Thursday, December 11, 2014

Dinesh Kamath’s film column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Badlapur Boys, Main Aur Mr Right, Madhyam Varg, Mumbai Delhi Mumbai, Hobbit, The Babadook, Jessabelle and Lingaa) that was published in Newsband


New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
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.
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.
Badlapur Boys is a poignant story of a bunch of underdogs, who not only play Kabaddi passionately, but also get involved in crucial socio-economic issues.

Main Aur Mr Riight
Main Aur Mr. Riight is a romantic Bollywood movie. The film stars Barun Sobti and Shenaz Treasurywala as the lead pair. Main Aur Mr. Riight tells the story of a single girl in search of her Mr. Right. The movie is directed by Adeeb Rais and produced by Pooja Gujral and Aseem Rais. The music has been given by renowned singer/musician Bappi Lahiri
Aliya, a perfectionist, is waiting for her Mr Riight, the guy who will complement her perfectly and Sukhi is a struggling actor with a reckless personality. The film explores the complex dynamics of a relationship in a humorous way. The other actors in the movie are Danny Sura, Maia Sethna, Anagha Mane, Varun Khandelwal and Neha Gosai.
As the title speaks for itself, the film is about finding ‘The Mr. Right’. But does one really exist? A slice of life, romantic comedy that talks about love, relationships and singlehood. It’s a story of 8 friends from different fields living their individual and successful lives. The story sails through each and everyone’s life of which the major plot being that of Aliya & Sukhi.
In short it raises a question for all the individuals in the world, on the sheer existence of their Mr. / Miss Right. In short it raises a question for all the individuals in the world, on the sheer existence of their Mr. / Miss Right.
The film has Barun Sobti as Sukhi Singh, Shenaz Treasurywala as Aliya Raj, Kavi Shastri, Danny Sura, Maia Sethna, Anagha Mane, Varun Khandelwal and Neha Gosai.
The film has songs like Yaar Bina sung by Bappi Lahiri, Desi Daru by Jasbir Jassi, Khuda Khair by Shibani Kashyap and Bhool Na Jaana by Farhan Saeed.

Madhyam Varg

Mumbai Delhi Mumbai is 2014 Hindi language Indian romance-comedy written and directed by Satish Rajwade for Viacom 18 Motion Pictures. The film, adapted from Rajwade's 2011 Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai, stars Shiv Pandit and Pia Bajpai.
Satish Rajawade decided to do the rarer task of creating a Hindi film based upon his original film in Marathi. Using his popular Mumbai Pune Mumbai as the template, he reworked the original film to give it a wider national appeal.
Piya (Pia Bajpai), a typical “Mumbai” girl, makes her first ever day trip to Delhi and agrees to meet a possible match for marriage on her mother’s insistence. She lands in Delhi determined to reject the guy after meeting him because after all he’s from “Delhi”. However, as it turns out she loses her phone while fighting with an auto driver and meets Goli Kohli (Shiv Pandit), a witty “Delhi” boy who grudgingly agrees to help her. One thing leads to another and they end up spending the entire day together. They fight, they argue, they laugh and share a lifetime of emotions in one day. When they meet in the morning they are strangers with strong biases about Mumbai & Delhi, when they part in the evening, the biases have turned into affection for each other’s quirks and finally, love.
The soundtrack is composed by Sawan Dutta & Rohan Rohan, Lyrics written by Priya Panchal & Rohan Gokhale.
The film has songs like Tham Sa Gaya and Entry To Delhi.

Hobbit – Battle of the Five Armies
The Hobbit is a film series consisting of three epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson. They are based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. Portions of the trilogy are also adapted from the appendices to The Return of the King, which expand on the story told in The Hobbit. The films are subtitled An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).
The screenplay was written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, who was originally chosen to direct before his departure from the project. The films take place in the fictional world of Middle-earth sixty years before the beginning of The Lord of the Rings, and follow hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is convinced by the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) to accompany thirteen dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch). The films also expand upon certain elements from the novel and other source material, such as Gandalf's investigation at Dol Guldur, and the pursuit of Azog and Bolg, who seek vengeance against Thorin and his ancestors.
The films feature an ensemble cast that also includes James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace and Luke Evans, with several actors reprising their roles from The Lord of the Rings, including Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis. The films also feature Manu Bennett, Sylvester McCoy, Stephen Fry, Mikael Persbrandt, Barry Humphries, and Lawrence Makoare.
The Battle of the Five Armies picks up where Desolation of Smaug leaves off, practically in mid-sentence. The dragon is hurtling down towards the watery hovels of Laketown, Thorin Oakenshield is getting a little twitchy down in the treasure hoard, and Gandalf is swinging gently in the breeze in an iron cage in Sauron’s ruined castle. Almost immediately, we are plunged into a hellstorm of grandiose proportions, as Smaug lays down an impressively methodical carpet-fire-breathing assault, laying waste to Laketown and forcing the inhabitants to flee, until taken out by iron-arrowed Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans).  From here, the movie moves towards an interesting climax.

The Babadook
The Babadook is a 2014 Australian horror film, written and directed by Jennifer Kent and starring Essie Davis and Daniel Henshall. The film is produced by Causeway Films and is based on the short film Monster, also written and directed by Kent in 2005. The film was shown at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and received critical praise.
Amelia, a widowed orderly, has raised her son Samuel alone following her husband's tragic death. Sam begins displaying erratic behavior: he rarely sleeps through the night, and is constantly preoccupied with an imaginary monster, which he has built weapons to fight. Amelia is forced to take her son out of school due to his ongoing behavioral problems. One night, Sam asks his mother to read from a mysterious pop-up storybook he found on his shelf. The story, titled "Mister Babadook", is about a supernatural creature that, once someone is made aware of its existence, torments that person indefinitely. Amelia is disturbed by the book's contents, while a traumatized Sam becomes convinced that the Babadook is stalking them in their home.
Strange events begin occurring throughout the house, but Amelia attributes them to Sam acting out; From here, the movie moves towards an interesting climax.

Jessabelle
Jessabelle is an American horror thriller film directed by Kevin Greutert and written by Ben Garant. The film stars Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Joelle Carter, David Andrews, Amber Stevens and Ana de la Reguera.

The movie opens with Jessie moving into her fiancé’s house. On the way there, they have a car accident, killing the fiancé and Jessie's unborn child, and leaving Jessie unable to walk. The hospital makes Jessie call her Dad (whom she hasn’t seen for years) to pick her up. Back at her Dad’s house in St. Francis, Louisiana, Jessie is given her mother’s room. Her mother died when she was just a baby, ostensibly from cancer. While looking around the room one day, she finds some video tapes in a box labeled Jessabelle. She plays one and watches her mother talking to Jessabelle (Jessie thinking she means her). From here, the movie moves towards an interesting climax. 

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