A Night in the City
1956 · Movie · 153 min. · India
In hopes of improving his lifestyle, a poor peasant re-locates to Bombay virtually penniless. It is late at night and he is thirsty, and he is unable to find water anywhere. A singing drunk offers him money to buy some alcohol, but the money is snatched away by a taxi-driver. In desperation, the peasant attempts to drink from a fire hydrant, but is stopped by a Police Constable. Then he sneaks into a multi-storied apartment complex, and is mistaken for a thief. The entire building, which consists of over 200 units, housing nearly a 1000 people, set out to hunt him down. He first stumbles into the house of Kailash - who makes illicit alcohol, while his daughter is secretly romancing another tenant, Pradeep; the peasant then runs into another apartment - just in time to see the husband attempting to steal his wife, Meenu's valuables, so that he can get enough money to gamble on a race-horse; he hides in a drum and makes his way around the huge building and ends up as a corpse at the...
Direction Amit Mitra · Sombhu Mitra
Cast Pradeep Kumar · Sumitra Devi · Smriti Biswas · Pahadi Sanyal · Sulochana Chatterjee · Daisy Irani · Nemo · Motilal · Nana Palsikar · Iftekhar · Vikram Kapoor · Moni Chatterjee · Parsuram · Bhupendra Kapoor · Krishnakant
Soundtrack Salil Choudhury
Screenplay Khwaja Ahmad Abbas · Amit Mitra · Sombhu Mitra
Cinematography Radhu Karmakar
Original title Jagte Raho
Also known as Stay Awake · Under Cover of Night
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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