Dinesh Kamath’s column on ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Warning, Elysium, Prisoners, Kumari Gangubai Non-Matric, Prague, Gambit, Raqt – Ek Rishta, Super Model and Maazii) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Warning

Warning is a 2013 Hindi Thriller 3D film directed by Gurmmeet Singh and produced by Anubhav Sinha and Jitendra Jain. The film features Santosh Barmola, Suzana Rodrigues and Manjari Fadnis as main characters. The other actors are Varun Sharma, Jitin Gulati, Sumit Suri, Madhurima Tuli and James (Nagar Baul).

The movie follows the story of a group of friends who meet for a reunion aboard a luxury yacht. It talks about seven friends, neck deep in water, oblivious of their geographical coordinates, unknown miles away from land with no way to get back on to the yacht. Old conflicts resound and new ones emerge while a new predator comes to kill. This one eats flesh.

Thus Warning is a 3D underwater film about seven friends stuck in a life- threatening crisis. The lucky ones will die first and the rest will go through the worst nightmares of their lives. It is a reunion of seven friends. It is a joy ride on a luxury yacht through the middle of a beautiful ocean. It is time to remember the good old times. It is time to catch up on the lost five years. It is time to come face to face with unrequited love. It is Sara’s first birthday. It is time for champagne. It is time for a swim. But it is also time for a disaster to strike.

Music Directors of this film are Meet Bros Anjan Ankit, Sharib Sabri and Toshi Sabri.

Elysium

Elysium is a 2013 American science fiction action-thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster.

The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth and a luxurious space habitat called Elysium. It explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, overpopulation, transhumanism, health care, and class issues.

Elysium actually shares many of the main themes of class, xenophobia, greed and totalitarianism, but this time round it’s far more mainstream in it's conception. It is played out in a dystopian future, to say the world is a polluted mess is an understatement of colossal proportions, so naturally the rich have left it. The privileged have moved on to a space station called, you guessed it, Elysium. Naturally this station is nothing short of an utopia of living ease, many stunning gardens, people dressed in Armani for lunch and speak eloquent French while doing so. This all happens while those less fortunate below suffer a barbaric life of squalor.

Matt Damon plays Max the protagonist a blue-collar ex-criminal trying to walk the straight and narrow in the world below, fighting in vain against the totalitarian system. There are some comical times in how he talks to his mechanical superiors though. Then he gets a “Full dose” of radiation in an accident at his menial day job and thus has the required incentive to find a way to get up top for treatment. Those on the station above have a medical table device that will heal you from anything.

Prisoners

Prisoners is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve, from a screenplay written by Aaron Guzikowski, and executive produced by Mark Wahlberg. The film stars Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Terrence Howard, and Paul Dano.

The film stars Hugh Jackman as Keller Dover, a brawny survivalist who is also a gentle-voiced suburban dad. On a rainy Thanksgiving afternoon, Keller brings his wife (Maria Bello) and kids over to the home of neighborhood friends (Terrence Howard and Viola Davis). The two families eat, drink, and joke around, and nothing too remarkable happens — until everyone realizes that Keller’s little daughter, Anna (Erin Gerasimovich), has left the house and disappeared, along with the other family’s daughter, Joy (Kyla Drew Simmons). A search turns up nothing, but later that night, the police find a pale, mostly mute young creep (Paul Dano) in smudged aviator frames and oily long hair hanging around in his skeevy RV camper — the same vehicle that the girls were trying to crawl up the ladder of that afternoon. The cops arrest this damaged-looking sad sack, interrogate him, and find no evidence. So they let him go. But Keller, after an encounter with the suspect outside the police station, is convinced that he’s guilty. So he takes action. He kidnaps the creep, brings him to an abandoned apartment building, and beats him to a bloody pulp, over and over again. He threatens to kill the young man unless he confesses. But the suspect/victim says nothing.

If he is, in fact, innocent, then what Keller is doing is an unholy atrocity. But what if he’s guilty? Are Keller’s one-man torture-squad tactics justified then? And what if many people (along with the law) would declare that no, those tactics are still not justified? What should Keller do, given that every bone in his body is telling him that this is the only way he’ll ever see his daughter again? What if every bone in his body is right?

Kumari Gangubai Non-Matric

Viacom18 Motion Pictures in association with IRIS Productions and Vidyadhar Pathare present the latest upcoming Marathi Movie Kumari Gangubai Non-Matric starring Nirmiti Sawant. Other actors are Paddy Kamble, Nagesh Bhosale and Anand Ingle. Story, Screenplay, Dialogues, lyrics are by Rajesh Deshpande, Music by Shailendra Barve, Cinematography by Sanjay Jadhav, Choreography by Sujit Kumar and Rajesh Bidwe.

The film has Nirmiti Sawant as Gangubai and Paddy Kamble as Chu. It is a political Satire.

The famous comic duo of Gangubai and Chhu had the audience in splits and at the same time created awareness about social issues through television soap and a play. Now the audiences are in for a treat as they will get to watch the hilarious duo on the silver screen as well. The audience will get to see the jugalbandi between popular Marathi stars Nirmiti Sawant Vs Pandhariath Kamble and Nagesh Bhosale Vs Anand Ingale.

A decade ago the duo of Gangubai and Chhu had made their first appearance on the small screen. Gangubai solved the problems of common people in her own signature style and Chhu helped her out. Gangubai’s generous nature and her expertise in solving varied problems in the playful manner had made her quite popular among the audience. Now after gaining remarkable popularity in both the mediums the duo of Gangubai and Chu will make a grand entry on the silver screen. In the film, Gangubai will solve the social problems through politicians. To solve the problems of the common man Gangubai is going to stand for the elections. The film will depict many political and social issues and at the same time there will be hilarious situations by taking jibes on the system. The audience will get to see many such hilarious scenes in the film.

Prague

Prague is a 2013 Hindi romance film directed by Ashish R Shukla and produced by Rohit Khaitan. The film features Chandan Roy Sanyal, Elena Kazan, Arfi Lamba and Kumar Mayank as main characters.

The film has an interesting plot. It depicts a city with a history of heritage, myth and superstition, a passionate architect with strong but delusional ideas about love and life, a Czech gypsy girl searching for her identity and true love. Add to the drama of a mean friend you can’t do without and cannot trust either. The conflict of these complex characters is further heightened with illusions of someone who is there but at the same time not there - what you see is not true? or is the truth, what you not see? All of the above are thrown together in a very unique and unusual situation where you do not know what to believe and what to disbelieve.

Prague deals with the inner conflicts of Chandan, a passionate architect who comes to Prague for a project along with his friend Gulshan who he idolizes and wants to emulate but is also strangely scared of. In Prague Chandan meets a gypsy girl, Elena. This girl becomes the love of his life, his inspiration and also the pain of his soul because of his past from India refuses to leave him alone. Chandan’s experiences have made him mistrust his own shadow and his insecurities have made his life a living hell. His only ally in his darkest times is his friend Arfie but then…

Gambit

Gambit is a 2012 film directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci. It is a remake of the 1966 film of the same name starring Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine. This version is scripted by Joel and Ethan Coen.

The film has an interesting plot. British art curator Harry Deane decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss Lord Shabandar by conning him into buying a fake Monet ("Haystacks at Dusk"), but his plan requires the help of an unpredictable and eccentric Texas rodeo queen, PJ Puznowski.

The film has Colin Firth as Harry Deane, Cameron Diaz as PJ Puznowski, Alan Rickman as Lord Lionel Shabandar, Tom Courtenay as The Major, Stanley Tucci as Zaidenweber, Cloris Leachman as Grandma and Togo Igawa as Takagawa.

Let me be clearer. A British thief (Firth) discovers that no plan is infallible when he recruits a beautiful woman (Diaz) to help him steal a priceless statue from an impossibly wealthy widower (Alan Rickman). Despite the fact that his pretty accomplice bears an uncanny resemblance to his affluent target's late wife, things quickly spin out of control once the job gets under way.

Raqt – Ek Rishta

Raqt – Ek Rishta is a film which is produced by Ashish Mishra and Amit Mishra, directed by Adi Irani and Shiva Rindan with Music Director:  Dabboo Malik, story / writers: Ranjeev Verma, Adi Irani, Shiva Rindan and actors: Shweta Bhardwaj, Sheena Shahabadi, Gulshan Grover, Farida Jalal, Shakti Kapoor, Arjun Mahajan.

Revolving around Sonia (Sweta Bharadwaj) and Suhani (Sheena Shahabadi), the film is about the fatal obsession of an adopted daughter for her mother's affection. Sonia is a single mother who adopts her sister's daughter when her sister and brother-in-law died in an accident due to her carelessness.

Sonia, along with her maid Maria (Farida Jalal) pampers Suhani to not let her miss her parents. This has an opposite effect with Suhani developing an obsessive relationship with her. She will let nothing come between her and her mother. Unaware of her child's problem, Sonia became a career woman not much focusing on her personal life beyond Suhani. She became a successful heroine. One day, Suhani sees Sonia and a friend arguing. She kills him, and Sonia takes the blame and is jailed for seven years.

Sonia comes back and tries to make life easy for Suhani. She settles in a remote place, where psychiatrist Yuvaraj (Gulshan Grover) who likes Sonia discovers that Suhani has a major psychiatric problem. Suhani hates Yuvaraj's attention towards Sonia and feels she will be sent to a hostel, again away from her mother. And she sees Yuvaraj learning the truth about her from Maria.

Suhani kills Maria. Yuvaraj who loves Sonia wants to help her and Suhani and tries and make this look like a normal death. But can he really help her? Will Yuvraj be able to save himself and cure Suhani? Is there really a cure to this killer obsession?

Super Model

Super Model is a film directed by Navin Batra and produced by Ravi Ahlawat. The actors of the film are Veena Malik, Ashmit Patel, Jackie Shroff, Harsh Chhaya, Sana Oberoi, Vishakha Gupta, Archana Vadnerkar and Adi Irani. Music is by Dj Sheizwood. Editing is done by Jigar C. Bhuva. Super Model is a 2013 Indian romantic thriller.

Every girl harbors a secret desire to make it big in the glamorous world of showbiz and becoming a hot shot model is one of the obvious routes to fame and glory. However, many such aspirants tend to overlook the struggle, competition and politics associated with this challenging profession.

Super Model depicts the journey of aspiring models into the fashion industry. It is about the professional and personal struggle that middle class girls have to go through to finally achieve their moment of glory. The story revolves around five models who participate in a bikini calendar shoot contest in the Fiji Islands to fulfill their dream of becoming a super model. When they reach the islands, rival games start and all the models get trapped in a conspiracy which is set off by the murder of one of the contestants.

A wine baron (Harsh Chhaya) is scouting for Super Models to endorse and launch his new wine brand in the market. He recruits a photographer (Ashmit Patel) to organize a talent hunt in Fiji for the same. Amidst this backdrop, an upcoming model (Veena Malik) faces competition from other beauties for the endorsement deal until the contestants mysteriously start getting murdered one by one and the needle of blame seems to point towards her!

Maazii

Maazii is a suspense, thriller and action film directed by Jaideep Chopra and produced by Jaideep Chopra and Narendra Singh. Actors in the film are Sumeet Nijhawan, Mona Wasu, Manish Choudhary, Pankaj Tripathi, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Manav Kaushik, Mukesh Rishi, Zakir Hussain, Ashok Bhatia, Mohit Chouhan, Devender Chaudhary, Pooja Bisht and Saanvi Sharma. Story writers are Shirish Sharma and Sumeet Nijhawan. Background Music are by Faizan Hussain and Agnel Roman. Choreographer is Mansi Agarwal. Costume Designer is Kashmira Gaonkar. Singers are Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mika, Rekha Bhardwaj, Shalmali Kholgade, Nikhil Paul George and Manjeera Ganguly. Lyricists are Swanand Kirkire and Arun Kumar. Editor is Rameshwar S Bhagat, Cinematography is by Surjodeep Ghosh and Action by R P Yadav.

It is an unconventional movie with a racy plot that is sure to keep the audience captivated till the end. Shot in the serene hills of Mussourie, the scenic valleys of Dehradun and the raw rustic terrain of Meerut. Like the locations, the characters, too, are diverse and each one is a strong pillar on whose shoulders' the movie rests.