Baaz: A Bird in Danger

About the film

Baaz: A Bird in Danger (English:- Falcon: A Bird in Danger) is 2003 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film directed by Tinnu Verma, starring Suniel Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Karishma Kapoor, Dino Morea and Preeti Jhangiani.

Plot

The film opens with the life of a child born with a strange disorder where he tends to destroy anything that fascinates him. His father had committed suicide and his mother is declared mentally ill. The doctors diagnose that he has inherited this condition genetically. He would be looked after by his grandmother.

Then the film moves to Nainital 17 years later, where Neha Chopra from Delhi comes to Nainital to work as an interior designer for Jai Singh Dabral, the city Mayor who is also a womaniser and attracted to Neha, at one of his secluded and deserted mansions. A serial killer is said to be on the prowl in the city, killing beautiful women ruthlessly and who is always eluding the police, getting away from the law without evidence if at all he gets arrested. Neha soon meets Raj Singh, a loafer whom everyone in the city seems to avoid as he is the suspected serial killer, but she likes him, and soon both fall in love. The city police commissioner Harshvardhan Bhatti and subordinate Preeti Rastogi observe the movements of the couple all over the city, and soon they call Neha and warn her that Raj is a serial killer and she must help them nab him red handed as she is soon going to be his next victim. Neha refuses to believe, especially because Raj saves her life on one occasion. But later she finds items of murder in Raj's house, and thinks Raj is the killer. Brokenhearted, she then decides to leave Nainital for good, much against Dabral's wishes, but Harshvardhan Bhatti and Preeti convince her to stay back and nab Raj red handed.

Raj goes to meet Neha but sees that she is very dull, knowing that something is wrong. Soon one of the killer's victim's sister comes out of coma and tells Preeti that she can identify the killer. Preeti informs Harshvardhan Bhatti, but when they both arrive at the house, the comatose girl dies of shock unexpectedly. Later that night Preeti thinks over everything, and goes to question Harshvardhan. Dabral notices her racing in her car somewhere at night. The next day, Preeti is found murdered in Raj's house. Raj is chased by Harshvardhan Bhatti and the cops until he jumps off a waterfall and seeks shelter in Neha's house.

Reception

Priya Ganapati of Rediff.com called it " a thriller without attitude," She further wrote that "its down market look, lack of attitude, bad music, poor climax and holes in the plot are big turnoffs." Manish Gajjar of BBC.com wrote, "Overall the film falters in various parts as the director tries to pay too much attention to the negative sides of the characters in order to keep the audience guessing."

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