Ek Hasina Thi (film)

Ek Hasina Thi
Ek Hasina Thi
	Poster
Directed by	Sriram Raghavan
Written by	Sriram Raghavan; Pooja Ladha Surti
Produced by	Ram Gopal Varma; R. R. Venkat
Starring	Urmila Matondkar; Saif Ali Khan; Aditya Srivastava; Seema Biswas
Cinematography	C. K. Muraleedharan
Edited by	Sanjib Datta
Music by	Amar Mohile
Production; companies	K Sera Sera Productions; R. R. Movie Makers
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	16 January 2004;
Running time	137 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹4 Crores
Box office	₹10 Crores

Ek Hasina Thi (English: There Was A Beautiful Woman) is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir thriller film directed by Sriram Raghavan and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan starred in this film as the lead roles. The screenplay was by Sriram Raghavan and Pooja Ladha Surti. The film borrows elements from the Sidney Sheldon story If Tomorrow Comes.^[3] In her review, critic Ronjita Kulkarni says that it's "loosely based" on Double Jeopardy, while "the film also adapts a scene from The Bone Collector."^[4] The film was premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival.^[5] The film is usually considered one of the best works of Urmila Matondkar, Saif Ali Khan and director Sriram Raghavan.^[6]

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^ Ronjita Kulkarni (15 January 2004), "Who's better: Urmila or Saif?" Archived 20 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Rediff. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
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^ Singh, Jai Arjun (28 July 2019). "'Ek Hasina Thi' (2004): Truth, disguised as lies". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 13 December 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2022.