Thursday, October 30, 2014

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ [Super Nani, Roar – Tigers of the Sunderbans, The Best of Me, Gone Girl, Fury, Night Crawler, Ouija, Fireflies and Jaanwar (digital)] that was published in Newsband


New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Super Nani

Super Nani is an Indian drama film directed by Indra Kumar. The film stars Rekha, Sharman Joshi, Randhir Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Rajesh Kumar and Shweta Kumar in lead roles. The film is based on the Gujarati play, Baa Ae Maari Boundary. The music is composed by Harshit Saxena and Sanjeev-Darshan.
The film has an interesting plot. Super Nani gives a strong message to all the women that their power lies within themselves; all they need to do is discover and use it. The journey of Bharti Bhatia (Rekha) is definitely a one to be experienced, as the fun, laughter, tickles, and tears of happiness will leave you with a light heart and a changed mind.
Super Nani is the story of Bharti Bhatia whose every waking hour is devoted to looking after the smallest need and praying for the betterment of her family comprising of her corporate czar husband (Randhir Kapoor), a son who is a wannabe stock market bull, a daughter-in-law who aspires to be the next soap-opera queen and a daughter with ultra modern values.
She selflessly performs her duties only to get ridiculed, humiliated and treated like a door-mat by her family.
An exciting tale begins when Mann pays a surprise visit to his Nani, Bharti Bhatia, in India. Opposite to his expectations of seeing a strong lady who holds command in life, he sees a soft and dormant lady who is commanded by all. This annoys him. So he decides to make his Nani's sad boring life turn into a fun roller coaster ride.
A failed photographer cum film maker, who had come to India with a hope to transform himself into a successful person, he decides to first transform the life of his inspiration, Bharti Bhatia. He dresses her up, makes her realize she is stunning, clicks her pictures and circulates them in various ad agencies.
By doing this he wants to re-invent the real Bharti Bhatia, the one who never gave up. He makes her realize, that the age of 60 is not the end of life, in fact it's a new beginning. This way, a dormant Bharti Bhatia gets a new awakening in life.
As a result, the family which hid her face from the world, abandoned her from various social events, is today the face seen in every household and is the reason for various social events. The lady who once used detergent powders in her kitchen is today the face of that detergent brand in every kitchen.
The film has Rekha as Bharti Bhatia, Sharman Joshi as Manorath, Randhir Kapoor, Shweta Kumar, Anupam Kher and Rajesh Kumar as Suketu

Roar

Roar is a 2014 Hindi-language Indian feature film written and directed by Kamal Sadanah.
Roar - Tigers of Sunderbans tells the story of the tumultuous relationship between a beast and man.
Uday, a young photojournalist on assignment in the jungles of the Sundarbans, rescues a white tiger cub ensnared in a poacher’s trap and brings the cub to a small settlement he is based in. Soon, panic among the villagers sets in. In order to bring calm back to the villagers, the forest warden takes the cub away. The Royal Bengal Tigress enters the village in the night searching for her cub. She picks up the scent of her cub’s blood and reaches the photographer’s hut. When she fails to get her cub back, her instinct leads her to avenge the kidnapping. She unleashes her wrath upon Uday, kills him, and disappears with his body. Enters Pundit; captain of an elite commando team, who comes to the Sundarbans to claim his brother Uday’s body. Silent replies from the villagers lead Pundit to a confrontation with the park warden. She callously declares the case closed and refuses to send a party to recover Uday’s body as the expanse and dangers of the forest ecology are too complex. Angry and emotional, Pundit decides to deal with the matter himself. He calls upon his own crack commando team and with the help of a local guide Madhu they engage a known tracker, Jhumpa, and set off on a do-or-die mission to capture and kill the white tigress. The team's quest leads them deep into the marshy heartland of the Sundarbans where they see things only heard of before in old folklore. Yet sharp and intelligent, the white tigress not only eludes them every time but also manipulates them into her territory. Adding to their predicament, a villainous poacher Bheera senses an opportunity to serve his own interest. He schemes a plan to use the survivors as bait to trap his prize catch, the Royal Bengal White Tigress. But little do they know that the hunters are soon going to become the hunted.
The film has Abhinav Shukla as Pundit, Himarsha Venkatsamy as Jhumpa, Achint Kaur as Forest Officer, Subrat Dutta as Bheera, Nora Fatehi as CJ, Ali Quli Mirza as Hero, Aadil Chahal as Kashmiri, Varinder Singh Ghuman as Cheena, Aaran Chaudhary as Sufi, Pranay Dixit as Madhu and Pulkit Jawahar.

The Best of Me

The Best of Me is an American romantic drama film directed by Michael Hoffman and written by Will Fetters and J. Mills Goodloe, based on Nicholas Sparks' 2011 novel of the same name. The film stars James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan with Luke Bracey and Liana Liberato.
The film has an interesting plot. Dawson and Amanda met and fell in love while in high school, a golden period in their lives. Twenty-one years later they meet by chance in the town they had both left and renew their relationship. Unfortunately, Amanda is married to someone else and is a mother. The movie then moves towards an interesting climax.

Gone Girl

Gone Girl is a 2014 American thriller film directed by David Fincher and adapted by Gillian Flynn from her 2012 novel of the same name. It stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, and Carrie Coon.
The film examines dishonesty, the media, the economy's effects on marriage, and appearances.
Nick Dunne is sitting at the bar he co-owns with his sister Margo on his fifth wedding anniversary, when he receives a call from his neighbour alerting him about his mansion’s door being left ajar. He rushes home to find that his wife is missing and there is obvious sign of struggle that has left a glass table shattered. The police is called and soon a media and community circus ensues to find Amy. Amy’s parents are famous for writing the Amazing Amy series based on what they considered would’ve been the perfect version of the daughter. Needless to say, the media laps up the missing Amy saga and dissects it in ways that have become commonplace in the world of the media today. Meanwhile, Nick is the socially awkward husband who makes a series of unintentional bloopers including not knowing his wife’s best friend, and before he knows it, the needle of suspicion is firmly pointed at him. It doesn’t help that the police investigation reveals that the kitchen floor of his residence was cleared of a blood bath and Nick is arrested on charges of his wife’s murder. Did he murder the wife he started to loathe? What happened to the woman who painstakingly paid for her lazy and disinterested husband despite not getting much affection from him in return? How do two people who seem like the perfect couple disintegrate into an abyss of deceit, lies and double lives?

Fury

Fury is a 2014 American war film set during World War II written and directed by David Ayer. The film stars Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Peña, Jason Isaacs, and Scott Eastwood.
The heroic attempt by a five-man team led by Don Wardaddy Collier (Brad Pitt), who commands a Sherman tank against Germany when they are outnumbered forms the basic storyline of Fury. At the heart of the story lies the relationship between Pitt's battle-hardened tank commander, Don“Wardaddy” Collier, and the fresh-faced Norman, a typist, who is thrust into the battle to replace a dead crew member.
Don “Wardaddy” Collier, the U.S. Army sergeant has fought his way through World War II and is deep inside Germany as the battle draws to a close. The tank platoon has a mission to hold a crossing, and finds itself outnumbered.

Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler is a 2014 American crime thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, and Bill Paxton. Marking Gilroy's directorial debut, it tells the story of a driven young man who stumbles upon the underground world of Los Angeles freelance crime journalism.
The character Lou Bloom is a freelance LA crime scene videographer. Is this man human, exactly? Lou's small talk leans heavy on the self-help axioms and self-directed pep rallies; it's as if he were an alien learning to pass for earthling by watching one too many TED Talks.
We know Lou's a criminal; in the first scene, he beats up a security guard and steals his watch, which dangles awkwardly off his skinny wrist the rest of the movie. Lou is just another LA casualty of anonymity — lost and searching for work, an identity of some kind, something he can "learn and grow into." He finds what he's looking for
Lou Bloom has sharp features, thick, dark hair and piercing eyes. He speaks with extreme confidence, selling himself to you with perfectly faked friendship. He likes buzzwords, pop psychology and think-positive aphorisms.
But Lou isn't another cult-addled movie star, even if he talks like one. He's a sociopath, with a special set of skills. And he's using those skills to climb to the top of a very greasy mountain — the world of freelance videographers who race to a city's crime scenes.
And he will step on anything, or anyone, to get there.

Ouija

Ouija is thriller film directed by Stiles White and co-written by White and Juliet Snowden. The film stars Olivia Cooke, Daren Kagasoff, Douglas Smith and Bianca A. Santos. It is Hasbro's first horror film.
The film is about a group of friends attempting to make contact with a recently deceased classmate through a Ouija board who awaken a dark and terrifying presence. It is based on Hasbro's supernatural game. It is a supernatural adventure centering around a family.
Olivia Cooke plays a girl who discovers that her dead friend had been messing around with a Ouija board and brings the game home. Douglas Smith is the dead girl's boyfriend, who may know more about her death than he lets on

Fireflies

The film Fireflies is directed by Sabal Singh Sheikhawat. It is a drama capturing the lives of two estranged brothers - one brother who leads a very successful life as a banker and the other who is a law school dropout and lives by the day. Fate brings them together when a tragedy that struck them 15 years ago re-manifests itself in a new avatar in their life.
The film has Rahul Khanna, Monica Dogra, Arjun Mathur, Shivani Ghai and Aadya Bedi.

Jaanwar (digital)

Jaanwar (English language: Animal) is a Bollywood gangster drama film directed by Suneel Darshan, released on 24 December, 1999. It will now be re-released in digital format. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor and Shilpa Shetty in pivotal roles.

The film has an interesting story. Sultan (Shakti Kapoor) adopts an orphan and names him Badshah (Akshay Kumar). Badshah grows up to be a criminal and his life was made difficult by Inspector Pradhan (Ashish Vidyarthi). Badshah's sidekick is Abdul (Ashutosh Rana). The only hope in Badshah's life is Sapna (Karisma Kapoor), whom he incidentally met. But circumstances lead Badshah to commit murder in public. During this experience, a child clings to him and he takes the child to Sapna. Before he can explain anything, Pradhan gets there and Badshah has to escape. He changes his name to Babu Lohar and becomes a blacksmith and loving father, to give the child a good future. However, after 7 years, he sees Abdul and Sultan again. Pradhan is still after him. When the child's parents find out about him, they ask Babu to return their child. Will he let the child go? Will the child go with his parents?

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