Lakeer – Forbidden Lines is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Ahmed Khan in his directoral debut .The film stars Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, John Abraham, Sohail Khan and Nauheed Cyrusi.

Saahil comes from a low class society in the same slums that Arjun once grew up in and attends the same college as Karan and Bindiya.

His friend Rony (Apoorva Agnihotri) humiliates Saahil about falling in love with Bindiya and being so poor.

However, when Saahil's brother Sanjay "Sanju" Mishra (Sunil Shetty), who is a car mechanic, finds him unconscious and badly wounded, he cannot control his anger and goes looking for Rony.

However, when Sanju gets to the college, he sees Karan sitting down, wearing Rony's jacket with his name on the back, and starts beating him up in public.

Arjun takes Karan's body to the church and is heartbroken and guilt-ridden that he did not want to kill his brother, despite being wrong.

This makes Lakeer Rahman's only Hindi film project to date featuring him solely on the soundtrack, excluding capacity duties as a guest composer for the 2018 biographical drama Sanju.

Originally, "Paighaam" was supposed to appear in the Tamil film Rhythm but was cut due to cancellation of the Hindi dubbed version's release.

NowRunning gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, "Regrettably the scriptwriter goes back to every mafia movie you've seen from Scarface to Vaastav to Gang without bothering to put a fresh spin into the genre".

[5] Planet Bollywood gave the film 7 out of 10 stars, praising the cast performances but criticised Sunny Deol's overshadowment in the second half.