Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Mr Joe B. Carvalho, Sholay in 3D, The Wolf of Wall Street, 47 Ronin and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Mr Joe B. Carvalho

Mr Joe B. Carvalho is a Bollywood comedy film. The film is directed by Samir Tewari and produced by Shital Malviya and Bhola Ram Malviya (Arshad Warsi's long standing secretary). The film stars Arshad Warsi, Soha Ali Khan, Javed Jaffrey and Vijay Raaz. The film also has guest appearances by Geeta Basra and Karishma Kotak. Singer Babul Supriyo debuts in the film by playing a cameo.

The film has Soha Ali Khan playing a dabangg cop in Mr Joe B Carvalho, a comedy of errors. She plays senior inspector Shantipriya Phadnis. She is a cop in the Bengaluru police force, but most of the time she is under cover – a cabaret dance, an apsara or a bazaaru auraat. She is tailing an international assassin called Carlos, played by Javed Jafferi. But she somehow mistakes Mr Joe B Carvalho, played by Arshad Warsi, for Carlos and this leads to a whole comedy of errors.

Shantipriya’s introduction is very dabbang. She emerges from a jeep, throws her aviators in the air and proceeds to beat the pulp out of 20 gundas. She has worn bikini in the film.

Thus the film has Arshad Warsi as Joe B. Carvalho, Soha Ali Khan as Insp. Shantipriya Phadnis, Jaaved Jaaferi as Carlos, Vijay Raaz as Monty Kalra aka M.K, Shakti Kapoor as Khurana, Vrajesh Hirjee as Hira, Rajesh Balwani as Moti, Geeta Basra as Gehna, Karishma Kotak as Neena, Ranjeet as Anil Virani, Himani Shivpuri as Joe's Mom, Manoj Joshi as Commissioner Pandey, Snehal Dhabi as General Kopa Bhalerao Kabana, Kunal Khemu in a Cameo Appearance, Virendra Saxena as Naidu, Babul Supriyo as Malik and Chitra Shenoy as Sundari (MK's wife).

The entire soundtrack for the film is composed by Amartya Raut. All lyrics are written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, Virag Mishra, Puneet Sharma and Jaaved Jaaferi.

The film has songs like Chumma Chaati sung by Shefali Alvaris, Amartya Rahut and Pinky Maidasani, Mind Blastic by Neeraj Shridhar, Ring Ring by Subhajit Mukherjee, Ae Ji Suniye by Humsika Iyer and Amartya Rahut and Carlos by Javed Jaffrey.

Sholay in 3D

Sholay is a 1975 action-adventure Hindi film directed by Ramesh Sippy and produced by his father G. P. Sippy. This film will be now shown in 3D format. The film follows two criminals, Veeru and Jai (played by Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan), hired by a retired police officer (Sanjeev Kumar) to capture the ruthless dacoit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan). Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri also star as Veeru and Jai's love interests. Sholay is considered a classic and one of the best Indian films.

The film has an interesting plot. In the small village of Ramgarh, the retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar) summons to a pair of small-time thieves that he had once arrested. Thakur feels that the duo — Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) — would be ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan), a dacoit wanted by the authorities for a INR50,000 reward. Thakur tells them to surrender Gabbar to him, alive, for an additional INR20,000 reward.

The two thieves thwart the dacoits sent by Gabbar to extort the villagers. Living in Ramgarh, the lively Veeru and cynical Jai find themselves growing fond of the villagers. Veeru is attracted to Basanti (Hema Malini), a feisty, talkative young woman who makes her living by driving a horse-cart. Jai is drawn to Radha (Jaya Bhaduri), Thakur's reclusive, widowed daughter-in-law, who subtly returns his affections.

The film next depicts skirmishes between Gabbar's gang and Jai-Veeru. At one stage, Jai sacrifices himself by using his last bullet to ignite dynamite sticks on a bridge from close range. Enraged, Veeru attacks Gabbar's den and catches the dacoit. Veeru nearly beats Gabbar to death when Thakur appears and reminds Veeru of the promise to hand over Gabbar alive. Thakur uses his spike-soled shoes to severely injure Gabbar and destroy his hands. The police then arrive and arrest Gabbar.

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American satirical biographical black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on Jordan Belfort's memoir of the same name. The screenplay is written by Terence Winter, and the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, a New York stockbroker who refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street. The film also features Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey.

The middle-class, Queens-raised Belfort tried and failed to establish himself on Wall Street in a more traditional way — we see his tutelage in the late '80s at a blue chip firm, under the wing of a grinning sleazeball played by Matthew McConaughey — but got laid off in the market crash of 1987. He reinvented himself on Long Island by taking over a penny stock boiler room and giving it an old money name, Stratton Oakmont, to gain the confidence of middle-and working-class investors. The firm employed over 1000 stock brokers and was involved in stock issues totaling more than $1 billion, including an equity raising for footwear company Steve Madden Ltd. Belfort and his company specialized in "pump and dump" operations: artificially blowing up the value of a nearly worthless stock, then selling it at a big profit, after which point the value drops and the investors lose their money. Belfort was indicted in 1998 for money laundering and securities fraud, spent nearly two years in federal prison and was ordered to pay back $110 million to investors he'd deceived.

The movie thus shows how Belfort rose from humble origins and become rich and notorious.

47 Ronin

47 Ronin is a 2013 American fantasy action film depicting a fictional account of the forty-seven Ronin, a real-life group of samurai in 18th-century Japan who avenge the murder of their master. Produced by Universal Studios, the film is directed by Carl Erik Rinsch and stars Keanu Reeves.

The film has an interesting story to tell. The outcast Kai (Reeves), illegitimate son of a British sailor and a Japanese peasant woman, joins a group of Ronin, led by Kuranosuke Oishi (Sanada), who seeks vengeance on Lord Kira (Asano), a ruthless man who killed their master and banished the group. The Ronin embark on a journey with challenges that would defeat most warriors.

The film has Keanu Reeves as Kai, a former slave who joins the Ronin. Reeves's character is half-Japanese and half-British; the character was created for the film. The film also has Hiroyuki Sanada as Oishi, the leader of the Ronin, Kou Shibasaki as Mika, Lord Kira's daughter and Kai's love interest, Tadanobu Asano as Lord Kira, the Shogun's master of ceremonies and the one responsible for killing the Ronin's master, Min Tanaka as Lord Asano, the former master of the Ronin, Jin Akanishi as Chikara, Oishi's son, Masayoshi Haneda as Yasuno, Hiroshi Sogabe as Hazama, Neil Fingleton as Lovecraftian Samurai, Takato Yonemoto as Basho, Hiroshi Yamada as Hara, Shu Nakajima as Horibe, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shogun Tsunayoshi, Rinko Kikuchi as Mizuki, a witch who serves Lord Kira, Yorick van Wageningen as Kapitan and Rick Genest as Savage.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is an American adventure fantasy comedy-drama film directed by and starring Ben Stiller. This is the second film adaptation of James Thurber's 1939 short story of the same name. The 1947 version was produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Norman Z. McLeod, with Danny Kaye playing the role of Walter Mitty.

The film has an interesting story. Walter Mitty is an employee at Life magazine who frequently daydreams of fantastic adventures. Photojournalist Sean O'Connell has sent a special photograph that he says captures the "Quintessence" of Life magazine and that it should be used for the cover of the magazine's final issue. Mitty works in the negative assets department, and has never lost a photo in his sixteen years of work at Life magazine, but negative 25 is missing. Using the other negatives as clues Mitty decides to go in search of Sean O'Connell and find the missing negative.

Thus the film has Ben Stiller as Walter Mitty, a negative asset manager at Life, Kristen Wiig as Cheryl Melhoff, Walter's love interest and co-worker, Shirley MacLaine as Edna Mitty, Walter's mother, Adam Scott as Ted Hendricks, Walter's new boss, Kathryn Hahn as Odessa Mitty, Walter's sister, Sean Penn as Sean O'Connell, a photojournalist, Patton Oswalt as Todd Maher, an Harmony customer service representative, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as a Greenlandic pilot, Jon Daly as Tim Naughton, one of Walter's co-workers, Terence Bernie Hines as Gary Mannheim, one of Walter's co-workers, Adrian Martinez as Hernando, Walter's understudy and co-worker, Kai Lennox as Phil Melhoff, Cheryl's ex-husband, Conan O'Brien as himself, Andy Richter as himself and Joey Slotnick as a retirement home administrator.