Dinesh Kamath's column on movie 'Himmatwala' under the title 'New movie-release in Navi Mumbai' that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

Himmatwala (2013 film)

Himmatwala is a Bollywood action romance film directed by Sajid Khan and jointly produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Vashu Bhagnani. The film features Ajay Devgan opposite Tamannaah in the lead roles. It is an official remake of the 1983 blockbuster of the same name, directed by K. Raghavendra Rao starring Jeetendra and Sridevi. Jeetendra himself, along with Akshay Kumar will be seen in special appearances in this film.

Himmatwala revolves around the story of a poor and wronged woman's son, who returns from the big city to avenge his father, a honest school teacher. Zarina Wahab will be acting as Ajay's mother in the movie. To be exact, the story of the film is this way: An honest temple Pujari takes on more than he can handle when he bears witness to a murder and gives evidence in a court of law against a powerful landlord in his village. The landlord bribes his way to freedom and engineers a ploy to ruin the Pujari's reputation and his status among his peers in the village. Ashamed of his tarnished reputation the Pujari commits suicide and leaves his wife and young children to face the atrocities of the evil landlord. The son flees the village and goes to Mumbai to make a life, but returns years later to avenge the shame caused to his family. Things get complicated when he falls in love with the daughter of the landlord. The plot thickens when it is revealed that the hero is not actually the Pujari's son.

 The film has Ajay Devgan as Ravi, Tamannaah as Rekha, Paresh Rawal as Narayandas, Mahesh Manjrekar as Sher Singh, Adhyayan Suman, Zarina Wahab, Leena Jumani and Surveen Chawla, Amruta Khanvilkar, Sayantani Ghosh, Rinku Ghosh and Mona Thiba in special appearances, Sonakshi Sinha in a special disco song and Dheer Charan Srivastav.

The film has a special disco song called Thank God It's Friday sung by Sunidhi Chauhan and scored by Sachin-Jigar. The other songs have been scored by Sajid-Wajid. The soundtrack includes remakes of the hit songs from the old version of the film, Taki O Taki and Nainon Mein Sapna. The song Naino Mein Sapna has been re-created with the singers Amit Kumar and Shreya Ghoshal.

Thus the film has songs like Nainon Mein Sapna sung by Amit Kumar, Shreya Goshal, Taki Taki by Mika Singh, Shreya Goshal, Dhoka Dhoka by Bappi Lahiri, Sunidhi Chauhan, Mamta Sharma, Bum Pe Laat by Shaan, Soham and Shubh Mukherjee and Thank God It’s Friday by Sunidhi Chauhan.