Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin
Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (transl. No End to This Night) is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Sudhir Mishra. The film stars Tara Deshpande and Nirmal Pandey, with the entire plot taking place over a single night. The film is based on a story written by Sudhir Mishra's brother, Sudhanshu Mishra, who died in 1995.
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| Directed by | Sudhir Mishra |
| Written by | Nikhil Advani (screenplay) Sudhir Mishra (screenplay) Shivkumar Subramaniam (screenplay) |
| Story by | Sudhanshu Mishra |
| Produced by | Mahesh Bhatt Amit Khanna |
| Starring | Nirmal Pandey Smriti Mishra Tara Deshpande Ashish Vidyarthi |
| Cinematography | Sukumar Jatania |
| Edited by | Renu Saluja |
| Music by | M. M. Kreem |
Production company | Plus Films |
| Distributed by | Vishesh Films |
Release date | 7 June 1996 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹45 lakh (equivalent to ₹2.1 crore or US$270,000 in 2020) |
| Box office | ₹1.1 crore (equivalent to ₹5.1 crore or US$670,000 in 2020) |
In 2011, Sudir Mishra launched a spiritual sequel to Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin, titled Yeh Saali Zindagi, with Arunoday Singh, Irrfan Khan and Chitrangada Singh.[1][2]
Plot
An advertising executive, Aditya (Nirmal Pandey) has a beautiful wife (Tara Deshpande) and a beautiful mistress (Smriti Mishra). This secret affair is the catalyst for much of the plot. Adi gets into a scuffle with a bunch of gangsters led by Ramanbhai, (Ashish Vidyarthi). To add to the tension, Ramanbhai is under duress because his colleague, Vilas Pandey (Saurabh Shukla) is after his life.
A small-scale gang war erupts in the city: A cop Inspector Patankar (Ganesh Yadav) is changing sides faster than a chameleon, a rival gang lord Prafulla Kalia (Virendra Saxena) is offering deals and — in the middle of all this — Aditya finds himself stuck. A fast-paced sequence of events happen in the span of one single night.
Cast
- Nirmal Pandey as Aditya
- Tara Deshpande as Pooja
- Smriti Mishra as Malvika
- Manoj Pahwa as Rajesh
- Saurabh Shukla as Vilas Pandey
- Ashish Vidyarthi as Ramanbhai
- Seema Bhargava as Ramanbhai's sister
- Johnny Lever in a guest role
- Deepak Qazir as Vilas's accomplice
- Virendra Saxena as Prafulla Kalia
- Sandeep Kulkarni as Shankar
- Kishore Kadam as Ganya
- Ganesh Yadav as Inspector Patankar
- Murad Ali as Chhotu, Ramanbhai's so-called younger brother
- R. Madhavan as the club singer in the song "Chup Tum Raho"
- Akhil Mishra as the Neighbour
Soundtrack
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| Released | 9 June 1996 (India) | |||
| Genre | Film soundtrack | |||
| Label | PLUS MUSIC/T-SERIES | |||
| Producer | M. M. Kreem | |||
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The soundtrack includes the following tracks and instrumentals, composed by M. M. Kreem, with lyrics by Nida Fazli, who received a Filmfare Best Lyricist Award Nomination for "Jeevan Kya Hai." Background music was by Salim–Sulaiman.
| Song | Singer (s) |
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| Dushmani Hogi | Chitra |
| Chup Tum Raho | M. M. Kreem, Chitra |
| Hey Babu | Chitra, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam |
| Jeevan Kya Hai | M. M. Kreem |
| Mere Tere Naam | S. P. Balasubrahmanyam |
| Pehli Baar Mile | Chitra, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam [3] |
Critical reception
Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin features in Avijit Ghosh's book, 40 Retakes: Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed. "Violent and sensuous, opaque and funny, the movie creates the Bollywood mafia stylebook," Ghosh writes.
Awards
References
- a sequel to Sudhir Mishra's Iss Raat ki Subah Nahin, The Times of India, 14 September 2009.
- Sudhir Mishra back in Raat race Subhash K Jha, TNN, The Times of India, 23 August 2009.
- Songs Bollywood Hungama.