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Wikipedia article
'Zeher: A Love Story' is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language mystery thriller film directed by debutant Mohit Suri and produced by Mahesh Bhatt. The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Shamita Shetty and Udita Goswami. It is an adaptation of the 2003 American film 'Out of Time'.
Plot
In a small town in Goa steeped in azure seas and sultry secrets, the chief of local police station, Siddharth finds himself caught in the midst of a brewing storm. He is going through a divorce with his wife, Sonia whom he still loves, but finds himself involved with a local married woman named Anna. Unable to cope with the pressures of his wife's success who is in the special police force, he continues his secret relationship with Anna.
Things get even more complicated when Siddharth realizes that Anna's husband, Sean is abusive 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 evidence points to him.
With Sonia heads the case, Siddharth is now in a race against time to find out the real truth behind Anna's murder, recover the drug money and also win his Sonia's love back.
After a bunch of wild goose chases, Siddharth finds out that Anna is alive and was actually controlling Sean and Siddharth in the whole plot for getting the insurance money. Siddharth finds this out and while confronting Anna with the truth, Anna points a gun at him. In the scuffle that follows, Sonia shoots Anna and she provides the alibi for him stating that Anna's death was an accident.
The movie ends with Siddharth recovering the lost drug money and reconciling with Sonia.
Cast
*Emraan Hashmi as Siddharth Mehra: Police Officer, Sonia'a husband
*Shamita Shetty as Sonia Mehra: Special Investigating Officer, Siddharths wife
*Udita Goswami as Anna Varghese
*Samir Kochhar as Sean Varghese
*Ninad Kamat as James: Siddharths friend
*Vishwajeet Pradhan as Sooraj Shah: Narcotics Inspector
*Prasad Oak as Nihaal: Sonia's assistant
*Puneet Vashist as Rahul Varma
*Kunal Deshmukh
*Nikhil Ratnaparakhi
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of Zeher was composed by Anu Malik, Roop Kumar Rathod, Mithoon, Jal: the Band and Naresh Sharma with lyrics were penned by Sayeed Quadri and Shakeel Azmi.[https://open.spotify.com/album/4XA32s4j1BSuvzEdIhjguL Zeher]. 'Spotify'.
According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's fourth highest-selling.
Awards
'Nominations:'
* Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer (2005) Atif Aslam
* Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer (2005) Shreya Ghosal
* Zee Cine Award for Best Popular Track of the Year (2005)
* Zee Cine Award for Best Playback Singer Male (2005) Atif Aslam
* IIFA Award for Best Male Playback Singer (2006) Atif Aslam
* Screen Award for Best Debut Director (2006) Mohit Suri
* Screen Award for Best Playback Singer Male (2006) Atif Aslam
References
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