Aitraaz is the story of Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar), happily married to Priya, (Kareena) a non-practicing lawyer. Raj is an engineer in a firm chaired by Ranjit Roy (Amrish Puri), and his young wife Sonia (Priyanka) is among the board of directors. Sonia also happens to be Raj's ex-girlfriend. Seeing Raj after five years, Sonia is again drawn towards him, in a purely lustful manner. Failing to get that, she accuses him of rape and asks her husband to remove Raj from the office. Raj, based on his innocence, decides to sue Sonia for sexual harassment. When nobody is ready to trust him, his wife predictably puts on lawyer-garb to fight his case.

Credit goes to Shiraz Ahmed and Shyam Goel for their taut screenplay. Directors Abbas Mustan add to it their classy and innovative style of making. They have their finger on the pulse of the audience no doubt.

Himesh Reshammiya excels with his music. The songs are wonderfully picturised too specially the 'I wanna be with you' number which has been taken in just one shot of five minutes.

AITRAAZ belongs to Priyanka Chopra completely. No two opinions on that! Be it her first appearance [in the story] or the sequence when she openly asks Akshay for sexual favours or the sequence with Kareena, Priyanka gets an opportunity to bear her claws and she does it with complete understanding of the character. Kareena has a sugar-and-sweet character till the pre-climax and she does it well. Akshay Kumar underplays his character ably. Amrish Puri is alright. Paresh Rawal is excellent in the courtroom sequences. Ditto for Annu Kapoor, who matches Rawal at every step. Vivek Shauq leaves a mark. Upasna Singh and Feroze Irani are adequate. The music of the movie is good especially the songs Gela gela, Tala tum tala tum and Aankhen bandh karke. Yeh dil tumpe is choreographed well, as well as Gela gela, attractive by virtue of uniqueness.

On the whole, AITRAAZ is not a romantic film.