A blind girl called Durga (Amisha Patel) lives with her mother (Suhasini Mulay). Inspite of Durga being blind she has a special gift, she makes beautiful clay statues, a skill she learnt from late father. Durga meets the handsome Rohit (Arjun Rampal), who works for a fertilizer company. He is impressed by Durga’s art and beauty and they both fall in love with each other.
One day, a village goon named Rana (Parmeet Sethi) takes advantage of Durga’s handicap and attempts to rape her. Luckily Rohit comes to her rescue, which leaves a furious Rana making all sorts of threats against Rohit. Later, Rohit takes Durga to an eye hospital, where Dr. R.K. Prasad (Kanwaljeet) performs a surgery on her eyes. The operation proves to be successful, but before the bandage is taken off from Durga’s eyes, Rohit goes to arrange for their wedding. On the way, Rana and his friends try to kill Rohit, and in this incident, both Rana and Rohit die.
When Durga learns about Rohit’s death, she tries to commit suicide, but is saved by Dr. Prasad. Durga relates her story to Dr. Prasad who now considers her to be his daughter. He goes to Switzerland for work and takes her along for a change. In Switzerland, Durga meets Raj (Bobby Deol), who is a rich man and at their first meeting, Raj falls in love with Durga. Raj tries to get close to Durga but Durga gets annoyed with his behavior.
Then one day, Raj takes Durga to his house and shows her his dear friend, Rohit’s photographs. He tells her that even he is suffering the loss of his best friend. Dr. Prasad convinces Durga that Raj is a very good boy and that he wants to get married to her. Durga agrees to get married to Raj and so the family prepares for the wedding. Raj and Durga get engaged.
Raj now comes to know that his childhood friend, Rohit is still alive. Raj brings Rohit home and introduces him to Durga. Rohit is stunned to see Durga there, but Durga does not recognize him as she has never seen him.
Vikram peels the layers of this human drama slowly and carefully. The director introduces two principal characters in the first 20 minutes itself and The proceedings constantly give you a feeling of deja vu, you realize what’s in store next, but his execution keeps you engrossed right through these portions.
The pace begins to slacken when Arjun gets killed. With a twist in the tale, you expect the narrative to get more absorbing, but that doesn’t happen. Partly because the director and writer wanted to have that lull before the storm kind of an impact and partly because the narrative moves at a leisurely pace.The film changes gears in the post-interval portions, with the re-emergence of Arjun in the story .But just when you thought that there would be fireworks, the screenplay lets you down. Pre-climax onwards, the graph of the film starts slipping and by the time it reaches the climax, the impact is missing.
There’s no denying that director Vikram has handled the drama with sensitivity. But the pacing of the narrative gets painfully slow in the post-interval portions and by the time the story reaches the culmination, it actually tests the patience of the viewer. Besides, only a handful of emotional sequences strike a chord.
Music is effective .The filming of ’chori se’ specifically is mind-blowing.
Cinematography is of standard. The film bears a rich look throughout. Sets are opulent.
Arjun does well in a role that fits him like a glove. Bobby handles his part with effortless ease. Amisha is excellent.
The film has been declared a super hit in UK with collections being higher than Taxi Number 9211 .