Anil Kapoor in the lead role has definitely done a good job of portraying a totally bewildered , confused husband , who has caused his wife's instant death , due to a simple slap during their argument . Instead of calling the police on the scene , he involves in hiding , disposing , and even going to the police station for reporting the missing wife , along with his father-in-law. Investigating officer played by Boman Irani , is himself a nagged husband ,too , as shown while he is having his dinner ! Though his wife looks more like his mother ! Anil's assistant , madly trying to help him out , her boyfriend , the other inspector , and specially the kids are good in their supportive roles ; However , there are some major flaws in handling of the overall plot line of the movie , which could have been more polished , otherwise they seem more or less childish ,like Anil stuffing the dead body in the Onida T.V. box. the neighbor coming out at the same time , and the car getting stuck momentarily near the check post etc. Though Anil gives a very controlled and sensitive performance , the director has not handled the scenes properly , by showing at least some remorse ,or a faint trace of love for the dead wife , a mother of Ravi 's , the protagonist's two young kids ! Those scenes , while he drags , hides , and pushes the body in the carton , seem , as if he is disposing some unwanted stuff , and not a human body , which was full of life , just some hours ago . The suspense could have been made sharper , by editing , and avoiding showing Tejpal , the investigating officer , eating hot and spicy things all the time ! The movie gets it's momentum towards the end , when Ravi Patwardhan is trying to escape with kids in tow , is hotly chased , and finally nabbed in a forest , with children sick , hurt , and crying desperately. The film maker deserves to be appreciated for one thing particularly , casting Anil Kapoor in a role , to prove his talents , hidden under the heap of plastic , melodramatic , nonsensical Bollywood roles all the while ! Worth watching ateast once for Anil , Boman and Nandana !

Every year, Ram Gopal Verma's Factory churns out so many movies of varied quality that the average quality level of these movies ends up being, well, quite average. It does give a lot of aspiring filmmakers a chance to put their skills in use, but the downside is that gems like Ek Hasina Thi get lost in the dust of movies like James. My Wife's Murder is one such lost gem, and easily one of the best of the Factory movies (including the ones directed by RGV).Plot Summary: Ravi Patwardhan (Anil Kapoor) is a film editor with a wife (Suchitra Krishnamoorthi) who nags him for every minute he is at home. One such day, she irritates him to the point where he loses his cool and slaps her involuntarily ending up with a dead wife: she falls with a fatal damage to her skull. Now here is a man stuck in his own bedroom in the middle of the day with a dead wife and children about to arrive from school. And this is just the first 15 minutes. The rest of the movie is about Ravi trying to cover his deed and hide the truth from his children (8yrs & 4 yrs), from the in-laws, and from the police. Boman Irani plays Inspector Tejpal Randhawa who smells the fish and tries to smoke out the criminal. Nandana Sen plays Ravi's Editing apprentice.While watching this movie I realized that its director, Jijy Philip, is not just a man who knows how to make a good movie, but he loves & reads cinema too. This you realize with the subtle and quite unexpected references & homage to Tarantino, Shyamalan & Hitchcock (and maybe others I couldn't identify) without once stooping to rip-offs. Jijy even sets his own style, and then cunningly plays with the audience's mind by side-stepping his own style in a few key scenes. This mix and a completely original style makes this movie and the man behind it a must for fans of Cinema and specifically of the thriller genre. He also comes up trumps in extracting performances from his cast, be it the seasoned Anil Kapoor, yuppie Nandana Sen or even the 8-year old son.Anil Kapoor has not been this good and convincing since Eeshwar. His subtle and underplayed Ravi is a character that lives by compromise rather than conflict. He breathes a humility in Ravi that brings home the audience's empathy for his guilt and desperate state, such that was only a staple of method actors. Yet his performance is lost out on acclaim due to the misplaced glory in Bollywood Superstars. Sigh.Anil Kapoor's guilt-ridden protagonist is made that much more believable partly due to Suchitra Krishnamoorthi's short but highly irritating and therefore highly effective role as Ravi's wife. Nobody wants her dead, but her death evokes sympathy for her accidental-killer more than anything. Boman Irani sheds his comic image within a few frames of his entry and continues to defy the lowly standards of Bollywood character roles. His cop is a realist and logical man who hounds his suspect as the want of a real (good) cop would be. The alluringly beautiful Nandana Sen (who I have not seen in any other movie) also plays a realistic character of the rich but earthly editing assistant to Ravi. Does her Reena just look up to Ravi, or is there a subdued crush too? Is her boyfriend's jealously well founded? Her character, like all others in the movie, are well fleshed out to make them real enough to be believable. This helps the director in dealing with the audience directly - he holds on to us not letting go for a single minute in the entire 103 minutes (only!) of this songless movie.The director also uses a visual style quite alien to Hindi movies: using camera movements to forward the story, follow a character in a steadycam shot or to simply include the audience in the scene. He paints the movie void of any bright colours - there's nothing cheerful about what is unfolding on screen. The background score also plays the build with one particular scene having a clear Signs influence. Gone are any lumbering shots of the car driving down an entire road. We see it enter, and then we see it exit. The editor and the director acknowledge their audience to be intelligent enough to fill the gaps. What it does accomplish is a shorter and tighter movie, and a mostly edge-of-the-seat thriller.Watch this movie. It is very interesting to delve into the mind of a middle-class humble accidental murderer - especially if he is Hindi speaking. If you like it, talk about it to your friends. Word-of-Mouth may just get this flop movie enough of a following to warrant the Director another effort. It would be worth it.

This movie is definitely not what the previous summary made it out to be. Trust me. And if you don't just see the movie and than I know you will trust for the rest of your life. I know Anil Kapoor's acting is far better than most in Bollyhood but this movie was purely made on the fact that the title of the movie would appeal to the mainstream Indian movie goers. But I am sorry to say, actually, why should I be sorry, I did nothing wrong. This movie's plot is not original at all. And when Ms Sen puts her relationship with her soon to be husband on the line and tells lies to the police to save her boss, Anil Kapoor, who would think something like this can actually occur in real life. But anyway this movie was poorly done and put together. This goes to the director and the editing crew but the person to blame is probably the producers who wanted to sell the title, My Wife's Murder, that they put out garbage like this for the whole world to see. Well, can't really blame these producers when the rest of the bollywood producers are also doing the same except a few who I will list later. My whole reason for writing this response was because i read the previous one and I completely disagreed with it and I wanted to warn people it would probably be a mistake seeing the movie. And the list of producers and Directors that are on my A list are as Follows: Mani Ratnam, in many different languages has proved that he is what Stanly Kubrick was for the Hollywood cinema. try to get a hold of his old stuff like Mouna Ragam with Ravethy. It also deals with husband and wife issues (1985) also get Dilse if you have not yet. Best movie ever. Nothing is more realistic than that. and the music A R rhaman provides are like tunes from haven that has been sent by god as a gift to all music lovers. This years movies of the year: Sarkar Kya Kool Hai Hum Menai Pyar Kyu Kya No Entry Salam Nameste

I don't usually write reviews for movies, but this movie is one that I loved so much that I had to write a review. When I saw Swades, I thought that was great cinema -- India is finally catching on. Then I saw Black, Parineeta, Sarkar -- and I believed the same for those. However, this movie is beyond good and great cinema, it's excellent. Don't get me wrong, I would say I liked Black and much as Swades as much as Parineeta as much as Sarkar as much as My Wife's Murder. However, this was a little different approach.It isn't your average Indian film where a rich production company hires the best composer, hit director, famous actor and great technical people and says to them, "go make the next thriller. I want people watching the movie 10 times a day. They should be listening to its music more and that, admiring the technical work and praising the actor". So, obviously was the case with several unnamed movies. My Wife's Murder is different, very different. It's one of the Hollywood-type movies which makes you think, but unlike several others, it's story was actually written in Bollywood, fair to say it's not a copy.India has done several great hits, and even though people may think this is another Bollywood movie, they are wrong. The technical work is excellent. Direction possibly even better. Acting superb (even from the policeman to the children to the main character). And what else can I say.It's the story of Ravi, who owns an editing studio. If there is one thing he likes working. He has only one assistant with whom his wife, thinks and believes he is having a love affair with. One day, when they are fighting about this, an accident occurs. You will have to watch the movie to find out the rest. 10/10 for me.