Race (2008 film)

Race
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Directed by	Abbas-Mustan
Produced by	Ramesh S. Taurani Kumar S. Taurani
Written by	Jitendra Parmar Anurag Prapanna (Dialogue)
Screenplay by	Shiraz Ahmed
Story by	Shiraz Ahmed
Starring	Anil Kapoor Saif Ali Khan Katrina Kaif Bipasha Basu Akshaye Khanna Sameera Reddy
Music by	Songs: Pritam Background Score: Salim-Sulaiman
Cinematography	Ravi Yadav
Edited by	Hussain A. Burmawala
Production company	Tips Music Films
Distributed by	UTV Motion Pictures
Release date	21 March 2008 (2008-03-21)
Running time	155 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹350 million (equivalent to ₹680 million or US$11 million in 2016)
Box office	₹1.06 billion (equivalent to ₹2.1 billion or US$32 million in 2016)

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Race is a 2008 Indian action thriller film directed by Abbas-Mustan and produced under the Tips Films banner. Released on 21 March 2008 worldwide, it stars Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Akshaye Khanna, Katrina Kaif, Anil Kapoor and Sameera Reddy in pivotal roles. The film also stars Dilip Tahil and Johnny Lever for thriller and comedy sketches. It is the first installment of Race film series.

Set and mostly filmed in Durban and Dubai, Race explores themes of sibling rivalry, betrayal and passion. It became the fourth highest grossing Bollywood film of the year.Race was dubbed into Tamil as Panthayam and in Telugu as Race Telugu. The film's sequel Race 2 was released in 2013, and was also a success. The movie is an adaptation of 1999 thriller Goodbye Lover.

A voice-over by RD (Anil Kapoor) introduces the four main characters: Ranvir Singh "Ronny" (Saif Ali Khan) who runs a successful business he inherited from his father. His younger brother Rajiv Singh (Akshaye Khanna) who mooches off of Ronny and is an alcoholic. Ronny is dating an upcoming model Sonia (Bipasha Basu), while his personal assistant Sophia (Katrina Kaif) appears to be secretly in love with him. Ronny is also involved in an intense competition with a rival horse-owner Kabir (Dalip Tahil). The film opens with a murder plot involving a car accident which Ronny narrowly survives. When Ronny loses money in a race because his jockey had been bribed by Kabir, Ronny plants a bomb in the jockey's car and kills him, showing Ronny to be a ruthless businessman. Later, Ronny also destroys Kabir when the latter offers him money to buy his business, which is in debt.