Humraaz Dvd

Humraaz (transl. Confidant) is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller directed by the duo Abbas-Mustan. Released on 5 July 2002, it stars Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna and Amisha Patel. The film is loosely based on the 1998 film A Perfect Murder.

Plot

While leading a dance troupe, Karan and Priya fall in love and participate in a dance audition and the winner would get the chance of performing on the luxurious Singhania cruise owned by rich businessman Raj Singhania. Jojo Fernandes leader of another troupe wins by cheating in the competition. Soon Karan beats up Jojo and accidentally kills him and gets selected to perform. Raj meets Priya at the deck and eventually falls in love with her and proposes her. It is revealed that Priya and Karan have been scheming to have Raj wed her to get his money.

Meanwhile, another dancer named Harry from the troupe gets wind of their plot and starts blackmails Karan to give him money or else he will tell Raj about the plan and tell the police about the death of Jojo Fernandes.It was revealed that Karan killed Jojo Fernandes deliberately. Karan meets him at the designated place to hand him over the money but instead kills him. Unknown to Karan, just before dying, he calls Raj to reveal the truth. The call goes in the voice mailbox since Raj is not in his office.

Affected by the dilemma of choosing a caring husband over personal ambition, Priya meets with an accident while returning home. Raj showers Priya with all his love and care. Priya is overwhelmed to know Raj has kept a fast for two days. Priya tells Karan that she will not go with the divorce. Karan feels betrayed and decides to get his revenge on Priya and Raj. He feigns a call from Harry and acts as if he is been harassed for a bribe. Priya decides to give her jewelry to Karan to save him. However, Karan anonymously calls Raj from a public phone and lies to him that Priya loves Karan and she is giving away the money that she looted from Raj to Karan. Raj follows her and sees that Priya is meeting Karan and handing over her jewelry. Raj misunderstands it. He also finds the recording of Harry later in his office.

Raj blackmails Karan by showing him the tape to kill Priya. Raj explains every point of the plan right up to precise time and says that he will call on the landline as he wants to hear Priya scream while she is dying. Priya, unaware of the plan, decides to confess everything to Raj in an audio recording and replace the tape with the music cassette in Raj’s car. She knows that Raj has a habit of listening to music while traveling to the office. In the recordings, she mentions that if Raj has forgiven her, he should give her a call. If not, she will leave him forever.

Raj was discussing a meeting with an employee that day and hence, doesn’t listen to the tape. Karan enters the house as planned and waits for the call. At the same time, Priya is also waiting for the call from Raj expecting him to forgive her. Raj calls the landline as planned, an excited Priya answers the phone. Karan attacks her at the same time and ensures Raj can hear her screams. Raj soon listens to the tape as he sits in the car in horror. He rushes to save Priya only to see the police and an ambulance waiting at the house.

It is revealed that Priya is saved and the saviour is none other than Karan; meanwhile, the person who really attacked Priya is a small thief and he is the one who is dead. Karan then tells Raj that by using Harry’s cassette, he can prove nothing. He blackmails Raj saying he had recorded the meeting with him about the murder and demands that Raj divorce Priya with large alimony as a part of his ransom plan. Raj goes to meet Karan at a decided spot where he says he is ready to go to jail, but only after Karan is killed. Both men break out in a fight and Karan was about to kill Raj but is confronted by Priya. Karan tells her about Raj’s plan to kill her, but she says that she is aware of it. At the end of the movie, Priya and Raj kill Karan and reunites.

Cast

Bobby Deol as Raj Singhania
Akshaye Khanna as Karan Malhotra
Amisha Patel as Priya Singhania
Johnny Lever as Darshan (extended guest appearance)
Sheela Sharma as Rosy
Suhasini Mulay as Dadi
Sudhir as Tommy
Jeetu Verma as Jojo
Bhairavi Vaidya as Buaji
Sudhir Mishra as Saxena
Dilip Joshi as Gauri Shankar
Firoz Irani in a guest appearance as Uncle
Dinesh Hingoo as Rustom Uncle
Roshan Tirandaz as Shireen
Farhan as Harry