Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (B.A. Pass, Sixteen, Pacific Rim, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Boyss Toh Boyss Hain and Tara) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

B.A. Pass

B.A. Pass is 2012 Hindi Neo noir film, produced and directed by Ajay Bahl, and starring Shilpa Shukla, Shadab Kamal, Rajesh Sharma, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya in lead roles. It is distributed by Bharat Shah's VIP films banner. The film is based on 2009 short story, The Railway Aunty, by Mohan Sikka.

The movie has an interesting plot. A young small town boy moves to Delhi to stay with his aunt and finish his college. Soon he is seduced by a mysterious married woman known to him as Sarika ‘Aunty’. Set amidst the neon-lit by lanes of Delhi’s Paharganj unfolds an erotic human drama between the two. A relationship based on lust, lies and deceit is forged. As the young boy gets more and more entrenched into his surroundings he discovers a city that thrives on corrupting even the most naive and innocent.

The film has Shilpa Shukla as Sarika, Shadab Kamal as Mukesh, Rajesh Sharma as Khanna, Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Johnny, Vijay Kaushik as Phupha ji, Anula Navlekar as Chotti, Happy Ranjit as Phd, Amit Sharma as Amit, Geeta Aggarwal Sharma as Bua Ji and Raveena Singh as Sonu.

Sixteen

Sixteen is a Hindi-language drama thriller film directed by Raj Purohit, starring Izabelle Leite, Wamiqa Gabbi, Mahak, Highphill.

The film has an interesting plot. The film depicts an India where growing up has speeded up many times from days gone by. In the times of the Internet, the Delhi Times, Page-3 and more than 300 TV channels, innocence is the first casualty. The movie is based upon young boys and girls of India.

Sixteen is a story about lost innocence and teenage heartache in urban India.

It is a movie based on teenage life.

The movie is full of new comers and only one character is known. He is Zakir Hussain.

The movie Sixteen is made under the Fincraft Media & Entertainment and Paramhans Creation. The Producers of the movie are Shailesh R Single and Vishwas Joshi. The movie script is written by Raj Purohit and Pawan Sony. Screenplay of the movie is done by Raj Purohit and Music director is Prashant Pillai, Adam Avil, Eddic Avil.

Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim is a 2013 American science fiction film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Travis Beacham. The film is set in the near future where soldiers pilot giant mecha into battle against invading giant monsters who have risen from a portal beneath the ocean.

The director focused on "big, beautiful, sophisticated visuals" and action that would satisfy an adult audience, but has stated his "real hope" is to introduce the kaiju and mecha genres to a generation of children.

The film is produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.

The film has an interesting plot. In the near future, giant monsters identified as "Kaiju" have risen from a portal in a crevasse beneath the Pacific Ocean, resulting in a war which takes millions of lives and quickly consumes humanity's resources. To combat the monsters, a special type of weapon is designed: massive robots, known as Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But as the war continues, even the Jaegers struggle to win the war against a relentless enemy. Against all odds, the remaining forces of mankind make a final stand.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (English: Run Milkha Run) is an Indian biographical, sports film on the former Indian athlete Milkha Singh. The film has been produced and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The script is written by Prasoon Joshi. The film stars Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor and Meesha Shafi. The remuneration from the film will be used for the benefit of needy athletes. The name of the film comes from the last words spoken by his father, which was to save his life during the riots of Partition of India. During the partition, Singh lost his family members. The story talks about his perseverance as an athlete and also as a courageous human spirit.

The film has Farhan Akhtar as Milkha Singh, Sonam Kapoor as Nirmal Kaur, Yograj Singh as Milkha Singh's coach, Hikaru Ito as Emperor of Japan, Art Malik as Milkha Singh's father, Divya Dutta as Isri Kaur, (Milkha Singh's elder sister), Prakash Raj, Pawan Malhotra and Rebecca Breeds.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’s lead actor Farhan Akhtar plays the role of Milkha Singh in the film. While playing the role, he understands the character more on an emotional level - of what he was feeling at those various moments in his life – especially in the ones that are re-enacted in the film, recreated in the film to get an understanding of that.

The movie starts from the athlete’s childhood that had started from being in extremely secure, warm, loving family environment - overnight things changed for him. He was deprived of everything - of a home, his family, he had no emotional support, no food to eat. The movie then depicts as to how this child who has no identity of his own and no support structure, no one to call his own - how he finds the courage, finds the strength, finds the ability to forgive and to move on and make an entire country proud of him and get everyone to know who he is and know his name. The movie also answers the questions: Where does he find the strength from? How does he inspire, who inspired him? How does he motivate himself? It’s just an amazing story. It’s very inspiring.

The music and the background score for the film are composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, their first film collaboration with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. The soundtrack features seven tracks with lyrics penned by Prasoon Joshi.

Boyss Toh Boyss Hain

Boyss Toh Boyss Hain is a 2013 Hindi comedy film directed by Amit Vats and produced by Chaitannya Swami and Anup Jalota.

The film features Raj Kumar Yadav, Anshuman Jha, Dhruv Ganesh and Aarya Kumar as main characters.

Boys Toh Boys Hain is a comedy film that depicts the story of four young guys who experiences similar problems in their life, which is "no girl friend'. The story progresses by depicting as to how they find their true love.

The film narrates the story of four youths grappling with their own unique situations that make their life a thrilling roller coaster ride. From impotency to socially dysfunctional girlfriends and from selling sex to fending off materialistic parents and eventually a rape charge, this not-so-awesome foursome live through the most hilarious, embarrassing and even thought-provoking moments onscreen.

Tara

Tara is a 2013 Hindi Drama film directed and produced by Kumar Raj. The film features Rekha Rana, Rohan Shroff and Sapna P Chuobisha as main characters.

Tara is the first ever film on woman empowerment in the 21st century.  You can hate Tara, you can love Tara, but you cannot ignore Tara as every one has a Tara at home as mother or wife or daughter, sister or a friend.

Tara depicts the journey of love and passion. The film is dedicated to Nirbhaya and to all who have been subjected to humiliation, torture, sexual abuse, rape and killings. 

Thus Tara which is the Journey of love and passion and a film inspired by the case of the gang rape victim in Delhi last December.

Awnindra Pratap Pandey (Boyfriend of the gang rape victim generally referred to as Nirbhaya) said: “I totally feel for the cause on which this film is based and I am happy that someone has taken the step towards empowerment of Women. I hope this small step would lead to the betterment of the society and provides a message to everyone.”

The film has an interesting story. Merely a few hundred kilometers away from the hustle and bustle of the fanatically fast paced Mumbai city lies the deceptively sleepy village of Tanda. A village girl Tara seems to be content with her confined life, very much in love with her liquor maker husband. But, when the beautiful protagonist’s seemingly mundane existence parts ways to reveal the unspoken realities of exploitation and darkness enveloping the village, she leads the villagers in their quest for survival, only to realize that she is up against something she may not be prepared to fight against — prejudice. The young woman who bravely stood up for the whole community finds herself cruelly alienated in her most vulnerable moment.

Ultimately, after a series of gut wrenching experiences, she has to make a choice... Based on disturbingly common realities of Indian villages, this powerful story of self-discovery transcends the original theme of tribal strife to raise a universal question — can you always choose freedom and self-respect over social acceptance?  The journey of the extraordinary woman Tara in very difficult situations reveals the story of love and passion and how she deals with the same.