Zid

Star Cast: Karanvir Sharma, Mannara, Shraddha Das

Director: Vivek Agnihotri

What’s Good: The basic plotline had some mettle.

What’s Bad: The predictability of the story, the climax, the anti climax.

Loo break: Hide in the loo if you don’t want to inflict wounds on your sensibility.

Benaras Mediaworks' Zid is an adaptation of the German film The Good Neighbour that tells the thrilling story of Ronnie, a crime reporter who works as a writer in a local newspaper in Goa, and his young neighbor Maya who falls obsessively in love with him...


Bollywood films have many a times thrived on the very famous but true saying 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'. Keeping this as a central point, there have been many filmmakers who have tried their luck at the Box-Office. While some have succeeded, some did not. This week's release ZID treads on the same path with the addition of suspense. Does the film manage to pull in the audience with the time tested subject and that too with a handful of newcomers, let's analyze.

zid actor Karanvir Sharma

ZID starts off with a flashback which has the film's protagonist Rohan (Karanvir Sharma), who is a crime reporter by profession, narrating an incident to his newspaper's editor (Mohan Kapoor) and the area's DSP (Deputy Superintendent of Police). He says that with the help of the editor, he found a rented house at his friend's outhouse. Even though the said place looks haunted, Rohan still adjusts himself to the situation despite having 'an absolute motionless and emotionless owner' who is wheel chair driven throughout and who also happens to be the father of Maya (debutante Manara). For Manara, it is love at first sight when she sees Rohan, who incidentally is 'recovering' from a breakup 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. One fateful night, when Rohan and Maya are returning drunk from the party, their car meets with an accident when it collides with a bike which was being driven by a lady named Nancy, who 'incidentally' happens to be Priya's step sister. But fearing the police and the law, both, Rohan and Maya prefer to bury the incident and remain mum and do not tell anyone about the same. The story takes a new turn when the police discover that Nancy wasn't killed in the accident, but was murdered by strangulation. That's when Priya comes back to India from London to hunt for Nancy's killers. But when Maya discovers Rohan and Priya's past, she sets out to finish off Priya as her love for Rohan now becomes an obsession. What forms the actual outcome is the real suspense of the film.

zid actress Mannara

Is jealousy leading her to murder those close to Rohan or is it all a botched up plan of Rohan and Priya to resolve permanently some old sibling rivalries?

In nutshell,Zid is not cringe worthy, just plain boring. Selling itself in the garb of a few explicit shots, the film’s fabric did not back itself in a solid enough story. It doesn’t have anything exemplary about it, not its acting, story or the chemistry between its lead pair. The worst thing about Zid was its climax that was downright silly. It’s almost like a bunch of intelligent people thought of doing a crash course in making a silly film and Zid was made. I am going with a very kind Rating of 1 star.

romance in zid