Zid (film)

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Directed by	Vivek Agnihotri
Produced by	Anubhav Sinha
Written by	Vivek Agnihotri Rohit Malhotra
Starring	Karanvir Sharma Mannara Chopra Shraddha Das Seerat Kapoor
Music by	Sharib–Toshi
Cinematography	Yash Bhatt
Production company	Benaras Media Works
Release dates	28 November 2014 (2014-11-28)[1]
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Box office	140 million

Zid (English: Bloody Minded) is a 2014 Bollywood Erotic Suspense thriller film directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Anubhav Sinha in association with Anubhav Sinha Productions Pvt Ltd and Benaras Media Works. The film stars Karanvir Sharma and Mannara in principal roles.^[1]

Plot

ZID starts off with a flashback which has the film's protagonist Rohan (Karanvir Sharma), a crime reporter with 'The Daily'(a newspaper based in Goa), narrating an incident to his newspaper's editor Karan(Mohan Kapoor) and the area's DSP (Rajeev Saxena). He says that with the help of the editor, he found a rented house at his friend's outhouse located far away from the rest of Goan civilisation. Even though the said place looks haunted, Rohan still adjusts himself to the situation despite having a paralysed owner, who is driven on a wheelchair throughout and who also happens to be the father of Maya (Mannara Chopra). For Maya, it is love at first sight when she sees Rohan, who incidentally is recovering from a break-up with Priya (Shraddha Das), his girlfriend of many years and who is now settled in London. While Maya leaves no stone unturned to get Rohan's attention, Rohan seems to be still 'lost in love' about Priya.

Maya instantly falls in love with Rohan, and this love soon turns into an obsession. She calls her sister and reveals her feeling for him. She even enters Ronnie's room and picks a picture out of his photo-frame. He finds it missing, but does nothing. She spots a picture of her on his desktop (a random picture he had clicked during his ferry ride to the outhouse, before he had even met her), and assumes that he's in love with her.

Rohan is not in love with her, but thinks she is strange and cute, so he plans a date-night at a nightclub. There he bumps into a girl named Nancy (Seerat Kapoor). Maya's left with uncontrollable rage when sees him dancing with Nancy, and they quickly leave the bar. On their way back, he continues drinking while driving, their car meets with an accident when it collides with a scooty which was being driven by Nancy, who happens to be Priya's step sister. She falls off the road and rolls down a slope. Ronnie turns hysterical and is desperate to save the girl but he waits while Maya rushes to save the girl because she is a nurse.

The next morning, it's all over the news and the cops are on the case. The girl is found dead, and Ronnie panics because he could be identified in the case. Priya comes back to India from London to hunt for Nancy's killers, along with detective we also get to know that Nancy was her step-sister, so Inspector Moses(Denzil Smith) suspects that she killed Nancy for her money and wealth and Rohan is her partner-in-crime.

In the meanwhile, Maya does everything wrong to save Rohan in this case. He tells his boss that his car is in the garage, but she dumps the car in a lake so that no one can trace it ever.

Investigations reveal that Nancy had a chance to live even after she was hit by the car, but in reality someone murdered her. Priya visits Rohan at his outhouse, and requests him to help her find the murderer. Soon, they warm up to each other again. Rohan even refuses to join Maya at her dinner date giving an excuse saying that he has a lot of work in the office and may be late so that he could spend a night with Priya.

Maya's lunacy reaches new heights. The next day Rohan's pet Bobby (Dog) goes missing, shockingly she fed him to her alligator. Priya finds out that Rohan was at the same bar and he even met Nancy the night she was killed. She feels cheated and betrayed. Priya lands up at the outhouse and starts accusing Maya for everything – including Nancy's murder. They get into a brawl. Maya calls Rohan for help. Rohan arrives, but she attacks him on the head from behind and he suffers a black-out.

Maya rushes to leave her house, but finds Moses there. She wastes no time in killing him. Rohan wakes up and walks into a dark cabin between the woods to find out 'everything-you-want-to-know-about-Maya'.

There are her childhood and adulthood pictures pasted on the walls, and his picture, along with Nancy, Priya, Moses, Bobby (with a red cross on the people who are dead). Maya reappears and reveals it all to him. She also tells him that she had killed her own sister (the dead girl on the other side of her phone) because of jealousy and insecurity.

Maya then blindfolds Rohan, and takes him to the top of a lighthouse that she called as Maya's Kingdom. Her plan is to exchange wedding vows with him. She tells him to make love to her, and he obliges.

All this while Priya is dangling in mid-air, on a suspended chair. Rohan lights a cigarette, and spills a glass of wine over it causing a fire to break out. Maya pulls the gun on him, Rohan snatches the gun from her hand (which he could have done way before) and throws her off the lighthouse. Now she's dangling from the rod along with Priya. Well eventually, Rohan manages to pull Priya on top of the lighthouse and save her. After that they both try saving Maya, but she lets go and falls into the water.

The DSP is convinced by his story and tells him that he will be out on bail. Rohan is relieved, and as he walks out the real story is revealed. It was all a game-plan by Rohan and Priya. In quick shots they show us how he murdered Nancy, brutally killed Moses, threatened and tortured Maya and eventually killed her. All this for claiming Nancy's property. In the concluding scene, Rohan says that one just needs a good convincing story and must narrate it with genuineness. No one would care whether its true.

Cast

• Karanvir Sharma as Rohan
• Mannara Chopra as Maya
• Shraddha Das as Priya
• Seerat Kapoor as Nancy
• Denzil Smith as Inspector Moses
• Mohan Kapoor as Newspaper Editor and Rohan's friend Karan
• Rajeev Saxena as DSP of Goa Police
• Sanjay Kapoor as Psychiatrist
• Satish Barwe as Maya's disabled father
• Harsh Murthi as Singer in the song "Mareez-E-Ishq"

Production

In 13 November 2013 it was reported that Mannara would make her debut in the film alongside Karanvir Sharma.^[2] In 23 October 2014 reports suggested that film's director Vivek Agnihotri had walked out of the project, due to creative differences. Though Agnihotri confirmed the reports as being true, producer of the film Anubhav Sinha denied the fall-out stating that "Vivek Agnihotri is very much a part of the film".^[3] In 27 October 2014 it was reported that Handa rechristened herself as Mannara for the film.^[4]

Music

Music for the film is given by Sharib Sabri and Toshi Sabri, while the lyrics are written by Shakeel Azmi.^[1] First single from the film titled "Saanson Ko" sung by Arijit Singh was released on 31 October 2014.^[5] Second single titled "Tu Zaroori" sung by Sunidhi Chauhan and Sharib Sabri was released on 10 November 2014.^[6] Full album was released on 13 November 2014.

Release

The film had a worldwide release date of 28 November 2014,.^[7]

The first look poster of the film was released in 20 October 2014,^[8] followed by the second poster in 27 October 2014.^[7] The film was promoted with the tagline 'Come play with fire'.^[9] Upon release, the trailer received over a million views in YouTube within 4 days.^[10]

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