Naqaab 2007

The story follows Sophia (played by Urvashi Sharma) as her life in Goa is upended after she is stalked and then assaulted by a rapist named Rakesh. Fearing for her safety, she relocates to Dubai and ends up renting a room in a villa near Jumeirah Beach, owned by the wealthy star Karan Oberoi (Bobby Deol). Six months pass, and Karan proposes to her, a proposal she initially accepts. Before the wedding, Sophia crosses paths with an unemployed actor, Vikram “Vicky” Malhotra, a man played by Akshaye Khanna, and she feels a pull toward him, but she decides to go ahead with the engagement to Karan.

At the altar, Sophia has a last-minute change of heart and walks away from the ceremony, deciding to move in with Vicky instead. The public humiliation of being dumped by the bride proves devastating for Karan, who soon dies by suicide. Sophia discovers that Vicky’s role in Karan’s downfall is more complicated than it appears, and the truth rocks her: Vicky was hired by a film director named Rohit Shroff to enter Sophia’s life and help someone craft a movie about Karan’s life. The revelation is jarring because Rohit Shroff is revealed to be the man behind the life Sophia thought she knew—Rohit, aka Karan, had needed money and hatched a plan to film Sophia’s experiences, using Vicky as a pawn.

Sophia learns that hidden cameras were placed in her home, capturing intimate moments between Vicky and herself. The threat is tangible: if they refuse to participate in the project, Rohit will leak the footage and turn Sophia and Vicky into public scandal. Faced with this coercion, they reluctantly cooperate, and the film begins to take shape. Three months later, the movie’s premiere is pitched as a bold publicity stunt: Karan intends to shoot Vicky with a fake gun, pretend to die, and then reveal he’s alive. But the plan spirals out of control when the weapon fires real bullets, killing Karan in a brutal moment that shocks everyone. The immediate aftermath sees the staff arrested, and Vicky tries to convince the police that the stunt was always the plan.

As investigations unfold, Vicky escapes custody and the blame shifts to the film’s associate producers, who had helped orchestrate the stunt. Sophia and Vicky reconnect at the hospital, where a stunning, darker truth emerges: the couple had actually murdered Karan together. Sophia had swapped the fake gun for a real one, making sure the plan ended with Karan’s death. In the fallout, the associate producers end up behind bars, while Sophia inherits Karan’s wealth and property and marries Vicky, now a breakout star thanks to the blockbuster film inspired by Karan’s life. The finale cements a twist-filled, morally ambiguous tale of ambition, betrayal, and the price of a meticulously staged life.