''My Wife's Murder'' is a 2005 Indian

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directed by Jijy Philip. The cast includes

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, Suchitra Krishnamurti,

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and

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. The film is a remake of the

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film, ''

Madhyanam Hathya ''Madhyanam Hathya'' (English : Afternoon Murder) is a 2004 Telugu language Indian crime thriller film directed by Ram Gopal Varma, with cinematography by Chota K. Naidu. The films seems to closely follow the story of Horace William Manton, the ...

'', directed by

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. The movie seems to closely follow the story of Horace William Manton, the main accused in the Luton Sack Murder Case.

Plot

Police Inspector Tejpal Randhawa (

) is assigned to investigate the case of the dead woman whose body is recovered from a small pond. Insp. Tejpal checks if this matter can be linked with a missing person's report filed by Ravi Patwardhan (

) and his father-in-law. The dead woman is identified as Sheela (

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), Ravi's wife. According to Ravi, Sheela had left their home to go visit Shirdi along with her parents. When Ravi is informed by his father-in-law that she had not arrived at their house at all, even 24 hours after her departure, they take the matter seriously, and Ravi accompanies his father-in-law to the nearest police station and files a report that she is missing. Insp. Tejpal concludes that Sheela was waylaid on her way to her parents' house by person(s) unknown, beaten, and her body was left in the pond. But this case puzzles him, as there was no apparent motive for unknown person(s) to waylay her, as no money was taken and her body did not show any sign of sexual molestation. Taking these facts into consideration, Insp. Tejpal starts to disbelieve and suspect Ravi. Ravi's assistant Reena (

) tries to help Ravi. However, her involvement makes the matter worse for her and her boyfriend Raj (Rajesh Kapoor), who suspects her to have a relationship with Ravi. The movie then takes the audience through a thrilling tale of how Tejpal chases down the fleeing Ravi and ultimately ascertains the truth behind Sheela's murder.

Cast

as Ravi Patwardhan: He is a man whose wife is murdered and he has to make it out of the matter proving himself innocent. *

as Sheela Patwardhan: Ravi's wife who gets murdered. *

as Inspector Tejpal Randhawa: He investigates the case of Sheela's murder. *

: Reena Wadhwa, Ravi's assistant who tries to help Ravi, however, unwillingly gets too much involved making the matter worse for her, her boyfriend and their relationship. * Rajesh Tandon as Raj, Reena's boyfriend. * Abhijeet Lahiri as Sheela's father * Dr Manjali as Sheela's mother *

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as Wagle, Tejpal's assistant in the murder case. * Abhay Bhargava as Tapan Banerjee * Meenakshi Verma as Tejpal's wife. * Geetanjali Rao as Ravi's maidservant. * Shankar Sachdeva as Singh. * Lalit Parashar as Hotel owner. * Aloke Shukla as bus conductor. * Master Zain Khan as Karan Patwardhan, Ravi's son. * Baby Maariyah Khatri as Minni Patwardhan, Ravi's daughter.

Music

*Kuch Lamhe Ki Bas - Ghulam Ali, composer: M. M. Kreem

References

External links

* {{Ram Gopal Varma Films scored by M. M. Keeravani 2005 films 2000s Hindi-language films 2005 thriller films Hindi remakes of Telugu films Indian thriller films Hindi-language thriller films