Dattak

Dattak (The Adopted) is a 2001 Hindi film directed by Gul Bahar Singh with Rajit Kapoor, Anjan Srivastav and A.K. Hangal in the lead roles. The film was in competition at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival, China and was also screened at the 20th Fazr International Film Festival, Tehran (Iran). It was recently shown in IFFI, Goa.^[1]

Dattak
Directed by	Gul Bahar Singh
Written by	Partha Banerjee Subbir Mukherjee
Produced by	NFDC
Starring	Rajit Kapoor Anjan Srivastav A.K. Hangal
Cinematography	Sunirmal Mazumdar
Edited by	Ujjal Nandi
Release date	2001 (2001)
Running time	125 minutes
Language	Hindi

Plot

Sunil is married to an American girl. His father lives in Kolkata with an old servant, Shambhu. When Sunil returns home after fifteen years, he sees the house is locked and his father has disappeared. Guilt-ridden Sunil starts looking for him. He learns that his father might be in an old age home. He reaches there only to find that he had died a few months earlier. Sunil meets Satya Babu, his father's fellow inmate, who tells him all about his father's last days. Sunil tells the old man that he wants to adopt him as his father and requests him to come to the US with him.^[2][3]

Cast

Actor/actress	Role
Rajit Kapur	Sunil
A.K. Hangal	Satya Babu
Anjan Srivastav	Sunil's father
Kruttika Desai