Zeher

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Zeher (Hindi: ज़हर, Urdu: زہر, translation: "Poison") (released 2005) Is an Indian film directed by Mohit Suri. The film was reputed to be a direct copy of the film Out of Time. The film was a moderate success due to its musical score.

1 Story
2 Main cast
3 Controversy
4 External links

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Siddharth Mehra (Emraan Hashmi) and Soniya Mehra(Shamita Shetty)play a couple who are having problems in their marriage. Emraan meets a beautiful neighbour, Anna Vartgise(Udita Goswami), and subsequently has sex with her. However, when she is found dead, his wife is assigned to the case. Things take a turn when it seems that Emraan Hashmi is the leading suspect in the case

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[edit] Controversy

The movie had it's share of controversy when a leading Pakistani band, Jal, accused the producers of the move of stealing their song, Woh Lamhe. The music director, Anu Malik, credited himself for only "re-creating" the song on the album, but there is still a heavily noticeable resemblance. Roop Kumar Rathod is credited as the "composer", even though he is not affiliated with Jal in any way. The singer, though, is an ex-member of Jal, Atif Aslam, who is still going through legal problems over the band name "Jal" with the existing members.

Another song on the album was also reportedly copied, but no controversy developed. The song, Agar Tum Mil Jao on the original soundtrack is heavily reminiscent of a ghazal with the same name, by Tasavvur Khanum, another Pakistani.

As for the movie itself, critics have noted it as almost striking a scene by scene resemblance to the 2003 movie, Out of Time starring Denzel Washington, down to the dialogues. Almost every plot element remains in Zeher. For example, the fax scene happens almost exactly in Zeher as it does in Out of Time, almost word-for-word, just translated. No controversy has developed as of yet, though.