Raat Akeli He reminds you about Agatha Christie's stories about murders in an event full of suspects with the desi tadka of corrupt politicians, corrupt police and a bachelor cop with romantic angle for the mistress turned wife of the murdered. A rich Thakur gets murdered on the night of his wedding to his mistress. Everyone blames the mistress for murder (to get rid of her to claim Thakur's property). The cop identifies the mistress from a previous encounter 5 years back and don't want to go with obvious conclusions. Also, 5 years back, Thakur's wife and driver got murdered but police closed the investigation stating it a hit and run case. In Thakur's family, no one is upset about Thakur's death and no one speaks about murderer and this worries our cop.
The plot is good and the cast is strong. The movie is a valuable addition to Whodunit genre of Bollywood but misses the newness. Nawaz plays a typical cop in any Bollywood movie, both acting and appearance wise (the leather jacket, the aviators, the bullet and the moustaches) and not someone unusual like Sherlock or Hercule Poirot. The locations and lifestyle of Thakur's is something we have already seen numerous times in movies like Sahab Biwi n Gangster. Bollywood deserves a pinch of newness in these otherwise brilliant movies. Overall, a good movie.