boy deserves a fair deliberation. He calls into question the accuracy and reliability of the only two witnesses to the murder, the rarity of the murder weapon (a common pocketknife, of which he has an identical copy), and the overall questionable circumstances (including the fact that an elevated train was passing by at the time of the murder). He further argues that he cannot in good conscience vote "guilty" when he feels there is reasonable doubt of the boy's guilt and slowly convinces each juror about the same by his logical findings around each piece of evidence.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* Deepak Qazir Kejriwal as ''Juror No. 1''<br />
* Amitabh Srivastav as ''Juror No. 2''<br />
* [[Pankaj Kapur]] as ''Juror No. 3''<br />
* [[S. M. Zaheer]] as ''Juror No. 4''<br />
* Subhash Udgata as ''Juror No. 5''<br />
* [[Hemant Mishra]] as ''Juror No. 6''<br />
* [[M. K. Raina]] as ''Juror No. 7''<br />
* [[K. K. Raina]] as ''Juror No. 8''<br />
* [[Annu Kapoor]] as ''Juror No. 9''<br />
* [[Subbiraj]] as ''Juror No. 10''<br />
* Shailendra Goel as ''Juror No. 11''<br />
* Aziz Qureshi as ''Juror No. 12''<br />
* C. D. Sindhu as ''Gatekeeper''<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0157571|Ek Ruka Hua Faisla}}<br />
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