Ek Thi Reeta

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{{Infobox film

| name = Ek Thi Reeta

| image = Ek_thi_rita.jpg

| director = Roop K. Shorey

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| starring = Vinod Mehra
Tanuja
Rehman
I. S. Johar
Daisy Irani

| music = Jaidev Verma

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| released = {{Film date|1971}}

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| country = India

| language = Hindi

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Ek Thi Reeta (A Girl Called Reeta) is a 1971 Bollywood action comedy thriller, produced and directed by Roop K. Shorey.{{cite web|title=Ek Thi Reeta|url=http://www.gomolo.com/ek-thi-reeta-movie/4193|website=gomolo.com|publisher=Gomolo|access-date=5 May 2015}} The film was an adaptation of Shorey's earlier success Ek Thi Ladki (1949), which starred his wife actress Meena Shorey and Motilal.{{cite book|title=Thought|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7m4YAQAAIAAJ|access-date=5 May 2015|series=27-52|volume=23|date=July 1971|publisher=Siddhartha Publications|page=20|chapter=Comedies With Crime Angle }} The original owed its "popularity" more to the music of the film, especially the song "Larra Lappa" composed by music director Vinod.{{cite web|last1=Bali|first1=Karan|title=Meena Shorey|url=http://upperstall.com/profile/meena-shorey/|website=upperstall.com|publisher=Upperstall|access-date=5 May 2015|ref=Profile}}

In Ek Thi Reeta, Shorey tried to repeat the success of Ek Thi Ladki by using the same story. However, according to Narwekar, in his book, Eena Meena Deeka: The History of Hindi Film Comedy, the "formula" did not work and the film was not a success commercially.{{cite book|author=Sanjit Narwekar|title=Eena Meena Deeka: The Story of Hindi Film Comedy|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ya2CRt7wPXUC&pg=PA1942|access-date=5 May 2015|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Rupa & Company|isbn=978-81-291-0859-3|pages=160–|chapter=The Image Manipulators}} The film had music by Jaidev and starred Vinod Mehra, Tanuja and I. S. Johar in lead roles with Lolita Chatterjee, Rehman, Faryal and Manmohan Krishna forming the ensemble cast.{{cite web|title=Ek Thi Reeta|url=http://www.citwf.com/film99886.htm|website=citwf.com|publisher=Alan Goble|access-date=5 May 2015}}