Zinda

Zinda

Software engineer Balajeet "Bala" Roy, is happily married to Nisha Roy. But before Nisha can inform him that she is pregnant with their child, Bala is captured by unseen assailants and imprisoned in a cell. After one year, Bala finds out that Nisha was brutally murdered. Bala is kept in total isolation for 14 years without knowing who imprisoned him and why. While in captivity, he learns martial arts from television, 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 Bangkok taxi driver named Jenny, who helps him track his kidnappers. Bala tracks down the restaurant that served him food during his entire captivity and follows a delivery moped to his captors. He discovers that he was held in a private prison where people can pay to have others incarcerated. Bala tortures the owner Wong Foo for answers by pulling 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. He 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. Soon Wong Foo kidnaps Jenny and tortures her. He threatens to remove Bala's teeth with his own claw hammer but is interrupted by Rohit. Bala takes refuge with Jenny, and they have sex. Bala is informed that his daughter is alive.

Director

Sanjay Gupta

Release

13 Jan 2006

Run time

116 min

Language

Hindi