Dinesh Kamath’s movie column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Ugly, Night At The Museum, Lingaa and IPL) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Ugly

Ugly is a Hindi emotional drama thriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap. The film stars Girish Kulkarni, Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh, Surveen Chawla and Vipin Sharma in pivotal roles. The film will also feature model turned TV actor Rahul Bhat in an important role. The film is produced by DAR Motion Pictures and Phantom Films.

The film has an interesting plot. Shalini (Tejaswini Kolhapure) is a middle-class housewife forced to stay at home by her second husband, police-chief Bose Shoumik (Ronit Roy). She considers suicide, and is about to shoot herself in the head with her husband’s gun when she is interrupted by her daughter, Kali (Anishika Shrivastava). Unaware of her mother’s activities moments earlier, Kali asks her mother to call her estranged father, Shalini’s ex-husband, Rahul (Rahul Bhatt). It’s a Saturday, and Kali’s day with her father as decided in the custody agreement from the divorce. Rahul, an aspiring actor struggling to make it big, comes to take her for a drive but ignores her in favor of phone calls made to try to further his career. Finally, Rahul leaves Kali alone in the car to go to an audition and to check in with his agent, Chaitanya (Vineet Kumar Singh). When he returns to the car, Kali is missing.

Rahul first searches for Kali through the police, Chaitanya in tow. The local police-captain, Jadhav (Girish Kulkarni), does not take Rahul seriously until he realizes that Kali is the stepdaughter of the police-chief. Bose, out of hatred for Rahul, orders Jadhav to accuse Rahul of the kidnapping and to torture both Rahul and Chaitanya to interrogate and punish them. A game of one-upmanship follows as Rahul and Bose search for Kali while simultaneously attempting to upstage the other.

Thus the film has Rahul Bhat as Rahul Kapoor/Varshney, Ronit Roy as Shoumik Bose, Tejaswini Kolhapure as Shalini Bose, Vineet Kumar Singh as Chaitanya Mishra, Surveen Chawla as Rakhi Malhotra, Siddhanth Kapoor as Siddhant, Girish Kulkarni as Inspector Jadhav, Abir Goswami as ACP Gupta, Madhavi Singh as ACP Upadhyay and Anshika Shrivastava as Kali Varshney.

The film's soundtrack is composed by G.V Prakash Kumar & Brian McOmber. All lyrics are written by Gaurav Solanki. The film has songs like Suraj Hai Kahan sung by G.V Prakash Kumar, Papa by Shilpa Rao, Ni Chod De by Barkha Swaroop Saxena and Money by Christopher Stanley.        

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is a 2014 American comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by David Guion and Michael Handelman. It is the sequel to the 2006 film Night at the Museum and the 2009 film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. The film stars Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens and Ben Kingsley. The film is dedicated to both the memories of Robin Williams and Mickey Rooney, as both died before the film was released.

The "Night at the Museum" franchise is centered around a pretty adorable one (one that, it should be noted, is based on a 32-page children's book of the same name by Milan Trenc): thanks to an enchanted tablet, every night after dark, the exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History come to life. A night watchman, played by Ben Stiller, finds out the secret and has to keep all of the museum's inhabitants inside the museum. The idea played well, especially with a supporting cast stocked with comedic heavyweights like Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais and Dick Van Dyke.

After an overlong prologue set in Egypt in 1938, the film engages in a gleefully chaotic sequence where the exhibits go haywire during a big benefit at the planetarium. These reanimated characters are commonplace but they turn from their personas as Stiller's cuddly buddies to something more sinister. It turns out their bad behavior is because a corrosive agent is warping the tablet, and, should this moss-like growth (it turns from green to blue for no reason at all) cover the tablet, then the museum inhabitants will never spring to life again.

This leads the gang, for reasons more having to do with tax incentives than plot mechanics, to the British Museum, where young mummy Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek) can be reunited with his father Merenkahre (Ben Kingsley), and get to the bottom of what is going on with this magical tablet. That's literally the entire plot which follows the scene where the diminutive statue characters (played by Wilson and Coogan) get lost down a heating duct and the rest of the characters try to locate them.

Lingaa

Lingaa is a 2014 Indian Tamil action-drama film directed by K.S. Ravikumar, who also scripted the film in collaboration with the film's dialogue writer, Pon Kumaran. The film stars Rajinikanth playing dual role, Jagapati Babu, Anushka Shetty and Sonakshi Sinha in the lead roles. Music is composed by A. R. Rahman while cinematography is headed by R. Rathnavelu. The movie is filmed in Tamil, with Telugu and Hindi dubbed versions.

The movie has an interesting story. A small-time thief reforms after learning about the role played by his grandfather in building a dam

There is a 70 year old Lord Siva temple in a village called Singanoor. The temple was closed on the day it was built. It was built by Lingeswara Rao (Rajinikanth), an Oxford educated engineer who is also the local Zamindar. He builds a dam for local people and spends all his money in the process. When the local leaders decide to reopen the temple, they are in search of the grandson Lingaa (Rajinikanth). The rest of the story is all about how Lingaa comes to know about the greatness of his grandfather and how he lives up to the reputation of his grandfather.

IPL

MRP Films presentation IPL or Indian Premacha Lafda stars Swapnil Joshi, Santosh Mayekar, Vijay Patkar, Kshitija Ghosalkar, Siya Patil, Sunil Tawde, Vijay Kadam and Lekha Rane and introduces Shital Upare. The film is directed by Deepak Kadam. Story and screenplay are written by Deepak Kadam, dialogue by Prakash Bhagwat, Cinematographer Prashant Misale and lyrics Abhijit Kulkarni.

IPL is a comedy emotional romantic love story. It is a story of two orphan friends who come to Mumbai to pursue their career. One is doing service who falls in love with a girl working in same office. She is also an orphan and so she has decided to marry a guy having family. So his friend who is struggler helps him. What happens next is interesting.

IPL has 4 songs. The song sung by Bela Shende is an item song. There is a Ganapati song sung by Adarsh Shinde.