Dinesh Kamath’s column on ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Bajatey Raho, Nasha, The Wolverine, Issaq, Luv U Soniyo and Oops a Desi) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

Bajatey Raho

Bajatey Raho is a 2013 Hindi comedy-thriller film directed by Shashant Shah and produced by Sunil A Lulla. The film features Tusshar Kapoor, Vinay Pathak and Dolly Ahluwalia as main characters. This is director Shashant Shah's third film, after Dasvidaniya (2008) and Chalo Dilli (2011), both of which starred actor Vinay Pathak as lead.

The film has Tusshar Kapoor, Ravi Kishan, Dolly Ahluwalia, Vishakha Singh and Kamlesh Gill playing important roles.

The film has an interesting story. When all hell has broken loose and it's only the crooks left to rule the roost, it is time for the good to start its fight over evil. But is that enough? In India's first ever revenge comedy; you will witness the fight of Con v/s Evil to retain one's honour, integrity and prestige.

Sabbarwahl (Ravi Kishan) is on a roll committing a series of frauds, all in the garb of a successful business entrepreneur. But little does he know that one of his misdoings has created a huge impact on the lives of four poor sods: Mrs. Baweja (Dolly Ahluwalia), Sukhi (Tusshar Kapoor), Mintoo Hasan (Vinay Pathak) and Ballu (Ranvir Shorey) which has only resulted into an enormous wave of need for vengeance.

The death of Mr. Baweja due to a cardiac arrest after being framed in a bank fraud and Saira his assistant being put behind bars, Mrs. Baweja takes the situation in her hands. The poor sods decide to no longer remain victims to the situation by living on scrawny jobs and meagre monies but to teach Sabbarwahl a lesson in the best way possible. It's the good hearted underdog who has to become a 'little BAD' to fight the 'very BAD'.

'To dethrone the king is no mean task.' But a lot needs to happen before that: Sukhi finds love in Manpreet (Vishakha Singh) who has to get Sabbarwahl to twirl to her tunes; Mintoo's 'Modern Catering' has to offer more than just 'Quantity and Quality' and Ballu's cunning ways need to go through the litmus test.

Thus the film is one with a series of cons, enthralling, amusing, and needless to say, entertaining to the core. Coz at the end of it all Happy Ending it is... but all you will want to say is 'Bajatey Raho'!!!

  

Nasha

Nasha is a 2013 Indian coming-of-age erotic thriller, directed by Amit Saxena. The film marks the bollywood debut of model Poonam Pandey. Other actors in the film are Shivam and Ranbir Chakma.

Nasha is the story of an 18 year old boy who falls hopelessly in love with a 25 year old woman. A woman he cannot have, but a woman he cannot help but desire. And, as is the case with desires unfulfilled, they turn into obsessions. And yet, every obsession is a lesson learnt; an experience gained. So that, in the course of coping with his unrequited love, the boy requites a lot more. And both he and the woman come of age - beyond mere years, in the truest sense of the word. A tale as much of longing as of losing, Nasha is a story that transcends seasons and generations. Because we've all been there, done that. And shall continue to do so...

The Wolverine

The Wolverine is an American-Australian superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine. It is intended to be the sixth installment in the X-Men film series and follows the events of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Hugh Jackman reprises his role from previous films as the title character, with James Mangold directing a screenplay written by Christopher McQuarrie, Scott Frank, and Mark Bomback, based on the 1982 limited series Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller.

Sometime after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, Logan travels to Japan, where he engages an old acquaintance in a struggle that has lasting consequences. Stripped of his immortality, Wolverine must battle deadly samurai as well as his inner demons.

The Wolverine, which marks Jackman's sixth appearance in the role, finds him behaving typically. He's in the frozen forests of the Yukon, having retreated from society, both human and superhuman, to hang out with the grizzly bears. It's here that he's tracked down by Yukio (Rila Fukushima), a perky young Japanese woman whose martial arts skills command his grudging respect long enough for her to get a few sentences out. She wants him to go to Tokyo with her for a reunion with her boss, Yashida, whom he met during World War II. Now a wealthy and powerful industrialist, Yashida (Haruhiko Yamanouchi), was a young soldier when he and Wolverine encountered one another in a prison camp on the outskirts of Nagasaki just before the bomb was dropped. Logan saved his life. Now he's dying and he wants to say goodbye.

When Wolverine arrives at the tycoon's compound, he learns that Yashida wants a favour. Since he believes Logan to be wearying of his immortal state, he will arrange a swap. A newly invented machine will extract the Wolverine's spontaneous ability to heal himself of any injury and transfer it to Yashida, who will then live forever, allowing Logan to pass serenely into the long goodnight.

When Logan replies with a brusquely predictable no, the hostilities begin, precipitating a plot that plays out like a Tokyo-based Dallas. The Yashidas are a fractious clan and their squabbles are accessorised with a full menu of bone-breaking stunt-work, much of it involving Ninjas, samurai swords and an extended bout of acrobatics on the roof of the bullet train.

The villains move up the chain of command from the ninjas to Yashida's corrupt son, Shingen (Hiroyuki Sanada from The Last Samurai). And right at the top is the Viper (Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova), an evil superhuman posing as Yashida's oncologist. Her weapon is halitosis. One blast of her toxic breath can send even Wolverine reeling – although he does have his excuses. The script gives Yashida's nasty machine a chance to go to work on him, after all. He then has to face the alarming prospect that the multiple sword thrusts and bullet wounds penetrating his flesh might actually be inflicting some damage. The movie has an interesting climax.

Issaq

Issaq is a 2013 Hindi Romance film directed by Manish Tiwary and produced by Dhaval Gada and Shailesh R. Singh. The film is written by Padmaja Thakore-Tiwary, Manish Tiwary and Pawan Sony. The film features Prateik Babbar, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Ravi Kishan and Makarand Deshpande as main characters.

The story of Issaq revolves around the two lovers who are born to hate each other as their families are arch rivals of each other. Progressing as how they eventually fall in love with each other, the plot is set in the background of Varanasi as story on the banks of the Ganges and revered as holy in Hinduism. This story is based on Shakespeare's play Romeo- Juliet

As I told you earlier, we see the story transposed to Banaras and its neigbouring areas that are witness to violence unleashed by sand mafia controlled by urban elite and equally violent retaliation by Naxalite armies. The sand mafia is run by two influential Banarasi families, Kashyaps and Mishras, who are at brutal feud with each other. Kashyap has an 18-year old, pretty and innocent daughter Bachchi from his first wife. Bachchi's role is played by Amyra Dastur who marks her debut in this film. On the other hand, Mishra's son Rahul (Played by Prateik) is a good-looking teenager with predictable interests for a boy of his background - Girls & Guns!

Things change when the battle-hardened and pleasure-seeking Rahul and romantic yet head strong Bachchi fall in love. Disregarding the consequences, the young lovers choose to go ahead with the diktats of their hearts. What follows is a high octane action-filled drama.

Manish Tiwary's Issaq turns into a commentary on the meaning of love in contemporary India!

Luv U Soniyo

Luv U Soniyo is a 2013 Hindi Romance film directed by Joe Rajan and produced by Beena Hemanshu Mehta and Pradeep Goradia. Creative Producers - Gautam Buragohain, Shivkumar Parthasarathy. Cinematography by Kalpesh Bhandarkar.

Mark and Soniyo, who after having been brought together by fate have to win over their parents consent. Their cultures clash in every possible way and just when fate decides to turn the game around, all they have is their faith in each other and a little help from their friends. The film features Aseem Tanuj Virwani and Neha Hinge as main characters.

The film has Tanuj Virwani, Neha Hinge, Bunty Grewal, Aaditya Shivkumar, Shobhit Khanduri, Vivek Vaswani, Howard Rosemeyer and Suresh Menon as main actors.

To be more exact, Luv U Soniyo is a story about Mark and Soniyo, who since their childhood have been brought together by fate, time after time, only to be drawn apart each time. But destiny has its own plan in store for these two who belong to two completely different worlds. Will the fate that brought them together time and again work in their favor now, and are they destined to be together after all? To know the answer to this question, watch the movie.

Oops a Desi

Ooops a Desi is a 2013 Hindi Romance, Thriller, Action film directed by Jenner Jose. The film features Buali Shah, Adnan Khalid, Pragathi Yadhati and Gideon Samson as main characters.

The film has Buali Shah as Xavier, Adnan Khalid as Dev, Pragathi Yadhati as Sonia, Gideon Samson as AJ, Anil Sachdeva as Bhushan, Manohar Pinnamraju as Swami, Siddhartha Gupta as Nilesh, Javed Khalid as Patiala and Sonia Gadhok as Aarthi.

Ooops a Desi is about Indians (Desi) living in the USA on an invalid immigration status. The movie opens to a busy downtown street (in New York city). The passing pedestrians notice something very alarming. It’s a Desi (Indian) holding a visible sign. Sign states “BOMB here!!!”. Soon we are taken to the story that occurred before this incident. The guy with the Bomb Sign (Xavier) and Dev too do odd jobs because of their illegal immigration status in the USA. They have their own troubled past that is preventing them from returning to India. The roller-coaster begins when AJ, their room-mate is mysteriously abducted to which Sonia is a witness. Because of their illegal status, Dev and Xavier along with Sonia have no option but to take matters in their own hands.

Thus Ooops a Desi is a story of ordinary Desis (with an invalid immigration status) who find themselves in an alarming situation. This could either turn deadly for them or an improbable blessing in disguise that only the ending to this fast paced exciting thriller will reveal.