

Confused, vulnerable and innocent, her Neha is quite different from the feisty and strong characters she does best, and Kapadia is more than effective playing the part.

The acting is very good by one and all, and doubtlessly the film belongs to the ever gorgeous Dimple Kapadia, who makes for a great heroine. Obviously, it includes several songs, but they are mostly situationally relevant and most of them are beautiful anyway. It is definitely a different mainstream Hindi movie for its time, as it leans more on the script and has much less melodrama and sentimentality than one would expect to see. The script is taut and complex and the film is overall very well shot and directed, with good camera work and a suitably chilling score. Sadly and quite expectedly, the original source was not acknowledged by the makers, but the film is well attuned to an Indian context and is successfully gripping. I promise you that you will not regret it.Aitbaar is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic thriller Dial M For Murder. If you have not seen "Aitbaar", do so right away. But Raj, from beginning to the end, did a fantastic job of portraying the character of Jaideep. No fault of his really but the few scenes Danny got, he rocked it in a way that nobody else could have. While Danny is a very close competitor, he might have lost out by an infinitesimal margin due to the fact that Danny's role is very short in the movie. Raj Babbar takes the cake for the best actor, if you ask me. This goes to show that our actors are very very talented and they just need good directors to bring out the best in them. "Aitbaar" is very well made as the actors have done a great job bringing out the characters in the movie really nicely. However, the cast could have been much better. Hitchcock's movie is very well made in terms of story, dialogues and direction in general. the characters in "Aitbaar" are m_uch more talented than the ones in "Dial M for Murder". "Dial M for Murder" is a fantastic movie and "Aitbaar" pretty much remade the movie scene by scene, dialogue by dialogue. As other have pointed out, it is a remake of "Dial M for Murder" directed by the greatest of all, Alfred Hitchcock.
