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Dominican Rep. A Night in the City
- Original title
- Jagte Rahoaka
- AKA
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- Stay Awake
- Under Cover of Night
- Year
- 1956
- Running time
- 153 min.
- Country
India- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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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
- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
Radhu Karmakar (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Comedy. Thriller
- Synopsis
- 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...
- Awards
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1957: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Best Film
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