A poor girl gets entangled in a murder and barely escapes when 2 crooks try to enrol her as their third partner in crime. Soon, she and her boss bump into them and land themselves in a new adventure. Ek Thi Ladki (There Was A Girl) is a 1949 Hindi action comedy film by director Roop K. Shorey.[1] It had the famous Punjabi song "Laara Lappa Laara Lappa Layi Rakhda" by Lata Mangeshkar, G. M. Durrani and Mohammad Rafi. The music director was Vinod, with lyrics by Aziz Kashmiri and story by I. S. Johar.[2] The film starred Meena Shorey (as Meena) who became famously known as the "Larra Lappa" girl following the release of the film,[3] and Motilal (as Ranjeet). Other co-stars were Bharat Bhushan, I. S. Johar, Agha, Shakuntala, and Kuldip Kaur.