Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Shaadi Ke Side Effects, Mr Peabody Sherman, Anuradha, Non-Stop and Dallas Buyers Club) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Shaadi Ke Side Effects

What's the movie Shaadi Ke Side Effects about? The iconic characters, Sid and Trisha, come to life in the sequel, now as husband and wife. Sid having beaten his fear of marriage and Trisha having finally gotten around to saying her vows the third time round. Now they must address themselves to the impossible task of coping with each other's fantasies and realities. Will they succeed? Only Shaadi Ke Side Effects will tell.

Shaadi Ke Side Effects (English: The Side Effects of Marriage) is a Bollywood comedy movie. The film is directed by Saket Chaudhary and stars Farhan Akhtar, Vidya Balan, Ram Kapoor, Vir Das and Hariharan. The film is produced by Balaji Motion Pictures and Pritish Nandy Communications.

The film is about a young couple who experience many comic events after their marriage.

Sid (Farhan Akhtar) is a happy go lucky guy enjoying his bachelorhood with his friend Vir Das but soon is hit by the cupid arrow and falls in love with Trisha (Vidya Balan). He enters into the marital life with the lady, unaware about how his life is going to be. The problem begins when a child is born and the love and affection between the two starts fading. Frustrated by this relation, Sid looks out for a piece of advice from his another friend Ram Kapoor. How he manages his life with those unscrupulous advices is what Pritish Nandy tells us with this drama.

The film has Farhan Akhtar as Anuj, Vidya Balan as Trisha, Ram Kapoor, Vir Das, Gautami Kapoor, Purab Kohli as Sekhar, Ira Arun, Rati Agnihotri and Mia Maelzer.

The music director is Pritam Chakraborty and the lyricist is Amitabh Bhattacharya. Mikey McCleary is a guest composer for the track Ahista Ahista.

The film has songs like Harrys Not a Brahmachari sung by Jazzy B and Divya Kumar, IM Sorry Par Tumse Pyar Ho Gaya        by Nikhil Paul George, Neeti Mohan and Mili Nair, Tauba Main Vyaah Karke Pachtaya by Shahid Mallya, Poorvi Koutish and Alam Lohar, Desi Romance by Arijit Singh and Suchi, Yahaan Vahaan by Farhan Akhtar, Bawla Sa Sapna         by Mohit Chauhan, Harrys Not a Brahmachari (Original Song) by Jazzy B and Divya Kumar, Tauba Main Vyaah Karke Pachtaya by Arif Lohar and Poorvi Koutish, Bawla Sa Sapna (The Children Come To Sing) by Diva, Yahaan Vahaan by Farhan Akhtar, Harrys Not a Brahmachari (remix) by Jazzy B and Divya Kumar and Ahista Ahista   by Farhan Akhtar.

Mr Peabody Sherman

Mr. Peabody & Sherman is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated comic science fiction film based on the characters from the Peabody's Improbable History segments of the 1960s animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. It is produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Rob Minkoff is the director, and Alex Schwartz and Denise Nolan Cascino are the producers. Tiffany Ward, daughter of Jay Ward, one of the creators of the original series, is the executive producer. Mr. Peabody & Sherman features the voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Ariel Winter, Stephen Colbert, and Leslie Mann. Mr. Peabody & Sherman is the first DreamWorks animated feature to feature characters from the Classic Media library since DreamWorks Animation's 2012 acquisition of Classic Media.

The movie has an interesting plot. The film features Mr. Peabody, a talking dog who is the smartest being in the world, and his adopted boy Sherman. On his first day of school, Sherman comes into conflict with another classmate named Penny Peterson. The adoption agency informs Peabody that they will reclaim Sherman if any more incidents occur at school. To complicate this issue, Peabody invites the Petersons over to "break the ice." After Sherman's misuse of their time traveling WABAC machine to impress Penny has disastrous and comical results, it is up to them to put things on track before the space-time continuum is irreparably destroyed.

The following are the Voice Cast: Ty Burrell as Mr. Peabody, a talking dog, business titan, inventor, scientist, Nobel laureate, gourmet, and two-time Olympic medalist; Max Charles as Sherman, Peabody's seven-year-old adopted boy; In the original series, Mr. Peabody is Sherman's owner; Ariel Winter as Penny Peterson, Mr. & Mrs. Peterson's daughter and Sherman's classmate; Stephen Colbert as Paul Peterson, Penny Peterson's father and Patty's husband; Leslie Mann as Patty Peterson, Paul's wife and Penny's mother; Allison Janney as Mrs. Grunion, a school counselor; Stephen Tobolowsky as Principal Purdy; Mel Brooks as Sigmund Freud; Stanley Tucci as Leonardo da Vinci; Patrick Warburton as King Agamemnon; Lake Bell as Mona Lisa; Zach Callison as King Tut; Lauri Fraser as Marie Antoinette; Guillaume Aretos as Maximilien de Robespierre and Dennis Haysbert as Chairman.

Anuradha

Anuradha is a Bollywood film directed by Raju Mavani starring Disha Chaudhary, Sachin Khedekar, Manoj Joshi, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Smita Jaykar and Kishori Shahane. What's the movie about? Anuradha is the story of a girl who has many faces. She is a cultured daughter of her parents who brought her up that way. She is a model for her younger sister. She is the favourite of the people of her town and she is clever. She loves her husband more than anybody else. She is the responsible daughter-in-law of her in-laws. She is a great friend. She has all the best characteristics and human qualities. In spite of all her super qualities, a section of the society looks at this innocent girl with their dirty eyes and thoughts and covert her life from heaven to hell. How this section of the society makes her life miserable is what the film depicts.

Music Director of this film is Farzan Faaiz. The singers are Kavita Krishnamurthy, Altamash Faridi, Rooprekha Bannerjee and Palak Muchhal. Lyricist is Faaiz Anwar.

Non-Stop

Non-Stop is a 2014 French–American action thriller film starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Anson Mount, Lupita Nyong'o and Scoot McNairy. It is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. This is the first film to be distributed by Universal Pictures.

The film takes place on an international flight from New York to London. During the flight, U.S. federal air marshal Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) receives a series of threatening text messages, stating that a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into a secret bank account. When the bank account is discovered to be under Marks' name and a bomb is found aboard the plane, Marks is branded as a hijacker.

Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and scripted by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack. Matthew McConaughey stars as AIDS patient Ron Woodroof, who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas when he found them effective at improving his symptoms, distributing them to fellow sufferers by establishing the eponymous "Dallas Buyers Club" whilst facing opposition from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Dallas Buyers Club tells the true-ish story of Ron Woodroof, who became an outlaw to get the drugs he and his AIDS-afflicted peers needed. In the film, his sexuality is aggressively heterosexual. We're introduced to him engaged in a threesome, and cheesecake photos of women are an ever-present part of his Buyer's Club office. This is the first sign of trouble in Dallas Buyers Club. The screenwriters Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack make their protagonist straight, but also they opted to make him a homophobic man's man who hurls slurs and is physically repulsed but the gay community he deals to.

Faced with the commonality of his struggle with the LGBT community, he'd realize he's not so different, and his prejudices and bigotry would melt away! But that's not what happens in the film. The gay community is more set dressing than an essential or ingrained part of the film. Serving as backdrop, it severely downplays the fact that the AIDS crisis predominantly impacted gay men at the time. Nonetheless, Ron rebuffs any inclusion in the community, and even profits off it for most of the narrative, selling drugs they need to live and buying flashy clothes and cars in exchange. His closest connection to the queer community is his tumultuous friendship with the trans woman Rayon, a character he regularly calls "idiot."

Rayon was born a man, but clearly identifies as female. She favors women's clothes, make-up and jewelry to identify her gender. She mentions a hope to get breast implants. Yet no one in the film - even her so-called friends - gives her the respect or courtesy to address her with female pronouns. Even after Rayon's death, Dr. Eve (Jennifer Garner) bellows out, "He was my friend too!"

When they meet, both Ron and Rayon - regardless of sexual orientation - have risky lifestyles. Both use hard drugs, presumably engage in unprotected sex, and work in a field that risks their physical well-being, be it rodeo or prostitution. But once Ron starts chasing down medications, he cleans up his life: no drugs, sex only with other HIV-positive partners (women of course), and dedicatedly eating better. But Rayon still gets high and eats junk food, no matter how much Ron warns her. And she dies. The contrast suggests that she deserved it for not changing how she lived her life.