Ek Hasina Thi

Ek Hasina Thi (Devnagari: एक हसीना थी, English: There Was A Beautiful Woman) is a 2004 Indian psychological thriller film noir by Sriram Raghavan, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, and starring Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan in the lead roles. The screenplay was by Sriram Raghavan and Pooja Ladha Surti. The Film got rave reviews and did exceptionally well at the box office.

Plot

A travel agent called Sarika (Urmila Matondkar) meets and falls for a mysterious businessman Karan Rathod (Saif Ali Khan). After Karan involves Sarika in looking after a suitcase full of illegal firearms belonging to his friend, a hitman, she is arrested for having links with the underworld and is remanded to judicial custody.

Karan sends Kamalesh Mathur to her, a defense attorney, seemingly to fight her case, but who in fact tricks her into confessing that she knew the hitman and was acting of her own free will. The judge sentences her to 7 years hard labour without parole. Sarika then realizes that Karan is actually an associate to the underworld and that he had her framed to keep police eyes away from himself. The way she is made to confess to a crime she did not commit, the death of her father because of the incident, and the portrayal of the hard life in prison strengthen her and change her approach for life. She starts with trimming her hair short, and then killing the rat in her cell which scared her on her first night in the jail and then beating up a bullying prisoner who...
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