7 Khoon Maaf 7 Khoon Maaf is an upcoming Hindi drama, thriller and black comedy film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, starring Priyanka Chopra in the lead role. The film, based on the Ruskin Bond short story, Susanna’s Seven Husbands.

Features seven male leads with Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham and Neil Nitin Mukesh as the youngest husband, as well as Irrfan Khan, Annu Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah’s youngest son Vivaan Shah and Russian actor Aleksandr Dyachenko, in the roles of the seven husbands. Priyanka Chopra will be seen playing a negative character once again after Aitraaz (2004) and Yakeen (2005). 7 Khoon Maaf was first scheduled for release on 21 January 2011, but has now been postponed to 18 February 2011.

Cast & Crew

Release Date
February 18, 2011

Language
Hindi

Genre
Thriller and Black comedy

Director
Vishal Bhardwaj

Producer
Ronnie Screwvala
Vishal Bhardwaj

Star Cast

  • Priyanka Chopra as Susanna
  • Neil Nitin Mukesh as Major Rodriques
  • John Abraham as Jimmy
  • Irrfan Khan as Wasiullah
  • Aleksandr Dyachenko as Vronsky
  • Annu Kapoor as Inspector Keemat Lal
  • Naseeruddin Shah as Tarafdar

Music By
Vishal Bhardwaj

Editing by
Sreekar Prasad

Screenplay by
Matthew Ribbons
Vishal Bhardwaj

Distributed by
UTV Motion Pictures
VB Pictures Pvt. Ltd.

Synopsis
The film tells the story of a beautiful Anglo-Indian woman Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes (Priyanka Chopra) who goes on to kill all her husbands. Susanna tries to find love but six of her seven husbands have a fatal flaw so she kills them. These killings and her yearning for love is explained by the fact that she had lost her mother at very young age. The story is narrated by a young forensic doctor Arun (Vivaan Shah) to his wife (Konkona Sen Sharma). Arun has observed Susanna since his childhood and has nurtured a secret crush on her. The boy owes his whole life to Susanna as she funded his education and made him what he is today. He starts off by declaring to his wife that Susanna has committed suicide leaving him a note congratulating him for his marriage. The doctor is now in charge of confirming whether the body found is Susanna’s. Unable to overcome the grief of her death he lets out his feelings to his wife who listens to him patiently.

Susanna’s first husband Edwin Rodriques (Neil Nitin Mukesh), an Army Major, whose fatal flaw is that he is overbearing, jealous and possessive. He is crippled and unable to digest the fact that a beautiful woman such as Susanna would actually be faithful to him and would be able to love him. There comes a point when he even starts to doubt his ability to father a child and takes out his anger on his wife. Though she bears the mental torture he subjects her to day after day, she could not forgive him for blinding her faithful, mute horse keeper (Shashi Malviya) in a whip fight. He is disposed of during a panther hunting trip with the help of her faithful maid (Usha Uthup), her butler (Harish Khanna) and the mute horse keeper. Susanna’s second husband, Jamshed Singh Rathod (John Abraham), who rechristens himself as Jimmy Stetson after their marriage, is a singer whose flaw is pride. The marriage starts off well but Jimmy starts gaining success and misusing his new found fame. He starts stealing songs and spending time with other women and becomes dependent on drugs. Susanna wants to be lucky in love the second time and tries her best to get him out of his addiction but in vain as he gets hooked on his addiction again secretly. At last she gives up on him and disposes of him through a Heroin overdose. The police find foot prints near his body which indicate that someone with six toes has committed the murder.

Susanna’s third husband Wasiullah Khan (a.k.a Musafir) (Irrfan Khan) is a soft and thoughtful poet by day, a sado-masochist by night. Susanna tries to cover the bruises he gives at night with make-up. Her faithful servants cannot bear to see her depressed and beaten up and advises her to get rid of him which she eventually agrees to. He is buried in a snowy grave in Kashmir. Her fourth husband, Nicolai Vronsky (Aleksandr Dyachenko) is a Russian Spy leading a double life. When Susanna finds out that he has another wife who has borne him kids, her anger knows no bounds. He meets his end courtesy Susanna’s pet snakes. Susanna transits into partial madness and no longer needs to ponder before disposing of anyone she disapproves.

Her fifth husband Keemat Lal (Annu Kapoor) is a police inspector, who has shielded his ‘Madame’ from prosecution in two murders and lures her into marriage. With a voracious appetite for sex, his need for Viagra proves to be his undoing as one fateful night, she makes him overdose on his Viagra by mixing it in his drink.

Dr. Modhusudhon Tarafdar (Naseeruddin Shah) a Bengali doctor saves her from a suicidal act she had due to loneliness and guilt after hearing of Arun’s marriage and puts her on a mushroom only diet. While she does not wish to marry he convinces her into marriage saying that she will be the sole inheritor of his property. He tries to kill Susanna a few years after their marriage in order to inherit her money as he is actually bankrupt. He tries to poison her with mushroom soup, however the butler drinks it by accident and dies instead. In a state of shock, she shoots Modhuda during a session of Russian roulette.

The same night, Susanna lights her house on fire in an attempt to kill herself. Seeing the house on fire, her faithful maid with six toes comes to rescue her instead dies in the flame. In the forensic lab Arun finds out that the body is not Susanna’s, yet he declares her dead in his reports. He goes in search of Susanna and finds her where she tells him she finally is getting married the next day to someone who accepts her, knowing all of her sins. Finally in spirituality, She imagines her seventh husband to be Jesus one who is full of love, and already ‘dead’ as she becomes a nun at the end. Susanna finally found the love she kept seeking all through her life and this person who is her ultimate real eternal husband, God who would never hurt her. Arun and his wife go back home, after he tells her that Susanna is dead forever.

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Priyanka Chopra

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Songs


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Track 1: Darling
Singers: Usha Uthup, Rekha Bhardwaj

Track 2: Berkaraan
Singers: Vishal Bharadwaj

Track 3: O’Mama
Singers: K.K, Clinton Cerejo

Track 4: Awaara
Singers: Master Saleem

Track 5: Tere Liye
Singers: Suresh Wadkar

Track 6: Dil Dil Hai
Singers: Suraj Jagan

Track 7: Yeshu
Singers: Rekha Bhardwaj

Track 8: Doosri Darling
Singers: Usha Uthup, Rekha, Clinton Cerejo, Francois

Track 9: O’Mama (Acoustic)
Singers: K.K

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