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'''''Ekti Raat''''' ({{translation}} ''One Night'') is a 1956 Indian [[Bengali-language]] [[comedy film]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/uttam-suchitra-us/cid/1288359|title=Uttam-Suchitra & Us|last=Mukhopadhyay|first=Suman|date=18 January 2014|newspaper=The Telegraph|location=India|access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref> directed by [[Chitta Basu (director)|Chitta Basu]] and produced by Harendranath Chattopadhyay based on, ''Bhimpalashree'', a story of Bengali novelist [[Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay]]. This film was released on 26 April 1956 in the banner of H.N.C. Productions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiancine.ma/HXW/info|title=Ekti Raat|access-date=29 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pV9iCQAAQBAJ&q=Ekti+Raat+1956&pg=PA313|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014|last=Harris M. Lentz III|date=11 May 2015|isbn=9781476619613|access-date=29 April 2018}}</ref> In the 1990s, a television series ''Manush'', based on the same plot, aired.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
This film revolves around the miscommunication and misunderstanding of two couples and their family leading to comic situations. Sushavan Dutta and his wife, Anita, were invited at their relative Digbijay Babu's house. While on a journey Anita misses the train and Sushavan has to journey with another lady Santana. Santana is the wife of famous political leader Brojesh. At night they take shelter as husband and wife in Gosaiji's hotel, ''Harimatar Panthashala'' because Gosaiji allows married couples only. Santana carries a puppy with her, which runs away from the garden of the hotel and Sushovan has to chase it at night. When Anita's mother is angered upon learning that Sushavan is untraced.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Uttam Kumar]] as Sushovan<br />
* [[Suchitra Sen]] as Santana<br />
* [[Tulsi Chakraborty]] as Gosaiji<br />
* [[Bhanu Bandopadhyay|Bhanu Bannerjee]] as Chaku<br />
* [[Anup Kumar (actor)|Anup Kumar]] as Fatka<br />
* [[Shyam Laha]]<br />
* [[Kamal Mitra]] as Brojeshwar<br />
* [[Jahor Roy]] as Paresh<br />
* [[Pahadi Sanyal]] as Digbijoy<br />
* [[Chandrabati Devi]]<br />
* Sabita Bose as Anita<br />
* [[Molina Devi]] as Shampu, Anita's mother<br />
* [[Jiben Bose]] as Sadananda Behari<br />
* [[Gurudas Banerjee]] as Jitu<br />
* Menaka Devi as Khyanto<br />
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== Soundtrack ==<br />
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| title1 = O Bashi Dake<br />
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| title3 = Pradiper Sikha Keno Kape<br />
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| title2 = Kakan Bole Shrimoti Tobe<br />
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| extra1 = [[Sandhya Mukherjee]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0049176}}<br />
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[[Category:1956 films]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali-language Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on Indian novels]]<br />
[[Category:Indian romantic comedy-drama films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s Bengali-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]<br />
[[Category:Films based on works by Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay]]</div>UpdateBot