Zeher (, , ) (released 2005) is a
Hindi language
Indian film directed by
Mohit Suri. The
film was reputed to be a direct copy of the English film
Out of Time. The film's
moderate success is attributed to its
musical score.
Plot
In a small town in
Goa steeped in azure seas and sultry secrets, the chief of local police station, Siddharth (
Emran Hashmi) finds himself caught in the eye of a storm…and about to get blown away.
Siddharth, who is going through a divorce with his wife, Sonia (
Shamita Shetty) whom he still loves, finds himself involved with a local married woman named Anna (
Udita Goswami). Unable to cope with the pressures of his wife's success who is in the special police force, he continues his secret and dangerous relationship with Anna.
Things get even more complicated when Siddharth realizes that Anna's husband, Shawn (
Sameer Kochhar) is a wife beater and Anna is dying from cancer. Being a good soul, Siddharth does not have it in him to abandon this woman who seems to have given him some affection in recent times.
In the heat of the moment, Siddharth takes an irrational decision to give Anna the money he recovered in a drug raid, for her medication in a final effort to save her. Things are not what they seem since Anna dies in a fire that very night. Siddharth now races to uncover a murky tail of drug money, murder and deceit, because all the evidences points to him.
With his wife heading the case, Siddharth is now in a race against time to find out the real...
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