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<p>Dilip Roy ( ) is a painter and is married to a rich woman, Sushma. One day while he is passionately painting, his wife asks him to go out with her. He refuses and in the ensuing struggle she destroys his painting. Dilip gets emotionally upset and shoves her, saying that he would kill her and leaves the house. When he comes back, his wife is dead and the police arrest him as the on the testimony of Renu ( ), his wife’s sister who lives with them. He claims that though he became enraged and can’t remember what happened, he didn’t kill her. Later, he is sent for on account of his erratic behaviour during the trial. There, Dr. Trivedi ( ), a psychologist examines him and decides to keep him in the for some more time. On a stormy night, Dilip escapes and ends up at Rekha’s ( ) house. Rekha is a married woman staying in a rich neighborhood, and her husband isn’t home at that time. Dilip holds her at gunpoint and demands her to hide him from the police. She tries to call someone, but fails. When police come inquiring, she is forced to hide the fact that Dilip is there. Later, after some talk, Dilip asks her for forgiveness and they talk for some time. He changes from his . Dilip, believing that Rekha wouldn’t call the police, sleeps for some time. When he wakes up at midnight after hearing a sound, he can’t find Rekha. He searches for her, but finds the body of a young man in the bathroom. He demands an explanation from Rekha about the body, which is no longer there. Rekha tells him that everything was his imagination, but he suspects that Rekha is hiding something. Later, after becoming sure of Rekha’s deception, he calls the police and tells them that he found Mr. Jagmohan’s (Rekha’s husband) body in that house and that Rekha has killed her husband. But Rekha says that her husband hasn’t returned from yet. After some searching, they find Jagmohan’s body outside and suspect that Dilip has killed him before entering the house. Moreover, they find Dilip’s prisoner number cloth piece from his prison dress stuck with pin in Jagmohan’s hands. Dilip tries to reason with them and suspects inspector Diwan ( ) is helping Rekha. He proves this with the help of his cigarette lighter unintenally taken by the inspector in one of his previous visits to Rekha’s house. Whereas the inspector had previously denied any such visit or acquaintance with Rekha. Seeing no other way out Rekha admits that she was having an affair with the inspector, and that her husband was murdered by them as he walked in on them. She kills herself out of guilt and remorse. At the same time, Inspector Karwe ( ) finds, with the help of a piece of Renu’s bracelet in Dilip’s colour palette and fingerprinting, that Renu is the real killer of Dilip’s wife and he clears Dilip of murder charge. The film inspired the starring , , and . The film released on 3 November 2017.</p>