Thursday, December 5, 2013

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (R… Rajkumar, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Club 60 and Pitruroon) that was published in Newsband


New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
R... Rajkumar

R... Rajkumar (earlier known as Rambo Rajkumar) is a Bollywood action film directed by Prabhu Deva and written by Shiraz Ahmed. Produced by Viki Rajani and Sunil Lulla, the film stars Shahid Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha in lead roles.
The film has an interesting plot. Rajkumar (Shahid Kapoor) is an aimless youth who works for a drug baron named Shivraj (Sonu Sood). His latest mission is to kill a rival dealer named Manik Parmar (Ashish Vidyarthi). But Rajkumar's life changes forever when he claps eyes on the beautiful, educated Chanda (Sonakshi Sinha). What he doesn't know is that Chanda is an orphan who's been raised by her uncle - Manik Parmar! After some persistent wooing, Chanda falls for Rajkumar's charms. But in order for their love to flourish, he must destroy the drug cartel to which both Shivraj and Parmar owe allegiance, which is controlled by a Mafia don named Ajit Taaka (Srihari), who operates out of Malaysia and come back to marry Chanda
The film has Shahid Kapoor as Rajkumar, Sonakshi Sinha as Chanda, Sonu Sood as Shivraj, Poonam Jhawer, Ashish Vidyarthi as Manik Parmar, Mukul Dev, Asrani, Srihari as Ajit Taaka, Charmy Kaur (Special appearance in song Gandi Baat), Ragini Dwivedi (Special appearance in song Kaddu Katega) and Scarlett Mellish Wilson (Special appearance in song Kaddu Katega)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a 2013 American science fiction adventure film based on Suzanne Collins's novel, Catching Fire, the second installment in The Hunger Games trilogy. The film is the sequel to The Hunger Games, and the second installment in The Hunger Games film series, produced and distributed by Lionsgate. Francis Lawrence directed the film, with a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt (credited as Michael deBruyn). Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen along with Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Toby Jones, Willow Shields, and Paula Malcomson also reprising their roles.
In the prequel The Hunger Games, the audiences had last left the fictional land of Panem, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) had attempted to kill themselves rather than give President Snow (Donald Sutherland) a victory in the Hunger Games. When Snow decided to pronounce them both winners, Katniss and Peeta were instructed to declare their suicide attempt as an act of love, not defiance. But their act did not fool Snow, who pays Katniss a visit in the beginning of Catching Fire.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.

Club 60

The film Club 60 is directed and written by Sanjay Tripathy, and stars Farooq Shaikh, Sarika and Raghuvir Yadav.
A glance at 62 years old Manu bhai Shah (Raghubir Yadav), and he appears peculiar in his outfit, crazy in his behavior, flamboyant in his style, loud and funny in his conversation, and overbearing in his relations! With colored hair, trimmed French beard, colorful t-shirts with slogans (inappropriate for his age), GUCCI glares and i-pod plug-ins; when this 60 year old enters the tennis ground of the club he shouts in his inimitable style of Gujrati mixed Marathi accent.. 'public..audience (sounding as odience). He moves around in a red colored open jeep and thrives on friends. He lives life unapologetically.
He and his gang which includes Dhillon (Sharat Saxena), Mansukhani (Satish Shah), Zafar (Tinu Anand) and Sinha (Vineet Kumar) are a group of irrepressible 'five' whose lives revolves around a tennis court in a club called Club 60. They can drive anyone crazy by their antics. Bordering around sixty years of age; they play, fight, abuse, bitch and can even put youngsters, half their age, to shame when they talk of wine, women and sex.
Story of Club 60 unfolds when Dr Tareek Sheikh (Farookh Sheikh), a neuro surgeon, suffering from acute depression after the death of his only son, shifts to Mumbai from Pune with his wife Dr Sayara (Sarika). A chance encounter of suave Dr Sheikh with the flamboyant, talkative, funny and overbearing Manu bhai, who stays in the same building, snowballs into Dr Sheikh’s forced and reluctant entry into the Club 60's gang of five.
But is Manu bhai and his gang just a chunk of some well-to-do crazy and fun-loving 60 years young or is there something more to them under their colorful and playful facade? We explore it along with Dr Sheikh as slowly and steadily his reluctant participation in Manu bhai's 'gang of five', makes him fall in love with life again.

Pitruroon

Pitruroon is a drama film directed by Nitish Bharadwaj. Writers are Nitish Bharadwaj and Pravin Vithal Tarde. Pitruroon is based on a story by Sudha Murthy, directed by Nitish Bharadwaj and produced by IME Motion Pictures. The film is produced by Abhay Gadgil and Shrirang Godbole. The actors in the film are Sachin Khedekar, Tanuja, Suhas Joshi, Ketaki Palav, Omkar Kulkarni, Poorvi Bhave, Madhavi Soman, Om Bhutkar, Chandrashekhar Kulkarni and Uma Sardeshmukh. Music is by Kaushal Inamdar and lyrics are by Shrirang Godbole.
The film is a story of a man who comes in contact with his lookalike and traces his relation with him. Pitruroon is based on a short Kannada story written by author Sudha Murthy.
Pitruroon tells the story of an archeology professor Vyankatesh Kulkarni who comes across his look-alike one day. He is surprised at the striking similarities between him and the other man’s appearance and goes on to find the shocking connection between them.
The film goes on to investigate whether the Kulkarni family is in any way related to the old mother of the look-alike? The mystery thickens and results in an emotional upheaval. He discovers an unpaid debt of his father. The rest forms the crux of the film.

The film talks about the struggle of a son to understand his father’s past and to fulfill his last desire. 

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