Naqaab (2018)

Naqaab (transl. Mask)[1] is a 2018 Indian Bengali-language[2] supernatural action comedy film directed by Rajiv Kumar Biswas.[3][4][5] The film is produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni under the banner of SVF Entertainment. It stars Bangladeshi Superstar Shakib Khan, Nusrat Jahan and Sayantika Banerjee[6][7][8][9] and also features Rudranil Ghosh, Bharat Kaul, Sudip Mukherjee, Supriyo Dutta, Rebeka Rouf, Kharaj Mukherjee, and Shiba Shanu in supporting roles.

After an accident, a man finds that he can communicate with the dead and must decide whether to act on their advice. The movie is a remake of the 2015 Naqaab Tamil film Massu Engira Masilamani. The story revolves around the life of Sophia (Urvashi Sharma) who lives in Goa. When she is stalked and then attacked by a rapist named Rakesh, Sophia re-locates 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 (Akshaye 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 is embarrassed in front of everyone by being dumped at the altar, he commits suicide, and when Sophia finds out about this, she realises it was her fault that Karan is dead. Soon enough, it is revealed that it was actually Vicky’s fault Karan died, because Vicky was hired by a film director named Rohit Shroff, who decided to make a film on Karan’s life, and therefore was hired to enter Sophia’s life. Sophia gets mad at Vicky, and insists on meeting Rohit Shroff. Vicky calls Rohit to the building. Rohit arrives, and it turns out that Karan is actually Rohit Shroff.