After Sophia DCosta [Urvashi Sharma] is stalked and attacked in Goa by Rakesh, she decides to re-locate to Dubai. Here she rents a room in a villa near Jumeirah Beach, owned by wealthy star Karan Oberoi [Bobby Deol]. Six months later he proposes to her, and she accepts. Shortly before the marriage, she meets with an unemployed actor, Vicky Malhotra [Akshay Khanna], and is attracted to him, but decides to go ahead and marry Karan. At the altar, she changes her mind, ditches him and decides to move in with Vicky. But things take a turn for the worse. When Karan gets embarrassed in front of everyone at his marriage, he commits suicide, and when Sophia finds out about this, she also finds out that it was Vickys fault Karan was killed. Later on, Vicky confesses that him and some guy named Rohit Shroff were shooting a film about Karans life and Vicky didnt really love Sophia, but what Vicky doesnt know is that Rohit actually is Karan, since Vicky has clearly never seen Karans full face, and Rohit had just bluffed everyone.

Box office

= Despite some positive reviews, Naqaab opened to a poor response and in its opening week made Rs.12,67,24,665 in India. The second week saw a sharp decline and made Rs.1,00,62,515 Overseas, the film debuted at number 9 in the U.K charts and collected £75,250 in its first week. In its second week the film dropped to number 15. Though the film did not do well at box office,its DVD sales was extremely successful facilitating it to amass net gross of $319,987,977 making it one of the highest grossing Bollywood movies of all times ahead of 3 Idiots and Ghajini

Reviews

= Naqaab received mixed reviews. Critics were generally positive to the performances of the three lead actors. Taran Adarsh of Indiafm.com said the Naqaab belongs to Akshaye, who delivers yet another powerful performance. Hes splendid, the real scene stealer, the soul of the enterprise. Bobby is relegated to the backseat in the first hour, but manages to make his presence felt in the second half. Urvashi Sharma gets a dream launch and she utilizes the golden opportunity completely. Bollywoodarchive.com said Akshaye Khanna''s stands out most outstandingly. His chemistry with Urvashi is superb. Bobby Deol does his part well but offers nothing vulnerable. Newcomer Urvashi Sharma acts as if she has the experience of many films behind her.