Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Baadshaho and Shubh Mangal Savadhan) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Baadshaho

Baadshaho (English: Kings) is an Indian period heist action thriller film written by Rajat Arora, directed and co-produced by Milan Luthria. It features Ajay Devgn, Ileana D'Cruz, Emraan Hashmi, Vidyut Jammwal, Esha Gupta and Sanjay Mishra in the lead roles. The film is a thriller set in the emergency era of the 1975-77.

Baadshaho is inspired by real-life events during the Emergency and revolves around stolen gold, a thief (Ajay Devgn), an undercover cop (Vidyut Jammwal), a character inspired by Maharani Gayatri Devi (Ileana D'Cruz) and an army officer (Emraan Hashmi) who is entrusted with protecting the country's treasure. Baadshaho is based on true events happened around a royal family during the 1970s. The plot of the film will be based only over a span of 96 hours. This political drama-thriller is all about a clash between the ruling powers and a royal family in Rajasthan during the emergency. In fact, it is a Bollywood period heist action thriller film, directed by Milan Luthria. It is set in contemporary times, with oodles of laughter. Jaipur Princess Gitanjali (Gitanjali) is arrested by the government and thrown into jail for withholding gold without declaration. The seized gold has been transferred via road to Delhi in a truck with officer Singh (Vidyut Jammal), things becomes more complicated, once Bhawani Singh (Ajay Devgn) joins with other badasses to stop the treasure from being taken away.

The film has Ajay Devgn as Bhawani, Ileana D'Cruz as Gitanjali, Emraan Hashmi as Dalia, Esha Gupta as Sanjana, Vidyut Jammwal as Seher, Sanjay Mishra as Tikla, Sharad Kelkar and Sunny Leone (Special appearance in the song "Piya More").

The soundtrack consists of 8 songs, composed by Tanishk Bagchi, Ankit Tiwari, R.D. Burman, Abhijit Vaghani and Komail Shayan. The film has songs like "Mere Rashke Qamar", "Piya More", "Socha Hai", "Hoshiyar Rehna", "Mere Rashke Qamar" (Version 2), "Socha Hai" (2nd Version), "Mere Rashke Qamar" (Remix) and "Socha Hai" (Love Version).

Shubh Mangal Savadhan

Shubh Mangal Saavdhan is an Indian Hindi comedy-drama film. It is directed by R.S. Prasanna and produced by Aanand L Rai. It stars Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar.

The story is about a boy Mudit Sharma, (Ayushmann Khurrana) who gets engaged to a girl, Sugandha (Bhumi Pednekar). It is going to be an arranged marriage and the extended families of both are looking forward to it. However due to erectile dysfunction, Mudit can't get it up and on the advice of his friends tries out various quacks treating impotency. Mudit and Sugandha are all set to marry, however, two days prior to their wedding, Mudit realises he suffers from an erectile dysfunction, which almost sabotages their wedding after both the families get involved. Leading to a comical mess, Mudit attempts to treat his medical condition, using all the possible quacks. It is a remake of the Tamil movie Kalyana Samayal Saadham starring Prasanna and Lekha Washington.

The film has Ayushmann Khurrana as Mudit Sharma, Bhumi Pednekar as Sugandha, Brijendra Kala, Shubhankar Tripathi, Anshul Chauhan and Anmol Bajaj as Anu.

All tracks are written by Tanishk-Vayu. The film has songs like "Rocket Saiyyan", "Kanha", "Kanha (Unplugged)" and "Laddoo".