Emraan Hashmi on Zeher 2005: "One mistake, one affair, one murder and life turns into a thriller", in Goa

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Emraan Hashmi in the film Zeher 2005: The character of a cop who is in charge of a small town police station in Goa. He’s not your typical Hindi film writer’s cop — the kind who does everything right and never takes bribes. It’s not that he’s a bad person; in fact, there’s no bribery angle in the film at all. But he has flaws of his own, just like all of us. He makes mistakes, and he repents for them. A very important trait of this character, which forms the basis of the film, is that he is a traditional Indian male chauvinist. It’s relevant because many of us, especially men, may believe we are modern. We may wear T-shirts and jeans, live in a metropolitan city like Mumbai, yet still believe that a woman’s domain is the home — that she should take care of the house, have children, and loo