Taking place almost entirely over the course of one stormy night, a woman is terrified when an accused murderer escapes from a mental hospital and seeks refuge in her home.
Acting
Rajesh Khanna's unhinged desperation vs. Nanda's ice queen composure.
Direction
Yash Chopra's tight single-location mastery before he went soft.
Director
Yash Chopra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 28 days with no songs—practically unheard of for commercial Hindi cinema then. Yash Chopra made it as a calculated gamble after a string of flops.
Inspired by Hitchcock but distinctly Indian in its class dynamics—the 'mad' artist versus the respectable bourgeois wife exposes 1960s elite anxieties.
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