Raghu Romeo

Raghu Romeo
File:Raghu Romeo.jpg Movie poster for Raghu Romeo
Directed by	Rajat Kapoor
Produced by	Naseeruddin Shah Narayan Hosmane
Written by	Rajat Kapoor (screenplay) Saurabh Shukla (dialogue)
Starring	Vijay Raaz Nishikant Dixit Sadiya Siddiqui Maria Goretti Saurabh Shukla
Music by	Pritam Chakraborty
Cinematography	Rafey Mehmood
Edited by	Suresh Pai
Release dates	15 August 2003 (2003-08-15) (Locarno Film Festival) 18 June 2004 (2004-06-18) (India)
Language	Hindi

Raghu Romeo is a 2003 Bollywood film directed by Rajat Kapoor, starring Vijay Raaz, Sadiya Siddiqui, Maria Goretti, Manu Rishi and Saurabh Shukla. The film released on 15 August 2003 to critical acclaim but was a big commercial failure. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

Plot

Raghu Romeo (Vijay Raaz) is a guileless man, who hails from a lower-middle-class family. He is a 30-year-old waiter henpecked by his mother and by the boss who seldom pays him. In his naivete, Raghu thinks he must protect the virtue of that joint's floozies from grabby clients, especially Sweety (Sadiya Siddiqui), a hitman's honey whose cynical surface masks a soft spot for the clueless hero. But he only has eyes for Neeta, a quintessential TV-soap suffering-heroine played by not-so-nice Reshma (Maria Goretti). Unable to distinguish between reel and real life, Raghu kidnaps the terrified actress and takes her to the countryside house of Sweety. Turns out she is on the hit-list (for failing to pay off the entertainment industry's mob "protectors").

Awards

• 2004 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi (Silver Lotus Award)

External links

• Raghu Romeo the unusual film
• Raghu Romeo at IMDb