By wert yyyy, May 18, 2007 - 12:51 IST 7 of 9 people found this review helpful
Raqeeb -- Rivals in love is a suspense thriller that does its job and holds your interest until the penultimate scenes. Raqeeb is not a novel story and borrows heavily from the 1979 telefilm, Murder by Natural Causes. Plus, we've seen many films about double and triple-crossing back home too, like Ketan Mehta's Aar Ya Paar or Abbas-Mastan's Baazigar. But despite a common storyline, Raqeeb works largely due to a gripping screenplay peppered with exciting twists and turns that takes the audience by the hand, and leads them in unpredictable directions.
What I liked about the movie:
It is told partly in flashback, so that you have to piece the events together and figure out how far back the action of the film began, what is now and what was then. Debutante director Anurag Singh's haunting theme weaves its way through this labyrinth of lies, leading to a satisfying (but unadventurous) conclusion.
What I didn't like about the movie:
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Would you recommend this movie to your friend: Yes
