Zinda (film)

Zinda
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sanjay Gupta
Produced by	Sanjay Gupta
Screenplay by	Sanjay Gupta Suresh Nair
Based on	Oldboy by Park Chan-wook Old Boy by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi
Starring	Sanjay Dutt John Abraham Lara Dutta Celina Jaitly
Music by	Background Score: Sanjoy Chowdhury Songs: Vishal-Shekhar Nikhil Chinapa Dj Nawed Kinky Ronald Strings
Cinematography	Sanjay F. Gupta
Edited by	Bunty Nagi
Release date	12 January 2006
Running time	116 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹27.6 crore (equivalent to ₹62 crore or US$9.2 million in 2016)
Box office	₹32.5 crore (equivalent to ₹73 crore or US$11 million in 2016)

Zinda (translation: Alive) is a 2006 Bollywood film, starring Sanjay Dutt, John Abraham, and Lara Dutta. Zinda was directed by Sanjay Gupta and written by Gupta and Suresh Nair. Vishal-Shekhar composed the film's thematic music, with background music composed by Sanjoy Chowdhury. Pakistani band Strings sung one of the film songs which became quite popular. It was released in India on 12 January 2006.

Zinda has been identified as an unauthorised remake of the South Korean film Oldboy. Show East, the producers of Oldboy, who had already sold the remake rights to DreamWorks in 2004, initially expressed legal concerns but no legal action was taken as the studio had shut down.

Software engineer Balajeet "Bala" Roy (Sanjay Dutt), is happily married to Nisha Roy (Celina Jaitly), with whom he is having a baby. Bala is suddenly captured by unseen assailants and imprisoned in a cell. He is kept in total isolation for 14 years without knowing who imprisoned him or why. While in captivity, he practices martial arts which he learns from watching T.V., with the intention of using it against the people who captured him. He is finally released, again without explanation, and sets out for revenge.

He befriends a taxi driver named Jenny (Lara Dutta), who helps him track his kidnappers. Bala tracks down the restaurant that had served his food during his entire captivity and follows a delivery moped to his captors. Bala discovers that he was held in a private prison where people can pay to have others incarcerated. Bala tortures the owner Wong Foo (Rajendranath Zutshi) for answers by plucking out his teeth with a claw hammer; he then finds out he was imprisoned for "talking too much", and fights his way out of the building. Bala is injured during the fight, but a mysterious hooded man saves him and takes him to a taxi. The hooded man turns out to be Rohit Chopra (John Abraham). Soon Wong Foo kidnaps Jenny and tortures her. He threatens to remove Bala's teeth with his own clawhammer, but is interrupted by Rohit. Bala takes refuge with Jenny, and they have sex. Bala is informed that his daughter is alive. Bala's friend Joy (Mahesh Manjrekar) is killed, and Bala learns his kidnapper which is none other than Rohit.