Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (The Peanuts Movie, Sorry Daddy and Everly) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

The Peanuts Movie

The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie) is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. The film is directed by Steve Martino and written by Craig and Bryan Schulz (Schulz's son and grandson, respectively), and Cornelius Uliano, and stars the voices of Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown and, via archival recordings, Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock. It is the fifth full-length Peanuts film, and the first feature film in 35 years. It commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas.

The film sees Charlie Brown trying to improve his odds with the Little Red-Haired Girl. Meanwhile, Snoopy writes a book about the Flying Ace, as he tries to save his love interest and pilot, Fifi, from the Red Baron and his army.

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved Peanuts gang make their big-screen debut, like they’ve never been seen before, in state of the art 3D animation. Charlie Brown, the world’s most beloved underdog, embarks upon an epic and heroic quest, while his best pal, the lovable beagle Snoopy, takes to the skies to pursue his arch-nemesis, the Red Baron.

Sorry Daddy

Sorry Daddy is a 2015 Bollywood children Action drama film directed by Vijay Pal. Starring Shameem Khan and Tinu Verma in the lead roles, it was produced by Wasim Khan under the S K Films Films banners. Set in the early 2014s, Sorry daddy is a Children story centring around the turbulent relationship between Inspector Shameem and Children, a relationship which is affected by Children's issues with alcohol abuse and temperament.

The movie has an interesting story. Inspector Ravi Sharma (Shameem Khan) is very honest and very intelligent police officer. He burst the racket of Daddan’s (Mukesh Tiwari) illegal wine factory to show his hatred for the enemy of law and society. Meanwhile, his daughter Anishka seeks his help to find out her lost school friend Aditya. Aditya is a very bright student but always looks puzzled because of his drunken father who fights with his mother every time. One day the fight takes an ugly turn and father dies accidentally. Aditya runs away from the home in fear. Ravi arrests his mother as murderer and she lands in prison. Innocent Aditya walks randomly in the city and meets a gang of street beggars who want to help him. But unfortunately he lands in cage of Sevak Ram (Tinu Verma). Sevak Ram is socialist who runs a self organization for the betterment of these street children. But the truth is that he make them handicap hand pushes them in begging business. Ravi searches Aditya every possible place with his time but is unable to find him. In this process he comes to know that there is lot of people who runs racket of begging and forcing the kidnapped/loss/poorer street children in this business. How will Ravi tackle those self tycoon of begging mafia and the children who are part of them? What happens to Daddan? And does Ravi succeed in finding Aditya and Sevak Ram?

The film has Shameem Khan as Police inspector Ravi, Tinu Verma as politician, Kamal Khan as Kamal, Mukesh Tiwari as Daddan and Raghuvir Yadav.

Everly

Everly is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Joe Lynch and written by Yale Hannon based on a story by Lynch and Hannon. The film stars Salma Hayek as the title character with Akie Kotabe, Jennifer Blanc, Masashi Fujimoto, Togo Igawa, Gabriella Wright, Caroline Chikezie, Laura Cepeda, and Hiroyuki Watanabe in supporting roles.

The movie has an interesting plot. The atmosphere is set immediately with the opening sequence featuring Hayek in the buff, with an ornate tattoo covering her entire back. We soon learn that she is a prostitute who's been held prisoner for years by a vicious yakuza boss (Hiroyuki Watanabe) who has now put out a lucrative contract on her after she dared to rat him out to the authorities. 

There is lot of violence when wave of killers, including a gaggle of her former hooker colleagues, attempt to finish her off. Fortunately, Everly seems to have extensive experience handling heavy weaponry, including machine guns and grenades, and an apparently inexhaustible arsenal with which to fight back.

Other highlights include Everly's fending off an attack by a vicious dog by throwing him a ball to chase that turns out to be a live grenade; a group of killers dressed up kabuki theater-style; and her interactions with an ill-fated, sympathetic henchman (Akie Kotable) aptly dubbed "Dead Man."

Everly's survival instincts are fueled not only by self-preservation, but also her desire to protect her estranged mother (Laura Cepeda) and five-year-old daughter who she hasn't seen in years, both of whom inexplicably manage to enter the apartment during a lull in the bloody mayhem.