Ek Baar Phir

Ek Baar Phir
Directed by	Vinod Pande
Produced by	Vinod Pande
Story by	Vinod Pande
Starring	Suresh Oberoi,; Deepti Naval,; Saeed Jaffrey,; Chitto Chopra,; Pradeep Verma,; Vinod Pande
Music by	Raghunath Seth; Vinod Pande (lyrics)
Cinematography	Nadeem Khan
Edited by	Kant Pan,; Pradeep Roy
Release date	7 March 1980 (India); 1 May 2007 (DVD); ; ; ;
Running time	147 min
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Ek Baar Phir (Hindi: ?? ??? ???; translation: Once Again) is a 1980 film produced and directed by Vinod Pande. This offbeat social drama casts Suresh Oberoi and Deepti Naval as lead pair with Saeed Jaffrey, Chitto Chopra, Pradeep Verma, Vinod Pande in support cast.

The story is about the incompatibility between a film star husband and a traditional wife resulting in an extra-marital relationship.

Plot

Kalpana (Deepti Naval), a middle class girl, is excited about her marriage with a film star Mahendar Kumar (Suresh Oberoi). The star is busy with his profession and is a flirt. Kalpana learns this after marriage and finds Mahendar has no time to spend with her. Both happen to visit London on Mahendar's project. There she meets a young student Vimal (Pradeep Verma), studying arts at London University, who makes art works of the people around and exhibits them. He requests Kalpana for a sketch, which she obliges. They meet very often and fall in love with each other. With him, Kalpana sees the new phase and joy of life, which she has not seen earlier. They get intimate and Kalpana fells guilty about this. She stops meeting Vimal for some time. One day she finds a letter from Vimal and replies him. She starts meeting him again and finds herself swaying between Mahendar and Vimal. At this juncture, she decides to break away from Mahendar and joins Vimal to lead a joyful life. The rest story shows the turn of events thereafter, in the lives of Mahendar, Kalpana and Vimal.

Cast

Suresh Oberoi as Mahender Kumar
Deepti Naval as Kalpana Kumar
Saeed Jaffrey as Saeed
Pradeep Verma
Avtar Singh
Chitto Chopra
Collin Alexander
Dilip
Kalpana Pandya
Kinsan
Krishan Gould
Leena Patel
Mansur
Maria
Meenu Budhwar
Mohammed
Paravati Meharaj
Prem Prakash
Salim Shaikh
Vinod Gurani
Vinod Pande
Wasim Siddiqui
Yolande
Zubair Zalaria

Crew

Direction – Vinod Pande
Story – Vinod Pande
Production – Vinod Pande
Editing – Kant Pan, Pradeep Roy
Cinematography – Nadeem Khan
Art Direction – Daniel De Waal
Music Direction – Raghunath Seth
Lyrics – Vinod Pande
Playback – Anuradha Paudwal, Bhupinder, Kittu, Suresh Wadkar

Soundtrack

All lyrics written by Vinod Pande; all music composed by Raghunath Seth.

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Baby I Have A Crush On You"	Kittu	4:35
2.	"Bambai Se Aaya Hoon"	Suresh Wadkar	5:45
3.	"Jeevan Ek Sauda Hai"	Anuradha Paudwal	6:35
4.	"Jane Yeh Mujhko Kya Ho Raha Hai"	Bhupinder	7:35
5.	"Yeh Paude Yeh Patte Yeh Phool"	Anuradha Paudwal, Bhupinder	4:55
6.	"Orchestral Music" (Ek Baar Phir)		4:40