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By
IndiaFM News Bureau, March 15, 2007 - 11:57 IST
 Raqeeb
is a musical thriller – a roller coaster ride that
hurtles from one twist to the next at breakneck speed.
The story has many themes that are so different and
yet so closely linked that they overlap each other.
These themes are like shadows where the viewer is
never quite sure where one shadow ends and the next
begins. Seduction leads to love, love becomes
betrayal, betrayal is motivated by passion, passion
leads to obsession and to crime, and this crime
reveals another betrayal which again is motivated by
love.
The protagonist, Remo Mathews, is a computer whiz kid
and the owner of a highly successful software company.
Remo’s parents had died in a car crash when he was
still a child. Siddharth is his employee and probably,
only friend. Sidharth is the extroverted playboy, and
is the exact opposite of Remo who is shy, introverted
and asthmatic. Sidharth constantly pesters Remo to
socialize so that he can meet a few girls and fall in
love with one of them. Remo seems to be averse to the
whole idea until, one day Sidharth plays a prank and
sets Remo up for a blind date.
Remo meets the girl and after the initial hilarious
misunderstanding falls in love with her. The girl is
Sofie, a theatre actress who is high on life. Love
blossoms and all is going smoothly until Remo and
Sofie discover that her parents died in the same car
crash in which Remo’s parents had been killed. Sofie
realizes that Remo’s parents were responsible for the
death of her parents. Remo doesn’t know how to deal
with this tragic discovery. Sidharth persuades him to
propose to Sofie. Remo proposes and after the initial
hesitation, Sofie accepts. Remo and Sofie get married.
Thereafter, the story takes an unexpected twist with
the introduction of Sunny.
 Sunny
is a struggling actor who was in love with Sofie. But
Sofie had always wanted a luxurious life which Sunny
was unable to provide. Hence, Sofie married Remo. When
they meet again, the old love is rekindled. Thus
begins a torrid affair between them. Finally, tired of
having to meet secretly and only occasionally, they
plan to kill Remo. The plan is to hide Remo’s asthma
medicine and then aggravate his asthma so as to
trigger an asthma attack. Once the asthma attack
occurs, Sunny has to pretend to shoot Remo with fake
bullets so as to aggravate his condition further
eventually leading to death. The post mortem will
reveal that Remo died of natural causes and hence, no
one will be suspected of any foul play.
The D-day arrives and Sunny comes to Remo’s house to
execute the plan. But there is another twist in the
tale. Sofie double crosses Sunny as well and he is
arrested and accused of Remo’s murder.
Why does Sofie double cross Sunny?
Is there more to her than what meets the eye?
Does she really love anyone?
Does Sidharth find out the truth about Sofie?
Is Sunny able to clear his name?
And…is Remo really dead or has he pulled off a Houdini
act?
All these questions are answered as the story
breathlessly races to its nail biting, chilling
climax!
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