- While on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.
- Ishqiya is a story about love arising in characters, portrayed uniquely according to their own personal traits. The situations in the plot lead the characters to experience the emotion creeping into their lives in the most unexpected manner.—Shemaroo Entertainment Pvt Ltd
- Krishna Verma asks her husband Vidyadhar Verma to quit his life of criminal and surrender to the cops he agrees but soon a gas explosion takes in the house killing him.Two small time criminals uncle and nephew Khalu and Babban escape from their boss Mushtaq who wants to bury them alive and seek refuge in house of Vidyadhar Verma.A widowed Krishna offers them shelter in the house and starts to seduce both of them and plans to kidnap businessman Kamlakar Kakkad.Khalu and Babban both start to fall in love with Krishna getting in tiff with each other but soon realize that Krishna is using them for everything for her own benefit.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
- Khalu (Naseeruddin Shah) and his nephew, Babban (Arshad Warsi), flee with cash belonging to Mushtaq (Rajesh Sharma), the former's Lucknow-based brother-in-law. Hoping to re-locate to Nepal with the help of Gorakhpur-based Vidyadhar Verma, they find that he is no more, and temporarily take shelter with his attractive widow, Krishna. Mushtaq soon locates and tortures them until they decide to return the cash. When they go to retrieve it, they find it missing, and he gives them until Rakhsa Bandhan to return it. Unable to unravel the mystery of the missing cash, the hapless duo, now hopelessly in love with Krishna, decide to abduct Ghaziabad-based businessman, Kamalkant Kakkad. They meticulously carry out the plan - little knowing what is in store of them in the near future.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
- Ishqiya starts with Krishna Verma (Vidya Balan) trying to convince her husband, Vidyadhar Verma (Adil Hussain), a local gang-lord, that he should surrender. He agrees but is soon killed in a gas explosion. Two criminals, Iftikhar aka Khalujan (Naseeruddin Shah) and Razzak Hussain aka Babban (Arshad Warsi), steal money (Rs 20 Lakhs) and escape from the clutches of their boss, Mushtaq (Salman Shahid) (Khalu's Lucknow based brother-in-law), who wants to bury them alive. Babban wanted to kill Mushtaq before leaving, but Khalu didn't want to destroy his own sister's home. They land up in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh to seek refuge in the house of Vidyadhar Verma.
Hoping to re-locate to Nepal with the help of Gorakhpur-based Vidyadhar Verma (a local kidnapper & Maoist), they find that he is no more, and temporarily take shelter with his attractive widow, Krishna (Viyda Balan). She tries to seduce them (Khalu is impressed by her sweet voice and songs) (Babban is only interested in lust) to achieve her own secret goal. Khalu meanwhile hides the moneybag in Krishna's attic. Babban meets a young boy Nandu (Alok Aarav) who knows a lot about guns and offers to have Babban's Tamancha fixed in 2 mins. Mushtaq soon locates (He finds Babban at the local brothel) and tortures them until they decide to return the cash. When they go to retrieve it, they find it missing, and he gives them until Rakhsa Bandhan to return it. Unable to unravel the mystery of the missing cash (Babban suspects Krishna of stealing the bag), the hapless duo are now hopelessly in love with Krishna. Krishna lures Khalu with love and Babban with her raw sexuality..
Krishna proposes the kidnapping of Kamalkant Kakkar aka KK (Rajesh Sharma), a small businessman. Verma was the local kidnapping specialist and Krishna says KK has enough money to pay a big ransom that can pay off Mushtaq, and is not enough rich enough to attract too much attention. The duo reluctantly agree, since they want to escape the clutches of Mushtaq. Meanwhile, Khalujan and Babban realize that they are falling for Krishna, but they do not reveal their feelings to each other. Babban eventually seduces Krishna and both have sex (Khalu & Babban were to go to Faizabad to steal a car, but Babban stays behind saying that he has a stomach ache). Khalujan decides to tell his feelings to Krishna but is shocked when he sees Krishna and Babban together dancing after having sex. Khalujan is angry but keeps quiet. The trio track KK and find that he visits a mistress daily between 8 am and 11 am. However, when the kidnapping does not go as smoothly as wanted (Babban poses as a police officer to stop KK's car and Khalu+Krishna follow in a car behind to abduct him. But, KK senses that Babban is not a police man and escapes. Khalu has to fire at his car, which falls into a ditch), Khalujan and Babban start fighting. Krishna meanwhile drives KK away.
Meanwhile, Krishna tortures KK and asks him where her husband is hiding, revealing that Verma might be alive. Babban and Khalujan realize that Krishna was just using them. They confront her at her house, whereupon she reveals (She offers them the money bag + 5 Lakhs on top to return the money to Mushtaq) that KK and Verma were partners in smuggling arms from Nepal and that Verma is still alive. The duo find KK in the basement of the house. He says that he never knew Verma. The duo want KK to arrange a ransom of 2.5 Crores, and he calls his wife (who was at the parlor and she puts the call on speaker. The parlor belongs to KK's mistress who listens to all instructions on where the money is). the duo reach KK's factory to collect the cash from KK's wife, and are shocked to find Verma (who was called by KK's mistress).
Verma's goons blindfold the duo and take them to a deserted spot. When they take out their blindfolds, Babban sees Nandu (Alok Kumar), a boy he had previously met, pointing a gun at them. Nandu leaves them alive and explains the whole story. He tells that Verma had no plans to leave his criminal life, so he faked his death in front of the world, to get two benefits, getting rid of his wife by killing her in explosion and faking his death so he can start a new life with new identity as police was after him. Khalujan and Babban race back to Krishna's house, where they have left her tied to a chair.
Meanwhile, Krishna succeeds in opening the tube of gas cylinder, causing a leak. Verma confronts her (She says she knew Verma was alive as that night the cylinder was empty and hence it could not be a gas explosion) and she tries to kill them by igniting a lighter. Verma assaults Krishna while the duo arrives. Soon, police arrive at the scene, too (they were following the duplicates after they attacked a police station). Verma's goons are killed in a shootout, while Verma is killed in a gas explosion. The duo save Krishna and soon the trio is seen walking away from the burning house. Unknown to them, Mushtaq is pointing a gun at them. Suddenly Mushtaq's wife calls. The trio are still seen through the gun hole of Mushtaq, making their fate unclear, although it can be assumed that Mushtaq left them alive.
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