Karz - The Burden Of Truth

There is a tale of young boy Sooraj neglected by his mother Savitri Devi for reasons he did not understand. He is adopted by a childless widower (Rajiv Verma). Years pass and the boy turns into a man, longing for his mother’s love Sooraj seeks asylum in alcohol. One day Sapna (Shilpa Shetty) the beautiful daughter of his father’s friend comes to live with them & Sooraj gives up drinking for her, as he loves Sapna. Sooraj befriends a rather delightful young man, Raja (Sunil Shetty) who calls him big brother. Raja has run away from house in search of a woman he does loves. But their friendship turns into a enmity as Sooraj finds out that the girl Raja has been teasing is none other than Sapna. Raja tells Sooraj that his intention is to get married to Sapna & also that he comes from a very prosperous family. But Sooraj does not believe him until Raja tells him that his father owns a haveli in town & his mother name is Savitri Devi. As Sooraj tells his father, his father guarantees not to tell the fact to his mother. Sooraj keeps silence never saying a word to his mother. One day in a party he hears his mother saying that she has only one son-Raja. He plays a tune that she uses to sing to Raja when he was a child & leaves angry. Sooraj’s mother follows him till home where she hears him singing the lullaby which she used to sing for Raja, she then tells Sooraj that she was not aware that he was alive, she was told that he was dead and embraced him. Only to fall prey to hysterical rapture, rejecting him the very next second. Thus Sooraj learns the truth about himself.