Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (‘Besharam’, ‘Runner, Runner’, ‘Diana’ and ‘Gravity’) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Besharam

Besharam is a 2013 Bollywood romantic action comedy film directed by Abhinav Kashyap. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor and Pallavi Sharda.

The film's tagline has been stated as "Na sanmaan ka moh, na apmaan ka bhay", translated as "No yearning for respect, no fear of humiliation".

The film has an interesting story. Babli (Ranbir Kapoor) is a street smart car mechanic living in a Delhi orphanage. He is charming and lives life to the fullest. He also steals cars to support his orphanage. He has no sense of right or wrong till he unwittingly hurts the love of his life, Tara (Pallavi Sharda). Babli realizes that there is no right way of doing the wrong thing. Babli sets out to fix all the wrongs in his life and he continues to be shameless about it.

The film has Ranbir Kapoor as Babli, Pallavi Sharda as Tara Sharma, Rishi Kapoor as Inspector Chulbul Chautala, Neetu Singh as Head Constable Bulbul Chautala, Javed Jaffrey as Bheem Singh, Amitosh Nagpal as Titu, Kamal Kiri as Drug Supplier, Kunal Agrawal as Ganja,  Aditya Agrawal (Special Appearance) as Himself and Tikendra Yadav (Special Aappearance) as Himself.

The soundtrack of Besharam is composed by Lalit Pandit of the famous Jatin-Lalit duo and the lyrics are penned by Rajeev Barnwal, Nikhat Khan and Himanshu Kishan Mehra. The film has songs like Besharam sung by Shree D and Ishq Bector, Tere Mohalle by Mamta Sharma and Aishwarya Nigam, Love Ki Ghanti by Sujeet Shetty, Ranbir Kapoor and Amitosh Nagpal, Dil Ka Joh Haal Hai by Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Shreya Ghoshal, Tu Hai by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal, Aa Re Aa Re by Mika Singh and Shreya Ghoshal, Tu Hai (Unplugged) by Sonu Nigam and Bela Shende, Besharam (Remix) by Shree D and Ishq Bector, Tere Mohalle (Remix) by Mamta Sharma and Aishwarya Nigam, Love Ki Ghanti (Remix) by Sujeet Shetty, Ranbir Kapoor and Amitosh Nagpal, Dil Kaa Jo Haal Hai (Remix) by Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Shreya Ghoshal, Aa Re Aa Re (Remix) by Mika Singh and Shreya Ghoshal and Chal Hand Uthake Nachche by Daler Mehndi, Mika Singh and Sunidhi Chauhan.   

Runner, Runner

Runner, Runner is a 2013 American crime drama thriller film directed by Brad Furman, and written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien. The film stars Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton and Ben Affleck, and is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher.

The film has an interesting plot. Richie Furst is a Princeton student who is cheated out of his tuition money by playing online poker. When he learns that the site is hosted from a remote island location, he goes to confront the site's corrupt owner, Ivan Block, but is lured into becoming Ivan's protégé and right-hand man. Their relationship starts to reach a boiling point all while an FBI agent, Shavers, tries to use Richie to bring Ivan down.

Richie, in collaboration with the FBI's Agent Shavers, tricks Block into thinking he has escaped to Antigua, while in fact he's on Puerto Rico, part of the USA. He was subsequently arrested. During the arrest Richie and Rebecca board the private jet they arrived on, managing to leave the island. Shavers is then handed a USB stick, holding incriminating evidence against Block, hence making Furst a free man.

Diana

Diana is a 2013 biographical drama film, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, about the last two years of the life of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The screenplay is based on Kate Snell's 2001 book Diana: Her Last Love, and was written by Stephen Jeffreys. Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are the producers of the movie for Ecosse Films. British-Australian actress Naomi Watts plays the title role of Diana.

The film has an interesting plot. The biopic focuses on the last two years of Diana’s life after she divorced from Prince Charles. Her relationships with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed are also narrated. It also provides the details about how the Princess and Khan met.

Key scenes involving Diana and Dodi Fayed on his family yacht, Jonikal, were filmed on the 45m Luxury Charter Yacht Princess Iolanthe. The opening and closing scenes at the Imperial Suite at the Paris Ritz were filmed at Fetcham Park House in Fetcham, Surrey.

Naomi Watts’ facial resemblance to Diana isn’t strong, though she does her best to catch the coy uptilted gaze, the outward poise, the inward fragility. The movie opens on that fatal August night in Paris, 1997, before flashing back a couple of years to Diana’s troubled affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews). Diana, separated from Charles for three years, struggles to keep this private and personable man away from the flashbulb glare in which she has lived her entire adult life. She disguises herself in a black wig to go out on dates with Hasnat, she hides him under a blanket in the car home, she even visits his large extended family back in Pakistan. But their relationship unravels because, as the film keeps reminding us, she's "the most famous woman in the world" – and the paparazzi won't give her a moment's peace.

The film occasionally gets up off its knees to suggest that Diana was, or had learned to become, a shrewd manipulator. In the run-up to her TV interview with Martin Bashir, we see her practising her sorrowful phrases and martyred expressions in the mirror. Later, she summons her pet paparazzo to catch exclusive shots of herself on Dodi's yacht, the strongest indication of the dance of death she conducted with Fleet Street's finest: she despised the attention, and craved it at the same time. Dodi, incidentally, is portrayed here as a mere stooge, a rebound fling intended to make Hasnat jealous.

Hirschbiegel presents Diana as a loving yet lonely soul, devoted to her young sons but piteously excluded from a grown-up relationship.

The film has Naomi Watts as Princess Diana, Naveen Andrews as Hasnat Khan, Cas Anvar as Dodi Fayed, Laurence Belcher as Prince William, Harry Holland as Prince Harry, Douglas Hodge as Paul Burrell, Geraldine James as Oonagh Toffolo, Charles Edwards as Patrick Jephson and Mary Stockley as Assistant.

Gravity

Gravity is a 2013 3D space drama film co-written, co-produced, co-edited and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The film stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as surviving astronauts in a damaged Space Shuttle.

George Clooney and Sandra Bullock play astronauts stranded in zero-g after their ride is wrecked by the debris from exploded satellites. Low on oxygen and cut off in their communications with NASA, the two float in the general direction of shelter, struggling to keep their grip on each other and not go careening into the cold, silent void. Lighting their way during this treacherous journey is the majestic glow of planet Earth, always in sight, taunting them with its seeming proximity.

This film is a thriller set in the terrifying vacuum of outer space. The characters in the film are shown outside in the vast, unforgiving darkness, where the greatest threat to their lives isn’t dog fights or hostile extraterrestrials but simply drifting off into nothingness.