Thursday, January 15, 2015

Dinesh Kamath’s movie column ‘New movies that are released in Navi Mumbai’ (I, MSG – The Messenger of God, Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene, Paddington, The Imitation Games, Alone, Crazy Cukkad Family, The Theory of Everything and American Sniper) that was published in Newsband

New movies that are released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
I

I is a 2015 Indian Tamil science fiction romantic thriller film produced and distributed by V. Ravichandran under his production company, Aascar Films. The film was scripted and directed by Shankar and features Vikram and Amy Jackson leading an ensemble cast which include Suresh Gopi, Upen Patel, Santhanam and Ramkumar Ganesan portraying pivotal roles. The soundtrack album and background score are composed by A. R. Rahman. Production design is handled by T. Muthuraj. P. C. Sreeram is the film's cinematographer and editing is done by Anthony.
The visual effects are designed by V. Srinivas Mohan through Rising Sun Pictures. Weta Workshop had worked on the digital and prosthetic make-up and background arts for the film. The dubbed versions in Telugu and Hindi are also titled I.
In the film I, we meet Lingesan (Vikram), a gym rat who’s in love with a model (Diya, played by Amy Jackson) he keeps seeing in magazines and on TV and on billboards. As his best friend Velu, Santhanam contributes a few laughs and keeps things light, and Vikram, too, does no heavy lifting outside the gym. He is relaxed, charming, and he draws us to this nobody who wants to be a somebody. In an amusing scene, he participates in a body-building championship and dances to ‘Azeem-o-shaan shahenshah’, his ‘choreography’ made up entirely of poses that show off his muscles. There’s more showing off. After that the evildoers in I mess up the hero’s life and he embarks on revenge.
The film has Vikram as Lingesan, Amy Jackson as Diya, Suresh Gopi as a Doctor, Upen Patel as John, Santhanam, Ramkumar Ganesan, Srinivasan, Mohan Kapoor and Ojas M. Rajani.

MSG – The Messenger of God

MSG: The Messenger of God is a film directed by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and Jeetu Arora. The film is produced under the Hakikat Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. banner and features Singh in the lead role. The movie deals with youth-related issues like drug abuse, alcoholism, etc. The film has seven songs.
Guru ji (Singh) is a spiritual leader who has a huge follower base. He has accepted the challenge of eradicating social evils including drugs and gender-related issues that have been prevailing in the society. Those with vested interest and apathetic towards the welfare of the society are now disturbed as there's someone who has taken control of the situation. They conspire to kill him.
The film has Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as Guruji, Daniel Kaleb as Mike, Fllora Saini as Muskan, Jayshree Soni as Kasam, Olexandra Semen as Alice, Gaurav Gera as Bhondu, Jay Singh Rajpoot as Jet Bhai and Himanshu Tiwari as Tiwari Don.
The movie songs written and sung by Singh himself. The movie has songs like Desh, Daru Ko Goli Maro, Papa The Great, Never Ever, Never Ever remix, Rataan Bataan and Ram Ram.

Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene

Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene is an upcoming Indian comedy thriller film directed by Gurmmeet Singh and produced by Devinder Jain and Akhilesh Jain and featuring Zayed Khan, Rannvijay Singh and Tena Desae.
The film has an interesting plot. Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene is a comic thriller and deals with a common man who gets trapped in a notion that honesty is a best policy but sometimes, especially in today times that is not a best option and you have to bend the rules to safeguard yourself more than getting ahead in life. Zayed is playing the main role of Prithvi Khurana. Ranvijay is playing his roommate-Sam the main girl is Tina Desai-it is going to be her first film and there is another girl-Talia Benson.
Thus the film has Zayed Khan as Prithvi Khurana, Rannvijay Singh as Sam, Tena Desae, Talia Bentson, Anupam Kher and Yuri Suri. The film has songs like Dil Ka Funda, Selfiyaan and Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene.

Paddington

Paddington is a 2014 comedy film, directed by Paul King and written by King and Hamish McColl and produced by David Heyman. The film is based on Paddington Bear by Michael Bond who receives an appearance credit in the movie as the Kindly Gentleman. The film stars Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi and Nicole Kidman, with Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington.
Like Paddington Bear himself, this new release is cute, mostly well-mannered and just a bit off-center. In director Paul King’s adaptation of Michael Bond’s stories, a clever introduction gets us off to a good start. We learn of Paddington’s early years in Darkest Peru. Circumstances, and a suitcase packed with marmalade, bring our computer-generated hero (voiced by Ben Whishaw) to London in search of a new home. He finds one with the Browns, though grumpy Mr. Brown (Hugh Bonneville) insists the arrangement is only temporary. Kindly Mrs. Brown (Sally Hawkins) and the children (Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin) have other plans.
So, alas, does Millicent Clyde (Nicole Kidman), an evil museum curator with an obsessive interest in taxidermy. Even as Paddington tries to adjust to his new surroundings, she’s secretly planning to place him in a far more permanent residence. The film then moves towards an interesting climax.

The Imitation Games

The Imitation Game is a 2014 historical thriller film about British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing. Turing was a key figure in cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, which helped the Allies win the Second World War, only to later be criminally prosecuted for his homosexuality. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, and is directed by Morten Tyldum, with a screenplay by Graham Moore loosely based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.
In terms of historical accuracy, while the broad outline of Turing's life as depicted in the film is true, a number of historians have stated that elements within it represent distortions of what actually happened, especially in terms of Turing's work at Bletchley Park during the war and his relationship with friend and fellow code breaker Joan Clarke.
The film shows Alan Turing and his team of code-breakers in Hut 8 racing against time as they attempt to break Nazi Germany's Enigma code at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. The group of scholars, mathematicians, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers have a powerful ally in Prime Minister Winston Churchill who authorises the provision of any resource they require.
The film spans the key periods of Turing's life: his unhappy teenage years at boarding school; the triumph of his secret wartime work on the revolutionary electro-mechanical bombe, which was capable of breaking 3,000 Enigma-generated naval codes a day; and the tragedy of his post-war decline following his conviction for gross indecency, a criminal offence stemming from his admission of maintaining a homosexual relationship.

Alone

Alone is an upcoming Indian horror film starring Bipasha Basu, Karan Singh Grover in pivotal roles. It marks the film debut of Grover. The film is directed by Bhushan Patel who has directed previously hit horror films 1920: Evil Returns and Ragini MMS 2.
The film has an interesting plot. Conjoined at birth, Anjana and Sanjana were twin sisters who lived by one promise made to each other - 'We will always be together. We will never separate'. Mysterious circumstances lead to the death of one while the other survived. Years later, the ghost of the dead comes back to haunt the surviving sister. Why was the promise broken?
The film has Bipasha Basu as Sanjana/Anjana Trouble / Vampire in Dracula Died, Karan Singh Grover as Kabir, Sagar Saikia as Prithvi and  Zakir Hussain.
The music is composed by Ankit Tiwari & Mithoon. The album consists of 4 songs. These songs are Katra Katra, Awaara, Touch My Body and Chand Aasmano Se Laapata.

Crazy Cukkad Family

Crazy Cukkad Family is an Indian Comedy Drama movie directed by Ritesh Menon and produced by Prakash Jha. The film stars Swanand Kirkire, Shilpa Shukla, Zachary Coffin, Nora Fatehi, Kushal Punjabi Jugnu Ishiqui,and Anushka Sen.
The film has an interesting plot. This roller coaster ride begins with the Wealthy Mr. Beri slipping into his third Coma. His four estranged children have to make it back home to be there while their father “hopefully” breathes his last, leaving behind his huge estate in the mountains.
Pawan beri (Swanand Kirkire) the oldest child of Mr. & Mrs Beri is a hustler who is in big trouble with a local mafia don turned Politician. Rude brash and arrogant, he looks at everything from his own crooked view. Archana Beri - (Shilpa Shukla) is the wannabe socialite who wanted to participate in the Miss India contest but she got married against her will at a young age; now she is desperate to enter the Mrs. India contest. She is bitter towards the entire world including her family. She bullies her meek husband Digvijay (Ninad Kamat) who in secret has a dual personality. Aman Beri (Kushal Punjabi) is the New York based son who returns with his American wife, Amy (Nora Fatehi) who meets the family for the first time. He pretends to be a top fashion photographer, but in reality he is struggling as an unemployed light boy. Abhay Beri/ Chotu (Siddharth Sharma) is the youngest in the family. Not much is known about his present status. Years ago he was sent to New Zealand to study, but never returned... well until now!
Along with the four siblings are a bunch of other unique and nutty characters like a village item girl, an extra slow family lawyer and three goofy investigators. The chaos begins when they discover that to open the will of their father they need to get ‘Chotu’ married. Set in a lush green, picturesque hill station, this story is about the dysfunctional 'Beri' family. A mad-caper but true to life, hilarious but emotional, fast paced yet heart-warming story of a family estranged for years, brought together by greed but eventually finding each other, finding the meaning in being a family.
The film has Swanand Kirkire as Pawan beri, Shilpa Shukla as Archana Berry, Kushal Punjabi as Aman Beri, Siddharth Sharma as Abhay Beri/ Chotu, Pravina Deshpande, Kiran Karmarkar, Yousuf Hussain, Ninad Kamat, Nora Fatehi, Anushka Sen, Zachary Coffin and Jugnu Ishiqui as Cherry.

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical romantic drama film directed by James Marsh and adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking, which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neuron disease, and his success in physics.
The film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, and David Thewlis featured in supporting roles.
The Theory of Everything is based on – “Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” – by his wife, Jane Hawking. As this is as much about Jane (Felicity Jones) as it’s about Stephen (Eddie Redmayne) and as much about their relationship as it’s about his complex theories, the film opens with them meeting. It was at Cambridge in 1963, where he referred to himself as a cosmologist who was looking for answers about the universe, and going for a PhD in physics. She was studying arts and poetry. They first catch each other’s eye at a school dance, and seem to be equally smitten. She’s very religious, and he’s a scientist. As he explains it, scientists “don’t believe in a supernatural creator.” Tragedy is waiting around a corner. Shortly after his mentor Professor Sciama (David Thewlis) brings Stephen to an old school lab where, he tells him, “Rutherford split the atom,” we first see a slight shake of Stephen’s hand, and then a small stumble of his foot. All the while the professor pushes him deeper into the mathematics of different theories, and he and Jane grow closer, and the camera keeps staring into his wide-eyed, wondering face, he’s slowly losing control of his body.
A visit to a doctor reveals it to be something that’s causing gradual muscle delay. It’s ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The doctor calmly and with no emotion explains to Stephen that the average life span after diagnosis is two years, then adds, with an air of hopeless defeat, “I’m so sorry.”
From that point on, no matter where this story goes, and it goes in some unexpected directions.

American Sniper

American Sniper is a 2014 American biographical war drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Jason Hall. It is based on Chris Kyle's autobiography American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History and stars Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller with Luke Grimes, Kyle Gallner, Sam Jaeger, Jake McDorman and Cory Hardrict in supporting roles.
As Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" opens, a tense, sweat-stained Bradley Cooper is ensconced in his Middle East sniper's nest. His finger is poised to pull the trigger as he peers through the scope of his rifle.
On the other end: an unsuspecting Iraqi woman and child who may or may not be carrying some sort of explosive -- and no small amount of ill intent -- as a column of U.S. troops heads down the street and in their direction.
The obvious but anguished question for Cooper's character: to kill or not to kill.
It's an intense, high stakes scene -- hard-pounding, adrenaline-generating and entirely captivating -- and one that offers an insightful peek inside the pressure-cooker in which American service members operate on the far-from-conventional battlefields of modern warfare.
The film is a personality study, exploring the psyche of men who do horrifying things not because they want to, but because they feel they have to -- and then exploring the significant emotional fallout of that decision.
In this case, that man is Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the dead-eye Texan with the distinction of being the U.S. military's most lethal sniper. Rather than patrolling Dodge City or Tombstone, Ariz., his frontier is Fallujah, the dusty Mideast deathtrap where he served part of his four tours of duty in the Iraq War.
It's there where his skills made him a legend. To the enemy, however, Kyle was a crusader, a near-mythical terror who would become the most wanted man in the country.

"American Sniper" is based largely on the memoirs of Kyle, which was written before the most significant and heartbreaking detail of his story played out. 

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