Mithun Chakraborthy and Kashmira Shah starrer action packed thriller Zahreela was released on March 5, 2001. The movie was directed by Raj Sippy and written by Iqbal Durani. The other starcast of the movie includes Gulshan Grover, Vikas Anand, Om Puri and Asrani in important characters. The melodious music of the movie was given by the hit music director jodi, Anand Milind, while the songs were beautifully rendered by Abhijeet, Sudesh Bhonsle, Jaspinder Narula, Poornima etc.

The movie starts with a guy named Arun Dev ( Om Puri ), who is living a happy life alongwith his wife, Nisha, his sister Pooja and his close friend, Kartar Singh ( Gulshan Grover ). Arun is a lawyer by profession and is famous for his honesty. His life gets upturned when he learns that a guy named Dushyant Kumar ( Mithun Chakraborthy ), who was putted behind bars on the charge of a rape, is released from the jail. Arun was responsible for proving Dushyant the culprit for the crime. Now Dushyant seeks revenge from Arun.

He will surely rape Arun’s sister but before doing that he wants to make Arun live a life under his terror. He wants to make Arun’s life similar to jail’s life. He is determined to make Arun face the torture of seven years in seven days and to snatch every moment of happiness from Arun’s life. Now what Arun will do to save his own and his family life? Whether he will be able to keep Dushyant away from his life or not?

The songs of the movie are:

1. Mera dil tha akela
2. Kuch aisa hua tha
3. Khauff mein jeena