Nazar (film)

Nazar
Directed by	Soni Razdan
Written by	Mahesh Bhatt
Starring	Meera Ashmit Patel Rupak Mann Aly Khan
Music by	Anu Malik
Cinematography	Anshuman Mahaley
Editing by	Amitabh Shukla
Release date(s)	20 May 2005
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Nazar is a film directed by Soni Razdan starring Meera and Ashmit Patel. It has been the first Indo-Pak joint movie venture in 50 years. The film introduces Pakistani actress Meera to Bollywood and it also featured a kissing scene (now deleted) which was center of attention for the Pakistani government. Nazar was released along with Naina, another film based on the similar theme of extra sensory perception.

Plot

Nazar revolves around a young and talented pop star Divya (Meera), from the start you notice a strange aura surrounding Divya’s personality. She is a girl who has lived a secluded life after the death of her parents in a car crash. After shooting her last video she decides she wants to go home. Despite the darkness, she discovers a dead body on the middle of the road.

From this moment on Divya has visions from the future, rather than an art it becomes like a curse for Divya, all she sees is brutal murders. In her visions all she's is dance-bar girls being stabbed, strangulated, suffocated to death by a killer whose face continues to elude Divya’s clairvoyance.

Then comes a cop, Rohan (Ashmit Patel). He is investigating murders of bargirls in the city. A serial killer is on the loose and Rohan has the case to nab him. Rohan buys Divya’s story (about her visions of murders) but his female assistant Sujata (Koel Purie) does not. Taking help of Divya’s clairvoyance, he begins to zero down on prime suspects that include a doctor, a fugitive and an eccentric-alcoholic uncle who frequents bars regularly. As the movie goes on Divya is next for the murders list. Could this be the same person that killed the person on the road that night?

It turns out that Sujata is the serial killer. Her husband slept with a bar girl who passes AIDS to him. And in turn he gave the disease to Sujata. From then on, she develops a dislike for the bar girls in the city and goes on a killing spree. She dies at the end by falling off a building.

Cast

• Meera
• Ashmit Patel
• Koel Purie
• Rupak Mann
• Aly Khan
• Neena Gupta