Thursday, August 23, 2018

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Happy Phir Bhag Jayegi, Genius, Karim Mohammed, Blue Jean Blues and Mile 22) that was published in Newsband


New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi

Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi (transl. Happy will run away again;) is a Bollywood comedy film directed by Mudassar Aziz and produced by Anand L. Rai and Krishika Lulla. The film is a sequel to Happy Bhag Jayegi (2016). It stars Diana Penty returning as the eponymous character and Sonakshi Sinha. The production features an ensemble cast consisting of Penty, Sinha, Jimmy Sheirgill, Ali Fazal, Jassi Gill.
The film is a sequel of the sleeper hit, Happy Bhag Jayegi, with Diana Penty in the lead. The delightful film had a Punjabi girl who runs away from her marriage only to land up in Pakistan. Her fiancé, the police of Pakistan and sundry other people are after her and a comedy of errors follows. Happy is a funny person—she obviously has a distinct comic streak to her and is often oblivious of it herself. She often finds herself in untenable situations but invariably wriggles out of them.
The film has Sonakshi Sinha as Harpreet “Happy” Kaur, Diana Penty as Harpreet “Happy” Kaur (extended special appearance), Jimmy Sheirgill as Daman Singh Bagga, Ali Fazal as Guddu, Jassi Gill as Khushwant Singh Gill, Piyush Mishra as Usman Afridi, Aparshakti Khurana, Jason Tham as Chang and Bijou Thaangjam as Chinese Agent.
The soundtrack of the film has been composed by Sohail Sen while the lyrics are written by Mudassar Aziz and Qamar Jalalabadi (noted). The film has songs like "Swag Saha Nahi Jaye" sung by Sohail Sen, Shadab Faridi, Neha Bhasin, Shivangi Bhayana, "Happy Bhag Jayegi" by Daler Mehndi, Harshdeep Kaur, Suvarna Tiwari, "Chin Chin Chu" (Lyrics by Qamar Jalalabadi) by Jassi Gill, Sonakshi Sinha, Mudassar Aziz, "Koi Gal Nai" by        Shahid Mallya, Piyush Mishra, Rap by: Mudassar Aziz and "Kudiye Ni Tere" by Udit Narayan, Shivangi Bhayana.

Genius

Genius is an Indian action thriller film directed by Anil Sharma. It marks the debut of his son Utkarsh Sharma as a male lead, who also featured as a child actor in Sharma's 2001 blockbuster film Gadar: Ek Prem Katha. Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Mithun Chakraborty are in supporting roles in the film.

An orphan, with a brilliant mind, only wants one thing in his life: love. He finds it, but, by then he has joined RAW and is now burdened by the killing of his entire team. Until he doesn't avenge their death, he can't live in peace with his love. So, he hatches a genius plan.
The film has Utkarsh Sharma as Vasudev Shastri aka Genius, Ishitha Chauhan as Nandini Chauhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Gangster Shah, Mithun Chakraborty as Devraj Mathur, Ayesha Jhulka, Zakir Hussain, Malati Chahar, Rajiv Kachroo, Abhimanyu Singh, K. K. Raina, Dev Gill, Amit Gupta, Gaurav Shinde and Parul Sharma.
The music of the film is composed by Himesh Reshammiya and Monty Sharma has done the background score while lyrics are penned by Manoj Muntashir, Kumaar, Shabbir Ahmed. The film has songs like "Tera Fitoor", "Dil Meri Na Sune", "Tujhse Kahan Juda Hoon Main", "Holi Biraj Ma", "Pyar Le Pyar De" and "Dil Meri Na Sune" (Reprise).

Karim Mohammed

Karim Mohammed is a film directed by Pawan Kumar Sharma and Writing Credits go to Jitendra Gupta. The film is produced by Ravindra Singh Rajawat and producer of Music is Balkrishan Sharma.
The film focusses on Kashmir’s Bakarwal community and their daily struggles within the terrorism fraught nomadic way of life. The protagonist is a young, bright and extremely curious boy, Karim Mohammed, whose point-of-view forms the lens for most of the film. The issues of adult self-preservation wrestle it out throughout the film’s narrative through the complexities of truth and the child's innocence. This film tries to show the life of the Bakarwals through the eyes of a child. Communities who live in the borderlands often end up harboring terrorists out of fear for their lives and to ensure the safety of their families. However, when these terrorists loot them off their food, clothing, and family members, the question that comes to the front is the importance of ‘zameer’ [integrity] in our ways of life. The first half of the film reveals the idyllic relationship of a family with their ecosystem and other members of the community, as their nomadic lifestyle is played out. Multiple episodes of filial bonding of the Bakarwals and the terrorists interrupting their idyll by looting or assaulting the community members along their travels make the focus of the film. The teachings of the father on loyalty, nationalism and zameer along with anecdotes of brave saints infuse Karim with ideals and ideas, while the pragmatism of the mother provides reality checks on these flights of fancy, every now and then. However, this serenity of existence soon meets an irrevocable dramatic tragedy that pronounces a clash of ideologies within the community and forces Karim to make some uncomfortable choices. A narrative that wishes to tackle the sensitive topicality of being a Muslim in a heavily Islamophobic world, especially within areas of conflict and struggles across India, would need further explication of actions and motivations, and the concept of truth beyond an often-reductive reliance on the idea of zameer.
The film has Yashpal Sharma as Hamid, Alka Amin as Mahvish Aapa, Rajesh Jais as Aaftaab, Ravi Jhanghu         as Rizvan, Juhi as Naazeen and Harshit Rajawat as Mohammed

Blue Jean Blues

Blue Jean Blues is directed by Nitin Mahajan who gets the writing credits too.  The film is produced by Nitin Mahajan and music composers are Kedar Divekar and Anay Gadgil.
A geeky 23 year old goes in to severe depression following a series of unfortunate incidents that occur to him. His friends and family try their best to get him out of it, but it is up to him to realize that the answers that he seeks lie within him.
The film has Raj Thakur as Krishna, Shweta Bist as Madhumita, Ashwini Ekbote as Devaki, Sanjeevkumar Patil as Kartik Mama, Radhika Deshmukh as Garima, Tejas Madhale        as Ajay, Dheeraj Kulkarni as Pankaj, Sunny Aherkar as Pranav, Shreyas Behere        as Aditya and Apoorwa Gurav as Riddhi.

Mile 22

Mile 22 is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by Peter Berg and written by Lea Carpenter, from a story by Carpenter and Graham Roland. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, Ronda Rousey, and follows an elite CIA task force, composed of paramilitary officers from Ground Branch of Special Activities Division, that has to escort a high-priority asset 22 miles to an extraction point while being hunted by terrorists.
CIA operative James Silva leads a small but lethal paramilitary team on an urgent and dangerous mission. They must transport a foreign intelligence asset from an American embassy in Southeast Asia to an airfield for extraction -- a distance of 22 miles. Silva and the soldiers soon find themselves in a race against time as the city's military, police and street gangs close in to reclaim the asset.
The film has Mark Wahlberg as James Silva / "child 1", Iko Uwais as Li Noor, John Malkovich as James Bishop / "Mother", Lauren Cohan as Alice Kerr / "child 2", Ronda Rousey as Sam Snow / "child 3", Nikolai Nikolaeff as Alexander, Carlo Alban as Douglas / "child 4", Terry Kinney as Johnny Porter, Poorna Jagannathan as Ambassador Dorothy Brady, Sam Medina as Axel, Alexandra Vino as Sergeant Thomas, Cedric Gervais as Greg Vickers, CL as Queen, Emily Skeggs as M.I.T. and Peter Berg as Lucas.

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