The Jewelled Lamp

The Jewelled Lamp

1979 · 103 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama

Ratnadeep revolves around a person who was fed up with his job and to get out of that situation, he applied for two months leave. The story follows when on the last day of his job he found the dead body of a man belonged to very rich family and the body resembled him, which brought new adventures in his life.

Directed by Basu Chatterjee · Written by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay

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Hema Malini
Girish Karnad Madan (Railway official)
Dheeraj Kumar
A.K. Hangal
Sulochana Latkar

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