88 Antop Hill (2003) [ Hindi Movie ]

88 Antop Hill is a Hindi (Bollywood) Murder Mystery Thriller film released on 27 June 2003.

The film takes inspiration from  James Hadley Chasfre'om novel "Tiger by  The Tail" was published in 1954.

Cast & Crew

Kushan Nandy is the Director and has written the Story & Screenplay, whereas Ashish Deo has written the Dialogue of 88 Antop Hill. Kushan Nandy is also one of the Producers of the film. The other Producer is Kiran Shroff.

Hari Nair is the Cinematographer, Ashmith Kunder is the Film Editor, and Rajesh Roy is the Music Director of 88 Antop Hill. 

Cast

Atul Kulkarni has played the lead role in 88 Antop Hill. Rahul Dev, Shweta Menon, and Subrat Dutta have played pivotal roles, whereas Suchitra Pillai, Harsh Khurana, Sharad Ponkshe, Sanjay Singh, and Jasmine D'Souza have played supporting roles in 88 Antop Hill.

Movie Plot

Pratyush Shelar (Atul Kulkarni) is married to Antara (Suchitra Pillai) and has a daughter too. Atara doubts her husband's relationship with his college friend Sonali (Jasmine D'Souza).

On the day of his marriage anniversary, Pratush is supposed to come home early. However, he sticks with Sonali to consol her marital woes.

Pratush reaches late at home, which makes his wife feel neglected. She finally decides to leave home immediately with her daughter. Pratyush loves his wife and thus tries hard to stop her. However, Antara leaves home with her daughter.

Aslam Durrani (Harsh Khurana), friend-cum-colleague of Pratush, suggests Pratush meet a dancer, Teesta (Shweta Menon), to swing his mood. However, Pratyush denies the offer because he has never intended to cheat on his wife.

Aslam, being a well-wisher of Pratush, wants to see his friend happy. He then makes a prank call and pretends as if someone is beating him and his life is in danger. Aslam asks Pratush to save his life by coming to 88 Antop Hill.

Pratush immediately visits 88 Antop Hill and is shocked to find Teesta instead of Aslam. Pratush understands everything returns home without any affair with Teesta.

Teesta meets Pratush again at a Pub. She drinks alcohol and is not in the condition to drive her car. Pratush helps him to drive Teesta to her home at 88 Antop Hill.

Teesta goes into a room, and Pratush remains in another room for a few minutes. Suddenly, Pratush sees stumbling Teesta coming out of the room, stabbed in her back and bleeding.

Teesta, mysteriously murdered, leaves Pratush in a frozen state. Pratush gets scared and confused and leaves home immediately after cleaning his handprints. However, a neighbor has already seen him entering and exiting from 88 Antop Hill.

Pratush makes a call to the investigation office and tells him the truth. But the cop asks him to surrender first. In fact, Pratush is the prime suspect in the murder and is being chased by the police.

Soon Inspector Arvind Khanvilkar (Rahul Dev) takes charge of the case and starts investigating the case. Pratush also investigates the matter parallelly and finds some shocking facts. Who is the killer and what is the motive of the murder, is the rest of the story.