Aitraaz

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Aitraaz is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Abbas–Mustan and produced by Subhash Ghai. It stars Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor.

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Raj Malhotra, an orphan settled at a rented house, is a product engineer for the mobile manufacturing company Voice Mobiles. Junior lawyer Priya Saxena visits his house for an interview, mistaking him for his neighbour friend Barrister Ram Chotrani. Raj develops a love at first sight for Priya, who also accepts him, and they get happily married.

2 years later, Priya is pregnant with Raj’s child. They move into their own house, a bungalow, and expect Raj’s promotion to CEO. On the company’s anniversary, its chairman and Raj’s boss Ranjit Roy arrives with his third much younger wife Sonia, which stuns everyone. Sonia, being the new managing director, appoints his friend Rakesh as CEO and Raj on the board of directors.

A flashback reveals that 5 years ago, Raj used to live in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked for MTN Mobile Company, where he one day came across Sonia, who was a model. They fell in love and began a live-in relationship, though Raj always felt insecure due to explicit men’s reactions to Sonia’s modelling photos. Upon knowing she was pregnant, Raj wished to marry her, but she refused and decided to abort the child to pursue her ambitions of wealth, fame, and power, thinking marriage and child as burdens. As a result, they broke up.

Back to the present, Rakesh informs Raj about a defect in the company’s new mobile handset, which causes calls to be simultaneously placed to two people—the intended recipient and another random person from the phone’s contact list. Raj needs Sonia’s authorization to stop production and thus visits her at her house. She makes provocative and sexually explicit statements to Raj, though he ignores them. Later, when he dials Rakesh’s number, the phone slips down as Sonia comes and sticks to him from the back. Shocked, Raj rejects her advances, but Sonia attempts to seduce him. However, he leaves her again.

The next day, Raj learns Sonia has falsely accused him of sexual harassment and attempted rape and Ranjit demands that he resign quietly as to not negatively impact the company. Raj’s colleagues and even Rakesh don’t believe him. Ram believes Raj but still suggests him to resign because even he files a case against Sonia for sexual harassment, there are very less chances of winning because of the society’s mindset than only men can sexually assault women.

Priya finds the resignation letter in Raj’s jacket pocket and asks why. Raj explains what happened the night he visited Sonia and had gotten counsel from Ram. Priya, however, feels differently and encourages Raj to not resign, explaining that the lie will be assumed as the truth if he does. Raj gives his case to Ram, which goes to court, gaining massive media attention. Advocate Ravi Patel discloses whatever happened the day at a party after the promotions’ announcement where Raj drunkenly talked about Sonia with his colleagues much to Raj’s humiliation in court and also forces Raj to show the scratches on his back hence trying to prove Raj as rapist despite Ram trying to defend Raj.

Raj’s bank manager returns from abroad sometime after Raj’s first court hearing with a genuine tape that recorded his visit at Sonia’s house due to the defect in the handset. After playing it back with Ram and Priya, Ram submits the tape for forensic testing. However, upon retrieving the tape, Ram is injured in an accident, which was secretly orchestrated by Sonia. Ram’s assistant swaps the tape for a destroyed fake one and has it delivered to Sonia, who destroys it. She phones Raj and tells him to meet with her if he wants to have his normal life back. Unbeknownst to Raj, however, Priya is also listening to the call. Sonia fantasizes of Raj giving in to her but is informed that Priya wants to meet with her instead of Raj. Priya then enters her office, and Sonia states that she can save Raj for a price; he would be a keep-man for her for life. Priya refuses the offer and challenges that she can save Raj from going to jail.

With Ram recovering in the hospital, Priya decides to pick up the case as Raj’s lawyer. She exposes Sonia and Raj’s past relationship and plays Rakesh’s voicemail. This ends up revealing that Rakesh’s phone had saved the message. It turns out that Sonia married Ranjit for money, power, and status, but as he couldn’t satisfy her sexually, she tried to resume her relationship with Raj.

In the end, Priya wins the case, and Ranjit files for divorce from Sonia for the latter’s infidelity. Guilt-stricken and humiliated, Sonia commits suicide by jumping from the office’s building.
Months later, Raj and Priya walk with their newborn child as the story ends.