Barsaat Ki Ek Raat [1981]
Shakti Samanta's film uses Darjeeling as a backdrop to juxtapose initial romantic interludes with subsequent dark undertones.
The film revolves around the lives of four main characters, a police officer (Amitabh Bachchan), his blind wife (Rakhee), a psychopathic predator (Amjad Khan) and the latter's father (Utpal Dutt) and is at best a vendetta flick camouflaged as a thriller.
However, it is RD Burman's soothing music, coupled with the beautiful picturisation of the songs, that prevented the movie from being outright banal. And to say that the tea gardens have been captured wonderfully by the camera would be an understatement.
D Tour: This was Amitabh Bachchan's second film with Shakti Samanta, after The Great Gambler.
The film was released simultaneously in Bengali and was titled Anusandhan.
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