As you know from my no spoilers review, which already went up, I LOVED Raabta.  It was not at all what I was expecting.  I wasn’t even going to see it, but then my sister was in town, and watching a bad romance film in theaters is kind of the perfect sororal activity.  And it turned out to be a good romance, instead of a bad one!  Which is even more perfect for a sororal activity.

Before I can talk about it in detail, especially how it differs from Magadheera, I have to rattle through the whole plot:

Whole Plot in One Paragraph:

Sushant is a player with a new girl every week.  Kriti has terrible nightmares every night and takes medication for them.  They meet, and are immediately struck with an over-whelming connection.  Sushant chases after Kriti, but she makes the first move, kissing him and then sleeping with him after only knowing him a couple of days.  They dive into love and within weeks (or days?  It’s fast) he has proposed.  Kriti isn’t sure, because it is so fast, so suggests a test, first at a party, they both should flirt with someone else and see if they like the other person as much.  She meets Jim Sarbh, an odd silent millionaire type.  Sushant rescues her and warns off Jim Sarbh, and then suggests another test, he has to leave town for a week for business, they won’t talk for a week, and when he comes back, they will decide whether or not to get married.  Kriti meets Jim Sarbh again during that week, and he drugs and kidnaps her, taking her back to his remote island castle, and revealing that he has been seeing visions of her his entire life, just waiting to meet her, and that in a past life they were married.  Kriti thinks he is insane and tries to escape, finally jumping into the sea.  Where she almost drowns and has a vision of her whole past life.

In the past, she was a strong warrior Queen type, and Jim was her king (or fiance?  It’s unclear).  Sushant arrived at the head of a barbarian horde who wanted to capture the kingdom.  He defeated their army, single handed, and almost killed Jim.  Kriti, furious at the injury to her husband/fiance, goes alone to Sushant’s camp and challenges him to a competition, if she wins he goes away, and if he wins, he gets the kingdom and her.  They agree to race.  Over the course of the race, they suddenly fall in love.  Sushant leaves her kingdom and takes her with him and they plan to marry.  Sushant and she marry, and that night as they are exchanging vows of love, Jim interrupts them, attacks Sushant and kills him by drowning, and Kriti breaks free of the people holding her and leaps into the water after Sushant, dying as well.  In the present day, Kriti returns to Jim, and tells him she remembers everything, and is willing to stay with him in this life, so long as he promises not to harm Sushant.  Sushant tracks her down at the engagement party and confronts her, and they end up running together from Jim’s goons.  He catches up, and the same events occur, only this time Sushant has been training his whole life (without knowing why) to hold his breath underwater and is able to survive drowning.  Happy Ending!