Thursday, January 31, 2019

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (The Fakir Of Venice and Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
The Fakir of Venice
The Fakir of Venice is a 2019 Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Anand Surapur. The film stars Farhan Akhtar, Annu Kapoor and Kamal Sidhu in the lead roles, the film is written by Rajesh Devraj with a story from Homi Adajania.
An Indian con man is hired to find a fakir who can bury himself in sand for an installation art project in Venice. He passes off a slum dweller from Bombay as the real thing, conning the European art world successfully. It is the story of a strange relationship. A relationship between two characters who are brought together to carry out a deception. To pull it off, however, they must learn to shed the layers of deceit, and move towards understanding themselves, and each other. The fakir (essayed by Annu Kapoor) is actually a Muslim posing as a Hindu fakir.
The movie has Farhan Akhtar as Adi, Annu Kapoor as Sattar, Kamal Sidhu and Valentina Carnelutti.
Songs and the background score for the film have been composed by A.R.Rahman. The film has song "Wako Naam Fakir" with lyrics by Sant Kabir and sung by A.R.Rahman, Arjun Chandy & Abhay Jodhpurkar.

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (lit. How I Felt When I Saw A Girl) is an Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age film directed by Shelly Chopra Dhar. The tagline as shown on the released film trailer and poster is 'The most unexpected romance of the year'. It stars Sonam Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, and Rajkummar Rao, and also features Akshay Oberoi, Regina Cassandra, Brijendra Kala and Madhumalti Kapoor in supporting roles. The film is produced by Vinod Chopra Films and distributed by Fox Star Studios.
Some love stories are not simple, Sweety's (played by Sonam Kapoor) is one such story. She has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants to get her married, a young writer who is completely smitten by her, a secret that she harbours close to her heart and ultimately the truth that her true love might not find acceptance in her family and society. Resolving these issues proves hilarious, touching and life changing. Sweety is lesbian and has to convince her family and her father, Balbir (Anil Kapoor), who has blind faith in his daughter. Rajkumar Rao, who is a well wisher more than anything else, decides to be the good friend and help her convince her family. There are a lot of arguments that happen between Sweety and her family.
The film has Anil Kapoor as Balbir Chaudhary, Sonam Kapoor as Sweety Chaudhary, Juhi Chawla as Chatro, Rajkummar Rao as Sahil Mirza, Akshay Oberoi, Regina Cassandra, Madhumalti Kapoor, Brijendra Kala, Abhishek Duhan, Seema Pahwa and Sara Arjun as Young Sweety Chaudhary.
The music of the film is composed by Rochak Kohli and lyrics are written by Gurpreet Saini. The film has songs like "Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga" sung by Darshan Raval, Rochak Kohli, "Gud Naal Ishq Mitha" by Navraj Hans, Harshdeep Kaur, "Good Morning" by Vishal Dadlani, Shannon Donald, "Chitthiye" by Kanwar Grewal and "House Party Song" by Sukhwinder Singh, Arjun Kanungo, Parry G.

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