Harsh Karthik Zinda is a truly god-awful film. The only aspect of the film that is moderately well done is the music.It's no wonder that the rating of this film is 3.5 less than Oldboy. The film changes the original film's plot a bit, and made it worse. It is in no way reminiscent of the groundbreaking visual style of Oldboy, and even the fight scene was shot poorly, trying to capture just the hero, while Oldboy's legendary corridor fight scene has the camera moving just left or right, and looks surprisingly realistic. The film's ending in particular made the film look like a bad joke. Oldboy's climax, while devastating and powerful, was delivered with almost no dialogue (where Oh Dae-Su flips through an album and realizes Mi-do was his daughter). Zinda, on the other hand, has some incredibly poor dialogue. "If you kill me you won't know where your daughter is." "Tell me where my daughter is." I mean, seriously? That's responded with one of the worst scenes that can come to my mind. "She is getting FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO" followed by alternating shots of the protagonist and the antagonist. Sanjay Dutt an John Abraham did a very mediocre job at acting their respective roles.Personally, I feel that Oldboy shouldn't have been remade in the first place (I don't have too high hopes for the 2013 Hollywood remake either) but Bollywood screwed up big time by making this laughable attempt at a remake.

remmus H The only reason this movie ended up with more as 1 star is because some hardcore nationalist bollywood lovers didn't write honest reviews. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against remakes nor bollywood, but this is just uninspired crap. I like any kind of movies. But movies ought to be made by people who enjoy making them, they should be skilled. Willing to put effort in making a good movie. This guy is allowed to make movies because he is from a rich influential family. Sanjay Gupta must be one of the least talented directors these days. None of his work is original and all of his movies are cheap copies. this is the same, he saw a movie. Liked it, but just didn't understand it. it doesn't even come close to the original. Everything is just worse as the original oldboy. Camera work, story (that doesn't work out anymore) de fighting is lame, making it not offending for the Indian audience by cutting out the incest totally destroyed the story. The actor had to be a pretty face, too bad he didn't have acting skills with it. This untalented director shouldn't even be allowed to sell pop-corn in a cinema. Too bad mom and dad had money.Its a direct insult to the real oldboy, and Sanjay didn't even pay for the rights to rip it. Please don't watch it, get oldboy instead. This one will only make you vomit

samsblood I've read the user comments on this forum and found a blithe lack of concern in many of the posts for the fact that 'Zinda' is a total ripoff. Here are some telling examples, along with my own not-very-profound responses. I trust I need do no more than that to make my point:"It is unfortunate that bollywood ripped off OLDBOY, but if that is the only way that the Indian audiences would get a glimpse of what the original was like, so be it" (Huh? Ever hear of buying the rights to do an official remake?)"I am reading the reviews of OLD Boy too, which i have not seen. But I should say that it is a great experiment by Indian cinema" (Yeah, a repeat experiment -- like where somebody else first came up with the ideas and took the risks before you came along and decided to do the exact same thing)"The legendary action-scene with the hammer looks as hard as it was in Korean version". (the Korean version? Almost makes it sound like 'Oldboy' ripped off 'Zinda')"First things first , i haven't seen Old Boy so just cant judge Zinda by it's standard... He did full justice to the role of Balajeet Roy(on par with Choi Min-shik" (So you haven't seen 'Oldboy', but you HAVE seen Choi Min-Shik's performance in it? Do the police come to you for psychic impressions when they run out of clues?)(And what does this mean): "There is no doubt that 'ZINDA' is a complete rip-off of Korean movie 'OLDBOY' but I must add that it is an excellent adaptation of 'OLDBOY'".--And I won't spoil the pristine effect of these following remarks by adding my own commentaries:"Hollywood is also planning a rip of this one, so what's the fuss all about""People tell me that this movie is inspired/copied or total remake of a Korean masterpiece "OldBoy"; but I don't mind it""Yes agreed that he copies other films scene by scene, but who doesn't? Why is he called a copycat, when i can add a long list of other copycats? Take Ek Ajnabee - which was an exact copy of Man On Fire, or Vivek Agnihotri for Chocolate - which was a ridiculous version of the classic 'The Usual Suspects'. At least Sanjay Gupta makes a good replica of a film""Copy of old boy backed up with Sanjay direction makes it truly a ride you will never forget"."The story may be inspired from a Korean film, or so we are told, but is doesn't matter because no one's really seen it".

lifemusic-1 Fist of all, this is the Best movie ever !!Zinda is definitely different from all the regular Kandy floss flicks in bollywood. It is one dark movie meant to show the rock bottom level of loneliness. It has a very sexy taste of music.Too many ideas: solitary confinement, harassment, revenge, human psyche: all whose complicated emotional consequences have hardly been scratched on the surface of this poorly made movie. Haven't these writers experienced anything sorrowful in their lives? If they had or had at least done some research, they wouldn't treat such disturbing events as portrayed in the movie so off-handedly.you have got to listen theme music. THE BESTTTT SONG EVER.. (Yeh hai meri kahani)10/10 of course..Spidy