> Zinda

Zinda starts off with the story of Balajit roy[Sanjay Dutt] who has just gotten married[to celina jaitley] and on request of his company has moved to Bangkok to work there. On one fine day after a few months, Mrs. Roy gets the news that she is pregnant, as soon as she runs down to tell her husband this news, she finds he has vanished into thin air.

The scene cuts to Balajit roy being held captive without any reason and watched over for a period of 14 years, his only companion is an old TV set and fried Bontons as food day and night. In this unwanted prison he isnt tortured, just held captive without any reason but fully taken care of in other aspects.

One day he sees the news that his wife has been killed and he has been framed for this murder. Upon hearing this balajit roy looses his will to live anymore and tries to commit suscide, but is saved and thrown back in captivity. Now he wishes to find out who has captured him and killed his wife and why, for this he starts training and learning fighting skills by watching TV shows.

Suddenly after 14 years he is set free in the city, with no idea of what to do next and why is he set free, burning in revenge, Balajit roy goes all around Bangkok searching for his captivator. With help from Miss Jenny [ Lara Dutta], a cab driver and his old friend Joy Fernandes[Mahesh Manjeraker], he finds out that he had been held captive by a multibillion empire tycoon [ John Abraham]. Now Balajit roy goes in the hunt of this tycoon to find out the reasons for his punishment and get his revenge.

Impressive storyline it seems , copied from the hit korean movie titled " Old Boy", Zinda falls flat as soon as the mystery is revealed at the starting of second half.


The direction and camera work is quite fine, but loose at places. Screenplay is fine, sanjay dutt performs beautifully as a tortured person turned heartless killer but as usual other than the 2 central characters, there is not much to do for the supporting actors.

The music of the movie is the only thing thats good, the tracks by Strings and Shibani Kashyap are rocking and are topping the Charts right now.

The movie is gory, the violence is nothing like you would ever get to see in an Indian movie, Various scenes are so violent that its hard to beleive that the sensor board actually allowed them to be shown.

The first half of the movie is quite fine, with a good pace and mix of action and drama, the second half ruins the whole movie and it becomes a torture.

I suggest that this is a movie that you should definatly skip.