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Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan is a film of genre Drama directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza with Dr. Shriram Lagoo
Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978)
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Add to a movie listArvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan is a 1978 Hindi Language film, directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza and starring Dilip Dhawan, Anjali Paigankar, Sriram Lagoo and Om Puri.
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Arvind Desai (Dilip Dhawan) is the only son of a rich businessman (Shriram Lagoo) who deals in luxury handicrafts and products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples. He has long discussions on art and politics with a Marxist friend (Om Puri), is seeing his father's secretary, Alice (Anjali Paigankar) and sometimes he visits a prostitute, Fatima. Much against his wishes, his marriage is arranged to a girl from a high-class family that has just returned from Paris much to Alice's mother dismay who realizes that Alice was time-pass for Arvind and nothing more. Suresh Oberoi has done cameo in movie.Actors
Dr. Shriram Lagoo
(Dharmsi Desai)
Om Puri
(Rajan)
Anjali Paigankar
(Alice D'Costa)
Sulabha Deshpande
(Mrs.D'Costa)
Rohini Hattangadi
(Shilpa)
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