STORY: When hotshot businesswoman Maya Varma’s (Sobhita Dhulipala) body goes missing from the morgue under mysterious circumstances, SP Jairaj Rawal (Rishi Kapoor) takes it upon himself to get to the bottom of the truth. And, once he questions her husband Ajay Puri (Emraan Hashmi), it becomes evident that he is more than just a bereaved widower.

REVIEW: Maya is born with a silver spoon and has everything going for her – smart, successful and gorgeous. And, for someone who works as a professor with a meagre income, Ajay sure strikes gold when the duo decides to tie the knot. But, when the entrepreneur ends up dead and her body goes missing from the morgue, the truth behind their marriage and everything around it starts to unfold.

The storyline of ‘The Body’ does not bring anything new to the table as far as the thriller genre is concerned. Also, since it is confined within the walls of a mortuary and spans over a period of eight hours, this murder mystery tends to lose its grip over the audience early on. Despite the decent background score – an absolute must for a thriller to work – the film fails to keep you on the edge, and ends up being yet another run-of-the-mill, half-baked attempt at concocting a story revolving around love, death and betrayal.