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By
IndiaFM News Bureau, July 6, 2007 - 11:15 IST
 Zaid
Ahmed (Muzamil Ibrahim) is a bright, young Muslim
police officer in Mumbai. Dedicated to his work,
respected and admired by his colleagues and community,
he represents integration at its most successful. He
has learned to live with the violence and the chaos
that plagues his city, and on the night of a deadly
bombing at the New Century club, he works tirelessly
to help the shocked and shattered patients brought to
the hospital.
But this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifying
personal turn. His wife’s body, the beautiful
mysterious Sarah (Tulip Joshi) is found amongst the
dead, with massive injuries. Things turn even more
horrific when the police coldly announce that Sarah’s
injuries were typical of those found on fundamentalist
suicide bombers. As evidence mounts that his wife,
Sarah, was responsible for the catastrophic bombing,
Zaid is torn between cherished memories of their years
together and the inescapable realization that the
beautiful, intelligent woman he loved had a life far
removed from their comfortable, assimilated existence
together.
From the opening of the film to its searing
conclusion, Dhokha displays the reality of terrorism
and its incalculable spiritual costs. Intense and
humane, devoid of political bias and hatred, intensely
thoughtful, sensitive and felt, it displays a profound
understanding of what can seem impossible to
understand.
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