Ek Baar Phir is a 1980

Bollywood films of 1980

-Highest grossing:The top forty box office hits of the year 1980-1980 releases:...

 film produced and directed by Vinod Pande. This offbeat social drama casts Suresh Oberoi

Suresh Oberoi

Suresh Oberoi is an Indian actor who is also father of Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi. He was born in Quetta, now Pakistan and is a recipient of 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor...

 and Deepti Naval

Deepti Naval

Deepti Naval is an acclaimed Indian actress. She has acted in over 75 Hindi films, and most often worked in arthouse and independent films, known as parallel cinema in India.-Early life:Born in Amritsar, Punjab, India...

 as lead pair with Saeed Jaffrey

Saeed Jaffrey

Saeed Jaffrey OBE is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab...

, 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 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 finds herself guilty of 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
  Suresh Oberoi
  Suresh Oberoi is an Indian actor who is also father of Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi. He was born in Quetta, now Pakistan and is a recipient of 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor...
  
   as Mahender Kumar
• Deepti Naval
  Deepti Naval
  Deepti Naval is an acclaimed Indian actress. She has acted in over 75 Hindi films, and most often worked in arthouse and independent films, known as parallel cinema in India.-Early life:Born in Amritsar, Punjab, India...
  
   as Kalpana Kumar
• Saeed Jaffrey
  Saeed Jaffrey
  Saeed Jaffrey OBE is an Indian-born British actor, who has done numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab...
  
   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
• Cinematograpy – Nadeem Khan
• Art Direction – Daniel De Waal
• Music Direction – Raghunath Seth
  Raghunath Seth
  Pandit Raghunath Seth is a noted Indian exponent of Hindustani classical music through the medium of Bansuri, or bamboo flute; he is also a noted film score composer...
  
  
• Lyrics – Vinod Pande
• Playback – Anuradha Paudwal
  Anuradha Paudwal
  Anuradha Paudwal is a popular playback singer in Bollywood in India.She has sung songs in Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.- Biography :She studied at Xavier's College in Mumbai. She was married to the late Arun Paudwal, who worked with music director S. D. Burman as his assistant...
  
  , Bhupinder
  Bhupinder Singh (musician)
  Bhupinder Singh is an Indian musician, chiefly a Ghazal singer and Bollywood playback singer.-Early life:Born in Patiala, Punjab to Prof Nattha Singh , a trained vocalist and his early music teacher. He was one of the 7 brothers and sisters...
  
  , Kittu, Suresh Wadkar
  Suresh Wadkar
  Suresh Ishwar Wadkar is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films.He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films and in Konkani.- Early life :...
  
  

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