Baaz: A Bird in Danger

Baaz: A Bird in Danger
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Tinnu Verma
Produced by	Tinnu Verma
Written by	Shyam Goel
Starring	Sunil Shetty Karisma Kapoor Jackie Shroff Dino Morea
Music by	Ismail Darbar
Cinematography	Raju Kaygee
Edited by	Keshav Naidu
Distributed by	Kapishek Films
Release date	7 February 2003
Running time	176 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹62.9 million (equivalent to ₹160 million or US$2.4 million in 2016)
Box office	₹45.2 million (US$670,000)

Baaz: A Bird in Danger is 2003 Hindi thriller movie directed by Tinnu Verma and starring Sunil Shetty, Karisma Kapoor, Jackie Shroff. Other cast members include Dino Morea, Preeti Jhangiani Aditi Gowitrikar and Suhasini Mulay.

This film revolves around a killer who suffers from a mental disorder which causes him to kill those who he is attracted to. Karisma Kapoor plays a girl from Delhi named Neha Chopra, who gets a new job as an interior designer in Nainital, and moves to lonely neighbourhood to pursue her career. She later falls in love with a man named Raj Singh, who is played by Dino Morea. However, the cops inform her that he may be the killer of many young beautiful girls in the area, and she doubts the cops until something causes her to doubt him instead, so she decides to leave the city. The police officer Harshvardhan Bhatti (played by Sunil Shetty) asks her to see the condition of the sister of a victim who witnessed the murder, but is in coma. Seeing her terrible condition, Neha decides to stay and help with the case and acts as if she is in love with Raj. Raj who has lost the love from Neha has to now gain her trust back and save her from the dangers that await her.

The film opens with the life of a child born with a strange disorder where he tends to destroy anything that fascinates him. He would be looked after by his grandmother.

Then the film moves to Nainital 17 years later, where Neha Chopra (Karisma Kapoor) from Delhi comes to Nainital to work as an interior designer for Jai Singh Dabral (Jackie Shroff), the city Mayor who is also a womaniser and attracted to Neha, at one of his secluded and deserted mansions. A serial killer is said to be on the prowl in the city, killing beautiful women ruthlessly and who is always eluding the police, getting away from the law without evidence if at all he gets arrested. Neha soon meets Raj Singj (Dino Morea), a loafer whom everyone in the city seems to avoid as he is the suspected serial killer, but she likes him, and soon both fall in love. The city police commissioner Harshvardhan Bhatti (Sunil Shetty) and subordinate Preeti Rastogi (Preeti Jhangiani) observe the movements of the couple all over the city, and soon they call Neha and warn her that Raj is a serial killer and she must help them nab him red handed as she is soon going to be his next victim. Neha refuses to believe, especially because Raj saves her life on one occasion. But later she finds items of murder in Raj's house, and thinks Raj is the killer. Brokenhearted, she then decides to leave Nainital for good, much against Dabral's wishes, but Harshvardhan and Preeti convince her to stay back and nab Raj red handed.