Kabir Garewal, a casanova film maker and screenwriter, is making multiple films based on a thief's life and robberies. The first two films have been highly successful. In order to shoot the third part of the trilogy, he goes to Malaysia, where he meets a London-based film maker Ayesha. Kabir and Ayesha get friendly and soon fall in love. When Ayesha finds out about Kabir's casanova past and believes him to be unchanged, she breaks up with him and returns to London. Dejected, Kabir goes into depression and returns to Mumbai, leaving his film incomplete. After several attempts, Kabir is unable to find the perfect climax for his film. On his assistant Meera's suggestion, Kabir attends a film festival as part of the jury, where Ayesha's film is being screened. Ayesha thinks Kabir is stalking her and asks him to stay away from her. After his father's death followed by him being sued by his film's financiers, Kabir decides to move on and complete his film. In the parallel story of imaginary characters in Kabir's film Guns 3, an infamous Roy is a mysterious international art thief whom no country seems to be able to get their hands on, including Detective Wadia. On his new assignment, Roy goes to an unknown foreign land to steal an expensive painting only to find that its owner is the beautiful Tia. Tia lives alone in a huge mansion where the painting is kept. So, Roy tries to befriend Tia during an art auction and soon impresses her with his charm. Sparks fly between them and both start spending time together, giving Roy entry into the mansion. Finding the right opportunity one night, Roy runs away with the painting, leaving Tia heartbroken. Roy later regrets this, as he realises he has fallen for Tia and decides to return the painting to her. After a small clash with the painting's new owner, Roy manages to get it back. On receiving the painting, Tia realises that Roy is now a changed man and forgives him. Meanwhile, Kabir's film Guns 3 is released and is hugely successful at the box office. In the end, Kabir proposes to Ayesha and they reunite, just like Roy and Tia in Kabir's film. The movie ends with Roy and Tia walking together over a bridge, similar to the one in the stolen painting.
Cast
Arjun Rampal as Kabir Grewal, a famous film maker and screenwriter who tries to find Roy's true purpose.
Jacqueline Fernandez as Ayesha Aamir / Tia Desai
Abhijeet Singh as Raj, a Master cop
Ranbir Kapoor as Roy, a mysterious art thief whom no one has gotten their hands on.
Shernaz Patel as Meera
Anupam Kher as Mr. Grewal, Kabir's father who dies
The film was produced on a budget of, which included for production and for P&A. The film recovered from satellite rights, from music rights and from overseas rights.
Promotions and marketing
The trailer of the film was released on 17 December 2014 and passed over 1 million views on YouTube within 24 hours. The film was promoted at famous reality shows like Bigg Boss and Comedy Nights with Kapil.
Critical reception
Indian Expressmovie critic gave only 0.5 stars and questioned "What is Ranbir Kapoor doing in a movie like this?" Rajeev Masand on ibnlive gave it only one star, saying "The film limps lethargically and collapses in a predictable twist ending." Rahul Desai and Aasir Tavawalla were even inspired to create a campaign called "Aakraman on Roy" to get their money back from the filmmakers. Taran Adarsh gave it 0 out of 5 called it a disastrous outing and Ranbir Kapoor shouldn’t act in these films, he has no role in this film.
The first single, "Sooraj Dooba Hain", sung by Arijit Singh, Aditi Singh Sharma and composed by Amaal Mallik, was released on 22 December 2014. The complete album was released digitally on 9 January 2015. An additional Remix EP was released on 27 January 2015.
Track listing
Reception
The songs of Roy received positive response from critics. Rediff awarded the album with 4 out of 5 stars and called it "a winner all the way". Koimoi published, "After a really long time, here is an album that has songs which are truly worth listening peacefully on your phones. This album will surely make its way to your playlist and most songs are worth playing on loop."
