Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin

Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language thriller film directed by Sudhir Mishra. The film stars Tara Deshpande and Nirmal Pandey, with the entire plot taking place over a single night. The film is based on a story written by Sudhir Mishra's brother, Sudhanshu Mishra, who died in 1995.

In 2011, Sudir Mishra launched a spiritual sequel to Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin, titled Yeh Saali Zindagi, with Arunoday Singh, Irrfan Khan and Chitrangada Singh.

Plot
An advertising executive, Aditya has a beautiful wife, Pooja and a beautiful mistress, Malvika. This secret affair is the catalyst for much of the plot. Adi gets into a scuffle with a bunch of gangsters led by Ramanbhai,. To add to the tension, Ramanbhai is under duress because his colleague, Vilas Pandey is after his life.

A small-scale gang war erupts in the city: A police Inspector Patankar is changing sides faster than a chameleon, a rival gang lord Prafulla Kalia is offering deals and — in the middle of all this — Aditya finds himself stuck. A fast-paced sequence of events happen in the span of one single night.

Cast

 * Nirmal Pandey as Aditya
 * Tara Deshpande as Pooja
 * Smriti Mishra as Malvika
 * Manoj Pahwa as Rajesh
 * Saurabh Shukla as Vilas Pandey
 * Ashish Vidyarthi as Ramanbhai
 * Seema Bhargava as Ramanbhai's sister
 * Johnny Lever in a guest role
 * Deepak Qazir as Vilas's accomplice
 * Virendra Saxena as Prafulla Kalia
 * Sandeep Kulkarni as Shankar
 * Kishore Kadam as Ganya
 * Ganesh Yadav as Inspector Patankar
 * Murad Ali as Chhotu, Ramanbhai's so-called younger brother
 * R. Madhavan as the club singer in the song "Chup Tum Raho"
 * Akhil Mishra as the Neighbour

Soundtrack
The soundtrack includes the following tracks and instrumentals, composed by M. M. Kreem, with lyrics by Nida Fazli, who received a Filmfare Best Lyricist Award Nomination for "Jeevan Kya Hai." Background music was by Salim–Sulaiman.

Critical reception
Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin features in Avijit Ghosh's book, 40 Retakes: Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed. "Violent and sensuous, opaque and funny, the movie creates the Bollywood mafia stylebook," Ghosh writes.

Awards

 * 1996: Star Screen Award: Best Editing: Renu Saluja
 * 1996: Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards: Best Actor Award (Hindi): Ashish Vidyarthi
 * 1997: Star Screen Award for Best Villain: Ashish Vidyarthi