Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies that’ll get released in Navi Mumbai’ (Finding Fanny, Creature 3D, Khota Sikka and The Prince) that was published in Newsband

New movies that’ll get released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Finding Fanny

Finding Fanny is a 2014 English/Hindi satirical film, directed and written by Homi Adajania and produced by Dinesh Vijan under Maddock Films and presented by Fox Star Studios. Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Pankaj Kapur, Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor will feature in prominent roles. The film is based on a road trip set in Goa and follows the journey of five dysfunctional friends who set out on a road trip in search of Fanny, the love-interest of the character played by Naseeruddin Shah.

The film has an interesting plot. Finding Fanny revolves around five rather dysfunctional characters that live in the quaint sleepy village of Pocolim, nestled deep in the interiors of Goa, India. Pocolim is a village where pointless conversations are a way of life. Nothing ever really happens here and the people of Pocolim, well, they just exist. One night, the old postman Ferdie (Naseeruddin Shah), receives a letter that is slipped under his door.

He realizes that it is the letter he had written 46 years ago to the love of his life, Stefanie Fernandes (Anjali Patil), asking for her hand in marriage. To his utter shock, he discovers that it had never been delivered. All these years Ferdie has lived a life of melancholy and regret, believing that Stefanie had rejected him. He decides to find his beloved Fanny (as he fondly called her) and tell her the truth. Where would she be after 46 years? Dead? Happily married? Would she even remember him? Or is Stefanie Fernandes merely a figment of Ferdie’s imagination?

Four colorful characters from the village join the trip under random pretexts, though in actuality everyone wants a distraction from their mundane lives. A young virgin widow (Deepika Padukone), a bitter mechanic (Arjun Kapoor), a belligerent artist (Pankaj Kapur) and an obnoxious self-appointed “Lady” of Pocolim (Dimple Kapadia) join Ferdie as they experience various hilarious and moving events that change their lives forever. In the process, they discover a strange sense of solace and love amongst each other, and end up seeing a point to their previously pointless lives.

The music of Finding Fanny is composed by Mathias Duplessy, duo Sachin-Jigar and Sachin Gupta. The lyrics are penned by a range of artists including, Mukhtiyar Ali, Alan Mercer, Sachin Gupta, Jigar Saraiya and the film's producer, Dinesh Vijan. The film has songs like Fanny Re, Mahi Ve, Ding Dong and Shake Your Bootiya.

Creature 3D

Creature 3D is an upcoming Indian 3D monster thriller science fiction film directed by Vikram Bhatt. The film stars Bipasha Basu and Imran Abbas Naqvi in lead roles. It is produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar and co-produced by Ajay Kapoor under the banner of T-Series in association with BVG Films. The film is Bollywood debut of Pakistani model turned actor Imran Abbas Naqvi. Amit Tandon and Mukul Dev are in supporting roles.

The film has an interesting story. In the midst of the hilly terrains of Summer Hill, a young and enterprising girl Ahana (Bipasha Basu) launches her new, warm and cosy boutique hotel called 'Glendale Forest Lodge' where she meets Kunal (Imran Abbas), a famous author who is one of the first guests at the hotel.

All goes well at Glendale till one day Summer Hill gets attacked by 'something'. Ahana is traumatized by the deaths of her guests and the havoc created because of hotel turning 'unsafe' for visitors.

A professor of Zoology, Professor Sadana (Mukul Dev) comes to Summer Hill to help. It's time to fight. She knows her competitor is the epitome of power and danger but she decides to attempt to fight. The movie then moves towards an interesting climax.

Khota Sikka

Khota Sikka is the story of an Udaipur boy called Veeru. He is fun loving, daydreamer and careless. He is master of wits but aimless. His father decides to get him married with his bhabhi's younger sister. On the other hand Veeru meets one NRI girl called Kiran and falls in love with her. He wants to get her at any cost with the help of Rehmat Chacha. Rehmat is equally friendly with Veeru and his father. But he loves Veeru unconditionally. Kiran informs her parents about Veeru's love and her future plans to marry him. Her father meets Veeru's father Subedar Karan Singh Choudhry regarding their marriage. Subedar had already given his word to his daughter in law's father, regarding Veeru's marriage, so he insults and misbehaves with Chaddha very badly. Insulted Chaddha decides and takes an oath in front of Subedar that he will not get Kiran married to Veeru under any circumstance.

Although Perry and Mohini, brother and mother of Kiran, were dead against this marriage, but when Kiran comes to know about her father's insult, she also decides not to marry Veeru.

Watch: how Kiran's family wants to go to Amritsar and how Veeru stops them? How he convinces Kiran? He Makes a wonderful plan with Kiran and promises that both their families will join their hands and request them to marry each other respectfully. What is there game plan actually? Will their plan prove to be successful? Does Perry have some other plan against this marriage? What about the commitment of Subedar and Chaddha? Will the two be able to meet or not, is the story of Khota Sikka.

Khota Sikka is produced under the banner Bharatiyam Entertainment by Manoj Bhardwaj, Pawan Raj Khokhar and Naveen Kumar and directed by Ram Pratap Singh. The star cast of the film comprises Aatri Kumar, Nilufer Salehi, Rakesh Bedi, Sushmita Mukherjee, Vijay Kashyap, Hemant Pandey, Sumit Aroraa, Samarth Chaturvedi, Richa Verma, Shikha Tiwari, Preeta Jain, Abhishek Khanna, Riddhii Bansal, Dyuti Geete, Nishikant Dixit, Aditya Sharma and Zubein Khan. The story writer is Raj Inder Kapil. Music Director is Udbhav. Singers are Mika Singh, Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Udbhav and Pamela Jain.

The Prince

The Prince is a 2014 American gangster thriller film directed by Brian A. Miller. It stars Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, John Cusack, and Rain.

The film has an interesting plot. A retired New Orleans crime boss and widowed father (Patric) is forced to team up with his best friend (Cusack) to return to the crime world when his daughter (Mantegna) is kidnapped by an old rival (Willis).

To be more clear, the story concerns Paul (Patric), a widowed father who discovers that his college-age daughter Beth (Gia Mategna) has gone missing. Enlisting one of her school friends (Jessica Lowndes) to help track her down, he soon finds himself confronting an array of bad guys who he dispatches with the sort of ruthless efficiency and seeming invulnerability specific to action movie heroes. The trail eventually leads to a drug dealer, appropriately known as “The Pharmacy” (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson), who’s been supplying the strung-up young woman with heroin. But the real bad guy is Omar (Willis), a crime boss whose wife and young daughter were blown up in a car bomb planted by Paul years earlier in a deadly mistake that has Omar thirsting for revenge. Along the way Paul also enlists the services of a former cohort (Cusack) who demonstrates that he too has lost none of his violent mojo. The movie then moves towards an interesting climax.