Thursday, July 4, 2013

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Policegiri, Lootera, The Lone Ranger, Despicable Me 2 and The Iceman) that was published in Newsband


New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai
Policegiri

Policegiri is a Bollywood action comedy film. The film produced by T. P. Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal marks the Bollywood debut of popular Tamil director K.S. Ravikumar. The film features Sanjay Dutt, Prachi Desai and Prakash Raj as Nagori Subramaniyam in lead roles.
The film has an interesting plot. A cop named DCP Rudra is transferred to a new police station. As the city is riddled with crime and corruption, he decides to bring law and order back for which he has to go against Nagori Subramaniyam, the local mafia. He does not believe in the system of going by the book and instead fights fire with fire.
Thus the film has Sanjay Dutt as Rudra, Prachi Desai as Sehar, Prakash Raj as Nagori Subramaniyam, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav, Manoj Joshi and Mukesh Tiwari.
The Soundtrack of the film is composed by Himesh Reshammiya and Anjjan - Meet Bros. Lyrics are penned by Shabbir Ahmed and Aslam Lashkariya.
The film has songs like Robinhood sung by Anjjan - Meet Bros, Chura Ke Leja by Yashraj Kapil, Palak Muchhal, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom by Vineet Singh, Shabab Sabri, Aman Trikha, Pawani Pandey, Tirat Meri Tu by Vineet Singh, Shabab Sabri, Palak Muchhal         and Policegiri by Aman Trikha, Rajdeep Chatterjee, Yashraj Kapil, Keshav.

Lootera
Lootera is a Bollywood period romance drama film directed by Vikramaditya Motwane. It is the second film directed by Motwane, after his critically acclaimed debut film Udaan. The film stars Ranveer Singh opposite Sonakshi Sinha. Lootera features music by Amit Trivedi and cinematography by Mahendra J. Shetty.
The film has Ranveer Singh as Varun Srivastav, Sonakshi Sinha as Pakhi, Vikrant Massey, Arif Zakaria, Prince Hayer, Adil Hussain and Shirin Guha.
The film has an interesting plot. The year is 1953. A fellow named as Varun Shrivastav comes to the village of Manikpur in West Bengal with a fake identity of archaeologist along with his team to steal the ancient idol of the temple grounds of the local Zamindar.
With knowledge and experience beyond his young demeanour, Varun greatly impresses the Zamindar and his family, especially Pakhi, the Zamindar's feisty and only daughter, who finds herself irrevocably drawn towards him. But Varun isn’t all he seems on the surface. And as the simmering attraction between him and Pakhi leads to a tender and deep love, he is forced to choose between her and his past. Day before their marriage, Varun makes his choice. Varun and his team disappear with idol.
The next morning when Pakhi's father discovers that the idol was stolen; he cannot bear the pain and dies of heart attack. Pakhi struggles to move on with her life and is determined to forget him and their relationship. She comes to the Shimla, where her family has another home.
One day, Varun and his team come to Shimla for another assignment and returns to Pakhi's life under the most extraordinary circumstances. The story then moves towards an interesting climax.
The music and background score for the film is composed by Amit Trivedi with all song lyrics penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya.
The film has songs like Sawaar Loon sung by Monali Thakur, Ankahee by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Shikayatein by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Mohan Kanan, Monta Re by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Swanand Kirkire, Zinda by Amit Trivedi and Manmarziyan by Amit Trivedi, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Shilpa Rao.

The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger is a 2013 American action-adventure western film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and directed by Gore Verbinski, based on the radio serial of the same name. The film stars Armie Hammer in the title role and Johnny Depp as Tonto. The film marks the first theatrical film featuring the Lone Ranger character in over 32 years.
The film has an interesting plot. An American Indian spirit warrior, Tonto (Depp), recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice. The two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption.
The film has Armie Hammer playing John Reid, a lawyer and ex-Texas Ranger who protects his identity as "The Lone Ranger", a masked vigilante that seeks to find the perpetrators responsible for his brother's apparent death, Johnny Depp as Tonto, a Native American who recruits Reid to bring justice to those responsible for destroying his tribe's villages, William Fichtner as Butch Cavendish, a notorious outlaw, Tom Wilkinson as Latham Cole, a burly railroad tycoon, Barry Pepper as Captain Jay Fuller, a military officer, Helena Bonham Carter as Red Harrington, a brothel madam who assists Reid and Tonto, Ruth Wilson as Rebecca Reid, John's wife, James Badge Dale as Dan Reid, John's brother, Mason Cook as Will, a young boy living in 1930s San Francisco, James Frain as one of Cole's industry foremen, Harry Treadaway as Frank, a member of Butch's gang and Damon Herriman as Ray, another member of Butch's gang.

Despicable Me 2
Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film and the sequel to the 2010 animated film Despicable Me. Produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures, both films are directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, and Miranda Cosgrove reprise their roles. Kristen Wiig, who played Miss Hattie in the first film, voices agent Lucy Wilde. Ken Jeong, who played Talk Show Host, voices Floyd Eagle-san. New cast members include Benjamin Bratt as Eduardo and Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, head of the Anti-Villain League.
Funnier – and perhaps cuter – than its predecessor, this blockbuster animation finds jam-making adoptive parent Gru (Steve Carell) being reluctantly recruited by the Anti-Villain League to bring down a rival fiend. His mind, however, is elsewhere – on the growing pains of his young charges and the wily charms of a fellow agent (Kristen Wiig). The real joy, however, is in the increased role of the goggle-eyed Minions, who outdo Ice Age's Scrat in the scene-stealing stakes.
In Despicable Me 2, Steve Carell’s bald, beaky hero, Gru, is now a reformed soul, occupied with round-the-clock childcare rather than dastardly plots to steal the moon and whatnot. The withdrawal of his evil motives is complete.
Gru’s Minions – those knee-high yellow Tic-Tacs, wearing dungarees and goggles – are key to the commercial equation that got a sequel green-lit at all. So they swarm all over the place doing various child-pleasing routines in hard hats and beachwear, while Gru gets embroiled in an afterthought of a plot, involving a secret agent called Lucy (Kristen Wiig) who’s also, boringly enough, his love interest.
The one inspired idea here is what happens to the minions when they’re injected with serum by the film’s mystery baddie, and this is enough to give us at least a reel’s worth of anarchic pleasure.


The Iceman
The Iceman is a 2012 American crime thriller film directed by Ariel Vromen based on the life of notorious Mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski.
The film has an interesting plot. It is the true story of Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters had any clue about his real profession.

The film has Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski, Winona Ryder as Deborah Kuklinski, Chris Evans as Robert 'Mr. Freezy' Pronge, Ray Liotta as Roy DeMeo, James Franco as Marty Freeman, David Schwimmer as Josh Rosenthal, Stephen Dorff as Joseph Kuklinski, Erin Cummings as Ellen, Robert Davi as Leonard Marks, Weronika Rosati as Livi, John Ventimiglia as Mickey Scicoli, Christa Campbell as Adele, Jay Giannone as Dominick Provenzano and Vincent Fuentes as JC.

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