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{{short description|1978 film by Kuldeep Pandey}}<br />
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{{Infobox film<br />
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| director = Kuldeep Pandey<br />
| producer = Kuldeep Pandey<br />
| starring = {{ubl|[[Anil Dhawan]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gomolo.com/anil-dhawan-movies-list-filmography/62|title=Anil Dhawan Filmography|website=www.gomolo.com|access-date=2019-04-13}}</ref>|[[Pradeep Kumar]]|[[Debashree Roy]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bangladeshpost.net/the-beautiful-icon-of-bengali-cinema/|title=The Beautiful Icon of Bengali cinema|date=2018-08-24|website=A Daily with a Difference {{!}} Latest Online English Daily among Bangladesh Newspapers|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413154203/https://www.bangladeshpost.net/the-beautiful-icon-of-bengali-cinema/|archive-date=13 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aboxoffice.com/debashree-roy|title=Debashree Roy|website=aboxoffice.com|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref>|[[Prathima Devi (Kannada actress)|Pratima Devi]]|[[Jalal Agha]]|Kamal Kapoor}}<br />
| music = [[Ravindra Jain]]<ref name="desh">Debashis Dasgupta, ''Desh'', Bengali weekly magazine from [[Anandabazar Patrika]] Ltd., Calcutta, 11 November 1989. P. 36</ref><br />
| released = 1978<br />
| runtime = 155 mins<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]<br />
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'''''Ghata''''' ([[Hindi]]: ''घटा'') is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1978|1978]] [[India]]n film directed and produced by Kuldeep Pandey.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Dissanayake| first=Wimal| chapter= The concepts of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: an evolving dialectic| editor-last=Dissanayake|editor-first=Wimal|title=Melodrama and Asian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-Y6811S3agC|year=1993|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-41465-4|access-date=2019-04-13}}</ref> The film evolves around a man who on being disheartened at his friend's unchastity, falls for the woman who has been betrothed to his friend. It stars [[Anil Dhawan]] as the protagonist. The music of the film was composed by [[Ravindra Jain]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/films/ravindra_jain/|title=Ravindra Jain Filmography|website=rateyourmusic.com|language=en|access-date=2019-07-29}}</ref><br />
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The film garnered a mixed review upon its release. A part of film critics criticized the film for its uncurbed [[over the shoulder shot]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Bollywood Crafts: 20 Projects Inspired by Popular Indian Cinema, 2006|last=Hossain|first=Momtaz Begum|date=February 2007|publisher=The Guild of Mastercraftsman Publications|isbn=978-1-86108-418-7|language=en|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781861084187}}</ref> The film was also criticized for its plot slowing down gradually. Some of the sequences of the film have been appreciated as having been made proficiently, especially the sequence where the protagonist's conundrum to pick up the flower on the riverside is an explanatory manifestation of his predicament between his adherence to his friend and his love for Sheetal.<ref name="desh" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Once Upon a Time in Bollywood: The Global Swing in Hindi Cinema|last=Barretto|first=Deborah|publisher=TSAR Publications|year=2007|isbn=978-1-894770-40-8}}</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
Ajay and Suresh are colleagues to each other. Suresh is a philanderer who thinks it is fun to flirt with girls. Though a gentleman, Ajay is often rollicked when Suresh playfully articulates how he seduced a girl. On a leave, Ajay comes with Suresh to the latter's native village. There he discovers that Suresh has already been betrothed to a girl named Sheetal who is unaware of the playful side of Suresh. Ajay befriends Sheetal and learns that her family has been leading an indigent life since her father died. Ajay denounces Suresh when the former learns that Suresh has an illegitimate relationship with the nymphomaniac wife of the latter's wealthy neighbor Ratanlal Sharma and persuades him not to pursue any kind of indecent relationship any more as he is betrothed to Sheetal. But Suresh does not seem to pay any heed to his words. Eventually Ajay falls for Sheetal and finds himself in a dilemma whether he should expose the real nature of Suresh and confess his love for her or he should stay loyal to his friend who thinks Ajay to be his confidant.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Anil Dhawan]] as Ajay<br />
* [[Pradeep Kumar]] as Basudev Mehra<br />
* [[Debashree Roy]] as Sheetal<br />
* Prathima Devi as Sheetal's Mother<br />
* [[Jalal Agha]] as Suresh<br />
* [[Kamal Kapoor]] as father of Suresh<br />
* [[Goga Kapoor]] as Ratanlal Sharma<br />
* [[Manik Irani]] as the henchman<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:1978 films]]<br />
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films]]<br />
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