Murder hindi film

Murder Movie Trailer, Story, Star Cast, Songs, Review, Box office details :

Murder is a 2004 Bollywood Hindi erotic romantic thriller film, directer is Anurag Basu and producer is Mukesh Bhatt. This film is a first part in the Murder movie series. This movie leading stars cast are Emraan Hashmi, Ashmit Patel and Mallika Sherawat and film story backdrop is in Bangkok, Thailand. This movie is ispired on the 2002 American film Unfaithful, which itself was also based by a French movie The Unfaithful Wife (1969).

Murder movie was released on 2nd April 2004 and, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, managed to become a highly successful at the box office, earning a “super hit” status from Box Office India.The film was a huge breakthrough for its lead actors, particularly Ashmit, Emraan and Mallika. It received an A certificate from the Indian Censor Board for its erotic subject and scenes. The film was remade in Kannada as Ganda Hendathi (2006).

Murder movie gained a cult classic status following fan base after release, and started a film series which continued with Murder 2 which release in 2011 and Murder 3 which release in 2013.

Murder Movie Credentials

  • Directer : Anurag Basu
  • Producer : Mukesh Bhatt,Mahesh Bhatt
  • Writer : Anurag Basu
  • Starring : Emran Hashmi,Ashmit Patel,Mallika Sherawat
  • Music : Anu Malik,Raju Rao
  • Cinematography : Fuwad Khan
  • Editor : Akiv Ali
  • Distributor : Vishesh Films
  • Genre : Erotic, Romance, Drama, Thriller
  • Release date : 2 April 2004
  • Running time : 130 minutes
  • Country : India
  • Language : Hindi

Murder movie story

Simran Sehgal (Mallika Sherawat) is a Beautiful married young woman to Sudhir (Ashmit Patel), Sudhir is a workaholic, who was previously married to Simran’s now expired sister, Sonia. Simran only married Sudhir in order to give motherly love to Sudhir and Sonia’s son but this compromise leadsSimran an unhappy, lonely and passionless married life who previously love in college life – Sunny(Emraan Hashmi).

After accidentally she meeting her former college lover, Sunny , she unwillingly decides to engage in an affair with him. The affair starts consequences – to consume her life and Simran finds herself constantly lying to her husband and neglecting her motherly duties. After some time, she decides to end this relationship, but to her surprise, she finds that Sunny has also been simultaneously seeing another woman named Radhika(Surabhi S. Vanzara). She regrets her unfaithful boyfriend and tries to cut all relation with Sunny.

During that time, Sudhir has started to have doubts about his wife, and hires a detective to trace Simran’s situation. The detective is able to provide Sudhir with pictures of Sunny and Simran having sex and sleeping together tells him that Sunny is a serial womanizer, and had find with many girlfriends.

The following day, Sunny suddenly goes missing. The police come to Sudhir and Simran’s house and inquire about him, on a report registered by his girlfriend Radhika. Simran comes across the photographs of her and Sunny amongst Sudhir’s things, and realizes that he may have something to do with Sunny’s disappearance.

Sudhir disclose that he went to Sunny’s flat to confront him about the affair, and the two men started to argue. The situation worsen, and Sudhir fatally beat Sunny and covered him in a panic. Realising her fault and role in the situation, Simran supports Sudhir and takes the blame for killing Sunny. This may leads to strengthens their love and faith in each other. Simran is arrested by the police and pleads guilty, while at the same time, Sudhir claims that it is he who killed Sunny. This confuses the police. At the same time, the body is missing from the secrete spot.

But Sunny is shown to be alive. It is revealed that the how sunny – from initiating the affair to provoke Sudhir into a fight was planned in advance by Sunny with the help of Radhika – the entire situation is changed. Sunny hoped to have Sudhir lock up so that he could continue his affair with Simran.

Sunny isolates Simran and chases her into a jungle, where Sudhir arrives and the two started to fight. Sudhir manages to beat him, and Sunny leaves as he sees the couple together, seemingly realizing their love for each other. At that time, Sunny then runs up behind Sudhir with a shovel but is then shot in the back by a police officer, who arrives just in time. At the end safe, Sudhir and Simran reunite and take care of their son in Future.

Murder Movie Star Cast

  • Emraan Hashmi as Sunny
  • Mallika Sherawat as Simran Sehgal
  • Ashmit Patel as Sudhir Sehgal
  • Raj Zutshi as Inspector Rajvir Singh
  • Kashmira Shah as a Lounge singer
  • Krish Chawla as Kabir Sehgal
  • Surabhi S. Vanzara as a Radhika
  • Dinesh Singh
  • Uday Tikekar
  • Sheeba Chaddha
  • Shabnam

Murder Movie Songs and Music

This film music composer is Anu Malik. Lyricist are Sayeed Quadri and Rahat Indori. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 22,00,000 units sold, this film’s music album was the year’s fourth highest-selling. The one song ‘Jana Tere Pyaar’ is not showen in the movie.

  • “Bheege Hont Tere”………………..Kunal Ganjawala
  • “Bheege Hont Tere”………………..Instrumental
  • “Dil Ko Hazar Bar…………………….Alisha Chinoy
  • “Jaana Tere Pyar”……………………Amir Jamal
  • “Kaho Na Kaho”……………………..Amir Jamal
  • “Kaho Na Kaho”………………………..Instrumental
  • “Zindagi Iss Tarah”……………………Sonu Nigam
  • “Zindagi Iss Tarah”………………….Anuradha Paudwal

“Bheege Hont Tere” full video song

“Zindagi Iss Tarah” full video sad song

  • Singer : Sonu Nigam,Anuradha Paudwal
  • Music Director : Anu Malik
  • Lyricist : Sayeed Quadri

Review of the Murder Movie

  • Murder movie received mixed to positive reviews from film critics in India.
  • Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated it 3 star out of 5 star and said that it an “overall entertainer”.
  • Anupama Chopra in India Today review stated that Mallika “the hero of the film” but criticized the screenplay.
  • At the box office, it opened well and grossed over 21 Crore rs.
  • The film become “super hit” status by Box Office India after its second weekend.
  • It was also the ninth highest-grossing film of the year 2004.

Murder Movie Awards

50th Filmfare Awards

Best playback singer male—-Kunal Ganjawala for “Beegi Hont Teri”—Winner
RD Burman new music talent–Kunal Ganjawala—Winner

Remake and sequels

Murder movie success motivate other producer to remake into Kannada as Ganda Hendathi in 2006.

Murder 1 Movie success leads to a sequel named Murder 2 was released on 8 July 2011 with Emraan Hashmi and Jacqueline Fernandez in the main roles, which was loosely based on the 2008 Korean film The Chaser (film). Box office wise, the sequel surpassed the collections of Murder, becoming a blockbuster.

Murder 3 – After the success of the first two parts, the producers released a third part, Murder 3, on 15 February 2013. The film, which was an official remake of Spanish film The Hidden Face, starred Randeep Hooda, Aditi Rao Hydari and Sara Loren in the main roles. However, unlike the earlier parts, it only performed average at the box office. A fourth part – film is in development with Hashmi returning, after not appearing in the third film.

Controversies

The movie song “Jaana Tere Pyaar” is a reported copy of the Bengali song “Firiye Dao” by Miles, a pop band from Bangladesh. Miles later prosecute the producers, which resulted in the song being removed from the film’s original music. The Bangladeshi band also demanded compensation for ‘hurting its business interests’.
During that time , due to challenges in terms of uncertainty about the outcome, lack of information and lack of initiative from the relevant authorities on either side, compensation has not (as of 2005) been yet awarded.

Although the producers denied all the accusations and said that they have bought the copyrights of the songs ‘Kaho Na Kaho’ and ‘Jana Tere Pyaar’ from Pakistani singer Amir Jamal whose album titled ‘Kaho Na Kaho – A Fusion of Arabic and Urdu’ was released in 2002, Amir Jamal took permission from Egyptian singer Amr Diab, to use his Arabic song Tamally Maak’s a portion of lyrics to be reused in the song Kaho Na Kaho.

Box office collection :

Murder Movie opened well at the Box office nearly 1 Cr rs, After First week, movie supassed the Budget of the Movie and Collected 5.35Cr, with a Budget of 5 Crore rs – worlwide collection reach 21.13 Cr and Box office declared Super-hit status.

Day week wise collection details :

  • Day 1- Friday………………0.97 Cr
  • Day 2-Saturday……………0.89 Cr
  • Day 3-Sunday…………….1.02 Cr
  • Day 4-Monday…………….0.63 Cr
  • Day 6-Wednesday………0.55 Cr
  • Day 7-Thursady………….0.47 Cr
  • Week 1 Collection……..5.35 Cr
  • Week 2 Collection……..4.13 Cr
  • Week 3 Collection……..2.11 Cr
  • Week 4 Collection…….1.56 Cr
  • Week 5 Collection……..1.13 Cr
  • Week 6 Collection……..0.50 Cr
  • Week 7 Collection………0.04 Cr
  • Total Net Collection……14.82 Cr
  • Worldwide Collection Gross……21.13 Cr
  • Overseas Collection………….0.38 Cr
  • India Gross Collection………..20.75 Cr
  • Murder Budget :………………5.00 Cr

*Amount is in Rs.

Other Murder Series Movie Post :

Murder 2 full movie
Murder 2 : Hindi Film
Murder 3 full Movie
Murder 3 : Hindi Film

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