Murder (2004 film)

Murder is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language erotic thriller film, directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Mukesh Bhatt.

After accidentally meeting her former flame, Sunny Deva (Emraan Hashmi), she decides to engage in an affair with him.

The affair starts to consume her life and Simran finds herself constantly lying to her husband and neglecting her motherly duties.

After some time, she decides to end the relationship, but to her surprise, she finds that Sunny has also been simultaneously seeing another woman named Radhika.

The police come to Sudhir and Simran's house and inquire about him, on a report registered by his girlfriend Radhika (Surabhi Vanzara).

Realizing her fault and role in the situation, Simran supports Sudhir and takes the blame for killing Sunny.

It is revealed that the entire situation, from initiating the affair to goading Sudhir into a fight was planned in advance by Sunny, with the help of Radhika.

However, Sunny then runs up behind Sudhir with a rake but is then shot in the back by a police officer, who arrives just in time.

[3] Anupama Chopra in her review for India Today called Sherawat "the hero of the film" but criticized the screenplay.

According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 22,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fourth highest-selling.

A sequel titled Murder 2 was released on 8 July 2011 with Emraan Hashmi and Jacqueline Fernandez in the lead roles, which was loosely based on the 2008 Korean film The Chaser as well as the Nithari serial killings of 2006.