INDIA: Zinda. 2005

Director: Sanjay Gupta
Stars: John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Sanjay Dutt, Balajeet Roy, Celina Jaitley.
Release date: India - 12 Jan 2006
Length: 116

Pulled from Rediff.com
"Hindi films too are increasingly being 'inspired' by the brute-force bandwagon. Hence, The Eye and Dark Water became Naina; Acacia; Ju-On: The Grudge became Vaastu Shastra. And Old Boy becomes Zinda".

At least the Indians beat the Americans to the punch. Rumours abound with names like Nic Cage, Brad Pitt, Mel Gibson starring & even David Lynch helming the revisioning of Park Chan-Wook's masterpiece. All crock. A Taiwanese director who lives in California is shooting the new film, so in the meantime, let's look out for this Hindi version. Naturally it will come with modern dance routines & poppy song interludes between the hardcore violence. We wouldn't have it any other way. In the last few years my 'hit & miss' targets have been severely on the 'miss' part after seeing the Bollywood films that have been getting a local release. Yet still I persist, but with some films only get one weeks viewing it can be hard to see everything.

Synopsis
For fourteen years of his life, Balajeet Roy (Sanjay Dutt) was imprisoned without knowing what his crime was nor where he was. One day, he is suddenly set free and has four days to find out why he was imprisoned and why he was kept alive. So begins his quest for answers and revenge.

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