''Raqeeb'' is a 2007 Indian romantic

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directed by Anurag Singh, and produced by

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. The film stars

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. It released on 18 May 2007. It is an unofficial remake of

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on which the 2008 film

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is also based.

Plot

Remo (

) is a multi-millionaire simpleton. Thanks to his mischievous half-brother Siddarth (

) who meets Sophie (

), he falls in love with her and marries her. Trouble starts when Sunny (

), Sophie's ex-boyfriend, enters the picture. Sunny and Sophie hatch a diabolical plan to kill Remo by natural means - threatening fake bullets, so that he dies in an

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tic attack, and no suspicion is raised. Sunny fires his gun, and Remo gets killed as the bullets were real. Siddharth has set this up. It is revealed that Siddharth and Sophie are indeed in a relationship and working together by killing Remo, for taking revenge against his half brother and his father who had extramarital affair with another woman, causing Siddharth's mother to have a mental breakdown and sending her to mental asylum and now taking over his ownership money and framing Sunny for the murder. However all the money from Remo's bank account is removed and it is revealed that Remo is indeed alive, all he did was fake his own death to catch him, He along with Sunny and Inspector were all working together to catch him red handed. In the climax, Siddharth and Sophie meets Remo and the Inspector comes to arrest them. A fight starts between the men and fatally injuring Siddharth, while Sophie runs away and falls into an open grave, Remo looks at her and feels sorry for loving the wrong person. An enraged Siddharth comes from behind to stab Remo but Remo dodges the attack and accidentally stabs Sophie and himself falling into the grave, thus ending both of their life. In the end Remo meets his step mother in the mental asylum claiming he doesn't know her. While he gets into his car, he meets Sunny and thanks him from saving him for getting framed at murder and both men shake hands.

Cast

as Remo Matthews *

as Sunny Anil Khanna *

as Siddharth Verma *

as Sophie Matthews *

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as CBI Officer Pradhan *

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as Shri Mismatch Sharma (SMS) *

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(Special appearance in an item number)

Soundtrack

Raqeeb had 8 songs composed by

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and written by

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. The album received a poor review from Glamsham.

References

External links

* {{Anurag Singh (director) 2000s Hindi-language films 2007 films Films featuring songs by Pritam Films directed by Anurag Singh Films about adultery in India