Dinesh Kamath’s column on ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Grand Masti, Grown Ups 2, John Day and Horror Story) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Grand Masti

Grand Masti is a Bollywood adult comedy film presented by Bharat Shah, directed by Indra Kumar and produced by Ashok Thakeria. The film is a sequel to the 2004 hit, Masti, and will feature Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani and Riteish Deshmukh reprising their roles from the original, along with Bruna Abdullah, Karishma Tanna, Sonalee Kulkarni, Kainaat Arora, Maryam Zakaria and Manjari Fadnis amongst others.

Three married guys Vivek Oberoi as Meet, Aftab Shivdasani as Prem and Riteish Deshmukh as Amar go out on fun experience in their college reunion in Shree Lalchand University of Technology and Science (SLUTS), finally to be trapped in a danger.

The story of this film Grand Masti is completely focusing on the life of these three best friends. Now both Amar and Meet are living as married men with their beautiful wives but there is no more pleasure remaining between them and their wives. Hence they get bored of their wedded life while on the other side their third friend Prem is still a bachelor but he is also bored of his daily office work. Now the three of them decide to bring back the fun in their life.

In search of fun they go back to their college and try to live a college life once again. In college they meet the very beautiful and charming girls, who are nothing less than their dream girls. Now the fun, enjoyment and romance comes back to their lives and they enjoy this but what will happen next that changes the lives of these three friends is the main and turning point of this film.

The film also has Sonali Kulkarni as Mamta, Manjari Fadnis as Tulsi, Karishma Tanna as Unatti, Kainaat Arora as Marlo, Maryam Zakaria as Rose, Bruna Abdullah as Mary, Suresh Menon as Harddik, Pradeep Rawat as Robert Pereira and Chandi Perera and Salsan Jose.

Grown Ups 2

Grown Ups 2 is a 2013 American buddy comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, and produced by Adam Sandler. The film is the sequel to the 2010 film Grown Ups. It features an ensemble cast including Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Salma Hayek. Rob Schneider did not reprise his role from the first film. The film is produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The movie has an interesting plot. Three years after the events of Grown Ups, Lenny Feder has relocated his family back to Connecticut where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises, the last day of school. In the beginning, all of them still think that their children are still kids, however throughout the film they begin to accept that their children are growing up. The movie has an interesting climax.

John Day

John Day is a 2013 Hindi thriller film directed by Ahishor Solomon and produced by K Asif, Anjum Rizvi and Aatef A Khan and the film features Naseeruddin Shah, Randeep Hooda, Vipin Sharma, Shernaz Patel as main characters.

A mysterious death of a young girl unfolds a web of secrets and a conspiracy. The father of the girl, Johnday, is a simple, honest and god fearing man; Gautam, a nihilistic cop, the key player behind the tragic incident get embroiled and sucked into the deep abyss that turns lethal. The thin line that separates the saint and the beast now stands blurred...broken...forever

Actor Randeep Hooda plays a cold blooded murderer. Randeep plays a violent, cold and menacing character with a dark sense of humor.

The soundtrack of John Day is composed by Kshitij Tarey and Strings and lyrics are penned by Sayeed Quadri and Strings. The movie has songs like Charon Taraf sung by Strings, Kis Lamhe Mein (Female)      by Aditi Singh Sharma and Kis Lamhe Mein (Male) by Kshitij Tarey.

Horror Story

Horror Story is a Bollywood dramatic horror film written by Vikram Bhatt and directed by Ayush Raina. The film stars Ravish Desai, Hasan Zaidi, and features the Bollywood movie debut of television actor Karan Kundra. The plot revolves around a night spent by seven youngsters at a haunted hotel.

Seven friends reunite after several years apart to celebrate one of their friends, who was going abroad in order to pursue his career and fulfill his goals. As the group gathers at a local pub, they learn about an abandoned hotel with a reputation for being haunted. The hotel had originally started out as a mental asylum for the criminally insane, but was almost completely destroyed in a fire, the origin of which has never been fully explained. After years of sitting in neglect, rumors began to circulate that the place was haunted. Despite this, a builder decided to refurbish the ruins into a five star hotel, but was unsuccessful and committed suicide as a result - although rumors state that he was pushed by a ghost of one of the asylum's inmates. Intrigued by these rumors, the group decides to explore the abandoned building but soon come across strange and inexplicable occurrences. They initially explain these away as a trick of the mind, but soon they realize that something is very wrong and one of their friends is found dead shortly after. They try to escape, but find this harder to do than they expected.

The film has Karan Kundra as Neel, Nishant Malkani as Achint, Ravish Desai as Maghesh, Hasan Zaidi as Samrat, Aparna Bajpai as Maggie, Radhika Menon as Neena, Nandini Vaid as Sonia and Sheetal Singh.