Vaada is a 2005 Indian Bollywood thriller directed by Satish Kaushik. The film revolves around a murder amidst a convoluted love-triangle and stars Arjun Rampal portraying as Rahul, the accidentally blinded husband of Puja, played by Amisha Patel, as well as his best friend and Puja's obsessed ex-lover, Karan, played by Zayed Khan. The screenplay was written by Rumi Jaffery and the dialogues by Abbas Tyrewala.
The movie opens as both Rahul (Arjun Rampal) and his friend, Karan (Zayed Khan) discover the deceased body of Rahul's wife, Pooja (Amisha Patel), hanging in the living room of her home. Throughout the movie, many twists occur including some as red herrings surrounding the mystery of Pooja's sudden death. There are frequent flashbacks of Pooja's past with both Rahul and Karan.
As the investigations go on, the audience finds out that Karan was Pooja's ex-boyfriend. Karan was brash and good-looking, but had a major flaw - he was obsessed with Pooja and violently jealous of anyone paying her any attention. Karan's flaw caused Pooja to initially fear him and eventually break up with him. He leaves town and she becomes a famous music performer and soon meets a handsome, loving, wealthy man, Rahul, who falls madly in love with her when since he saw her dance to the song, 'Zindagi ko Savar De Maula'. Pooja loves her husband very much and on their wedding night she promises she will never do anything to shame him, flashbacks are shown with a happy marriage which gets shattered when the couple are involved in a car accident, causing Rahul to go completely blind.
Karan, unaware of Pooja's marriage to Rahul, as he left the country to make something of himself for Pooja to be proud ofso he could become worthy of Pooja's hand in marriage. When he comes back, he is heartbroken to find out that his ex-love is married and coincidently he had become a business partner and friend of Rahul. One day, Rahul takes Karan to his house, where Karan is in for a surprise as he sees Pooja! Pooja is shocked to see Karan, but makes it clear to him that she loves her husband and their relationship is definitely in the past.
The movie goes back to the present where an unknown man is trying to blackmail Karan as Pooja's jewelry is found in his drawer. To make matters worse, someone seems to be trying to kill Rahul! Pooja's body is stolen from the morgue and found cremated on the beach. After some investigations, the police take Karan to the police station. Eventually Karan is indicted, but denies his involvement as Pooja's former lover and stalker, even though he knows that he loved Pooja. Also, the fact that Rahul is, in fact, not blind is unveiled as he had an eye operation to cure his blindness, but he keeps up the act of being blind.
