Raqeeb

Raqeeb: Rivals in Love
Directed by	Anurag Singh
Produced by	Raj Kanwar
Starring	Sharman Joshi Tanushree Dutta Jimmy Shergill Rahul Khanna
Cinematography	Fuwad Khan
Edited by	Kuldeep Mehan
Music by	Pritam Raju Rao
Production company	Filmcity
Distributed by	Inderjit Films Combine
Release date	18 May 2007 (2007-05-18)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Raqeeb is a 2007 Indian romantic thriller film directed by Anurag Singh, and produced by Raj Kanwar. The film stars Sharman Joshi, Jimmy Shergill, Rahul Khanna, Tanushree Dutta. It released on 18 May 2007. It is an unofficial remake of Goodbye Lover on which the 2008 film Race is also based.

Plot[edit]

Remo (Rahul Khanna) is a multi-millionaire simpleton. Thanks to his mischievous half-brother Siddarth (Sharman Joshi) who meets Sophie (Tanushree Dutta), he falls in love with her and marries her. Trouble starts when Sunny (Jimmy Sheirgill), 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 asthmatic attack, and no suspicion is raised. Sunny fires his gun, and Remo gets killed as the bullets are real. Siddharth has set this up.

It is revealed that Siddharth and Sophie are indeed in a relationship and working together by killing Remo, to take revenge against his half-brother and his father who had an 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, and all he had to do was to fake his death to catch him, He, Sunny, and the Inspector were all working together to catch him red-handed. In the climax, Siddharth and Sophie meet Remo and the Inspector comes to arrest them. A fight starts between the men 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 stepmother in the mental asylum claiming he doesn't know her. While he gets into his car, he meets Sunny and thanks him for saving him from getting framed for murder and both men shake hands.

Cast[edit]

• Rahul Khanna as Remo Matthews
• Jimmy Sheirgill as Sunny Anil Khanna
• Sharman Joshi as Siddharth Verma
• Tanushree Dutta as Sophie Matthews (Hindi dubbed voice as Mona Ghosh Shetty)
• Vishwajeet Pradhan as CBI Officer Pradhan
• Vivek Shauq as Shri Mismatch Sharma (SMS)
• Sherlyn Chopra (Special appearance in an item number)

Soundtrack[edit]

Raqeeb had 8 songs^[1] composed by Pritam and written by Sameer. The album received a poor review from Glamsham.^[2]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Raqeeb at IMDb