Zeher will mark Emran Hashmi's hat trick not only in terms of working in the Bhatt camp (the guy has only worked in Bhatt films so far) but also in terms of his onscreen smooch offering. After locking lips with Mallika Sherawat (Murder) and Dia Mirza (Tumsa Nahin Dekha), this time his object of obsession is the Paap girl Udita Goswami. Zeher under the banner of Vishesh Films Pvt. Ltd is written by Mahesh Bhatt and directed by Mohit Suri who happens to be Mahesh Bhatt's nephew.

Storyline

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 on a divorce with 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 is wife beater and Anna is dying for 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 heat of the moment Siddharth takes an irrational decision to give Anna the money he recovered in a drug raid, for her medication in one final effort to save her. Things are not what they seem, Anna dies in a bomb blast 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 truth behind Anna's murder, recover the drug money and also win his wife's love back.

Release date

The film will release in March 2005