New movies
released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh
Kamath
Veerappan
Veerappan (None Like Him Ever Existed) is an Indian
biographical film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma, based on the life of
Indian bandit Veerappan, and the events leading to Operation Cocoon to capture
and kill Veerappan. The film stars Sandeep Bharadwaj, Sachiin J Joshi, Usha
Jadhav, and Lisa Ray in pivotal roles. The film is heavily based on Ram Gopal
Varma's Kannada docudrama super-hit Killing Veerappan.
The movie has an interesting plot. Koose Muniswamy
Veerappan during his teenage starts working as an assistant to his relative
Sevi Gounder, a notorious poacher and sandalwood smuggler. His father and
relatives, whose village lay in the forest area, were also known to be poachers
and smugglers. Veerappan (Sandeep Bharadwaj), dominant in Sathyamangalam Forest
in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, defies the governments, and
Indian Border security paramilitary forces, and maintain a small army. He is
wanted for killing approximately 184 people, about half of whom were police
officers, including senior police and forest officials. He was also wanted for
poaching about 200 elephants and smuggling ivory worth US$2,600,000 and about
10,000 tonnes of sandalwood worth approximately US$22,000,000.
In 1991, Veerappan and his chief Intel Gandhi, behead
IFS Officer P. Srinivas. Years later, Veerappan avenges the death of his close
associate Gandhi by misleading Special Task Force (STF) personnel in their
covert operation, through Gandhi's unnamed notorious informer. The covet
mission led by T. Harikrishna S.P., and his informer S.I. Shakeel Ahmed to kill
Veerappan fails miserably. Veerappan, and his army brutally assassinate all the
STF officers in the operation, and snatch their arms.
The Tamil Nadu STF chief K. Vijay Kumar I.P.S.
appoints his associate, an undercover I.P.S. spy in the Karnataka region, a
master-strategist (Sachiin J Joshi), who puts in place the Operation Cocoon
through a network of tribals, and informers, such as Deputy spy, a woman STF
spy and land lord (Lisa Ray), who befriends and rents out house to
Muthulakshmi-the wife of Veerappan (Usha Jadhav). On the other hand, a team of
loyal undercover cops led by Rambo Krishna, leave Palar base of STF, near M. M.
Hills, 100 kilometres (62 mi) from Kollegal of Karnataka along with a team of
41 members which includes police from two states, forest officials, forest
watchers and informers. The team travels in two vehicles, of which one is a bus
carrying most of the team members, and a jeep carrying K.Goplakrishnan, the IPS
officer. Veerappan gang plants landmines on the road in more than 14 places to
halt their approach, and during the Palar blast, K.Gopalakrishnan, standing on
the foot board of the jeep is thrown out, and suffer severe injuries, leaving
the police to retaliate and ultimately prevent the snatching of arms.
After few failed attempts, including the one led by
another undercover cop, disguised as a subordinate to Islamic underworld
Don-Kadaani, to negotiate arms deal with Veerappan's gang, the STF team led by
master-strategist, and an ex-spy turned timberyard owner-Kumar, finally succeed
on 18 October 2004. On that day, Veerappan is escorted out of the forest by
Kumar who earlier infiltrates Veerappan's gang in disguise to negotiate another
arms deal with Velupillai Prabhakaran. Subsequently, Veerappan and his men
board an ambulance stationed at Papparapatti village in Dharmapuri district,
Veerappan and his men are first warned and then asked to surrender, which was
denied, and the men start firing at the STF personnel. The STF retaliate by
firing grenades and gun fire, subsequently Veerappan and his men are killed on
the spot.
The film has Sandeep Bharadwaj as Veerappan, Usha
Jadhav as Muthulaksmi, Sachiin J Joshi as Police Officer (Spy) based on N. K.
Senthamarai Kannan, Lisa Ray as Priya (Spy), Akash Chawariya as Bhola Daku
(Veerappan's Right Hand) and Zarine Khan as new khallas item girl
Phobia
Phobia is a 2012 Indian psychological thriller film,
directed by Pawan Kripalani and produced by Viki Rajani. The film stars Radhika
Apte as Mehak, an artist suffering from severe agoraphobia. The film marked
Apte's first leading role in Bollywood. It is set to have its worldwide release
on 27 May 2016, under the banner of Eros International and Next Gen Films.
The film has an interesting plot. The film revolves
around an young artist Mehak (Apte) who developed severe agoraphobia– the fear
of open spaces, after having been sexually assaulted in the past. Phobia movie
a psychological thriller which revolves around the story of a girl essayed by
Radhika, whose life changes completely when she accidentally gets into a taxi. Radhika
met doctors and patients, apart from reading extensively about the subject to
gather as much information as possible.
The film has Radhika Apte as Mehak, Satyadeep Mishra,
Ankur Vikal, Yashaswani Dayama and Nivedita Bhattacharya
Waiting
Waiting is a 2015 Indian comedy drama film directed
by Anu Menon, and produced by Priti Gupta and Manish Mundra under the banner of
Ishka Films and Drishyam Films. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki
Koechlin in lead roles, with Rajat Kapoor, Suhasini Maniratnam and Arjun Mathur
playing supporting roles.
The film is about the special relationship between
two people from different walks of life, who befriend each other in a hospital,
while nursing their respective comatose spouses. The story of the film divulges
into the themes of coping with grief and at the same time discovering hope. It
was meant to be a representative of urban India and its ethos.
Tara (Kalki Koechlin) is a fiercely independent woman
whose life turns upside down after her husband Rajat (Arjun Mathur) meets with
an accident. At the hospital, she meets Shiv, an elderly man whose wife of 40
years has been in the coma for eight months. The two strike an unlikely
friendship that helps them cope with their grief. It is a warm tale about love,
loss and surviving life's catastrophic blows, with such simplicity. Lead
characters - Shiv and Tara - have nothing in common. Menon plays on their
generation gap to offer some genuine smiles. He can't utter the 'F' word. She
is brash but awkwardly loving. His coping device is faith; hers is shopping.
And yet, the two bond over the vital stats of their spouses.
Tara is a realist, whose first question to the doctor
is - 'Will my husband die?' Shiv lives in the hope that his wife will wake up and
ask for her favourite Thalassery biryani. The film describes the different
stages of sorrow without letting melodrama seep in. Tara holds on to Shiv's
pearls of wisdom (some taught by experience and others picked up from medical
journals), to make the cumbersome journey from denial to acceptance. The film
poses some thought-provoking queries.
The film has Naseeruddin Shah as Shiv Kumar, Kalki
Koechlin as Tara Deshpande, Arjun Mathur as Rajat Deshpande, Rajat Kapoor, Suhasini
Maniratnam, Rajeev Ravindranathan as Girish and Marin Babu as Nurse Prema
Fredrick
Fredrick is a 2016 psychological thriller that was
directed by Rajesh Butalia, based on a story, screenplay and dialogue written
by Rajesh Butalia starring Prashant Narayanan ,Tulna, Avinash Dhyani.
The story begins with a 16 year old boy, who seems
just like all other guys, except than that his bonding was unusual with another
boy of his age. This bonding was highly objectionable to his father and he has
reacted violent on that another guy. One fateful day few unfortunate events has
taken place. Which created the platform for the story to grow further. The
story takes a surprising and an unimaginable turn when Vikram realizes that
whatever clue they finds during their search, they are all linked with
Fredrick, every second they finds something shocking. The biggest question for
them is that who is this Fredrick? Where is he? If Fredrick wanted to have him
killed, he could have done so easily. Then what's stopping him? All the puzzles
and mysteries are running parallel and when Vikram comes to know that actually
Fredrick is not trying to kill him, he gets even more confused. One day he
finally comes face to face with Fredrick, who himself has come forth as a
larger unimaginable riddle. Amidst all these mysteries and revelations this
interesting tale finally reaches a painful end. The film try to bring light
upon untouchable issue in our society.
The film has Avinash Dhyani, Tulna, Prashant
Narayanan and Anna Ador
Alice Through
the Looking Glass
Alice Through the Looking Glass is a 2016 American
fantasy adventure film directed by James Bobin, written by Linda Woolverton and
produced by Tim Burton. It is based on Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis
Carroll and is the sequel to the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland. The film stars
Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter
and Sacha Baron Cohen and features the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry,
Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall.
The film has an interesting plot. Alice Kingsleigh
has spent the past three years following in her father's footsteps and sailing
the high seas. Upon her return to London from China, she comes across a
difficult decision that may determine what she's going to do during the rest of
her life. After re-encountering Absolem, she finds a magical looking glass and
returns to the nonsensical realm of Wonderland.
Alice discovers that things are going very wrong with
the Hatter, who is now acting madder than usual, haunted by past events that he
refuses to reveal. In order to prevent a heartbreaking end to her friend, she
turns to Time himself. Despite his warnings about Alice not being able to win a
race against time, and not being able to change the past, she borrows the
Chronosphere, a time device that everyone (including the now banished Red
Queen) wants, and winds up returning to the past.
As Alice witnesses the hits and misses of friends
(and enemies) during their lives, discovering how it prompted them to their
current states in the present, she may learn how to solve not only the problem
with the Hatter, but her own back in London – but only if she can win the race
against the ticking Chronosphere.
The Angry Birds Movie
The Angry Birds Movie (or simply Angry Birds)[5] is a
2016 3D computer-animated action-adventure comedy film based on the video game
series of the same name. It was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly (in
their directorial debuts), produced by John Cohen and Catherine Winder, and
written by Jon Vitti. The film was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, and
stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon,
Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage.
The film has an interesting plot. At Bird Island, an
island inhabited by flightless birds, reclusive, grumpy clown Red is sentenced
to anger management class after his temper costs him a customer. One day, a
boat docks at Bird Island, carrying pigs from Piggy Island led by Leonard.
Claiming to be a peaceful explorer and bringing offerings of friendship, the
pigs are accepted on the island. More pigs begin to flock to Bird Island without
hesitation from the birds.
Eventually, the pigs adjust to society, but Red
becomes suspicious of their motives. He recruits his classmates Chuck and Bomb
to help him find Mighty Eagle, a giant eagle said to be the protector of the
island, and the only bird that can fly. They find him on top of Bird Mountain,
but the lazy Mighty Eagle is revealed to be retired and hasn't flown in years.
Later, Red's group sees the pigs planting explosives around the island and
realizes they are stealing the birds' eggs. Red and Bomb attempt to retrieve
the eggs, but the pigs escape and their explosives destroy the village. When
the birds realize what happened, Red rallies them to let their anger loose.
The birds construct a boat and sail to Piggy Island,
where they find the pigs living in a walled city. Deducing the eggs are most
likely in the central castle of the city, the birds attack the pigs by slinging
birds at them using a giant slingshot. Red, Chuck, and Bomb make it to the
castle and find the eggs in a boiler room to be cooked and eaten by the pigs.
Mighty Eagle arrives, having had a change of heart, and carries the eggs out.
As the birds escape, an egg falls out and makes its way back into the castle.
Red returns the castle, retrieves the egg, and survives Piggy Island's
destruction, caused by the pigs' reserve of explosives.
After the explosion, Red is hailed as a hero. He,
Chuck, and Bomb are approached by Mighty Eagle, who claims that he wasn't
really lazy and made them lose faith in him to teach them to find faith in
themselves. In a mid-credits sequence, it is revealed that all of the pigs have
survived Piggy Island's destruction, while Leonard is hatching a new plan to
steal the eggs.
