''Ek Do Teen'' is a

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Hindi

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produced and directed by Roop K. Shorey. It stars Motilal,

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, Yashodra Katju, Majnu and

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. The story, screenplay and dialogues were written by

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. The story has some similarity to Somerset Maugham's ''Facts Of Life''. The music was composed by Vinod and the lyricist was Aziz Kashmiri. The film was a follow up to ''

Ek Thi Ladki ''Ek Thi Larki'' (Hindi: एक थी लड़की, There Was A Girl) is a 1949 Hindi action comedy film by director Roop K. Shorey. It had the famous Punjabi song "Laara Lappa Laara Lappa Layi Rakhda" by Lata Mangeshkar, G. M. Durrani and Mo ...

'' (1949), which was directed by Roop K. Shorey and starred his wife

with Motilal. Meena Shorey emerged as a fine comedian and was called the "Lara Lappa" girl from the song composed by

Vinod Vinod ( hi, विनोद , mr, विनोद , gu, વિનોદ) is a male given name used in India and Nepal, meaning "delight", "enjoyment", or "pleasure". People *Vinod Agarwal, Indian-American businessman and scientist * Vinod Agg ...

and picturised on her in ''Ek Thi Ladki''. However, ''Ek Do Teen'' did not do as well and was a turning point in Shorey's career. "Ek do teen" (one two three) is the number of caveats passed on by Motilal's father to him before the father dies. The hero experiences each one of the three cautions only to find his father's dying homily to be true.

Plot

Roma (

) is on her way home after celebrating with her friends at Asha's (Yashodra Katju) place when she is attacked by two robbers who try to steal her purse. She faints as one of them brandishes a knife. Motilal ( Motilal) and his friend Hiralal (Majnu) are driving through there and scare away the robbers. After wondering what to do with the unconscious woman, they take her to Moti's house to render treatment. Roma makes a phone call to her father Seth Madanlal (K. N. Dhar) to tell him her whereabouts, but he is too angry to know the reason why she is there except to ask her the address. On arriving and seeing her with two men, he gets angry and starts shouting, which wakes up Motilal's father Seth Ramlal (Romesh Thakur) and he appears downstairs. The two fathers fight loudly and Roma is taken away by her father. Roma and Motilal fall in love with each other and want to marry. Roma's father finally agrees to the wedding. Motilal's father is in poor health and dying so the marriage is postponed. Before dying, Seth Ramlal calls his son and tells him to avoid three things in life. First, never to drink alcohol, second, not to associate with women of loose morals, and third, never to tell a secret to a woman. Having given his sermon, the father dies. Motilal goes through the first two and realises what his father meant as he gets into trouble. For the third caveat, Motilal stages a drama about murdering his friend with his help and tells Roma about it. Roma tells her friend Asha. Asha tells her husband, who is in the police. Moti is arrested and the friend has disappeared. Roma goes through a lot of action, but finally manages to save Motilal.

Cast

* Motilal: Motilal *

: Roma *Yashodra Katju: Asha (Roma's friend) *Majnu: Hiralal (Motilal's friend) *

: Asha's husband *Kaushalya *Satish Batra *Shamlal *Romesh Thakur: Seth Ramlal (Motilal's father) *K. N. Dhar: Seth Madanlal (Roma's father) *Khatana *Indra Bansal

Soundtrack

Roop K. Shorey used music composer Vinod and lyricist Aziz Kashmiri once again after ''Ek Thi Larki''.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0408735 1953 films 1950s Hindi-language films Films scored by Vinod Indian comedy films 1953 comedy films Indian black-and-white films