Year: 2005
Runtime: 132 mins
Language: Hindi
Director: Mohit Suri
Siddharth and Sonia enjoy a tranquil marriage, but the arrival of Anna disrupts their harmony. When Anna is murdered, Siddharth becomes the prime suspect, dragging him into a vortex of suspicion, guilt, and dangerous secrets. His life unravels as he battles police pressure, marital strain, and the haunting truth behind Anna’s death.
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In a sun-drenched Goan town framed by azure seas and sultry secrets, the chief of the local police station, Siddharth Mehra, finds himself caught in a brewing storm. He is in the middle of a divorce with his wife, Sonia Mehra, whom he still loves, yet he is entangled with a local married woman named Anna Verghese. The weight of Sonia’s success in the special police force adds pressure to his decisions, and the lines between duty and desire blur. Even Inspetor Shah suspects that something deeper is at play as tensions rise.
As the personal chaos deepens, Anna’s husband, Sean Verghese, is revealed to be abusive, and Anna is battling cancer. Moved by sympathy, Siddharth secretly helps by giving Anna money he recovered from a drug raid to cover her medications, a choice that haunts him with moral ambiguity and fear of the consequences. Alongside this, James, a wary ally, becomes drawn into the web of secrets and lies that seem to tighten around Siddharth.
Things spiral when Anna dies in a fire that very night, and the evidence quickly points toward Siddharth. The case is heavy with pressure: Sonia leads the investigation, and Siddharth races against time to uncover the truth, recover the drug money, and win Sonia’s love back while proving his own innocence. The pursuit pulls in a murky trail of drug money, murder, and deceit, with the weight of the police force and a small town’s gaze bearing down on him.
After a string of wild goose chases, a startling truth emerges: Anna is alive and has been manipulating both Sean and Siddharth to cash in on an insurance payoff. Confrontation follows, and Anna pulls a gun on Siddharth. In the ensuing struggle, Sonia shoots Anna and provides an alibi for Siddharth, insisting that Anna’s death was an accident. With the danger behind him and the truth exposed, Siddharth recovers the lost drug money and, at last, reconciles with Sonia.
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