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When her father won't allow them to marry, Arvind (Vivek Oberoi) & Laxmi
(Antara Mali) decide to elope, but when they leave the city, they also seem to
leave civilisation as they know it behind. On their way, they pick up a
hitchhiker, Babu (Manoj Bajpai), whose car has broken down & who initially
seems nice enough ... but soon starts to act more & more peculiar, so
Arvind & Laxmi decide to ditch him at the next roadhouse ... but somehow he
persuades him to let him stay aboard till they reach the next city - only to
act even more annoying once they are on the road again, until Arvind wants to
throw him out ... but has to realize Babu has a gun, & instead is thrown
out himself, while Laxmi is to accompany the obviously mad Babu on his way to
god-knows-where. Fortunately, Arvind soon manages to stop a truck, & its
driver Inderpal (Makrand Deshpande) proves sympathetic enough to help him free
his girlfriend & regain his car. Soon, Arvind & Inderpal can overtake
& stop Babu & Laxmi & overcome Babu, & everything would be fine
now ... only Babu has of course managed to escape ... & of course not
much later, Babu catches up with Arvind & Laxmi in their car again, trying
to ram them with Inderpal's truck ... but fortunately the truck has an accident
& Arvind & Laxmi come off easily, only when they examine the truck they
find neither Babu nor Inderpal. At the next policestation they file a
complaint, but somehow the cops show little interest. & as if that wouldn't
make them angry enough, once on the road again, they find Babu has caught up
with them & has hidden in their car, & he soon throws Arvind out again
& reembarks on his journey with Laxmi - whom he has grown pretty fond of by
now, & whom he even forgives when she makes a desperate (&
unsuccessful) escape attempt. Arvind makes another attempt to convince the
police of his desperate situation, but has to realize the cops not only
distrust him but think that actually he has kidnapped Laxmi & now tries to
divert suspicion - as Laxmi's father, a police officer himself, cannot acceopt
the fact that his daughter has eloped. Arvind can escape only narrowly,
somehow meets up with Inderpal again & the 2 take up pursuit again. Babu
& Laxmi have meanwhile find a mansion in the middle of nowhere, where Babu
promptly overcomes & ties up the night watchman (Ganesh Yadav), & after
being sweettalked by Laxmi, who tries to improve her position & gain his
trust, he finds out that he actually loves her ... The watchman however
doesn't stay inactive & manages to free himself, call the police & put
up a fight against Babu ... which he ultimately loses. Babu though defends the
mansion valiantly against the cops who approach the house, & manages to
steal one of their bikes & in the end, only Arvind has been able to take up
pursuit (on a stolen police motorbike of his own), & deep in the desert,
they have their final, violent confrontation, which Babu ultimately loses
because he has put his trust into Laxmi, who in fact has no interest in helping
him ... & he ends up badly beaten up with both his legs broken in the
middle of the desert, while Arvind & Laxmi head off to a better future ...
or so they hope. As you might have guessed, this movie is another
one of the ever popular psychopath-killer-hits-the-road-subgenre, much
in the vein of Duel, Roadkill, or Hitcher, to name just a
few of the more famous ones, & Roadkill, while essentially not a bad
movie (not too good either) has very little to add to the basic structure of
the genre, which makes the film pretty much wholly predictable & also
somewhat tiring after a while.
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