Zila Ghaziabad (2013) User Reviews

So I Thought Only Mainstream Movies Sucked.

[nairtejas · 4/10 · 22 February 2013]

The most ridiculous scenes in this movie are people from an uncivilized panchayat wearing branded sunglasses and talking fluent English. And what I loved about it is Paresh Rawal, Ravi Kishan & Vivek Oberoi with his charming style (after Jayantabhai debacle) and Arshad Warsi. Sanjay Dutt imitates Salman Khan of Dabangg and is a total waste. Minnisha Lamba is useless but Divya Dutta is good enough.

The script is exponential just like in mathematics and plot points are assumed. There are no proofs for the screen-playing events while the theorem is poorly executed. The lead role-players are like superheroes who can defy gravity anytime & anywhere. Director has wasted all his resources. I think he was in dire need of giving us this crap that he totally lost it. The same dialogs, the same item numbers (there are 2), the same narrow deep cleavages, the same unexposed love-making, same songs for every lead actor and finally, a predictable story... well ZG is not a shocker but it could be considered as one of the disastrous movies of 2013.

BOTTOM LINE: Zila Ghaziabad is such a movie, which if not made, would not have made any difference. Go watch Kai Po Che! It is much better than this!

Can be watched with a typical Indian family? 80% YES

Language: Strong | Sex: Mild | Violence & Gore: Critical | Foreplay: Critical | Alcohol, Smoking & Drugs: Mediocre | Nudity: Mediocre

Return of the 80's!

[namashi_1 · 5/10 · 8 March 2013]

'Zila Ghaziabad' arrives late. The subject & the execution of this blood & gore fest, deserved to hit screens 25-years back, when such films worked! Of course, it has some genuine merits & admirable performances, but the storytelling is been there seen that!

'Zila Ghaziabad' is the same old story of a hero's revenge after the villain kills his innocent brother brutally.

I really didn't mind 'Zila Ghaziabad', as I myself am a fan of this genre. I loved watching such action-flicks as a kid & grew up on them, frankly speaking. But, for 2013, 'Zila Ghaziabad' isn't the movie of the moment. The Screenplay is strictly aimed for the masses, offering everything they starve for. Anand Kumar's Direction is fair.

Performance-Wise: Sanjay Dutt is a complete bad-ass & he's great fun in an extended cameo. Arshad Warsi springs a surprise. He plays the violent villain with ease. Vivek Oberoi is efficient, as always. Ravi Kishan is excellent. He stands out. Paresh Rawal is effortless & a joy to watch. Chandrachur Singh & Ashutosh Rana are effective. Charmy Kaur gets very limited scope.

On the whole, 'Zila Ghaziabad' is meant for the masses.

A Bollywood Embarrassment

[sajjanj · 3/10 · 4 January 2018]

This is worse than the usual Bollywood nonsense! The screenplay was terrible, stunts were so evidently string-assists, Vivek Oberoi, Arshad Warsi & Sanjay Dutt couldn't act. Sunil Grover's acting was good. Some scenes felt like they were part of a TV show. This is a must "miss".

Why Indian movies don't make to Oscars.....

[manas19782002 · 2/10 · 24 February 2013]

I normally don't go to cinema halls to watch Hindi movies because leaving the very few ones I think they are heavily plagiarized either from other regional languages or from movies all over the world. Well, today me and my friend went to see "kai po che" because Chetan Bhagat is one of my favorite author and this movie is adapted from his novel. But we didn't get a ticket so we went to see "ZILA GHAZIABAD". After watching 5 mins of the movie I realized why Indian movies don't get nominated for Oscars. This movie has a cast which any director may dream of.. I mean Vivek Oberoi, Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Paresh Rawal, Asutosh Rana,etc etc.. either the Director is a new one and has simply followed the styles of other movies or the actors are desperately in need for some money. It lacked acting, direction, editing everything.

What hurts me is that the audiences was cheering the Ludicrously odd action scenes which can only be possible if the hero is "Superman". Same cliché, songs, dance, dialogues. Sitting there I can tell what will come next after a particular scene!!!

So when will Indian movies be ready for Oscars? Movies like Barfi (I haven't seen it yet) failed to even nominated for Oscars. So what is the meaning if we produce more than 1000 movies each year and not even a single movie get nominated for Oscars!!.

When will this change? It's the Indian audiences who can change this thing. If they are not ready to change their thoughts, ideas or perspectives, India don't stand any chance at Oscars.

My rating 2/10.

We have already seen enough of this before.

[bobbysing · 1/10 · 26 March 2013]

As a full length review of ZILA GHAZIABAD, I really don't have much to say in details since it just reminds you the unexplainable, silly or over the top kind of commercial cinema we used to make in the forgettable 80s. Still, here is a brief description of its few scenes which would clearly give you an idea of what I am referring to here.

The film begins with a completely filmy entry of our negative hero Arshad Warsi (by stopping a speeding train), who straight away starts singing and dancing with his goons after getting back to his hometown Ghaziabad. Within next 30 minutes you have 3 songs including an item number with all seen before sequences dealing with rival gangs, corrupt politicians, a love affair and the betraying insiders.

As our positive hero, we are introduced to Vivek Oberoi, who is a teacher in the local school and is fondly called Master Ji. Now this teacher has pierced ears with silver rings and shows no hesitation to drink or dance with an item girl, shooting fearlessly in the air from a rifle in his hand.

Just before the interval we have Sanjay Dutt entering the scene as another famous police officer who is even considered dangerous and incontrollable by the Commissioner of Police himself. Now since he is a big star too so here also we get to see the whole Police force beating drums, singing and dancing with Sanjay Dutt in the middle in full uniform on a song sung by Sukhwinder quite close to the title songs of OMKARA and DABANGG. It this is not enough then we have another sequence post intermission, where Sanjay Dutt enters in the villain's den alone where there is a meeting in progress attended by all the wanted persons in the area. And what Sanjay Dutt does there? He simply calls Shreya Saran, the item girl and starts singing a song right in front of those criminals like a paid bar-dancer himself.

However despite of all these weird and unthinkable kind of sequences mentioned above, I would like to call ZILA GHAZIABAD as "A Completely Professional Film" in all respects since the producer-director have purely made it to run in the smaller centers (at the single screen theaters), for a specific kind of audience and the entire cast has acted in this movie just as one of their professional assignments to earn money and nothing else. Because what else can be the reason for talented actors such as Sanjay Dutt, Paresh Rawal, Arshad Warsi, Vivek Oberoi, Ashutosh Rana, Divya Dutta, Ravi Kissen, Zarina Wahab, Minissha Lamba, Chandrachur Singh and Sunil Grover to sign this film reading its outdated script with such questionable execution & an entirely repeated storyline in terms of content.

On a concluding note, the area of GHAZIABAD today is not at all like what they have portrayed it on the screen and there can be only one reason you can watch the film in your spare time. And that is if you are a die-hard fan of Arshad Warsi and cannot afford to miss even a single film featuring him in the lead.

Total BARBAAD (Waste)

[dineshprakash · 2/10 · 22 February 2013]

Score 2/10 Makers had the formula of a success full mass film. They stuffed some gore action, a love track without love and a lovemaking scene but unfortunately they forgot the importance of emotions. They tried to put it but it remained on paper and in mind only. Director, Mr. Anand Kumar is very confused. Story, screenplay and dialogues deserve to be not mentioned. This film is full of illogical incidents. A school teacher suddenly converts into a typical hard core goon and sometimes also behaves like he has heart of gold. They presented Zila Ghaziabad like it is some Chambal type of place. No law and order but still a Daroga can do wonder. A don, who doesn't mind to snatch Rifle from Police Constables is scared of a Daroga. In such type of criminal ruled district, there is working Panchayat. A teacher speaks in fluent English so Panch, get convinced by his logic. Director confusion clearly visible through all artists performance. All actors performance is jerky. Their are lot of actors but no one is able to leave their mark. Action sequence by Kanal Kannan is OK. In climax, especially fight between Vivek Obroi and Arshad Warsi is fine. Musically two tracks , one title track Zila Ghaziabad and Apne Baap Ka Na Samjho Maal are good. The later one could have been more impressive if there were no male voices inside it.

Dabaang mix with Omkara type films

[silvan-desouza · 2/10 · 26 February 2013]

Re-Making South films has caught the eye of most filmmakers, In most films nowdays we have action scenes wherein heroes bang 1 goon and many go flying, Heroes fly in the sky while punching.etc Another trend is making films on real stories which filmmakers with calibre do a great job with. However Zilla Ghaziabad is a mishmash of both the cinemas put together. The film was stalled prior the release of Agneepath(2012) when Sanju films had no takers and was completed just recently. The film has a full list of actors who are not much in demand or forgotten completely like poor Chandrachur Singh who after a stellar debut with Maachis went lost. Vivek Oberoi another case of poor guy who after his stellar debut is still trying to recover himself The film starts off as a Omkara type film but it's clear in the first action scene and song that the film is going the Dabaang way. The first half is devoted on how Vivek becomes a gangster from a Master and the misunderstanding between Arshad and Vivek while the second half devotes to how Sanjay Dutt skillfully takes advantage and plans to finish both gangs. The first half is very predictable but some scenes are well handled, the action scenes and overdose of item songs with forgotten actresses like Geeta Basra does irritate. Not to forget there is Minisha Lamba in a role after ages. Sanjay Dutt makes an entry pre interval with an action scene straight out of Singham and also a song at interval which reminds us of that film,and comes in the second half. His character has a hangover of Dabaang, Singham.etc and similarly Sanju too gets a chance to reference his previous films like Saajan, Thanedaar(he is shown hearing the songs of the films) and also passes a joke on his hairstyle in Khalnayak. He also has air flying stunts which is similar to Dabaang, Rowdy Rathore, Singham.etc but Sanju looks so out of shape and jaded that it falls flat. The second half too is predictable and prolonged with unwanted songs, bloodshed.etc

Direction by Anand Kumar is OK in parts but terrible in total Music is nothing great Action scenes have a hangover of Dabaang, Singham.etc and please can there stop making actors fly in the air and do weird somersaults Dialogues are cringeworthy

Amongst the list of actors, just a few stand out Sanjay Dutt looks out of shape and has a frown in most scenes, he fails to portray the role though this is something he could do in his sleep. Arshad Warsi for a change plays a negative role and seems to be having fun playing the part, he does a great job though at times he does get a bit too much. Vivek Oberoi's role is straight out of Rakht Charitra and he is getting typecast and he needs to ease his nostrils and facial expressions Surprisingly he was in form in his last release Jayantibhai Ki Love Story. Amongst the heroines, Charmee Kaur has few expressions, while Minisha Lamba gets no scope, Talented actress Divya Dutta is impressive in a shorter role. Ravi Kissan is controlled in his role, Ashutosh Rana is wasted while Sunil Grover is fantastic, Paresh Rawal has a cameo and is superb Zarina Wahab repeats her Agneepath act, while Chandrachur Singh looks jaded and out of shape in his short role which is bumped off too early.

One Line Review.

[anups26 · 1/10 · 3 May 2013]

"What a Waste of Time, What a Waste of Movie, What a Waste of Acting." I regret my decision that I watched this movie. Minus the Crew- After this movie is done, you will be left cursing two persons- 1. The Director. 2. The Stunt Director. Director seems to be overexcited in creating this movie thinking that audiences likes such ridiculous actions and the stunt director has a nice sense of humor who must have failed every year in Physics. Hats off to Vivek Oberoi for another Worst Performance. I wonder how that guy pulls up such dead expressions on screen and calls himself an actor! Paresh Rawal is completely Wasted. Sanjay Dutt is like nobody gives a damn to him again. Only Arshad Warsi tries a bit to impress all but in the end it is the whole group who fails. You will be bored seeing in redundancy how each and every member of Vivek's family keep dying and his red eyes filled with revenge until next day he is seen riding a Rajdoot or walking ostentatiously with no sense of realism. Also I have a severe doubt- Which news channel shows a gang leader walking with style? The whole movie was misplaced and whole audience was misunderstood by each and every crew of this film.

What NOT to do.

[nadkarnisumeet · 2/10 · 24 February 2021]

Zila Ghaziabad review:

This one is RECOMMENDED to different persons for different reasons: for aspiring film makers to understand how NOT to make a film, for aspiring actors on how NOT to act, music directors on how NOT to compose music and lastly for us, audiences to understand why NOT to go for such crap fest ..!!!

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

Superb...Film

[skmeenaspss · 10/10 · 13 February 2018]

Superb Movie, Acting of all Are Very impressive.....

Inspired from Gangs of Wasseypur

[mariovario-85241 · 7/10 · 30 April 2021]

The film overall had a good storyline. Vivek snatches his role as always and Arshad comes as a good villain here... But what I felt a lot is it's inspired from the epic gangster films "Gangs of Wasseypur- 1,2" by Anurag Kashyap... the idea of this gang wars and the betrayals etc.

Which makes sense also since GOW 1,2 released in 2012 and Zila Ghaziabad a year later. Good acting skills though.

Movie based on chess

[suraksh-ms · 9/10 · 28 February 2013]

Zila Ghaziabad is a movie based on chess, from the layman's perspective it looks like political action thriller but the entire movie depends on how Sanjay Dutt plays chess. This movie covers everything which you expect in normal Hindi movie but fails to explain the mapping associated between the chess pawns and the characters in the movie. This is very puzzling task. This is where audience start loosing track of the story. A movie which can be compared to one of the Hollywood movies " The Inception", where people fails to understand the real concept. Action never stops until the movie stops. Even the action songs are awesome.

Very Good Plot based on a True Story

[razamurad-43869 · 10/10 · 25 May 2016]

This movie is a very good one. It is based on a true story. Police Officer Pritam Singh in real world has done a number of good work for Ghaziabad district. He was instrumental in getting rid of many rowdy elements. The movie reflects the same. It shows that how a corrupt administration can spoil a city and how an efficient officer can correct the same.

Acting of Arshad Warsi and Vivek Oberoi is marvellous. Same is true for Sanjay Dutt. It will be good to make another sequel of the same movie. It builds the confidence of the society, by showing such movies which glorifies the police department. Acting of Manoj Bajpai is also excellent. Same is true for Paresh Rawal.

Fabulous movie ever in Hindi action genre

[vengappara · 10/10 · 6 March 2013]

I only have to laugh when i read the reviews posted here. When you hear a title like 'Zila Ghaziabad' do you expect a DDLJ or a lovey-dovey movie? The makers have done full justice to a political thriller entwined with a gang-war in a crime infested real place scenario. Had this movie been done with a Salman or Akshay it would have gone ahead made a 100cr. There was never a dull moment with perfect blend of action, music, one of the best acting done by class actors. The screenplay was so flourished, i was wondering how the makers managed to put in so many stories with perfect editing. Certainly the movie is not for women audience that's where it could not charm them due to lack of romantic scenes which i believe was censored (some hot scene between Arshad and Minishha floating all around over the net). However It is one of the best character role done by ARshad, Ravi Kissen shined like nobody, Sunil has stunned the audience what a performance, Vivek was OK, Sanjay Dutt too. It is a must for pure action lovers. The movie doing marvelous in North India shows how it is been warmly welcomed by all out there. The single screens are on fire out there. Special mention to the director Anand Kumar did a great job and writer Vinay SHarma, way to go!!

Good movie

[vrana289 · 10/10 · 18 November 2020]

This movie is based on a true story film showing events during 80-90s from ghaziabad region where I grew up. Some other reviews have incorrectly mentioned it is plagiarized. But viewers who don't belong to this region may not appreciate it entirely .