Dinesh Kamath’s column on ‘New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai’ (Samrat & Co., Dishkiyahoon, O Teri, Youngistan, Noah in 3D and Sabotage) that was published in Newsband

New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Samrat & Co.

Samrat & Co. is a 2014 Hindi detective thriller film directed by Kaushik Ghatak and produced by Kavita K. Barjatya under the Rajshri Productions banner. It features Rajeev Khandelwal in the title role of Samrat.

The film has an interesting plot. A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh (Madalsa Sharma), approaches Samrat Tilakdhari (Rajeev Khandelwal), a private investigator, with a strange case. Their garden got ruined for reasons that appear natural but are not known; leading horticulturists have examined the fading plants but they have not been able to identify the probable reason. Further, her father's favorite horse died; once again the reason for the pre-mature death remains a mystery. That's not the end; Dimpy’s father Mahendra Pratap Singh (Girish Karnad), otherwise a very strong and balanced man, has been experiencing deteriorating health. All these aspects when combined makes the case sound weird and that grabs the attention of Samrat.

Samrat along with his assistant friend, Chakradhar Pandey (Gopal Datt), visits the huge estate of Mahendra Pratap Singh. As he starts investigating, he discovers lots of mysterious facts. The story progresses when a murder takes place in the house, which leads to a series of events, complicating things for Samrat. Every character around seems to be hiding something. How will Samrat unfold the mysteries? Will there be more mysteries while he is investigating? Will the case be solved?

The film has Rajeev Khandelwal as Samrat Tilakdhari, Madalsa Sharma as Dimpy Singh, Gopal Datt as Chakradhar Pandey, Girish Karnad as Mahendra Pratap Singh, Priyanshu Chatterjee as Sanjay Singh, Sujata Sanghmitra as Sunita Singh, Shreya Narayan as Divya Singh, Indraneil Sengupta as Vijay Singh, Barkha Bisht as Revati Singh, Ravi Jhankal as Puran kaka, Puja Gupta as Shanti, Navin Prabhakar as Hari, Rajniesh Duggall as Deepak Khurana, Bhaumik Sampat as Inspector Khalid, Pradeep Welankar as DGP Arjun, Smita Jaykar as Narayani Dave, Deepak Shroff as Kishor Dave, Ramgopal Bajaj as Satyadev baba, Anurag Jha as Ghanshyam, Ajay Bhandari as Anuj, Gufi Paintal as Dinesh Das (DD) and Kabir Chopra as Vikramjeet.

Dishkiyaoon

Dishkiyaoon

Dishkiyaoon is a Bollywood action film produced by Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra along with Eros International. The film features Sunny Deol, Harman Baweja and debutant Ayesha Khanna. The film is about the Mumbai underworld. Four songs for the film have been composed by debutant Palash Muchhal, who's the youngest music composer of Bollywood at age of 18.

The film has an interesting plot. Born in the upper middle class society, Viki had no mother and his father had no time for him. The cold loneliness of Viki’s world left him weak and tainted from within. Absence of love and care pushed Viki to find acceptance in other places. One such place was just a road away from his plush apartment - The Gangster Land.

Viki finds love and acceptance, where bullets don’t warn before firing. Interpersonal relationships are complex, situations are twisted. Ambitions break free, as Viki sets his eyes on the top-spot of gangster-land. He backs himself to de-throne the existing King. Where people use might, Viki uses his mind. A game of dice begins. Each throw unfolds deception, double-cross, uncertainty, mystery and shock. It all comes down to one final throw of dice and Viki must roll a six to win.  

The film has Sunny Deol as Lakwa, Harman Baweja as Viki Kartoos, Ayesha Khanna, Prashant Narayanan as Mota Tony, Aditya Pancholi, Rajit Kapur, Anand Tiwari and Shilpa Shetty in item song.

Dishkiyaoon's music is generally composed by Palash Muchhal. The lyrics of all soundtracks are penned by Sanamjit Singh Talwar.

The film has songs like Tu Mere Type Ka Nahi Hai sung by Kunal and Gayatri Iyer, Tu Hi Hai Aashiqui (Solo) by Arjit Singh, Nachle Tu by Mika Singh and Palak Muchhal, Tutey by Sukhwinder Singh, Tu Hi Hai Aashiqui (Duet) by Arijit Singh and Palak Muchhal, Nissar by Vishal Dadlani and Sneha Khanwalkar and Tu Hi Hai Aashiqui by Arijit Singh. 

O Teri

O Teri is a Hindi comedy film produced by Atul Agnihotri, featuring Pulkit Samrat, Bilal Amrohi, Sarah-Jane Dias, Sara Loren, and Mandira Bedi. The film stars Pulkit Samrat and newcomer Bilal Amrohi as two journalists, who come across a big scam. The music is composed by GJ Singh.

The film has Prayansh Sharma as Phantom/P.P., Katrina Kaif as Prayansh's Girlfriend, Sarah-Jane Dias as Sara Loren, Mandira Bedi, Vijay Raaz, Anupam Kher, Salman Khan – Cameo and Lulia Vantur – Cameo.

The movie O Teri is about two reporters in Delhi, Pulkit Samrat as Prantabh Pratab (P.P) and Bilal Amrohi as Anand Ishwaram Devdutt Subhramaniyam (A.I.D.S) and the corrupt system of the present world. The film is a satire comedy and a funny take on events seen from the eyes of these two intern journalists.

This is the story of how the exploits of an amorous buffalo led to the unearthing of the biggest scam this country has ever seen.

They say Fortune always favors the brave. Well, then they are obviously talking out of their hat. For it sometimes also accidentally shines on the hugely reticent and plain bumbling lucky.

Youngistan

Youngistaan is a Bollywood film directed by Syed Ahmad Afzal. It stars Jackky Bhagnani, Neha Sharma, Farooq Sheikh and Kayoze Irani in lead roles. The film is a love story set against the backdrop of Indian politics.

The film has an interesting plot. Youngistaan is essentially a love story set in the backdrop of Indian politics. It is the story of Abhimanyu Kaul – a young, independent, Games Developer, living in Japan with the love of his life, Anwita Chauhan – a bubbly, passionate and full of life, summer intern.

Their happy and content life faces the test of time, when blood ties and the pressure of being born into the first family of India tears a young Abhimanyu between his love for Anwita and a promise made to his dying father, the Prime Minister of India.

Being a public figure, by reluctantly accepting to represent the governing party, much against his own wishes and at the cost of his private life, is a double-edged sword that Abhimanyu must walk on. Much like the crests and troughs of any political survey, the film follows the highs and lows of Abhimanyu’s life – From a young boy, living an ordinary life in Japan, to the designate Prime Minister of the biggest democracy in the world. The film travels with Abhimanyu, as he becomes the Prime Minister of India and struggles to balance his personal relationship with Anwita on one hand and the political resistance against him from within his party, on the other.

Thought of as an amateur and incapable of handling the issues at large by one and all, (except the ever faithful Akbar Patel, Secretary to the P.M), the film closes as a victorious Abhimanyu changes the course of events and turns the tide his way, through his hard work, honestly, and above all, a political legacy – a sharp, leading mind that not everyone inherits!

The film has Jackky Bhagnani, Neha Sharma, Farooq Sheikh, Boman Irani, Kayoze Irani, Mita Vashisht, Hamid Shah, Shraddha Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan in a Cameo as Himself and Umair Alware.

Noah in 3D

Noah is a 2014 American biblical epic film directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel, and is based on the story of Noah's Ark. The film stars Russell Crowe as Noah along with Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Anthony Hopkins, and Douglas Booth.

The film has an interesting plot. The biblical Noah sees visions of an apocalyptic deluge and takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Noah is an adaptation of the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark. In a world ravaged by human sin, Noah is given a divine mission: to build an Ark to save creation from the coming flood.

Subject to divine visions foretelling the end of the world, Noah attempts to tell his people to cease their mistreatment of the earth in order to be saved. No one listens to his warnings, and Noah and his family are cast out to fend for themselves in the wilderness. Noah approaches a race of giant six-armed angels known as the Watchers to rally them to his cause.

The film has Russell Crowe as Noah, Jennifer Connelly as Naameh, Noah's wife, Ray Winstone as Tubal-cain, Noah's nemesis, Emma Watson as Ila, Shem's wife, Logan Lerman as Ham, Noah's son, Anthony Hopkins as Methuselah, Noah's grandfather, Douglas Booth as Shem, Noah's son, Leo McHugh Carroll as Japheth, Noah's son, Kevin Durand as Og, a Watcher who helps Noah, Dakota Goyo as Young Noah, Marton Csokas as Lamech, Noah's father, Madison Davenport as Na'el, the wife of Ham, Nick Nolte as Samyaza, leader of the Watchers, Mark Margolis as Magog, a Watcher, Frank Langella as Azazel, a Watcher, Nolan Gross as Young Ham, Adam Griffith as Adam, Ariane Rinehart as Eve, Gavin Casalegno as Young Shem and Skylar Burke as Young Ila.

Sabotage

Sabotage (previously known as Ten and Breacher) is an American action thriller/crime drama film, directed by David Ayer, written by Skip Woods and Ayer and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The film has an interesting plot. Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they bust into a drug cartel safe house.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the leader of an elite DEA task force that takes on the world’s deadliest drug cartels in ‘Sabotage’.

After the team successfully raids a cartel safe house, they think their job is done – until their members mysteriously get executed one by one.

In the film, Arnold plays John “Breacher” Wharton and he and his team head down to Mexico to raid a cartel compound. Their goal - a massive stack of money, untold millions, in the huge collection of greenbacks. Almost immediately, we see them doing something suspect. Instead of taking the house and calling in their cohorts, they stall. They move to a connecting bathroom, lift off a toilet, and proceed to steal $10 million of the money for themselves. Both the higher ups in the agency and the drug racket finds out that there is money missing. The government puts the squeeze on Schwarzenegger and his team while a gang of hired assassins comes after them individually. One member is killed when his RV is purposefully stalled across some train tracks, another is pinned to his ceiling and disemboweled, while yet another is murdered in his rural survivalist cabin.

While Arnie and his new sidekick - an FBI agent played by Olivia Williams - try to decipher the clues as to what’s going on, bodies are piling up like cord wood. Everyone thinks that Breacher and his team are guilty, but they don’t have the cash. Somehow, it was stolen from them while they were stealing it. Eventually, we learn that Mireilles Enos’ character, a crack-addicted loose cannon who is married to Worthington, is killing her cohorts because she got cheated out of her cash - cash they didn’t have in the first place. Turns out, however, that it was Breacher who took all the loot, using it to settle a score from several months before. The cartel kidnapped his wife and son and murdered them. Our hero uses the $10 million to get the name of the man who did it, and, in a hail of bullets and fisticuffs, Breacher - alone - gets his vengeance.

Thus the movie narrates the story of a bunch of dirty DEA agents, a theft gone catawampus, and a mystery over who is killing Breacher’s team one by one.

The film has Arnold Schwarzenegger as John “Breacher” Wharton, the commander of an elite squad of DEA operatives, Sam Worthington as James "Monster" Murray, Olivia Williams as Investigator Caroline Brentwood, Mireille Enos as Lizzy Murray, Terrence Howard as Julius "Sugar" Edmonds, Joe Manganiello as Joe "Grinder" Phillips, Josh Holloway as Eddie "Neck" Jordan, Harold Perrineau as Jackson, Martin Donovan as Floyd Morgan, Max Martini as Tom "Pyro" Roberts, Gary Grubbs as Lou Cantrell and Ralf Moeller.