brothers. Tejaswini (Raveena Tandon) is a newscaster and the girl, Vijay is in love with. Tejaswini gets pregnant with Abhay's baby and the two decide to get married. They go to the asylum to meet Abhay. Abhay, sees his stepmother (Kitu Gidwani) in Tejaswini and decides to kill her, fearing that she may not be good for his brother. Abhay has been in the asylum right from the time he was child for having killed his step-mother. His step-mother was responsible for his mother committing suicide, his father's (Millind Gunaji) death and his brother being sent to his uncle's (Vikram Gokhale) house.
        
Abhay kills a couple of his colleagues in the asylum and finally escapes from there. While, he is on his search for Tejaswini , he meets Sharmilee (Manisha Koirala), an actress who loves to get high on drugs. Abhay kills her and thereafter follows Tejaswini to kill her. He reaches their ancestral home

while following Tejaswini and Vijay and realises that is the place where he had killed his step mother. But in the climax realises that Tejaswini is not his step-mother . He ends up killing himself.
 
Abhay is yet another creation by Kamal Haasan. Unfortunately, the film is not as per expectation. It is a total let down compared to his earlier films like Nayakan, Mayor Saheb, Appu Raja and Hindustani. The script is bad and the direction extremely poor. There are a few interesting parts like the use of animated characters and some mind blowing techniques but that alone isn't enough to impress. The sequences

appear loud and dragging making the viewer run out of patience. The seriousness of the film is marred due to the excessive use of cartoons. The film's saving graces are the excellent cinematography (Thirru) and the stunning visual effects (George Merkert, Scott, Ian Johnson and Krishnakant Mishra). Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is average and there is not a single number that would catch the audience's attention. Performance-wise, Kamal Haasan is the best in the role of Abhay. Raveena and Manisha look gorgeous but are wasted in very insignificant roles. Milind Gunaji and Kitu Gidwani are OK.