Aetbaar

2004 film by Vikram Bhatt
the 1985 film

Aetbaar is a 2004 Indian Hindi language romantic psychological thriller film directed by Vikram Bhatt, starring Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham, Bipasha Basu and Supriya Pilgaonkar. Business tycoon Ratan Tata produced the film. Aetbaar is inspired by the Hollywood film Fear. Vikram Bhatt had earlier directed Inteha, which had released just 3 months earlier. Indiagames also released a mobile video game based on the film.

Dr. Ranveer (Amitabh Bachchan) has been extremely protective of his college going daughter, Ria (Bipasha Basu) as a result of his son's death many years prior due to a car accident. One night, while walking home from college, she is ran over by a group of gang members on motorcycles. She yells at them until one of the members helps her pick up her notebooks. Ria and her friends go to a night club, and the same man who helped Ria walks up to her. She is surprised to see him again and is shocked when he tells her that he hasn't stopped thinking about her ever since that night. He forces her to dance with her, making her feel uncomfortable, but is scared to admit it. Dr. Ranveer arrives to collect Ria. The man introduces himself as Aryan (John Abraham) before she leaves. Aryan and his friends go to a brothel where a prostitute named Saira teases Aryan when he refuses to sleep with her. He takes her to a room where she believes they are going to have a sex, but Aryan brutally beats her. Dr. Ranveer is called to the hospital to treat her. The next morning, Aryan walks into one of Ria's classes and takes her to his apartment, where he shows her a portrait he made of her on the night they met. When she tells him the portrait it beautiful, he proceeds to light it on fire and tells her that nothing in the world is more beautiful as her. She runs out of his apartment terrified, but realizes that she has fallen in love with him. The pair begin to spend more time with each another and Aryan asks her if he can meet her the next day. Ria comes home happy, where she learns that her parents had planned a surprised vacation. Ria tells her parents that she does not want to miss college, but they assure her that she will not. They arrive at the cabin, and Ria thinks about Aryan, who is at his house waiting for her to arrive. He smashes his clock in rage. While cleaning the cabin, Ria sees Aryan waiting outside. She rushes to find him but he disappears. Dr. Ranveer stops them together and asks Ria to invite him over for lunch. When Aryan comes over, he makes a good first impression on her mother, but fails to impress Dr. Ranveer. Aryan senses that Dr. Ranveer has seen him somewhere before. Aryan attempts to steal a car along with his friends so that he can sell it for money. In the process, one of his friends get injured and they take him to the hospital. Dr. Ranveer tells the prostitute that her wounds would eventually heal. She sees Aryan although Dr. Ranveer does not see him. Saira tells Dr. Ranveer that Aryan beat her although he does not see Aryan. While trying to find a colleague's number, Dr. Ranveer finds an old article where he learns that Aryan had killed his own father and he informs Ria and his wife. Ria confronts Aryan who reveals that he killed his father for the sake of protecting his mother as his father was an alcoholic who would beat his mother. One day while coming home from college, he learns that his father had killed his mother. To avenge her death, he burnt his father alive. Ria apologizes and makes up with Aryan. She tries to explain this to her father though he refuses to believe Aryan's innocence, pointing out that he is still a murderer. Ria yells at her father, calling him overprotective as a result of his son's death. Ria's mother slaps her and she lets them know that she hates them. Dr. Ranveer decides to learn more about Aryan's past and learns that Aryan's mother is still alive, and the reason behind why Aryan killed his father was because Aryan was madly in love with his college teacher Sanjana. She gets married and leaves for America but before she leaves Aryan comes to her house and attempts to kill her. His father calls the police and Aryan is locked away in his room. Sanjana thanks Aryan's father and leaves, but Aryan sets his room on fire. His father bursts into his room and Aryan's pushes him into the fire, killing him. Dr. Ranveer devises a plan to lure Aryan into believing that Sanjana is in fact alive to haunt him, but he finds out that it was a trap to show Ria's true colors. Ria feels guilty about trusting and loving Aryan and Aryan get's arrested for Sanjana's attempted murder. Some time later, Dr. Ranveer receives a call from the police and finds out that Aryan has escaped from prison. Ria informs her parents that Aryan knows their whereabouts and will come and hunt them down. If she refuses to leave with him, he will kill him. Aryan and his friends break into the cabin and Aryan attempts to kidnap Ria. Dr. Ranveer had earlier setup a trap which instantly kills him. The next morning, Dr. Ranveer drops Ria off at her college and assures her nothing like this would happen again and tells her to stay strong. She goes off with her who are all laughing and smiling, as Dr. Ranveer looks at his daughter smiling, wiping a tear from his eye knowing that everything is back to normal.