Race (2008 film)

Race is a 2008 Bollywood thriller film directed by AbbasMustan and produced under the Tips Films banner. Released onMarch 2008 worldwide, it stars Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Akshaye Khanna, Katrina Kaif, Anil Kapoor and Sameera Reddy in pivotal roles. The film also stars Dilip Tahil and Johnny Lever for thriller and comedy sketches. It is the first installment of Race film series.

A voiceover by RD Anil Kapoor introduces the four main characters Ranvir Singh Saif Ali Khan who runs a successful business he inherited from his father. His younger brother Rajiv Singh Akshaye Khanna who mooches off of Ranvir and is an alcoholic. Ranvir is dating an upcoming model Sonia Bipasha Basu, while his personal assistant Sophia Katrina Kaif appears to be secretly in love with him. Ranvir is also involved in an intense competition with a rival horseowner Kabir Dilip Tahil. The film opens with a murder plot involving a car accident which Ranvir narrowly survives. When Ranvir loses money in a race because his jockey had been bribed by Kabir, Ranvir plants a bomb in the jockeys car and kills him, showing Ranvir to be a ruthless businessman.In a drunken stupor, Rajiv confesses to Ranvir that he likes Sonia and that he would quit drinking if he could spend his life with a woman like her. Ranvir immediately stops dating Sonia so that Rajiv can have her. Rajiv and Sonia begin dating and appear happy until, in a twist, Rajiv reveals he knows of Sonias shady past and has a plan to use Sonia to his advantage. Rajiv reveals that his father had secured identical lifeinsurance policies for huge sums on each of the sons. He explains that he wants to kill Ranvir in what would appear to be an accident and inherit 100 million in insurance payments and wants Sonia to play along. Sonia agrees to help in exchange formillion. They pretend to get married and Rajiv ignores Sonia in this fakemarriage while continuing to play an alcoholic. As per his instructions, Sonia seduces Ranvir who confesses he loved her all along. Rajiv reveals the rest of his plan to threaten to commit suicide in response to Sonia and Ranvirs affair by leaping off a tall building, have Ranvir appear on the terrace, and get Sonia to push Ranvir off. However, it turns out Ranvir was aware of the plan all along as Sonia, who had apparently fallen in love with Ranvir, had been keeping him updated. ........

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