Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (One by Two, 12 Years A Slave and I, Frankenstein) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

One By Two

One By Two is a 2014 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Devika Bhagat. The film features real life couple Abhay Deol and Preeti Desai. This is the story of Amit and Samara who meet each other while living in Mumbai. The music of the film has been composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.

The love story, which has been directed by Devika Bhagat, revolves around a couple who meet each other while living in Mumbai. They are fed up with their lives and want their situations to change desperately. 

One By Two is the story of two Mumbai residents, Amit and Samara, and how the fate conspires to bring them close to each other. This is a coming of age film about how two people are destined to be together but only when their lives are ready to do so. They have different paths to follow and different aspirations to achieve from each other. But through a series of coincidences and fate’s helping hand, Amit and Samara’s lives intersect once again and affect each other. Whether they can find their aimed paths or not, only time will tell.

The film has Abhay Deol as Amit Sharma, Preeti Desai as Samara Patel, Rati Agnihotri, Jayant Kriplani, Lillete Dubey, Darshan Jariwala, Geetika Tyagi, Netarpal Singh Heera, Yudishtir Urs, Preetika Chawla, Tahir Bhasin, Maya Sarao, Yashika Dhillon and Anish Trivedi.

Soundtrack of the film is by Shankar Ehsaan Loy. All lyrics are written by Amitabh Bhattacharya. The film has songs like I'm Just Pakaoed sung by Siddharth Mahadevan, Kaboom by Anushka Manchanda, Baat Kya Hai by Clinton Cerejo, Khushfehmiyan by Shankar Mahadevan, Khushfehmiyan (Unplugged) by Shankar Mahadevan, Sheher Mera by Thomson Andrews and Khuda Na Khasta by Arijit Singh.

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 British-American historical drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for twelve years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northup's memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate.

This third feature film directed by Steve McQueen was written by John Ridley. Chiwetel Ejiofor starred in the leading role of Northup. Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt and Alfre Woodard featured in supporting roles.

The film is based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender), as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life.

I, Frankenstein

I, Frankenstein is a 2014 Australian-American fantasy action film written and directed by Stuart Beattie, based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux. It stars Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Socratis Otto, Jai Courtney and Kevin Grevioux.

I, Frankenstein begins with the demise of Victor Frankenstein, who freezes to death trying to hunt and kill his abominable monster, Adam (Aaron Eckhart). Adam feels compelled to give Frankenstein a proper burial and he travels back home in order to do so, at which point he (and Frankenstein’s reanimation sketch book) becomes embroiled in a war between Gargoyles (who are essentially Angels) and Demons. He’s taken by force to the Gargoyle castle by Gideon (Jai Courtney) and they all pretty much decide he should be destroyed. That’s when the Gargoyle Queen (Miranda Otto) steps in, sees something worth saving in Adam’s soulless eyes and decides to release him.

Adam spends 200 years practicing martial arts in the mountains before he is thrust back into the whole Gargoyle vs. Demon thing in the present day. There’s a Demon Prince named Naberius (played by Bill Nighy – the only person in the movie who seems vaguely alive) who is also the CEO of a company that’s trying to perfect reanimation via electricity in order to bring an army of the dead to life so the Demons can possess them because they have no souls. The beautiful Terra (Yvonne Strahovski) is the innocent electrophysiologist tasked with making this happen. It turns out that either Adam or Frankenstein’s journal would be pretty helpful in making this happen. From here the movie moves towards an interesting climax.