An Evening in Paris

An Evening In Paris is a 1967 Indian romantic thriller film produced and directed by Shakti Samanta, with story by Sachin Bhowmick.

It stars Shammi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore (in a double role), along with Pran, K. N. Singh as the villains, Rajendranath in the comic subplot.

After being unsuccessful in finding her true love in her own country, India, the rich Deepa goes to Paris, France in search of it.

He and Sam discover that Suzy is Deepa's lost twin sister, who had been kidnapped when she was very young and her real name is Roopa.

Jaggu, now working for Jack, who has also been an ex-employee of Deepa's father, goes to see him asking for ransom to release his daughter.

Deepa's father agrees, but Sam knocks him unconscious, before which he tells them to go to a certain place with the ransom money.

As the story climaxes, Suzy arrives with Jack at his hideout where he has kept Deepa to show her the resemblance and leaves them alone for a while to take care of some chores.

He learns that she is actually Suzy when she sees Sam and yells a warning that Deepa has escaped and is waiting for him at Jack's Boat.

The movie closes with Sam and Deepa hanging to the ladder of the helicopter with a song (Aasmaan Se Aya Farishta) playing in the background.

[4] The costume shocked the conservative Indian audience,[5][6] and set a trend of bikini-clad actresses carried forward by Parveen Babi (in Yeh Nazdeekiyan (1982)),[7] Zeenat Aman (in Heera Panna (1973), Qurbani (1980)[7]) and Dimple Kapadia (in Bobby (1973)).

[7][8] Wearing a bikini put her name in the Indian press as one of Bollywood's ten hottest actresses of all time,[9] The move was a transgression of female identity through a reversal of the state of modesty, which functions as a signifier of femininity in Bombay films.