-----Zinda---
Zinda is the story of a Bengali couple (Sanjay Dutt and Celina Jaitley) . Sanjay works as a software programmer/designer in Thailand bcoz his employers are not willing to let him work in India and they give a hefty pay in return. This is the innocuous opening of this film. Then , koena learns from the doctor that she is pregnant……Sanjay gets kidnapped….he’s in some sort of black-hell…he’s watching on TV that his wife has been murdered…… all these sequences leave u with an eerie feeling. There is a lull after this…..sanjay gets used to these conditions…some one comes twice a day to feed him fried wantons(bhajiya, if u will) and every 3 days or so….some ppl will come to clean up the mess he’s made and to check him if he’s ‘zinda’. There is a buddhist sign in his room which sanjay understands as the message that he’ll meet his captor……but when…..no one knows at this moment. He learns Chinese martial arts……by watching television ofcourse. Finally after 14 loong yrs…he’s freed with mobile and cool goggles (bcoz he’s not exposed to direct sun for so longJ). Incidentally….his captor also wants to meet Balajit roy(sanjay) …so he’s providing hints for him. He meets a cabbie (lara dutta) to check out the places where wanton is served……that is the only link he has as of now.
He meets his old friend (Mahesh manjrekar) again , but he’s not in a state of mind to tell him everything that has happened. He finally gets to know where he’s been kept and goes there to kick the bloody life out of the manager…..manager(Raj zutshi) is an irritating and cheap “hostel” owner. Sanjay gets injured in the process and someone calls a taxi and sends him to lara’s house.
Lara is not thrilled with this situation…but accepts unwillingly. They flee from Thailand assuming that his captor will not be able to find him once he crosses the city limits… then, another attack on him and he finally discovers how his captor is finding him out everywhere…he’s fitted with a transmitter……he removes it and voila …his captor cannot find him…. But…..captor’s don’t depend on simple things like these….not in Sanjay Gupta’s films anyway….. sanjay meets his captor .or the other way round….. and he gets to know the reason for him being captured…..
Sanjay when in school plays a juvenile prank on john’s sister and it gets worse for her to ‘live’ anymore and she commits suicide. Then john is a helpless 7 or 8 yr old. Now he’s a business magnate with several companies under his empire and one of which ,bala works for. This was all setup before bala even came to Thailand. John has the custody of sanjay’s daughter……yes , he killed sanjay’s wife after she gave birth to a baby girl. She’s now 14 yrs old….the same age when john’s sister died. She’s locked up in a room and buggers are waiting for her…..
sanjay cannot tolerate this…..but, without saying anything more…john too falls off from the building and …..dies, then what. Sanjay finds where his daughter is locked up and goes to free her. She’s not to be found. Then he gets a call…..whoz this…….papa, I am at your(our) house.
Sanjay is relieved to see his daughter….. he feels “john ke seene mein bhi dil tha”………….
Zinda is the story of a Bengali couple (Sanjay Dutt and Celina Jaitley) . Sanjay works as a software programmer/designer in Thailand bcoz his employers are not willing to let him work in India and they give a hefty pay in return. This is the innocuous opening of this film. Then , koena learns from the doctor that she is pregnant……Sanjay gets kidnapped….he’s in some sort of black-hell…he’s watching on TV that his wife has been murdered…… all these sequences leave u with an eerie feeling. There is a lull after this…..sanjay gets used to these conditions…some one comes twice a day to feed him fried wantons(bhajiya, if u will) and every 3 days or so….some ppl will come to clean up the mess he’s made and to check him if he’s ‘zinda’. There is a buddhist sign in his room which sanjay understands as the message that he’ll meet his captor……but when…..no one knows at this moment. He learns Chinese martial arts……by watching television ofcourse. Finally after 14 loong yrs…he’s freed with mobile and cool goggles (bcoz he’s not exposed to direct sun for so longJ). Incidentally….his captor also wants to meet Balajit roy(sanjay) …so he’s providing hints for him. He meets a cabbie (lara dutta) to check out the places where wanton is served……that is the only link he has as of now.
He meets his old friend (Mahesh manjrekar) again , but he’s not in a state of mind to tell him everything that has happened. He finally gets to know where he’s been kept and goes there to kick the bloody life out of the manager…..manager(Raj zutshi) is an irritating and cheap “hostel” owner. Sanjay gets injured in the process and someone calls a taxi and sends him to lara’s house.
Lara is not thrilled with this situation…but accepts unwillingly. They flee from Thailand assuming that his captor will not be able to find him once he crosses the city limits… then, another attack on him and he finally discovers how his captor is finding him out everywhere…he’s fitted with a transmitter……he removes it and voila …his captor cannot find him…. But…..captor’s don’t depend on simple things like these….not in Sanjay Gupta’s films anyway….. sanjay meets his captor .or the other way round….. and he gets to know the reason for him being captured…..
Sanjay when in school plays a juvenile prank on john’s sister and it gets worse for her to ‘live’ anymore and she commits suicide. Then john is a helpless 7 or 8 yr old. Now he’s a business magnate with several companies under his empire and one of which ,bala works for. This was all setup before bala even came to Thailand. John has the custody of sanjay’s daughter……yes , he killed sanjay’s wife after she gave birth to a baby girl. She’s now 14 yrs old….the same age when john’s sister died. She’s locked up in a room and buggers are waiting for her…..
sanjay cannot tolerate this…..but, without saying anything more…john too falls off from the building and …..dies, then what. Sanjay finds where his daughter is locked up and goes to free her. She’s not to be found. Then he gets a call…..whoz this…….papa, I am at your(our) house.
Sanjay is relieved to see his daughter….. he feels “john ke seene mein bhi dil tha”………….
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