Thursday, December 26, 2013

Dinesh Kamath’s column on ‘New movie releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Walking with Dinosaurs, Mahabharat, Bhadaas, Mokssh and Rangkarmi) that was published in Newsband


New movie releases in Navi Mumbai
Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs is a 2013 family adventure film about dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous period 70 million years ago. The production features computer-animated dinosaurs in live-action settings with actors John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Tiya Sircar, and Skyler Stone providing voiceovers for the main characters. The film is produced by BBC Earth and named after BBC's 1999 television documentary miniseries. It is directed by Neil Nightingale and Barry Cook from a screenplay by John Collee. The crew filmed footage on location in the U.S. state of Alaska and in New Zealand, which were chosen for their similarities to the dinosaurs' surroundings millions of years ago. Computer-animated dinosaurs were then created and added to the live-action backdrop.
During the Late Cretaceous period 70 million years ago, the Alexornis bird Alex narrates about three Pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi, Scowler, and Juniper who grow from infants into adulthood. Alex has a symbiotic relationship with Pachyrhinosaurus. Patchi leads the herd in migrating, and they also encounter the predator Gorgon the Gorgosaurus.
The movie narrates a CGI dinosaur adventure for Christmas. A palaeontologist shows his niece and nephew a dino tooth that apparently broke free from its owner's mouth; they ponder what might have led up to that moment. And from there we whoosh back in time to when cute dinosaurs with Disney-American accents interacted cartoonishly with each other. The storyline is about dinosaurs discovering the meaning of family and love in the course of a huge herd migration.
The following actors gave their voiceovers for prehistoric creatures: John Leguizamo ... Alex, Justin Long ... Patchi, Tiya Sircar ... Juniper, Skyler Stone ... Scowler. For modern-day humans: Karl Urban ... Uncle Zack, Charlie Rowe ... Ricky and Angourie Rice ... Jade.

Mahabharat

Mahabharat is an animated Indian mythological drama film, directed by Amaan Khan. The film is produced by Kushal Kantilal Gada and Dhaval Jayantilal Gada. Several actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit, Ajay Devgn, Vidya Balan, Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee, Deepti Naval have been signed up for the characters in the film. Mahabharat is touted as most expensive animated film in Bollywood.
Ganesha wrote the Mahabharata. The core story of the work is that of a dynastic struggle for the throne of Hastinapura, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan. The two collateral branches of the family that participate in the struggle are the Kaurava and the Pandava. Although the Kaurava is the senior branch of the family, Duryodhana, the eldest Kaurava, is younger than Yudhisthira, the eldest Pandava. Both Duryodhana and Yudhisthira claim to be first in line to inherit the throne.
The struggle culminates in the great battle of Kurukshetra, in which the Pandavas are ultimately victorious. The battle produces complex conflicts of kinship and friendship, instances of family loyalty and duty taking precedence over what is right, as well as the converse.
The Mahabharata itself ends with the death of Krishna, and the subsequent end of his dynasty and ascent of the Pandava brothers to heaven. It also marks the beginning of the Hindu age of Kali Yuga, the fourth and final age of mankind, in which great values and noble ideas have crumbled, and man is heading towards the complete dissolution of right action, morality and virtue.
The following are the voice cast: Amitabh Bachchan as Bhishma, Shatrughan Sinha as Krishna, Sunny Deol as Bheem, Ajay Devgan as Arjun, Anil Kapoor as Karna, Madhuri Dixit as Durga or Adi Shakti, Vidya Balan as Draupadi, Manoj Bajpayee as Yudhisthira, Anupam Kher as Shakuni, Deepti Naval as Kunti and Jackie Shroff as Duryodhan.

Bhadaas

Bhadaas is a Hindi thriller film directed and produced by Ajay Yadav. The film features Meera, Aryeman Ramsay, Shree Rajput and Anant Mahadevan as main characters.
The story of the movie revolves around three principal characters: a young girl called Daisy, Police inspector Vijay and Assistant Commissioner’s daughter Neha. The plot of the story theme develops with the sudden disappearance of men every full-moon night, leaving in its wake panic and terror. The mystery in the whodunit deepens as the cops set a trap to nab the perpetrator.
The movie is basically a story about a young girl Daisy. By profession Daisy is a writer. However, every night of full Moon she gets influenced by it. Something happens to her and she goes out in search of a man. She would ask for a lift and what happens later is a mystery. Men start disappearing, creating a panic.
Vijay is a police inspector, specializing in solving murder crime who is called in to solve this case. Neha, the daughter of A.C.P. Saxena, loves Vijay. In a party when Vijay meets Daisy, he falls in love with her. But during the investigations, what come through, shocks everybody. A trap is laid to catch the killer red handed.

Mokssh

Mokssh is a film belonging to Drama ‘genre’ with star cast consisting of Chinmay Mandlekar, Sukhada Yash, Edward Sonnenblick, Suhas Shirsat and Umesh Jagtap.
The movie is directed and written by Ajit Bhairavkar. Music Director is Shailendra Barve. Lyricist is Abhilash. Cinematography is by Amol Gole.
Mokssh which means ‘Journey of the Soul’ is a unique cinematic experience and the story of self-discovery and transformation of Parth during his 18 days Journey of pilgrimage (Waari). Warkaris’ nonstop chanting and musical celebration in the name of God Mauli [mother of the Universe] leads to moksha. Parth, a young, ambitious and egoistic film director from Mumbai, is in a live-in relationship with his love Geetali. Eric, an Anthropology PhD student from US, and Parth come together to make a path-breaking international film on Waari, wherein millions of devotees walk together for 250 kms in 18 days, just to meet their beloved lord Vithoba. Parth undertakes the challenge to capture this eventful journey of millions in a contemporary manner and to capture the grandeur and soul of Waari. The 18 Chapters of the Dyaneshwari (a household religious book followed by Warkaris as a key to bliss and happy living) unfold very interestingly with real life characters in the pilgrimage

Rangkarmi

Rangkarmi is a Marathi film produced by Sumeet H. Mittal, Shashi Mittal, directed by Sanjiv Kolte and has star cast consisting of Mohan Joshi, Dr. Amol Kolhe, Sheetal Dabholkar and Sharmishtha Raut. Screenplay is by Sumeet H. Mittal and Sanjiv Kolte. The movie is written by Sanjiv Kolte.
The movie Rangkarmi is a tribute to the Marathi theatre. Rangkarmi is a film defining the journey of an amateur actor, Keshav whose dream is to become a renowned stage actor and his unique relationship with his mentor and makeup man, Dwarkanath.

Rangkarmi means a person associated with theater since generations but behind the stage - makeup man, light man etc. The film is a story of such persons who never come in the light. Rangkarmi is loyal to theater, have passion for work. They work for theater for whole life.

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