Altraaz is a film about Raj Malhotra [Akshay Kumar], Sonia Roy [Priyanka Chopra], and Priya Malhotra née Saxena [Kareena Kapoor]. It is inspired by the 1994 hollywood movie "Disclosure" starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. Raj and Priya accidentally meet each other and fall in love . One day Priya gets pregnant and the couple is very happy. Raj even buys a bungalow for the couple. They are very happy with their new lives. In his past, the story then starts on January 21 with Raj waiting for his promotion to be entitled as C.E.O. The chairman [Amrish Puri] arrives with his new wife, Sonia Roy. Sonia Roy sees Raj and goes to the stage. She discusses something with the chairman and then announces the promotions. The post that Raj was expecting was given to his friend Rakesh [Vivek Shauq]. To Rajs surprise, he was included in the list of Board of Directors. They had a party that night and Priya also comes with Raj and they all enjoy. Sonia starts flirting with Raj even in front of Priya. Priya doesnt like Sonias behavior and warns Raj not to go into her premises. Raj agrees. The next day, Rakesh tells Raj that they have a defect in their new mobile pieces and its production needs to stop. The defect is that the call goes to two people at once, the one we are trying to call and the other maybe anyone in the phone book contact list. He tells that they will need the permission of Sonia to do this work. Raj thus goes to Sonias home. Sonia there tells that she has got a chance to meet him after long years and thus she is very aroused. She hugs him from the back all of a sudden while he was talking to his friend in Bangkok. She tries to rape him but Raj tries to avoid her and goes home. Sonia is angry with Raj and tells her husband, Mr. Roy that he tried to rape her and exploit her. Roy becomes angry and gives Raj his resignation notice. Raj decides to fight against Sonia. Raj requests his lawyer friend, Barrister Ram Chauthrani [Annu Kapoor] to fight his case and he agrees. In the meantime, Sonia and Mr. Roy have hired Lawyer Patel [Paresh Rawal]. They fight a lot but Lawyer Patel discloses that Raj was the one who raped her. When it looks like there is no hope, Rajs friend who was in Bangkok returns and hands him over a tape in which their talk in Sonias house was recorded. He gives it to the lawyer and the lawyer tests it in Forensic lab and concludes that it is real but he is run over while returning by a person deployed by Sonia. At the moment his assistant takes the cassette and keeps a destroyed cassette in its place and hands it over to the person who ran over his senior. It is handed over to Sonia. Priya then recollects that the mobile had a defect and they search all the phones in the phone book and find its copy in Rakeshs mobiles voicemail. Priya, who is also a lawyer, now fights the case due to the death of Rajs previous lawyer, Mr Chauthrani. Priya uses Rakeshs mobile as evidence against Sonia along with the fact that Sonia met Raj in South Africa eight years ago. Their infatuation for each other led to Sonia being pregnant with Rajs child. However, Sonia and Raj split as Sonia wanted to abort their child, for she lusted for money, status, luxury and power. The baby was a wall between her dreams of becoming rich. After Raj left her, Sonia aborted their child and bumped into Roy. Seeing her chance, Sonia hit the jackpot, and married Roy, However, Roy wasnt able to give Sonia any sexual pleasure, so Sonia tried to seduce Raj, but being the saint and trusted husband, Raj rejected her sexial advances. As a result, Priya wins the case and Roy leaves Sonia. Feeling humialiated and guilty, as Sonia is unable to bear the shame, commits suicide by jumping from the top of a building. The film ends with a song, showing that Raj and Priya have a baby boy and live happily ever after.

Box office

Aitraaz was SuperHit at the box office. The film was reportedly made on a budget of Rs. 14 crore and collected a net approximate of Rs. 37 crore. It became the fifth highest grossing film that year.

Awards

*Filmfare Best Villain Award - Priyanka Chopra

Reviews

The reviews has been favourable, Indiafm and Rediff both were very positive about the film. it received 3.5 ratings from both the critics.