Thursday, August 25, 2016

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (A Flying Jatt, Mechanic: Resurrection, Missing on a weekend, Warrior Savitri and Nine Lives) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
A Flying Jatt

A Flying Jatt is a Bollywood superhero action film co-written, choreographed and directed by Remo D'Souza under the banner of Balaji Motion Pictures. Tiger Shroff, Jacqueline Fernandez and professional wrestler Nathan Jones are in the lead roles. Shroff is playing the role of a superhero and Fernandez will be playing his love interest in the film.
The film has Tiger Shroff as Aman / Flying Jatt, Jacqueline Fernandez as Kirti, Nathan Jones as Raka, Kay Kay Menon, Amrita Singh and Shraddha Kapoor in a Cameo appearance.
The songs of the film are composed by Sachin-Jigar. The film consists of songs like "A Flying Jatt", "Toota Jo Kabhi Tara", "Beat Pe Booty" and "Bhangda Pa".
A Flying Jatt is a superhero bollywood film. Tiger Shroff and Jacqueline Fernandez and professional wrestler Nathan Jones are seen in the lead roles. A Flying Jatt is set in the backdrop of the Punjab province, where a young and energetic Tiger Shroff who is leading a simple life with his parents at his middle class home, ends up getting superhero powers and things go helter skelter from then on. Not knowing what's happening with him, Tiger gets terrified and tries to experiment in flying and fighting but ends up being a laughing stock for himself. The superhero here is afraid of heights, fire and gets terrified by various other things, but his intentions are good and wants to safeguard his city from every evil.  Enter Rakha, an evil man with super powers who is all set to destroy the entire city for his own need and greed. Rakha terrifies innocent people with his violent attacks and does it day after day just to reach his main goal, which is to conquer the entire city. When the law fails to catch up with him, our superhero takes the charge and goes against Rakha giving one helluva fight. Will Rakha manage to destroy the city just for his greed?

Mechanic: Resurrection

Mechanic: Resurrection is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Dennis Gansel and written by Philip Shelby, Tony Mosher, Rachel Long and Brian Pittman. It is the sequel to the 2011 film The Mechanic, which was a remake of the 1972 film of the same name, and stars Jason Statham, Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Alba and Michelle Yeoh.
After the demise of his partner-turned-enemy Steve McKenna (Ben Foster), Arthur Bishop (Statham), who narrowly escaped from Steve's murder attempt on him, retires as a contract killer. But when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life, he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best: make them look like accidents.
The film has Jason Statham as Arthur Bishop, Jessica Alba as Gina, Tommy Lee Jones as Max Adams, Michelle Yeoh as Mae, Sam Hazeldine as Riah Crain, Rhatha Phongam as Courier and Natalie Burn as Natalie Stone.

Missing on a weekend

Missing on a Weekend is an Indian Investigating Thriller film directed by Abhishek Jawkar and produced by Rajesh Patange, Sebastian Joseph and Abhishek Jawkar.
Missing on a Weekend is an investigating crime story based in Goa. Inspector Ali Ansari (Pavan Malhotra) a top cop from CBI has been transferred to Goa to take charge of the current ugly undercover crime space which has troubled the tourism capital of India. Ansari has now got a new case in the mid of all the chaos where one guy, Laksh (Karan Hariharan) has been found unconscious on Calangute Beach. He is brutally hurt on his head and has lost substantial part of his memory. After the brief investigation, Police gets to know his whereabouts in Goa. As the police team reaches the resort where Laksh and his six other friends from Delhi are staying, they found one of his friend dead in one room and all other friends missing. Now, Ansari is left with only one suspect cum victim cum survivor, Laksh, who hardly remembers anything that has happened.
The film has Karan Hariharan, Pawan Malhotra, Dishank Arora, Mahsa Kooshesh, Shiva Dagar, Akash Bathija, Siddhant Mahajan, Khushboo Kamal, Jyoti Sethi and Dibyendu Bhattacharya.

Waarrior Savitri

Waarrior Savitri is a a modern-day adaption of the very famous fable – Satyavan Savitri, written and directed by Param Gill. The film stars Niharica Raizada,[5] Rajat Barmecha, Om Puri and Gulshan Grover. Upender Maheshwari and Bobby Kanda have produced Waarrior Savitri under the banner of Dr Bob’s Production.
Romance, action and thrill – ‘Waarrior Savitri’ has been filmed in Jodhpur, Mumbai and Las Vegas. Sexy siren Lucy Pinder makes her big Bollywood debut in India.
Niharica Raizada plays the role of Savitri and Rajat Barmecha of Udaan fame plays the role of lovable Satya With Waarrior Savitri, sexy siren Lucy Pinder makes her Bollywood debut in India. Om Puri and Gulshan Grover essay pivotal roles.
Thus the film has Niharica Raizada as Savitri, Lucy Pinder as Candy, Rajat Barmecha as Satya, Om Puri as Yamraj, Gulshan Grover as Satya's Dad, Tim Man as The Monk, Ron Smoorenburg as Mani John, Karamveer Choudhari as Panditji, Sheetal Sharma as Savitri's Friend, Aditya Raj Kapoor as Thakur - Savitri's Father and Palak J. Jhaveri as Baby Savitri
The music of the film is composed by Param Gill and Vijay Verma. Param Gill is the lyricist. The film has songs like "Chahat Ki Baarish", "Jadon Teri Yaad", "Heavy Heavy", "Shake my Booty" and "Night and Day". 
The film is a contemporary adaptation of Hindu mythological tale of Satyavan and Savitri (found in Mahabharata), the film revolves around Savitri (Niharica Raizada), a loyal and devoted wife, who can go to any extent to save her husband Satya (Rajat Barmecha) from the clutches of death, even if it requires her to negotiate with Yama (Om Puri plays the God of death). In the film, Savitri grows up to be a 'warrior' after a childhood memory scars her for life. She decides to learn martial arts in order to protect herself and her family. She falls in love with Satya and wishes to marry him but a Hindu pundit opposes the decision. "Your husband will die if you marry him," he warns. Without paying heed, she gets married to Satya and moves to the U.S, where he resides. But a chain of unfortunate events posing a threat to her husband and father-in-law's (Gulshan Grover) lives follow, forcing her to unleash the fighter within her. She is shown kicking ass while battling the baddies in order to safeguard her family and she pulls off the action scenes with conviction. The women empowerment message stands out as well.

Nine Lives

Nine Lives is a 2016 English-language French comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Gwyn Lurie, Matt R. Allen, Caleb Wilson, Dan Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin. The film stars Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner, Robbie Amell, Cheryl Hines, Malina Weissman and Christopher Walken.

Tom Brand (Kevin Spacey) is a major business tycoon who has distanced himself from his daughter Rebecca (Malina Weissman) and his wife Lara (Jennifer Garner). In a rush to get a last-minute gift for his daughter's 11th birthday, he goes to a mysterious pet shop run by Felix Perkins (Christopher Walken) and buys a cat. On the way home however, Tom gets in an accident and finds himself trapped inside the cat's body. He is told by Felix he must reconcile with his family within one week, or be stuck as a cat forever.

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