Aar Ya Paar


Aar Ya Paar is a 1997 Bollywood thriller film produced and directed by Ketan Mehta. The film stars Jackie Shroff, Deepa Sahi, Ritu Shivpuri, Paresh Rawal and Kamal Sidhu. The music is by Viju Shah. The movie is adapted from James Hadley Chase's novel The Sucker Punch and was partly shot in Italy.

Story

Shekhar Khosla is an accounts executive, an alcoholic and a penniless playboy. He has an on-and-off romance with cabaret dancer Julie.
One day his boss tells him to improve himself and hands him a multi-million rupee client, Veena Sanghvi and asks him to maintain and strengthen the relationship with this client. Shekhar meets with Veena, seduces her and marries her, while having an affair with her personal secretary, Anu Chauhan. When Veena finds out about this affair, she threatens to separate from him. Then Shekhar and Anu plan to kill her. They carry out their plan successfully, with the police concluding that her death was accidental. Shekhar finds out that Anu does not love him. To make matters worse, the police have evidence linking him to the death of his wife.

Cast

The movie features in Avijit Ghosh's book, 40 Retakes: Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Viju Shah. The lyrics were penned by Maya Govind, Indivar, Nitin Raikwar and Rani Malik. The soundtrack was released on Venus Records & Tapes Pvt. Ltd.