Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Satyagraha, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, The Frozen Ground and We're the Millers) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Satyagraha

Satyagraha - The Revolution Has Begun! is a Bollywood political thriller film directed by Prakash Jha starring Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpai, Amrita Rao and Vipin Sharma in the lead roles. Kareena Kapoor will play the role of an international journalist. Current situations inspired Jha to make Satyagraha.

The film has an interesting plot. Satyagraha reflects the uprising of the middle class against a corrupt and unjust system that leaves it with no recourse but to form a spontaneous movement to challenge the status quo. It is the story of a dynamic and ambitious young man who is poised to take the elevator of corporate success when a personal tragedy exposes him to the shocking consequences of corruption in this country. Joining hands with an idealistic old man, he ignites a people’s protest that soon escalates into a massive movement with a national resonance, battling politicians determined to crush and discredit him. However, when people’s raw and unbridled anger is unleashed, the unintended penalty could be horrifying by itself.

The film has the following cast:

Amitabh Bachchan: plays the role of Dwarka Anand, a man who is a firm believer of truth and an inherent believer of society who wants his son to give back to society and the nation all that they have given him.

Ajay Devgn: plays the role of Manav Raghvendra. He represents shining India and is a brilliant telecommunication czar who uses the ways of the world to get what he wants.

Kareena Kapoor: plays the role of Yasmin Ahmed. She is a hard headed TV reporter out on the field and she digs deep and as an opinion. She has a very strong connect with Ajay but when they clash on ideologies they break up and reunite when he comes back to his principles.

Arjun Rampal: plays the role of Arjun, a strong socially committed to become a politician. He studied in the same school of which Amitabh Bachchan was the principal.

Manoj Bajpai: plays the role of Balram Singh, wily young politician who uses every means to break the system. He is the real threat to democracy.

Amrita Rao: plays the role of Sumitra as daughter-in-law of Amitabh.

The film also has Vipin Sharma as Gauri Shankar, the Leader of the Opposition, Natasa Stankovic in special appearance in an item song, Mugdha Godse as Malini Mishra, a sultry, oppurtunistic corporate lady, Indraneil Sengupta and Anjali Patil.

Soundtrack of Satyagraha is composed by Salim-Sulaiman, Aadesh Srivastav, Indian Ocean & Meet Bros Anjan, lyrics penned by Prasoon Joshi.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is a 2013 American fantasy-adventure film based on the Rick Riordan novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 2010 film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and continues the adventures of Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) and his friends, as they search for the Golden Fleece at the titular Sea of Monsters to save an ailing magical tree that protects their home from foes.

Percy (Logan Lerman) is still struggling with issues of not being able to see his father, or speak to him. He’s off living at the Demi-God camp with everyone else. We learn the story of the camp, and how a young demigod girl that was the daughter of Zeus, died, which caused Zeus to create the force field around the camp to protect the demigods. Of course, this is massive foretelling, as that field breaks, and Percy learns about the Sea Of Monsters, and how the Golden Fleece can help save the demigod camp.

Percy isn’t the first to be chosen to go after the golden fleece. That honor goes to Clarisse (Leven Rambin), a badass daughter of Ares who thinks Percy is a joke. But when Percy finds out that Luke (Jake Abel) is still alive, and going after the fleece so he can revive Kronos, he realizes there is a prophecy that puts him in that place anyway. So he decides to grab his gang and go. His gang includes his Heroine and Ron from the first film (Alexandra Daddario and Brandon T. Jackson), and new entry Tyson, who is also a son of Poseidon. He’s not a human though, he’s a Cyclops. Can Percy and the gang get to the fleece before Luke, or will Kronos be reawakened and destroy the world?

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a 2013 American-German action adventure fantasy film based on the first book of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. The story takes place in an urban and contemporary New York City. Directed by Harald Zwart, the film stars Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West, Godfrey Gao, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Aidan Turner, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Durand, and Jared Harris.

The movie has an interesting plot. Brooklyn teenager Clary Fray goes with her best friend Simon Lewis to a nightclub, and witnesses a murder. Even with Simon by her side, Clary seems to be the only actual witness to the crime. At the club she meets shadow-hunter Jace Wayland and is catapulted into a world that has so far been unknown to her. She discovers that her mother, Jocelyn, has been attacked and taken from their home in New York City by a man named Valentine in his search of an object known as the Mortal Cup.

Clary gets in touch with her new friend, Jace, and his adoptive siblings and fellow shadow-hunters, Alec and Isabelle Lightwood, to help her on her quest to rescue her mother. Along the way Clary finds out the truth that her mother had wanted to protect her from, about her past and bloodline and how she, like Jace, Alec and Isabelle, is a shadow-hunter, which are part angel, part human warriors.

Clary is shocked to learn that her mother is also a shadow-hunter and that she too has the powers of one. To remember, Clary goes to the City of Bones and discovers that a warlock named Magnus Bane placed a memory block on her. She, Jace, and the others arrive at Bane's house and are told that Jocelyn asked him to block her memories every year to prevent her from discovering the Shadow-hunter world.

The Frozen Ground

The Frozen Ground is a 2013 American thriller film written and directed by Scott Walker, based on the real-life 1980s Alaskan hunt for serial killer Robert Hansen. Hansen stalked and murdered between 17 and 21 young women, kidnapping them and taking them out to the Alaskan wilderness where he shot and buried them. The film stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Vanessa Hudgens, Katherine LaNasa, Radha Mitchell and 50 Cent.

The movie has an interesting plot. The Frozen Ground is based on the true story of Alaskan detective Glenn Flothe (called Sgt. Jack Halcombe in the film). Halcombe sets out to end the murderous rampage of Robert Hansen, a serial killer who has silently stalked the streets of Anchorage for more than 13 years. As the bodies of Anchorage women start to add up, Sgt. Halcombe goes on a personal manhunt to find the killer. When 17-year-old Cindy Paulson escapes Hansen's unspeakable violence, she believes the law will take him down. Instead she finds herself, once again, fighting for her life. With his only ally, Cindy Paulson, Sergeant Halcombe is determined to bring the serial killer to justice.

We're the Millers

We're the Millers is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. It stars Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts, and Will Poulter.

The film is a minor coup de gross-out about four low-lifes who smuggle an enormous quantity of cannabis from Mexico to the United States by motor home. David (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time drug dealer who takes on the job to clear a debt. His grand plan to avoid the attentions of police and border guards is to disguise himself as a beta-dweeb on holiday with his family.

To this end, he recruits a debt-swamped stripper (Jennifer Aniston) to pose as his spouse, and two teenage loners (Emma Roberts and Will Poulter, both superb) as makeshift children. Together the fake family bounce between disasters, most of which hinge on some kind of taboo sexual practice, while putting on an outer show of clenched jocundity with which anyone who has been on a real family holiday will be all too familiar.