Ek ladkee milee khoobsoorat lagee
Posted on: September 11, 2026
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‘Gangster’ (1995) was produced and directed by Dev Anand under the banner of Navketan Films. The cast included Dev Anand, Mamta Kulkarni, Manu Gargi, Anita Ayub, Mink Singh, Rubaina Khan, Anil Bakshi, Ajit, Arjun, Navneet Nishan, Alok Nath, Amita Nangia, Joginder, Rakesh Bedi, Sunil Kapoor. Deepak Tijori, Sudhir, Deepshika, Anant Mahadevan, Subbiraj, Archana Sharma etc. The film was released in the year 1995 when Dev Anand had completed 50 years in Hindi films as an actor.
Dev Anand got the idea for the story from a real incidence that happened in September 1991 when a conman posing as an international diamond tycoon called a meeting of India’s top diamond exporting firms in Delhi to buy diamonds. Instead of holding a joint meeting of the diamond exporting firms, he had separate meetings with individual firm during which they were abducted one by one and kept in the basement of a bungalow in Delhi with grill doors. They were held for about three weeks after which the guards vanished from the bungalow and kidnapped ones escaped after bending the grills. The investigation led to the conclusion that it was an inside job who coordinated with the conman in planning the abductions. Of course, in most of Dev Anand’s films of the 90s, there has to be romance and sime shooting in foreign locales for which the story gets twisted. This film was no exception.
The full film is not available for viewing on any video sharing and OTT platforms. However, a video clip covering about half of the film (about one hour 15 minutes) is available on a video sharing platform. I have watched the half-film’s video clip and has come to the conclusion that it is not a film worth watching.
After ‘Des Pardes’ (1978), there has been a steady deterioration of the cinematic quality of the films directed by Dev Anand. Almost all his directed films after 1978 did not swell Nav Ketan Film’s copper. On the cntrary, many of such films have commercially flopped. The question arises to how he has managed to make a new film almost every 2-3 years. I think that his ‘business model’ of film making was such that he made the films with comparatively low cost for Nav Ketan Fims. Barring one, he was the main actor if not the lead actor in all the films he directed. In most of his directed films, he wrote story, screenplay and dialogues. He introduced new actors for his films which would cost him far less as compared with star actors. For the same reason, in the later years of his film making, he relied on the second line of the music directors. Lastly, there were film distributors who were prepared to release his films taking the risk of loss in revenue. It is interesting to note that Warner Bros were the distributor for his last film, ‘Chargesheet’ (2011) across India. Probably, they did out of respect and affection for Dev Anand for whom the film making was a passion without bothering about the performance at the box office .
As mentioned earlier, the full film is not available for viewing. So, I give the gist of the film’s story as I saw the incomplete VCD of the film which is as under:
Father Pareira (Dev Anand) is the witness to a rape and murder of a local village woman by Chandulal Seth (Ajit), a wealthy villager. However, due to his money power with false evidences, Chandulal is able to frame Father Pareira for the crime. The court sentences him for life imprisonment. The life in the prison changes the outlook of Father Pareira from a kind and gentle person to that of person ready to take revenge against Chandulal Seth. He develops friendship with his fellow prison inmates. For them, he has become their spiritual guide. Over a period of time, Father Pareira commands loyalty and respect from the fellow prison inmates. He convinces them to join his cause for taking revenge against Chandulal Seth. One by one, his loyal inmates (like Anil Dhawan, Sudhir, Rakesh Bedi) get released from the prison after the end of their prison term but they keep in touch with one another as well as with Father Pareira.
In the meanwhile, Chandulal Seth expands his business empire from a village level to a smuggling network with his connection to politicians. In due course of time, he has expanded his smuggling activities in gold and diamond to an international level. By the time Father Pareira completes his term of prison and gets released, Chandulal Seth has completely transformed himself from a wealthy village kingpin to international smuggler. Finally, to get some respectability to his profession, he has diverted his ill-gotten money to become the internationally known jewelers with his two sons, Manoj (Arjun) and Atul (Deepak Tijori) posted outside countries, namely Switzerland and Belgium respectively. Manoj and Atul have sexually assaulted one of his employees, Anuja (Anita Ayub) who has now turned against Chandulal Seth family.
But Chandulal Seth’s youngest son, Rahul (Manu Gargi) is not into his father’s business because he dislikes his father’s shady business. He is in love with Pooja (Mamta Kulkarni), the daughter of Somnath (Alok Nath) an Union leader, who works in a diamond cutting factory of Chandulal Seth. He also gets brutally assaulted for raising demand for increase in the wages of the labourers.
Father Pareira gets released from the prison. He reorganises his already released prison inmates for working out strategies to facilitate the downfall of the so-called diamond tycoon, Chandulal Seth. To start with, Father Pareira abandons his clerical robes and adopts the persona of a suave, sophisticated, mafia don to mingle with Chandulal Seth. During this period, Rahul and Pooja get married and stay in Chandulal Seth’s house. As a mafia don, Father Pareira offers to arrange Chandulal Seth’s meeting with one Bruno who has a high contact to international smuggling market for the smooth operations. The VCD of the film ends at this point.
Going by the usual end to all such genre of Hindi films, one can visualise as to what is going to happen hereafter in the story (all my guess). Once Father Pareira has got access to the fortified place of business of Chandulal Seth, it is not difficult for his loyal supporters to gain the secret as to how Chandulal Seth operates. His two sons have created lots of enemies, the prominent being Anuja who has worked in his set up to bring out the secret operations. His third son, Rahul, joins Father Pareira’s crusade against his father when he comes to know of his horrendous crimes. Gradually, Chandulal Seth’s empire of international smuggling racket is exposed. Father Pareira gets a quick poetic justice by working out of the legal framework which has failed for him to get justice.
The film has eight songs written by M G Hashmat which are set to music by Jatin-Lalit. The film makes a debut on the Blog with its first song, ‘ek ladkee milee khubsoorat lagee’ rendered by Udit Narayan and Asha Bhosle who sings for Manu Gargi and Mamta Kulkarni, respectively. The song has a small second part which I could not locate in the film as well as in the audio clips. But it is mentioned in film’s audio CD.
The context of the song is that while Chandulal Seth (Ajit) and his two sons have been associated with his smuggling business, he thinks that the time has come to bring his third son, Rahul (Manu Gargi) into his business fold. But Rahul is not for the enjoyment of his father’s wealth. Instead, he is seen visiting a temple where he distributes all his money in his pockets among the beggars. This impresses a beautiful girl, Pooja (Mamta Kulkarni). They once again meet in the temple and the romance-filled song follows.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Ek ladkee milee khoobsoorat lagee (Gangster)(1995) Singers-Udit Narayan, Asha Bhosle, Lyricist-M G Hashmat, MD-Jatin LalitBoth
Lyrics:
ek ladkee mileekhoobsoorat lagee
ek ladkee milee
achaanak achaanak
khoobsoorat lagee
achaanak achaanak
tan tana tan huaa
dil mein ghantee bajee
o ek ladka mila
khoobsoorat laga
ek ladka mila
achaanak achaanak
khoobsoorat laga
achaanak achaanak
jaane kya ho gaya
meree nazren jhukee
ek ladkee milee
ho ek ladka mila
[Dialogues]
kaise bataaoon main kitna aa chaahne laga aap ko
seene se takiya laga ke
haay sota hoon
har raat ko
khwaabon mein khidkee jab khulee to
mujhko nazar aaye tum
achaanak
achaanak
achaanak
ek ladka mila
khoobsoorat laga
jaane kya ho gaya
meree nazren jhukee
ek ladkee milee
ho ek ladka mila
[Dialogues]
chupke se raaton mein aa ke
darwaaze ko khat khataa ke
aawaaz dete ho mujhko
sotee hui ko jaga ke
dekhoon jo uth ke saaya tumhaara
aankhon se ho jaaye gum
achaanak
achaanak
achaanak
ek ladkee milee
achaanak achaanak
khoobsoorat lagee
achaanak achaanak
tan tana tan hua
dil mein ghantee bajee
ho ek ladka mila
ek ladkee milee
[Dialogues]
jaane se pehle bata do..o
phir kab mulaakat hogee
lagta hai is se bhee jyaada
kal koi nayee baat hogee
mil ke donon ham karenge
koi sharaarat nayee
achaanak
achaanak
achaanak
ek ladkee milee
ek ladka mila
khoobsoorat lagee
khoobsoorat laga
tan tana tan hua
jaane kya ho gaya
dil mein ghantee bajee
meree nazren jhukee
dil mein ghantee bajee
meree nazren jhukee
dil mein ghantee bajee
meree nazren jhukee
dil mein ghantee bajee
meree nazren jhukee
dil mein ghantee bajee
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