Rustom

<p>officer is happily married to Cynthia Pavri in 1959, 12 years after the independence from the in . Their marriage hits rockbottom when he discovers that she is having an affair with his friend Vikram Makhija. After returning early from his deployment, Rustom discovers Vikram’s love letters in Cynthia’s cupboard. While trying to find her, Rustom sees them together. He returns home and waits for Cynthia to return and then confronts her with the love letters, but walks away before Cynthia can explain. Rustom then gets himself a from the naval ship’s armory and makes a to K. G. Bakshi at , . Afterwards, he searches for Vikram, first in his office Imperial Motors and then at his home. After Rustom enters Vikram’s bedroom, the servant hears three gunshots and rushes to the room, to discover Vikram dead with three bullets on his chest and Rustom walking away with the pistol in his hand. Rustom immediately surrenders to the and Senior Inspector Vincent Lobo starts the investigation. Vikram’s sister Preeti Makhija meets the public prosecutor, Lakshman Khangani to get Rustom the toughest punishment possible. Rustom refuses anybody’s help and decides to fight the case on his own and prefers police custody. Rustom’s senior naval officer, Rear Admiral Prashant Kamath, sends two goons to Rustom’s house to search for a set of critical documents, but they fail to find anything. Scared, Cynthia rushes to jail to inform Rustom, who finally meets and listens to Cynthia’s story, about how she was lonely and upset when Rustom went away to for many months. With the connivance of Preeti, Vikram took advantage of Cynthia’s loneliness and she fell for him. However, on the day of Vikram’s murder, Cynthia had already broken-up with him for the sake of her marriage. She was slapped by Vikram after she broke up with him and got injured and walked out of Vikram’s house. On Rustom’s instructions, Cynthia blackmails Kamath for 5 crore in exchange for the vital documents he needed. In the court hearing, Rustom unexpectedly pleads not guilty in front of the Judge Patel, which leads to a 9-member jury trial. At the culmination of the trial, Rustom is found not guilty by the jury since he shot Vikram in self-defence. Meanwhile, it is found that Lobo was in New Delhi and he had met Bakshi to obtain the recording of the trunk call that Rustom had made, which wasn’t mentioned about in the entire hearing. When back in Bombay, the trunk call is played, convincing almost everyone that Rustom is guilty, and the court proceedings end for the jury to decide on their opinion. On the eve of judgement day, Rustom tells Lobo the truth — he was posted in in 1958 for several months, inspecting an aircraft carrier that the Navy wants to purchase. Rustom found that the carrier’s hull was corroded, and it would have to be repaired and modified before the carrier could be transferred to . Vikram was lobbying for the aircraft carrier to be bought by India, and he, along with Kamath, attempted to bribe him in order to convince him to say that the carrier is seaworthy. When Rustom attempted to notify Bakshi in London, Bakshi also attempted to bribe him and get the carrier to India. Vikram attempted to persuade him and Rustom then slapped him in disgust. Believing him to have shown the power of his uniform, Vikram had seduced Cynthia to show Rustom his power of money and take revenge on him, but never really liked her. Rustom, angry at Vikram’s actions, took a pistol from the naval ship’s armory, then called Bakshi, telling him he wasn’t going to spare Vikram, and that he had papers exposing the carrier’s unworthiness for the Navy. Rustom then went to Vikram’s house and fatally shot him. Bakshi then sent Kamath to get the documents which Rustom said he had and on Lobo asking for the recording of the trunk call, gave him half of the recording to hide his corruption. Rustom puts it thus that he did not reveal anything about the aircraft carrier so that the Navy would not have to be tainted with a corrupt image. Rustom then reveals that he never actually had any documents relating to the proof that the carrier was damaged. The next day, the jury’s decision of Rustom being not guilty is declared by the judge teary-eyed. Rustom and Cynthia walk out of the court with their heads held high. The film ends with Rustom and Cynthia on a vacation after getting all of the commission that Rustom earned from Bakshi, who later committed in fear of facing trials and treason (involved in the deal at high level) for cutting the tape half. Rustom learned the purchase result after reading in the local newspaper about the new carrier arriving in India (in reference to ) in a robust condition, just as he had wished. The project was filmed on location in in April 2016 for the romantic montage where Rustom ( ) and Cynthia ( ) visit England including The Chequers Inn pub in , , , , seafront and . also features for the naval port and ship scenes. Kumar and were sent legal notices for auctioning the costume worn by Kumar to portray the role of a naval officer. They were accused of “playing with the sentiments” of the armed forces. The film was released alongside on 2017 screens across India on 12 August 2016. collected approximately ₹14.11 crore on its opening day. The film collected ₹50 crore in its opening weekend and ₹90.9 crore in its first week in India. The film also performed well internationally, grossing approximately $3 million in its opening weekend. On the website , 45% of 11 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The was composed by . The songs featured in were composed by , , , and , with lyrics written by . The first song from the film’s soundtrack album, ” “, sung by and composed by was released on 6 July 2016. The second track of the film, titled “Rustom Vahi” was released on 13 July 2016. All lyrics are penned by Manoj Muntashir. The full music album was released on 14 July 2016. On 29 October 2019, a new version of the song “Dhal Jaun Main” was released on the Zee Music Company’s official YouTube Channel with ‘s vocals. All lyrics are written by .</p>