Thursday, March 15, 2018

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Raid, Raja Abroadia, Entebbe and Gringo) that was published in Newsband



New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Raid

Raid is an Indian Hindi-language period crime drama film written by Ritesh Shah and directed by Raj Kumar Gupta. It features Ajay Devgn, Ileana D'Cruz, Saanand Verma and Saurabh Shukla. The film is inspired by the the real life I-T raids that were conducted by Indian Revenue Services back in the '80s.
Set in the 80s, a fearless IT officer carries out a non-stop raid at the mansion of the most powerful man in Lucknow despite all the attempts by the latter to get the officer removed. Will he manage to stop the raid or will the officer bring him down? Raid is based on one of the most high profile raids the country has ever known and is the world's first film on income tax raids. A fearless IT officer conducts a nonstop raid at the home of the most powerful man in the city, with the latter doing everything to stop it. Heroes Don't Only Come In Uniform
The movie has Ajay Devgn as Amay Patnaik, Ileana D'Cruz as Nita Patnaik, Saurabh Shukla as Rameshwar “Rajaji” Singh, Saanand Verma as Suraj Singh, Gayathri Iyer, Amit Bimrot as Satish Mishra, Amit Sial, Mukesh Singh Durgapur Naubasta, Akshay Verma and Neelabh Pandey as driver of Ajay Devgn.
The music of the film is composed by Amit Trivedi and Tanishk Bagchi while lyrics are penned by Manoj Muntashir and Indraneel. The movie has songs like "Sanu Ek Pal Chain", "Nit Khair Manga", "Black" and "Jhuk Na Paunga".

Raja Abroadia

Raja Abroadiya is an Hindi romantic comedy film produced and directed by Lakhwinder Shabla under the production of Shabla Films. The film is starring Robin Sohi, Vaishnavi Patwardhan, Abhishek Singh Pathania, Olga Hoffmann, Alankrita Bora, Vaishnavi Macdonald and Yograj Singh.
The story revolves around a rich boy of a village who was very proud and enjoying his royal status, but he got his ego hurt by a drunken villager whose son returned from abroad after being married to foreign girl. Raja accepts his challenge, announcing he too will become Abroadiya .The leading lady Preety also has dreams of going abroad and change her social and economic status. The two meet in the process, they make a deal between them. It’s the story of both to achieve their respective goals and what struggles they have to face in this journey. Thus the movie narrates the tale of a rich young, smart but innocent boy from a small village Raja who after facing ample difficulties goes abroad, comes back and is called Raja Abroadiya by the whole village.'
The film has Robin Sohi as Raja, Vaishnavi Patwardhan As Preety, Harry Verma as Balli, Abhishek Singh Pathania As Rahul, Olga Hoffmann As Sally, Alankrita Bora As Twinkle, Vaishnavi Macdonald As Parkash Kaur and Yograj Singh As Succha Singh.
The film has songs like "Banke Saanse" (Duet), "Bhame England", "Bheete Nahin Rehna", "Nazaare" (Duet), "Bheete Nahin Rehna" and "Raat Jashan Di".

Entebbe

Entebbe (titled 7 Days in Entebbe in the U.S.) is a 2018 crime thriller film directed by José Padilha and written by Gregory Burke. The film recounts the story of Operation Entebbe, a 1976 counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation. The film stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl. Entebbe is the fourth film to dramatize the events of Operation Entebbe, after the American TV films Victory at Entebbe (1976) and Raid on Entebbe (1977), and the Israeli film Operation Thunderbolt (1977).
In 1976, two Palestinian and two German terrorists hijack Air France Flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv, Israel to Paris, France via Athens, Greece. They hold the passengers and crew hostage at Entebbe and demanded a ransom of $5 million for the airplane and the release of 53 Palestinian and pro-Palestinian militants, 40 of whom were prisoners in Israel. When all diplomatic efforts fail, the Israeli government approves a counter-terrorist hostage rescue operation by IDF commandos. Thus the movie is inspired by the hijacking of an Air France plane in June 1976. The flight, which originated in Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, was taken over by two members of the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine and two German members of the Revolutionary Cells, Wilfried Böse (aka Boni), and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike). The plane was redirected to Entebbe, in a Uganda governed by the famously unstable Idi Amin. Padilha’s film cuts between the rapidly deteriorating conditions in the airport terminal where the hostages are held, and the corridors of power in Israel, where Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) and defence minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan) butt heads over the correct method of response.
The film has Rosamund Pike as Brigitte Kuhlmann, Daniel Brühl as Wilfried Böse, Lior Ashkenazi as Yitzhak Rabin, Mark Ivanir as Motta Gur, Denis Ménochet, Eddie Marsan as Shimon Peres, Ben Schnetzer, Peter Sullivan as Amos Eiran, Andrea Deck as Patricia Martel, Brontis Jodorowsky as Captain Michel Bacos, Angel Bonanni as Yonatan Netanyahu, Nonso Anozie as Idi Amin, Vincent Riotta as Dan Shomron, Yiftach Klein as Ehud Barak, Natalie Stone as Leah Rabin, Trudy Weiss as Dora Bloch, Michael Lewis as Major Muki Betser, Samy Seghir and Vincent Cassel.

Gringo

Gringo is a 2018 American crime comedy film directed by Nash Edgerton and written by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone. The film stars David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron (who also produced), Joel Edgerton (Nash's brother), Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton and Sharlto Copley, and follows a mild-mannered businessman who is sent to Mexico to deliver an experimental marijuana pill. When he is kidnapped by the drug cartel he must escape alongside a hired mercenary.
Harold Soyinka works for Cannabax Technologies Inc, a company that has developed the "Weed Pill", medical marijuana that has been simplified into a pill. Harold gets to know the rumor that the company will be going forward with a merger but is denied by his boss who also happens to be his friend. Harold's bosses, Elaine Markinson and Richard Rusk, travel with him to Mexico to handle the manufacturing of the product. Harold stays back faking kidnapping to benefit from the company policy of 2 million dollars if anything was happen to him in Mexico during a business visit. He also gets to know that his wife has left him as she is having an affair with Richard. While out drunk, Harold ends up getting kidnapped by the cartel, which holds a grudge against Harold's bosses and their company, for cutting them off their plans on creating the Weed Pill. Richard hires his brother Mitch, who happens to be an ex-mercenary, to safely get Harold out of harm's way, only for the two to end up having to survive one outrageous situation after another.
The film has David Oyelowo as Harold Soyinka, Joel Edgerton as Richard Rusk, Charlize Theron as Elaine Markinson, Amanda Seyfried as Sunny, Thandie Newton as Bonnie Soyinka, Sharlto Copley as Mitch Rusk, Paris Jackson as Nelly, Yul Vazquez as Angel Valverde, Alan Ruck as Jerry, Harry Treadaway as Miles, Kenneth Choi as Marty, Melonie Diaz as Mia, Diego Cataño as Ronaldo, Hector Kotsifakis as Roberto Vega and Bashir Salahuddin as Stu.

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