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1986 Indian film
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
The image is a front-side view of DVD cover for film. It features eleven men at bottom around a round-table engaged in a discourse. At top the title of film appears, beside which there is face of another man.DVD Cover
Directed byBasu Chatterjee
Written byRanjit Kapur (dialogues)
Screenplay by
  • Ranjit Kapur
  • Basu Chatterjee
Produced byBasu Chatterjee
StarringSee below
CinematographyAjay Prabhakar
Edited byKamal A. Sehgal
Music byBasu Chakravarti
Release date
  • 1986 (1986) (India)
Running time117 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (English: A Pending Decision) is a 1986 Indian Hindi-language legal drama film directed by Basu Chatterjee. It is a remake of the Golden Bear winning American motion picture 12 Angry Men (1957) directed by Sidney Lumet, which was an adaptation from a 1954 teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose.

Plot

The story begins in a courtroom where a teenage boy from a city slum is on trial for stabbing his father to death. Final closing arguments have been presented, and the judge then instructs the jury to decide whether the boy is guilty of murder, which carries a mandatory death sentence. Once inside the jury discussion room, it is immediately apparent that all jurors with the sole exception of juror Number 8 have already decided that the boy is guilty, and that they plan to return their verdict quickly, without taking time for discussion. His vote annoys the other jurors.

The rest of the film revolves around the jury's difficulty in reaching a unanimous verdict. While several of the jurors harbor personal prejudices, juror 8 maintains that the evidence presented in the case is circumstantial, and that the boy deserves a fair deliberation. He calls into question the accuracy and reliability of the only two witnesses to the murder, the rarity of the murder weapon (a common pocketknife, of which he has an identical copy), and the overall questionable circumstances (including the fact that an elevated train was passing by at the time of the murder). He further argues that he cannot in good conscience vote "guilty" when he feels there is reasonable doubt of the boy's guilt and slowly convinces each juror about the same by his logical findings around each piece of evidence.

Cast

SN Played By Role Played
1 Deepak Qazir Kejriwal Juror No. 1
2 Amitabh Srivastav Juror No. 2
3 Pankaj Kapur Juror No. 3
4 S. M. Zaheer Juror No. 4
5 Subhash Udgata (Late) Juror No. 5
6 Hemant Mishra Juror No. 6
7 M. K. Raina Juror No. 7
8 K. K. Raina Juror No. 8
9 Annu Kapoor Juror No. 9
10 Subbiraj Kakkar Juror No. 10
11 Shailendra Goel Juror No. 11
12 Aziz Qureshi Juror No. 12
13 C. D. Sindhu Guard

References

  1. "Filmmaker Basu Chatterjee dies in Mumbai at 90". Scroll.in. 4 June 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  2. Rangan, Baradwaj (4 June 2020). "Basu Chatterjee's Gentle, Middle-Of-The-Road Cinema Was That Of The People Next Door". Film Companion.
  3. Variety film review; 27 February 1957, page 6.
  4. Harrison's Reports film review; 2 March 1957, page 35.

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Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
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