Darling (2007 Indian film)

Darling
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ram Gopal Varma
Written by	Prawaal Raman Kona Venkat
Produced by	Bhushan Kumar Krishan Kumar Dua
Starring	Fardeen Khan Esha Deol Isha Koppikar
Cinematography	Amit Roy
Music by	Pritam Himesh Reshammiya Prasanna Shekhar
Production company	T-Series Films
Distributed by	Balaji Motion Pictures (India) Eros International (Overseas)
Release date	7 September 2007 (2007-09-07)
Running time	132 minutes[1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹6.5 crore[2] Note: figure contains print and advertising costs
Box office	₹4.75 crore[2]

Darling is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language horror film^[1] starring Esha Deol, Fardeen Khan and Isha Koppikar, and directed by Ram Gopal Varma.^[3] It was shot in Mumbai, India. The soundtrack was composed by Himesh Reshammiya and Pritam.

Aditya is married to a traditional wife, Ashwini, and has a young boy. But he is having an affair with his secretary, Geeta Menon, who has a wild personality. He manages to balance the women with clever lies. He promises Geeta he will marry her after divorcing Ashwini. He seems to display fetish behaviours with the two women.

On one of their romantic excursions, Aditya takes Geeta to his friend's bungalow at Madh Island. All seems fine until Geeta shocks Aditya with news that she is pregnant. Worried, he insists that they cannot have a child together and suggests an abortion. This attitude enrages Geeta, and they engage in a fight in which he pushes her. She accidentally hits her head against a hard object, the force of which kills her instantly. He disposes of her body and returns home, behaving as if everything is normal.

His former lover returns as a vengeful ghost who will stop at nothing till she gets her revenge. She appears often to frighten Aditya. Ashwini notices her husband's fear of a ghost whom she cannot see. To relieve his guilt, Aditya admits his affair with Geeta and her death to Ashwini. His wife's reaction is to leave, but she is then admitted to the hospital due to a major accident. Geeta returns to the frame and gives her forgiveness to Aditya. Ashwini recovers, but Geeta's revengeful soul has transferred into her body.

• Fardeen Khan as Aditya "Adit" Soman
• Esha Deol as Geeta Menon
• Zakir Hussain as Sameer Naghani, Aditya's friend
• Isha Koppikar as Ashwini A. Soman
• Upendra Limaye as Inspector Bhaskar Reddy
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Psychiatrist
• Nisha Kothari in a special appearance in the song "Aa Khushi Se Khudkushi"
• Shishir Sharma as Anjan Menon, Geeta's father
• Kiku Sharda as Doctor
• Rasika Joshi as Mrs. Shah Rukh Khan, psychiatric patient

The soundtrack was released on 1 August 2007 in many formats including music cassette, MP3 files, audio CD, and DVD-Audio. The music was composed by Pritam and Himesh Reshammiya in a guest song. The first reviews of the soundtrack have been positive with indiafm.com rating the music at 3.5 out of 5. Joginder Tuteja of indiafm.com said "Darling is a good album that thoroughly entertains while it is on." SmasHits.com said "Darling is the biggest musical bonanza from Ramu's factory after series of miserable musical releases from bunch of his reliable protégés in last few years."

On 10 September 2007 the film was at number 5 on the charts.

The song "Aa Khushi Se Khudkushi" from this film is a cover of Namie Amuro's song "Want Me, Want Me", which was released on 6 April 2005.^{[citation needed]}

• Darling at IMDb
• Official movie site