His world turns upside down when the company hires a new CEO: Sonia Roy (Kareena Kapoor). Sonia is not just Raj’s new boss; she is his ex-girlfriend, a wealthy, powerful, and vengeful woman who was responsible for his father’s death and his subsequent poverty.
On what should be a routine night at work, Sonia calls Raj to her office to discuss a merger. There, she makes a bold, aggressive sexual advance toward him. When Raj firmly rejects her, citing his love for Priya and his professional ethics, Sonia accuses him of attempting to rape her. Suddenly, Raj finds himself trapped in a high-stakes legal battle where the evidence (including altered security footage and falsified emails) is stacked against him, and the public believes the beautiful, powerful female CEO over the middle-management man. What made Aitraaz iconic was its subversion of Bollywood tropes. movie aitraaz
In the pantheon of early 2000s Bollywood thrillers, Aitraaz (English: The Objection ) stands as a bold, controversial, and audacious outlier. Directed by Abbas–Mustan (the duo known for their twist-heavy thrillers), the film was revolutionary not just for its plot, but for its casting. It took India’s “King of Romance,” Shah Rukh Khan, and cast him as an ambiguous, morally grey everyman; placed the typically bubbly and comic Kareena Kapoor as a venomous, vampish antagonist; and gave the “Elegant Queen” of Indian cinema, Priyanka Chopra, one of her first major dramatic roles as a strong, dignified victim. His world turns upside down when the company