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Credits
Producer/s:	Kiran Shroff and Kushan Nandy
Director:	Kushan Nandy
Cast:	Atul Kulkarni, Rahul Dev, Shweta Menon, Jasmine, Suchitra Pillai, and Sanjay Singh
Music:	Rajesh Roy
Lyrics:	Ravi Basnet, Rajesh Roy and Ehsaas

Everyone who is excited to see more and more thrillers, especially after the grand success of Bhoot, was waiting for 88 Antop Hill. Coined as India’s first sound-oriented film, this Kushan Nandy film, however, ends up as nothing but a film with no heart and soul.

As the title, suggests, it’s a film about a particular address. 88 Antop Hill is a place situated in Mumbai. A bank employee Pratyush Shelar (Atul Kulkarni) is forced to go there in the wee hours after his friend calls him up and pleads for his help. But after reaching at the spot, Pratyush meets a girl, a prostitute called Teesta (Shweta Menon) instead of his friend.

Soon, Teesta reveals that his friend called him because he wanted Pratyush to spend a night with Teesta. Pratyush is not of the type who can spend night with a sex worker and so he intends to go back. But before he can make a move, someone kills Teesta in a house where there was no one except him and the woman. Who killed her? Frightened Pratyush hurriedly leaves the place and tries to clean his hands off the case. Police then start investigating the case. Arvind Khanvilkar (Rahul Dev) is a cop who is in charge of the matter. Pratyush is too scared to go to police and explain his innocence so, instead of behaving like a good citizen; he runs from pillar to post and tries to find out the real culprit himself. And before the case is put to its logical end, some more murders happen.

In his course of finding out the killer, Pratyush comes across few people including the business tycoon K.K. Menon (Sanjay Singh) and his girlfriend Sonia (Jasmine), Teesta’s neighbor (Shaukat Baig) who tries to blackmail him, Sonia’s brother and Menon’s trusted aide Soul. But his all efforts go in vein as things get more confused with his every move and he fails to understand who has killed the pro.

The film has very few highs where the viewer will feel like absolutely involved in it. The first is the opening where one really expects things will move after Pratyush is called by his friend and then ends up in a place unknown to him. But then, as Teesta is killed and the way Pratyush runs from the scene, everything starts becoming messy. Firstly, there is no good reason provided as to why Pratyush prefers not to seek police’s help. The way Arvind investigates the case and reaches to conclusion are very flimsy and unacceptable.

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