''Payback'' is a Hindi

thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...

, directed by Sachin P. Karande and produced by Sarosh Khan. The film released on 17 December 2010 under the Archangel Entertainment banner.

Plot

Insurance employee Kunal (Munish Khan) suffers an almost fatal accident but is rescued by passer-by Raghu (

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). Three months later Kunal and Raghu meet again, and Kunal invites Raghu for a tea. That night he realizes that Raghu, while his saviour, is an assassin who is hunted by his enemies. When Kunal's girlfriend ( Sara Khan) becomes involved, Kunal must decide between saving his love and repaying his debt to Raghu.

Cast

Munish Khan Munish may refer to: * Munish Arora (born 1971), Indian-born Singaporean cricketer * Munish Jolly (born 1974), Indian former cricketer * Munish Makhija (born 1968), Indian video jockey A video jockey (abbreviated VJ or sometimes veejay) is a ...

as Kunal Sahay * Sara Khan as Ishita Sahani *

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as Inspector Sawant *

as Raghu Satoskar *

Mukesh Tiwari Mukesh Tiwari (born 24 August 1969) is an Indian actor, who has worked predominantly in Bollywood. and few Tamil films. He is known for playing negative and comic side roles. He entered the film industry in the year 1998 with the movie '' China ...

as Pakya * Hrishikesh Joshi as Bhau Bhosle *

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as Rohit Sharma

Reception

Taran Adarsh, writing for

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, was critical of the movie. While he lauded the chase scenes and found the film's one song "foot-tapping", he felt the constant moving of the camera got irritating and concluded the screenplay, which he described as "hackneyed", "uninteresting" and "inconsistent", ruined what might have otherwise been an interesting film.

References

External links

* * 2010 films 2010s Hindi-language films {{2010s-Hindi-film-stub