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film directed by Himanshu Brahmbhatt, written by Mahesh Bhatt and produced by Pooja Bhatt. The film stars Irrfan Khan, Himanshu Malik and Ilene Hamann.


Plot

Uday Singh Rathod is a law-abiding police officer, famous for his extraordinary investigations, but is experiencing
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. When Maya Solomon, a famous model is murdered, Rathod is given the custody of the case and he is asked to solve it within a week by the Dy Commissioner Kumar. Three people are shortlisted as prime suspects; Harsh, a famous journalist, Ali, a millionaire and Shyamoli, Ali's partner. When the investigation begins, Harsh offers Rathod help in hunting down the murderer, while drawing his attention to the fact that Maya was about to mary Ali, but because Ali was a womanizer and couldn't keep up with one woman. So Ali, along with Shyamoli, killed Maya. Rathod theorizes on these lines and goes to Ali's house with Harsh. He questions Ali and reaches Maya's house to gather further evidence on the case. While leading the investigations and running through Maya's past, Rathod starts to fall in love with the image of the dead woman. One night, to his shock, as he is gathering evidence in her house, Maya appears suddenly. This leaves Rathod confused about the dead body found in the house and forces him to reconsider the suspects. All this while, Maya's simplicity, and subtle beauty keeps drawing Rathod towards her. He interrogates Maya whereupon she reveals that before the night of the murder, she left for a two-day holiday. Ali, meanwhile, used duplicate keys to bring another girl Neena to spend the night at Maya's house. Neena was killed, but Ali wasn't involved in the killing. Rathod tells Maya that due to lack of evidence, all suspicions fall on her and that she could be prosecuted for the crime. Rathod thinks for a few moments and tells Maya that regardless of everyone's opinion, he thinks she is innocent. He advises her to flee, offering to make all arrangements. She refuses to leave. Maya, seeing Rathod's helpful nature and his faith in her, starts falling in love with him. They both get out of the interrogation room and spend the night together. In the morning, Rathod visits Maya's house one last time to recover the murder weapon, hoping that it would help clarify things. He is able to retrieve the weapon and happens to realize the identity of the actual murderer. He goes back to the house, only to find Harsh already there trying to kill Maya. After some resistance, Rathod gets hold of Harsh and holds him down, immersed in the bath-tub. However, Harsh, in a final attempt, leaps out of the bath-tub and flashes a knife at Rathod. Maya appears behind Harsh and shoots him to death. It is later revealed that Maya was conscious of her beauty because wherever she went instead of getting to know her, people hit on her. What she was looking for were trust and faith. When she met Harsh, he offered her his riches, but couldn't offer faith. She got disappointed and started having an affair with Ali, who turned out unfaithful and broke her trust. Things continued the way they were and she almost considered marrying Ali, until Harsh attempted to kill Maya, but ended up killing the other girl Neena who accompanied Ali that night to Maya's place. In the end, Rathod is congratulated by fellow policemen, as he gazes into Maya's eyes.


Cast

* Irrfan Khan as Inspector Uday Singh Rathod * Ilene Hamann as Maya Solomon * Himanshu Malik as Ali Ahmed Khan * Suhel Seth as Harsh Bhatt * Ankur Desai *
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as Shyamoli *
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as Munna * Denzil Smith as Deputy Commissioner Kumar


Soundtrack


Track list

The film's soundtrack was composed by
M. M. Kreem Koduri Marakathamani Keeravani (born 4 July 1961; credited as M. M. Keeravani) is an Indian film composer, playback singer, and lyricist, who predominantly works in Telugu cinema along with other languages including Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Ma ...
, with lyrics penned by Neelesh Mishra and Sayeed Quadri. M. M. Kreem reused the tune of "Vellipothe Ila" from his Telugu movie '' Okariki Okaru'' for "Guzar Naa Jaaye". Songs "Maine Dil Se Kaha" and "Khoobsoorat" became extremely popular.


Critical reception

Harish Kotian of Rediff.com ″I would recommend the film if you have time to spare and if the other releases this Friday are running house full. And you are bound to be impressed by Irrfan Khan.″


References


External links

* {{Mahesh Bhatt 2000s Hindi-language films Indian detective films 2005 films Films scored by M. M. Keeravani Indian remakes of American films