Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (The Shaukeens, Badlapur Boys, Interstellar, Big Hero 6, Rang Rasiya, A decent arrangement and Char Sahibzaade) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

The Shaukeens

The Shaukeens is a Hindi comedy film directed by Abhishek Sharma. The film features Annu Kapoor, Piyush Mishra and Anupam Kher in lead roles alongside Lisa Haydon, while Akshay Kumar features in a cameo playing himself.

The project is a remake of the 1982 film Shaukeen directed by Basu Chatterjee, starring Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt, A. K. Hangal, Rati Agnihotri and Mithun Chakraborty. The film is partly shot in Mauritius.

The Shaukeens has three lecherous old men (played by Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor and Piyush Mishra) who decide to take a break from their routine life to enjoy. The trio lands up in Mauritius from Delhi and gets into hilarious situations with hot chick Ahana (Lisa Haydon). Ahana is a die hard fan of Akshay Kumar. The lecherous trio tries to impress and get lucky with her. Akshay Kumar is playing the role originally played by Mithun Chakraborty, and he plays as himself for the first time. What happens after they meet Ahana forms the crux of the story.

Badlapur Boys

Badlapur Boys is a 2014 Hindi drama film directed by Shailesh Verma and produced by Karrm Movies. It stars Nishan, Saranya Mohan, Annu Kapoor and Puja Gupta in lead roles. The film is about team of Kabaddi players. It's a remake of Tamil hit film Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu.

Badlapur Boys is a poignant story of a child Vijay, who is enormously passionate about the game Kabaddi, who journeys through his life to fulfill the dream of his father and the entire village. Badlapur Boys deals with a plot of social family romantic drama with sports as a backdrop, which has Nishan in the lead role.

The setting of the story is a village Badlapur. A small boy in the village is deeply interested in Kabadi and will not step into school before playing at least a single game. His interest in the game is such that sometimes he misses even his meals. As luck would have it, his father dies in a freak accident and he is forced to work in the farmlands dropping his studies.

As a youngster also he (hero of the movie) is not able to pursue his interest of playing Kabadi but is resigned to looking after the clothes of the boy’s team when they play the game. This team from village has an infamous reputation of never having won a single game in any tournament.

In an unexpected event, in a Kabbadi match in a village, the boy is given a chance to play as a substitute for a boy and his potential comes to the fore which coach does not fail to recognize. An unsure decision on whether he is out of the game or not triggers a big brawl and the teenagers are reprimanded by their parents. Meanwhile love blossoms between hero and heroine who come to visit the village carnival.

Later on, the team goes to another village to participate in a Kabadi match but is not allowed to do so as there are professional teams vying for the title. From here the movie moves towards the climax.

The film has Nishan as Vijay, Saranya Mohan as Sapna, Annu Kapoor as Swathi, Puja Gupta as Manjari, Anupam Maanav as Dr. O.P Malhotra, Kishori Shahane and Aman Verma.

Interstellar

Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction adventure film directed by Christopher Nolan starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. The film features a team of space travelers who travel through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet. It was written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Christopher combined his idea with a script developed by his brother in 2007 for Paramount Pictures and producer Lynda Obst. He is producing the film with Obst and his wife, Emma Thomas. Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, whose works inspired the film, acted as both an executive producer and a scientific consultant for the film.

Interstellar is quite a show. We’re a few decades in the future and Earth is dying; What’s left of society lives a doubtful and dusty agrarian existence. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a widower and former astronaut, impatiently fritters his days away on a heartland farm with teenage son Tom (Timothée Chalamet), father-in-law Donald (John Lithgow), and adoring young daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy).

NASA is down to about 25 people in a desert bunker, and the father is drafted by his old mentor, Prof. Brand (Michael Caine), to go aloft in a rocket for a reconnaissance mission. Some larger intelligence — there’s much discussion of who — has placed a handy wormhole next to Saturn, a trap door for mankind to explore the far-flung corners of space. Three astronauts dispatched a decade ago have sent word they’ve found habitable planets. Cooper, along with Brand’s scientist daughter, Amelia (Anne Hathaway), and her colleagues (Wes Bentley and David Gyasi), has to pick one to be our new home.

That’s Plan A. Plan B is basically artificial insemination on a planetary level. There is no Plan C.

Big Hero 6

Big Hero 6 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated superhero-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, and is the 54th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Big Hero 6 is the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters, whose parent company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009. This is the second Disney films based on song from Music since The Sorcerer's Apprentice in 2010.

The film has an interesting plot. Set in a fictional futuristic hybrid metropolis called San Fransokyo (a portmanteau of San Francisco and Tokyo), a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his robot Baymax uncover a criminal plot and pull together a team of inexperienced crime-fighters, including Wasabi, Honey Lemon, GoGo Tomago, and Fred to solve the mystery surrounding the crimes caused by the masked supervillain, Yokai.

Rang Rasiya

Rang Rasiya is an Indian drama film based on the life of the 19th-century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma. The film is directed Ketan Mehta, produced by Deepa Sahi and Aanand Mahendroo. It stars Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen and a newcomer Triptha Parashar in the lead roles.

Rang Rasiya is a biopic based on a novel of the infamous, avant-garde 19th century painter Raja Ravi Verma. Infamous because he was all too easy with his physical affection in a time of puritan values and scandalously (for the time) gave faces to the Gods he painted. Avant-garde because he had the guts to invest every last penny into a printing press so that the common man could own a prized painting of the Gods with a face. The story begins with a court trial where the painter is being accused of hurting religious sentiment, promoting pornography in the name of art and corrupting society. An argument we are all too familiar with 150 years later, which is scary. As the trial progresses we dip in and out of Raja Ravi Verma's life and his many loves starting in Kilimanoor in Kerala and spreading to Bombay and Baroda. The film brings to us how colourful his life was. And the story of his life, with the central theme of an artist fighting for the freedom of his thought and creativity, is an easily relatable and timely one.

The soundtrack of Rang Rasiya is composed by Sandesh Shandilya and lyrics are written by Manoj Muntashir. The film has songs like Rang Rasiya (title) sung by Sunidhi Chauhan and Keerthi Sagathia, Kahe Sataye by Roop Kumar Rathod and Sunidhi Chauhan, O Kamini by Sonu Nigam, Anhad Naad by Kailash Kher and Anwar Khan, Sun Balam by Rajashwari Pathak and Rang Rasiya (Re-mix ).

A Decent Arrangement

A Decent Arrangement is a 2014 film. This film stars Shabana Azmi, Adam Laupus, Lethia Nall, Farid Currim, Shreya Sharma, Vikram Kapadia, Navniit Nisshan and Adhir Bhat and is directed by Sarovar Banka.

The film has an interesting plot. A Decent Arrangement is the story of Ashok Khosla (Adam Laupus), an Indian-American copywriter who journeys to India seeking an arranged marriage. After he encounters an American woman travelling through India and is set up with an Indian woman who unexpectedly captivates him, Ashok must navigate the complexity of cultural traditions and the leanings of his own heart. With subtle comedy and true-to-life drama, A Decent Arrangement shows us a side of India not commonly seen by western audiences and delivers an affecting story that resonates with those of us in search of our place in a changing world.

The film has Shabana Azmi as Preeti Mehta, Adam Laupus as Ashok Khosla, Diksha Basu as Amita Chandra, Lethia Nall as Lorie Sanders, Farid Currim as Bashi Mehta, Shreya Sharma as Suriya Mehta, Vikram Kapadia as Arun Khosla, Navniit Nisshan as Gita Khosla and Adhir Bhat as Vikram Kohli.

Char Sahibzaade

Chaar Sahibzade is a 3D Animation film produced by Pammi Baweja and directed by Harry Baweja.

Chaar Sahibzaade is the first photo realistic' 3D animation film in S-3D on Sikh gurus. It is the real story of the sacrifices of the four sons of Guru Gobind Singh - Baba Ajit Singh, Baba Jujhar Singh, Baba Zorawar Singh and Baba Fateh Singh. The film reveals some intriguing, unknown facts about Sikh history. Guru Gobind Singh, for your information, was the 10^th guru of the Sikhs.