Thursday, December 4, 2014

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie released in Navi Mumbai’ (Action Jackson, Exodus – Gods and Kings, This is where I leave you, Bhopal: A prayer for rain and Sulemani Keeda) that was published in Newsband


New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Action Jackson

Action Jackson is a 2014 Indian action comedy film directed by Prabhudeva and produced by Vic Walia and Sunil Lulla. The film features Ajay Devgan in the title role, alongside Sonakshi Sinha, Yami Gautam, Manasvi Mamgai, and Anand Raj.
The story begins with a series of combats between local gangster Vishi (Devgn) and a few scruffy looking villains. The baddies want him, cops want him too.
We are told why he’s being chased so relentlessly by every unwashed ruffian out there after an hour into the film. Vishi operates an empire built on unscrupulous deeds. Even a deadly-looking mobster from South East Asia is out for his blood. Vishi meets Khushi, played by Sonakshi Sinha. She’s a klutz who’s so clumsy that she never reaches work on time because she’s either stumbling over potholes or running out of petrol in her bike. But her misfortunes are magically reversed when she runs into Vishi in a dressing room at a mall. He’s semi-clad and she’s convinced that seeing him naked brought her good luck. Vishi thus earns one more stalker in his life. She plots ways to see him without his pants on and several songs-cum-flirtatious exchanges later, they realise that they are in love. The action thriller morphs into a syrupy love story.
The second half of the film takes you into the world of AJ, the right hand man of Xavier (Anand Raj) — a mafia kingpin. Things were merry between them until Xavier’s drug-snorting sister Marina falls in love with AJ. Played by former model Manasvi Mamgai, she is pure evil with chronic anger management issues and zero tolerance to rejection by males. Once she’s spurned by AJ, all hell breaks looks as she unleashes her wrath on him and his girlfriend (Yami Gautam). She’s the kind of woman who kicks her bodyguard with her stiletto-shod feet and they hurtle off a skyscraper. The movie then moves towards an interesting climax.
The film has Ajay Devgn as Action Jackson (AJ), Sonakshi Sinha, Yami Gautam, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Manasvi Mamgai, Anand Raj, Sonu Sood, Prabhu Deva (cameo), Shahid Kapoor (cameo) and Salman Khan (cameo).
The film has songs like Keeda sung by Himesh Reshammiya, Neeti Mohan, Punjabi Mast - Vineet Singh, Ankit Tiwari, Neeti Mohan, Chichora Piya - Himesh Reshammiya, Shalmali Kholgade, Dhoom Dhaam - Ankit Tiwari, Palak Muchhal, Gangster Baby - Neeraj Shridhar, Neeti Mohan, Keeda (Remix) - Himesh Reshammiya, Neeti Mohan, Punjabi Mast (Remix) - Himesh Reshammiya, Ankit Tiwari, Neeti Mohan, Chichora Piya (Remix) - Himesh Reshammiya, Shalmali Kholgade and Keeda (Reprise) - Himesh Reshammiya, Neeti Mohan.

Exodus – Gods and Kings

The film Exodus – Gods and Kings is directed by Ridley Scott and the two lead actors of the film are Joel Edgerton and Christian Bale. Here the story of Moses is adapted for the big screen.
Following the trend of religious movie comes Exodus which is the name of the second book in the bible and it gives an account of Moses leading the Israelite slaves to freedom from Egypt. Christian Bale plays Moses, Joel Edgeton plays the pharaoh Rhamses, Aaron Paul as Joshua and Sigourney Weaver as Tyua. Director and Co-Writer Ridley Scott uses a state of the art visual effects and 3D immersion to bring this story to life.
Director Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings forgoes the usual “baby in a basket” start to Moses’ story, beginning instead with him as a general in Pharaoh Seti’s (John Turturro) army and devoted figurative brother to heir Ramses (Joel Edgerton). This Moses is initially skeptical of religion, and also not overly concerned with the plight of the Hebrews (but he’s still more sympathetic to their treatment than anyone else in his Egyptian circle).
It's not until an elder, Nun (Sir Ben Kingsley), secretly reveals to Moses that he is in fact a Hebrew that he slowly, reluctantly starts to accept his true identity. Banished by Ramses, Moses wanders through the desert until he arrives in a village where he meets Zipporah (the fetching María Valverde in an underwritten role), who eventually becomes his wife.
The film then jumps ahead several years to find Moses now a husband, father, and shepherd. When an accident leads him to a fateful encounter with God – channeled here as a mercurial little boy/messenger named Malak (a commanding Isaac Andrews) – Moses starts to behave erratically, his very concept of what’s true and what isn’t shaken to its core. He ultimately accepts his mission to deliver the Hebrews from bondage, which leads to devastating consequences for the Egyptians in the form of God’s vengeful Ten Plagues. Pharaoh Ramses, who believes himself a god, refuses to negotiate with Moses or to accept the will of the Hebrew God, leading to even more calamity for Ramses’ people.

This is where I leave you

This Is Where I Leave You is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed by Shawn Levy. It is based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Tropper, who also wrote the film's screenplay.
The movie has an interesting story. When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide — driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.

Bhopal: A prayer for rain

Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain is an historical-drama film set amidst the real-life Bhopal disaster that had occurred in India on December 2–3, 1984. Martin Sheen, Mischa Barton, Kal Penn, Rajpal Yadav, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Fagun Thakrar have been cast in the lead roles. Sahara Movie Studios and Rising Star Entertainment have produced the movie and have been committed to it since inception. Director Ravi Kumar described it as "a dramatization, inspired by real events".
Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain depicts events leading to the biggest man-made industrial disaster in history, which killed as many as 10,000 people in a single night. The movie is a narration of the story from Dilip’s perspective. Dilip (played by Rajpal Yadav), a rickshaw driver in Bhopal, India, lands himself a job at the Union Carbide plant. The job is tough and risky with long hours, but everyone wants to hold on to their pay cheque and so Dilip keeps quiet when he notices managers at the plant ignoring safety standards. The negligence at Union Carbide led to the leakage of methyl isocyanate which killed thousands of people. Tens of thousands of people still suffer from illnesses caused by the exposure to this gas.
The film has Martin Sheen as Warren Anderson, the chief executive of Union Carbide, Mischa Barton as Eva Gascon, a Paris Match reporter, Kal Penn as Motwani, Rajpal Yadav as Dilip, the factory worker, Tannishtha Chatterjee as Leela, Dilip's wife, Manoj Joshi as Dr. Chandra, Fagun Thakrar as Rekha, Gopichand Lagadapati as Steward, Akhil Mishra as Napolean, Joy Sengupta as Roy and David Brooks as Shane.

Sulemani Keeda

Sulemani Keeda is an independent slacker comedy film directed by Amit V. Masurkar and produced by Tulsea Pictures in association with Mantra/Runaway Entertainment. It was first screened at the Mumbai Film Festival in 2013.
In this slacker bro-mantic comedy, writing partners Dulal and Mainak dream of shaking up the Bollywood film industry in India with their script “Sulemani Keeda” (Hindi street slang for “Pain in the Ass”). When they’re being rejected by producers who refuse to read their script, they lurk around bookstores and poetry slams shamelessly hitting on girls. They find some hope when the drug addled, cat-obsessed Gonzo Kapoor, the son of a famous B movie producer, hires them to write an art house film billed as “Tarkovsky with orgies” for his directorial debut. All seems well until Dulal meets Ruma, a beautiful photographer who makes him question his choice to sell out.
The film has Naveen Kasturia as Dulal, Mayank Tewari as Mainak, Aditi Vasudev as Ruma, Karan Mirchandani as Gonzo, Krishna Singh Bisht as Pokhriyal, Rukshana Tabassum as Oona from Poona, Dilip Prabhavalkar as Nene, Razak Khan as Sweety Kapoor, Rohini Ramanathan as Rohini, Mahesh Bhatt as Himself, Amrita Rao as Herself and Anil Sharma as Himself.

Music is composed, arranged and produced by Arfaaz & Anurag. The film has songs like Desi Opera (Pa pa pa), How We're Hangin Out, Sarangi Blues, Fall Of Dulal, Sewri Capella, The Colaba Song, Journey Through The Village, Juhu, Ice Cream, Cocaine Surfin, Duurr and Satellite

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