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Dattak

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Dattak
Directed byGul Bahar Singh
Written byPartha Banerjee
Subbir Mukherjee
Produced byNFDC
StarringRajit Kapoor
Anjan Srivastav
A.K. Hangal
CinematographySunirmal Mazumdar
Edited byUjjal Nandi
Release date
  • 2001 (2001)
Running time
125 minutes
LanguageHindi

Dattak (The Adopted) is a 2001 Hindi film directed by Gul Bahar Singh with Rajit Kapoor, Anjan Srivastav and A.K. Hangal in the lead roles. The film was in competition at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival, China and was also screened at the 20th Fazr International Film Festival, Tehran (Iran). It was recently shown in IFFI, Goa.[1]

Plot

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Sunil is married to an American girl. His father lives in Kolkata with an old servant, Shambhu. When Sunil returns home after fifteen years, he sees the house is locked and his father has disappeared. Guilt-ridden Sunil starts looking for him. He learns that his father might be in an old age home. He reaches there only to find that he had died a few months earlier. Sunil meets Satya Babu, his father's fellow inmate, who tells him all about his father's last days. Sunil tells the old man that he wants to adopt him as his father and requests him to come to the US with him.[2][3]

Cast

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Actor/actress Role
Rajit Kapur Sunil
A.K. Hangal Satya Babu
Anjan Srivastav Sunil's father
Kruttika Desai

References

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  1. ^ "Biopic 'Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi' will lay bare Vijaya Raje Scindia's tensions with her son Madhavrao".
  2. ^ "Dattak". Cinemas of India. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Dattak". Lokvani. Archived from the original on 16 August 2002. Retrieved 18 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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