The Killer is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Hasnain Hyderabadwala and Raksha Mistry, and starring Emraan Hashmi, Irrfan Khan and Nisha Kothari.

Nikhil is an Indian living in Dubai for a good life and is madly in love with a cabaret dancer named Rhea (Nisha Kothari).

However, life has other plans for him when one night, a suave businessman named Vikram (Irrfan Khan) hails his cab.

Vikram holds Nikhil hostage in a bizarre plot to bump off various people who would testify against the dreaded don Jabbar (Zakir Hussain), who is at risk of being deported to India to face charges against him.

Faced with the prospect of losing everything he has been working towards, he finally takes control of the steering wheel of his life.

Nikhil sees his girl-friend Rhea's name and photo in the mobile, which fell off the fleeing Vikram.

Determining to save Rhea from Vikram at any cost, Nikhil tries to contact her to warn her and flee, but her mobile gets discharged.

A critic from Rediff.com wrote that "To borrow an Emraan line from the movie, 'correct bolun toh' the Emraan-Irrfan duo get 100 out of 100, and the film gets just 50".

[3] Film critic Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama wrote that "On the whole, THE KILLER is an absorbing fare that should appeal to lovers of thrillers".