Saturday, October 11, 2008

Rakht (2004)



Cast
Sharat Saxena - Mayor Raja Bahadur
Sanjay Dutt - rahul
Bipasha Basu - Dhristi
Sunil Shetty - Mohit
Himanshu Malik - Abhigyan Gupta

Director: Mahesh Manjrekar
Story

Young widow, Dhristi, is a psychic with the ability to foresee the future. She

runs a small business telling fortunes. She has many male admirers who would like

to marry her, namely: Rahul who is likely to be the new Mayor; Mohit - a garage

mechanic, who calls her "dost", and comes to her aid several times; Advocate

Abhigyan Gupta - who will do anything to please her. Then the present Mayor, Raja

Bahadur's daughter, Natasha, who is betrothed to Rahul, goes missing, Dhristi has

a vision of her dead body, and a lake. She is scoffed upon by the local Assistant

Commissioner of Police, Ranbir Singh, nevertheless the police do drag the lake at

Raja's insistence and recover Natasha's dead body. The primary suspect is Sunil

"Sunny" Dehal, who is arrested, tried in court, found guilty, and sentenced to

life in jail. The Police, Raja, and everyone else is satisfied with this judgment

- everyone except Dhristi - and it is only she who knows that the real killer is

still at large.

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