Dinesh Kamath’s column on ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Premsutra, Raanjhanaa, World War Z, Shortcut Romeo, Monsters University and Enemmy)

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Premsutra

Premsutra is a 2013 Marathi romantic film directed by Tejas Deoskar. Produced by Kshitij Entertainment in association with Kathakaar, the film features Sandeep Kulkarni, Pallavi Subhash, Lokesh Gupte, Shruti Marathe, Shubha Khote, and Shishir Sharma in lead roles.

Saniya is a young, catholic girl living in a typical orthodox catholic family. She is enthusiastic and free soul from Goa. She loves nature and is free from the materialistic desires. Her innocence, naive nature and intuitive actions make her innocent.

Saniya is being pursued by her mother for marriage. Saniya is least interested and thinks that love should drive her to get married.

Anand is a typical metropolitan executive from the corporate world. Though he is sensitive and sensible, he is trapped in the calculative world of business. He is commissioned as a Manager in a Mine in Goa.

Accidently, Saniya and Anand meet at a party where they connect instantly. Anand is impressed by Saniya’s free nature and clear understanding about “love, sex and marriage”. According to her, they all are independent. Leading to discussions, Anand and Saniya get comfortable and end up having a one night stand.

Sujit is Anand’s colleague and they both share a good understanding and friendship. Malavika is Anand’s boss’s daughter and has infatuation towards Anand while Anand feels that he needs to concentrate on climbing up the corporate ladder rather than getting married.

One fine day, Anand and Saniya find themselves at a crossroads where Anand is confused while taking a personal decision with professional one whereas Sania is confident on her part. Anand’s decision might affect Sania’s life and vice versa.

What happens between Anand and Saniya? What surprises lie for Anand and Saniya?

It’s a story of a search for real love! What is real love, attraction, affection, seduction, possession, lust or responsibility? Premsutra answers the question.

The film has Sandeep Kulkarni as Anand, Pallavi Subhash as Saniya, Lokesh Gupte as Sujit, Shruti Marathe as Malavika, Shubha Khote as Saniya’s Grandmother and Shishir Sharma as Malavika’s Father.

Raanjhanaa

Raanjhanaa is a 2013 Hindi romance film, directed by Anand L. Rai and written by Himanshu Sharma. The music of the film is composed by double Academy Award Winner, A. R. Rahman. The film is produced by Krishika Lulla under the banner Eros International. The film stars Tamil film actor Dhanush in his Bollywood debut and Sonam Kapoor in the lead roles.

The film Raanjhnaa is an intense love story, in which Dhanush plays a role of local Varanasi boy whereas Abhay and Sonam play as Jawaharlal Nehru university colleagues. Their characters would be known to one another for eight years in the script.

First love in anyone’s life holds a special place especially if the memory is filled with the vibrant musings of the city that you grew up in. Benaras holds a special place in Kundan’s heart, because not only did he grow up as a typical, god fearing, shiv bhakt-Pandit but also because it was the city that gave him Zoya.

Quiet, beautiful with mischievous eyes, Zoya was the girl of his dreams. She was alike a breath of fresh air the first time he saw her on the busy streets, sitting regally in a Tonga. He would follow her everyday to the bazaar, back to her house till one day he mustered the courage to speak to her and tell her his true feelings - his 13year old heart, smitten by her simplicity.

She of course didn't take him seriously and brushed him off. Time passed by and Zoya moved to Delhi to study further. Love they say is a feeling that only grows stronger with time and Kundan’s love for Zoya never diminished, he carried his feeling all through college and his heart flipped when Zoya came back to his town.

With Zoya back in Benaras, Kundan’s world was filled with excitement as he was thinking of finally telling her as to how he felt. Zoya finally met Kundan and confessed her true feelings to him. She was in LOVE! She was in love with Akram, a college friend from Delhi university and he was the love of her life and she wanted Kundan’s help in marrying him.

His world shattered and his heart broke a million pieces, the rage that Kundan felt was inexplicable. He was torn between his true feelings for Zoya and his hearts pleas to help her get her true love because who could understand that pain better than him.

He sets out to unite her with Akram and what follows is a tale of love, betrayal, redemption and healing set against the very rooted town of Benaras and the upbeat political environs of Delhi.

Thus Ranjhana is the story of Kundan, his journey from a 13 year old boy in love who goes on to become a committed, spirited young man, who’s experiences in life made him the person he is today. It’s the story of love.

The film has Dhanush as Kundan, Sonam Kapoor as Zoya, Abhay Deol as Akram, Swara Bhaskar as Bindiya, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Shilpi Marwaha as Rashmi, Suraj Singh as Anand, Kumud Mishra and Deepika Amin.

The music of the film is by A. R. Rahman. All lyrics are written by Irshad Kamil. The film has songs like Raanjhanaa, Banarasiya, Piya Milenge, Ay Sakhi, Nazar Laaye, Tu Mun Shudi, Aise Na Dekho, The Land of Shiva and Tum Tak.

World War Z

World War Z is a 2013 apocalyptic action film directed by Marc Forster and written by Matthew Michael Carnahan. It is based on the novel of the same name by Max Brooks. The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, a U.N. worker who must travel the world to find a way to stop the zombie pandemic that is defeating armies and collapsing governments.

The movie has an interesting plot. Retired United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) leaves his wife and family to travel the world trying to find a cure and a way to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and collapsing governments.

We meet former UN investigator-turned-house husband Gerry Lane and his family - wife Karin (Mireille Enos) and their two daughters.

Having settled into a domestic routine, Gerry's life is flipped upside down when a zombie outbreak sweeps the globe. With his family safely aboard a military ship, Gerry is coerced into flying around the world in a bid to find where the epidemic began and try to discover an antidote.

Shortcut Romeo

Shortcut Romeo is an Indian romantic crime thriller film directed and produced by Susi Ganeshan, under the banner of Susi Ganesh Productions. It is the Hindi remake of the director's own Tamil film Thiruttu Payale (2006), starring Neil Nitin Mukesh in the title role with Puja Gupta as his love interest and Ameesha Patel in a negative character.

The movie has an interesting plot. Suraj (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is a good for nothing youth, who throws his weight around his house with his violent attitude. One day in a fit of rage, he injures his younger brother, following which he is sent off from Goa to Mumbai to his uncle's house. Suraj chances upon a couple indulging in love making on the lawns of a golf course. He has this act shot on a video camera. He then finds out that it is an extramarital affair and that the lovers Monica (Ameesha Patel) and Ashish are rich. Despite Monica's offering large sums of money for the tape, Suraj refuses to part with it. His demand is much greater. He wants an assurance from her that she will provide him a luxurious life throughout his life.

Monica has no choice; she succumbs to Suraj's blackmail and Suraj foots his holiday in Kenya along with his friends. Monica at every stage of the bilking process tries to outsmart Suraj; the battle of wits is on. Suraj meets Sherry (Puja Gupta) a rich but lonely girl and falls in love with her. That’s when he begins to realize that there are things more important than money in life. The cat and mouse game between Monica and Suraj, and the way one alternately checkmates the other in every round goes on till Rahul (Monica's husband) hires a private detective. Does Suraj join Sherry? Does Monica free herself from the clutches of the blackmailer? Or does the husband punish Suraj? The later part of the story ends with interesting twist and turns.

The film has Neil Nitin Mukesh as Suraj, Ameesha Patel as Monica, Puja Gupta as Sherry, Rajesh Shringarpure as Rahul, Jatin Grewal as Ashish, Ashutosh Kaushik, Errol Marks, Meherzan Mazda, Vrajesh Hirjee, Mumaith Khan, Himesh Reshammiya in a special appearance in a song and Bhrigu Das.

Music of the film is by Himesh Reshammiya. Lyrics are penned by Sameer, Shabbir Ahmed, Manoj Yadav and Sanjay Masoom. The film has songs like Pe Pe Pe (Coca Cola), Khali Salam Dua, Ishq Gangster, Short Cut Romeo, Jave Saari Duniya, Short Cut Romeo (Reprise), Pe Pe Pe – Remix, Ishq Gangster – Remix and Shortcut Romeo – Mashup.

Monsters University

Monsters University is an American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Dan Scanlon is the director and Kori Rae is the producer. It is the fourteenth film produced by Pixar and the prequel to 2001's Monsters, Inc.

Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, and Frank Oz are reprising their roles as Mike Wazowski, James P. Sullivan, Randall Boggs, and Jeff Fungus, respectively. Bonnie Hunt, who played Ms. Flint in the first film, will this time be voicing Mike's grade school teacher, Ms. Karen Graves. John Ratzenberger, who played The Abominable Snowman, will this time be voicing a Monsters, Inc. employee.

The film has an interesting plot. Set about 10 years before the events of Monsters, Inc., ever since a childhood field trip, Michael "Mike" Wazowski (voiced by Noah Johnston as a child and Billy Crystal as an adult) has ever since dreamed of attending the pretegious Monsters University. Now 17-years-old, Mike is excited to finally enter, and begins majoring in scaring. On his first day, Mike befriends the nerdy and shy Randall "Randy" Boggs (voiced by Steve Buscemi), who has difficulty controlling his invisibility power. While studying scaring one night, Mike encounters an 18-year-old playful, all-brawn, large monster named James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (voiced by John Goodman), who is in the same fraternity as he and breaks into Mike's room to hide a scare pig named Archie, who is the mascot of rival college, Fear Tech. After greeting each other, Archie steals Mike's hat and he and Sulley follow Archie outside where they have a struggle with Archie that gets Sulley to be in the top fraternity Roar Omega Roar. Mike tries to join, but an argument with Sulley leads to a rivalry between the two. The story then moves towards an interesting climax.

Enemmy

Enemmy is a Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Ashu Trikha, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Sunil Shetty, Mahakshay Chakraborty, Kay Kay Menon, Johnny Lever Mahesh Manjrekar and Yuvika Chaudhary.

The movie has an interesting plot. Enemmy is a cop action drama featuring Mithun Chakraborty and Sunil Shetty in lead roles. It is the fight of four daredevil CID officers, who are the best backup plan when in trouble against the underworld don, who is the root cause of all problems.

A thriller set against the backdrop of the battle between the Mumbai mafia and cops, Enemmy is the story of four intrepid CID officers (Suniel Shetty, Kay Kay Menon, Johny Lever and Mahaakshay), who are entrusted with the responsibility of cracking down on the underworld and cleaning up the city by any and all means possible.

When the four cops initiate an investigation and manage to nab Mukhtar Memon (Zakir Hussain), a crime lord, everyone heaves a sigh of relief. However, the relief is short-lived and after a brief spell of peace, the gang wars start again, shocking everyone.

Deciding to up the ante, the dynamic political leader R.G, who had unleashed the CID sleuths, sends in a CBI officer (Mithun Chakraborty) to Mumbai to get to the bottom of things. However, what the officer discovers is that the gang-war is merely a facade to find out about a heist, in which two truckloads of hard cash were stolen from Memon, who will stop at nothing to get his money back.

The question is... who is crazy enough to steal from the king of the city underworld? Thus begins a cat-and-mouse game between the characters of the film that keeps the story line interesting right to the logical end of the film.

The film has Mithun Chakraborty as Yugantar Sharma, a CBI officer, Sunil Shetty as Eklavya Karmarkar, a CID officer, Johnny Lever as Eric Collaco, a CID officer, Mahakshay Chakraborty as Madhav Sinha aka Maddy, a CID officer, Kay Kay Menon as Naeem Shaikh, a CID officer, Zakir Hussain as Mukhtar Menon, the Underworld don, Yuvika Chaudhary as Naeem Shaikh's wife, Priyanka Upendra, Akshay Kapoor, Mumaith Khan and Deepraj Rana.