Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, Welcome to New York and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety is an Indian Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Luv Ranjan. Ranjan also produced the film with Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, and Ankur Garg. This is the fourth collaboration between Luv Ranjan and the lead actors Kartik Aaryan and Nushrat Bharucha after having worked together in Pyaar Ka Punchnama, Akaash Vani and Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 previously.

Titu (Sunny Singh) is getting married to a girl named Sweety (Nushrat Bharucha) who comes across as a perfect woman, but Titu's friend Sonu (Kartik Aaryan) finds her too good to be true. While Titu and his family are impressed with everything that Sweety does, Sonu on the other hand finds her behaviour suspicious and develops a doubt over her true intentions. This leads to a conflict between Sonu and Sweety with both trying to outdo each other in order to achieve their goal. Thus 'Sonu ke Titu ki Sweety' explores the new age version of the same belief where "Marriage" is a marriage between two friend circles. Sonu and Titu are childhood friends. Titu has always been a naïve lover, who falls in love easily and Sonu has always had to step in to save him. But Sweety is the perfect bride and Titu is head over heels in love with her. Sonu's instinct to protect Titu at whatever cost, makes him feel that she's too good to be true. What ensues is a war between the best friend and the bride to be. While Sweety is trying to impress Titu and the family alike, Sonu is out to sabotage the utopian romance and Sonu doubts Sweety's character and tries to break the marriage while Sweety tries to do opposite, which leads to war between Bromance and Romace.

The film has Kartik Aaryan as Sonu, Sunny Singh as Titu, Nushrat Bharucha as Sweety, Alok Nath as Ghasite, Deepika Amin, Ayesha Raza Mishra, Virendra Saxena, Pawan Chopra, Rajesh Jais and Sonu Kaur.

The music of the film has been composed by Rochak Kohli, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Amaal Mallik, Zack Knight, Saurabh-Vaibhav, Guru Randhawa and Rajat Nagpal while lyrics have been penned by Kumaar, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Swapnil Tiwari, Zack Knight, Guru Randhawa, Singhsta and Oye Sheraa. The film has songs like "Dil Chori", "Subah Subah", "Chhote Chhote Peg", "Bom Diggy Diggy", "Kaun Nachdi", "Lakk Mera Hit", "Tera Yaar Hoon Main" and "Sweety Slowly Slowly".

Welcome to New York

Welcome To New York is an Indian 3D Comedy film, directed by Chakri Toleti, produced by Vashu Bhagnani and Jackky Bhagnani, and starring Diljit Dosanjh, Sonakshi Sinha, Karan Johar, Riteish Deshmukh, Lara Dutta and Boman Irani.

Teji (Diljit Dosanjh), a sloppy recovery agent, and Jeenat Patel (Sonakshi Sinha), a fashion designer, become part of a big Bollywood event in New York - and chaos ensues. This is India's first 3D comedy. Welcome To New York boasts of a massive ensemble line-up. It started with Karan Johar 'leaking' a video chat of the A-lister star cast. The hilarious video which ends with the poster of Welcome To New York is indeed a unique way to place the comedy into the minds of the people. The video shows a phone call between Diljit and Sonakshi that turns into a conference call with more and more cast members joining in and proclaiming the film to be theirs. Diljit Dosanjh starts off the whole banter with Sonakshi Sinha and then Karan Johar joins in followed by Lara Dutta, Boman Irani and Riteish Deshmukh. The entire conversation comes to a stall when their chat is interrupted by Salman Khan. The film is being touted as a heartfelt comedy that tells the story of two unlikely youngsters living in India in search of a better life for themselves. An unexpected trip to New York City sets them off on a comedic adventure that changes their lives forever.

The film has Diljit Dosanjh as Teji, Sonakshi Sinha as Jeenal Patel, Riteish Deshmukh as Riteish, Lara Dutta, Karan Johar as Karan and Arjun, Boman Irani as Mr. Garry, Rana Daggubati as Rana, Sushant Singh Rajput as Sushant, Aditya Roy Kapur as Aditya and in Cameo Appearance are Disha Patani, Neha Dhupia, Preity Zinta, Tapsee Pannu, Kriti Sanon, Shahid Kapoor, Suneil Shetty, Tiger Shroff, Salman Khan, Mohit Sinha and Katrina Kaif.

The music of the film is composed by Sajid-Wajid, Shamir Tandon and Meet Bros while lyrics have been penned by Kausar Munir, Kumaar, Charanjeet Charan, Sajid Khan and Danish Sabri. The film has songs like "Ishtehaar", "Nain Phisal Gaye", "Pant Mein Gun", "Meher Hai Rab Di" and "Smiley Song".

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 drama film written, produced, and directed by Martin McDonagh. It stars Frances McDormand as a mother who rents three billboards to call attention to her daughter's unsolved murder. Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell appear in supporting roles.

After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

The film has Frances McDormand as Mildred, Woody Harrelson as Willoughby, Sam Rockwell as Dixon, Abbie Cornish as Anne, John Hawkes as Charlie, Peter Dinklage as James, Caleb Landry Jones as Red Welby, Kerry Condon as Pamela, Darrell Britt-Gibson as Jerome, Lucas Hedges as Robbie, Željko Ivanek as Desk Sergeant, Amanda Warren as Denise, Kathryn Newton as Angela, Samara Weaving as Penelope, Clarke Peters as Abercrombie and Brendan Sexton III as Crop-Haired Guy.