Zinda (2006)

Director:

Sanjay Gupta

Writers:

Sanjay Gupta (screenplay)
Suresh Nair (screenplay)

Release Date:

12 January 2006 (India)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

One good act of vengeance.... deserves another

Plot:

A man, taken and locked up for 14 years without any sane reason, is suddenly released, and has 4 days to figure out why this was done to him.

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Telephone Call | Bangkok | Sex | Danger

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Sanjay Dutt	...	Balajeet Roy
John Abraham	...	Rohit Chopra
Lara Dutta	...	Jenny Singh
Celina Jaitley	...	Nisha Roy (as Celina Jaitly)
Mahesh Manjrekar	...	Joy Fernandes
Rajendranath Zutshi	...	Woo Fong (as Raj Zutshi)
Alisha Baig
Nitin Raghani
Aditya Siddhu
Rushita Singh
Vicky Arora
Rahhull Dosani
Chirag
Gaurav Chanana		(as Gaurav)
Master Shlok Chaturvedi

Runtime:

116 min

Country:

India

Language:

English | Thai | Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

India:A (uncensored) | India:UA (censored) | Australia:MA | UK:15 (original rating) | UK:18 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Company:

White Feather Films

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Near the end of the lovemaking scene, John Abraham finishes off the people in the fighting ring. He throws a punch that misses one of the fighters by about two feet, yet it makes a hitting noise and sends the guy spinning.

Quotes:

Rohit Chopra: To find out why I did this to you... you have only 6 days left
Balajeet Roy: But you don't even have one day left...
Balajeet Roy: C'mon Bala... do you really think you can kill me?

Movie Connections:

References Zatôichi (2003)

Soundtrack:

Yeh Hai Meri Kahaani

A True Insult To Oldboy !!!

I can't believe they got the rights to crucify OLDBOY with this trash!!! I mean why bother... They have totally destroyed a cult movie of very high standard. The acting in this"effort" is shabby, the cinematography is amateur, the dialogue had me in stitches from start to finish. I found myself in tears of laughter at how bad this really was in every way possible.

I think the most tickling moment is when they tried to re enact the "hammer" fight scene with a hugely inflated Sanjay Dutt - it was like seeing a hippo on speed - the original was one of the most memorable fight scenes ever choreographed but this was like a terrible outtake.

I hope the actors and director of this nonsense look back at it and cringe with embarrassment because I certainly did.

Hollywood have their crack at Oldboy released some time this year, I hope and pray it's not as bad as Zinda - one thing this film is not is Zinda for sure - its DEAD from the opening scene !!!