Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Welcome Back, Hitman Agent 47, The Transporter Refuelled, Lakhon Hain Yahaan Dilwale and She’s Funny That Way) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Welcome Back

Welcome Back is an Indian action comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee, and produced by Firoz Nadiadwala. It is a sequel to the 2007 film Welcome, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor and Paresh Rawal reprising their roles from the prequel. John Abraham and Shruti Haasan are new additions to the lead cast.

Welcome Back takes off from where the story ended. The now reformed but still bumbling bhais Majnu (Anil Kapoor) and Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar) – the “Laurel and Hardy” of the underworld, as Wanted Bhai (Naseeruddin Shah) calls them, are again seen trying to woo a pretty young thing with the desire to finally settle down after eight years of marrying their sister Sanjana (Katrina Kaif) off to the “decent boy” Rajiv (Akshay Kumar). Their object of desire is Chandni (Ankita Srivastava), a con woman who, along with her mother (Dimple Kapadia), decides to use the foolish millionaire gangster bros as their personal ATM.

Majnu and Shetty have reluctantly left behind their days of hoodlumism to become respectable businessmen in Dubai, when Shetty’s father (played by Patekar) arrives to announce he has a daughter by another marriage and Shetty, as the older brother, should take on the onus of settling her. And once again, Majnu and Shetty set out to find a “decent” boy for her. Who else should they approach but the staunch Dr Ghungroo, Rajiv’s uncle — only to discover his wife has a son by a previous marriage, who would prove to be the “perfect” match for their sister Ranjana (Shruti Haasan)? But the tables turn as they discover that Ghungroo’s (Paresh Rawal) step son Ajju (John Abraham) is actually a gangster.

Trying to uphold the values Rajiv left them with they try to avoid Ranjana marrying Ajju, who are already in love.

Hilarious events lead to the entry of Wanted Bhai, a don 10 times more dangerous, yet funnier, than RDX (played by the late Feroz Khan in Welcome). Turns out Wanted’s druggy son (Shiney Ahuja) is obsessed with Ranjana. What follows is Majnu and Shetty trying to keep Ranjana being married either to Ajju or Wanted’s son while Ajju and Ghungroo try to get Ranjana and Ajju married.

The music for Welcome Back is composed by Meet Bros Anjjan, Anu Malik, Abhishek Ray and Mika Singh, while lyrics are by Kumaar and Manoj Muntashir. The film has songs like "Tutti Bole Wedding Di" sung by Meet Bros and Shipra Goyal       , "20-20" by Mamta Sharma, Anu Malik and Shadaab, "Welcome Back (Title Track)" by Mika Singh, Geeta Jhala and Music Mg., "Meet Me Daily Baby" by Siddhant Madhav, Pawni A Pandey and Hyacinth Dsouza, "Time Lagaye Kaiko" by John Abraham and Anmol Malik, "Nas Nas Mein" by Meet Bros Anjjan, Shabab Sabri, Rani Hazarika and Deane Sequeira, "Damaa Dam Mast Kalandar" by Mika Singh and Yo Yo Honey Singh    , "Welcome Back (Beat Mix)" by Mika Singh, Geeta Jhala and Music Mg., "Meet Me Daily Baby (Beat Mix)" by Harshit Saxena, Pawni A Pandey and Hyacinth Dsouza, "Welcome Back (Theme)" by Abhishek Ray and "Tutti Bole Wedding Di (MB Swag)" by Meet Bros, Shipra Goyal, Ambresh, Ved, Ashish, Ruchir and Bipin.     

Hitman Agent 47

Hitman: Agent 47 is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Aleksander Bach and written by Skip Woods (who also wrote the original Hitman film) and Michael Finch. It is based on the Hitman video game series, developed by IO Interactive, and its main character, a mysterious assassin known only as Agent 47. The film stars Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciarán Hinds, Thomas Kretschmann, and Angelababy.

Agent 47 is an elite assassin, genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine and known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research – and forty-six earlier Agent clones — endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47’s past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.

The Transporter Refuelled

The Transporter Refueled (known as Le Transporteur Héritage in France) is an action thriller film directed by Camille Delamarre and written by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, and Luc Besson. It is the fourth film in the Transporter franchise, but features a new cast, with Ed Skrein replacing Jason Statham as the title role of Frank Martin.

Frank Martin (Ed Skrein), a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life - or so he thinks - transporting classified packages for questionable people. When Frank's father (Ray Stevenson) pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend takes a turn for the worse when Frank is engaged by a cunning femme-fatale, Anna (Loan Chabanol), and her three seductive sidekicks to orchestrate the bank heist of the century. Frank must use his covert expertise and knowledge of fast cars, fast driving and fast women to outrun a sinister Russian kingpin, and worse than that, he is thrust into a dangerous game of chess with a team of gorgeous women out for revenge.

Lakhon Hain Yahaan Dilwale

Lakhon Hain Yahan Dilwale (2015) is a drama film directed by Munnawar Bhagat. The star cast of the film consists of Vije Bhatia, Krutika Gaekwad, Sushma Sunam Srivastava, Aditya Pancholi, Aroon Bakshi, Anju Mahendru and Kishori Shahane.

The film has Aditya Pancholi playing a brutal and insecure husband. He plays an important character called Vitthal Dada. In the film, he is married to the leading lady. However, he has a troubled past and leads the life of a gangster. Aditya plays a brutal, insecure husband who doubts his wife. He is seen as a very angry man. The story of the film basically is based in Mumbai, a city where thousands of people come to fulfill their dream. The leading lady and hero of the movie both are talented singers who never got a chance in their life. The girl lives in Mumbai and works in a beauty parlour, while the boy migrates to Mumbai chasing his passion and to try his luck.

She’s Funny That Way

She's Funny That Way is a 2014 American screwball comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and co-written with Louise Stratten. The film stars Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte and Jennifer Aniston.

The film centers on a call girl/escort-turned-Broadway-thespian Isabella/Izzy/Glow (Imogen Poots) and follows the “recurring intersection between these two facets of her life”. A Broadway director Arnold alias Derek (Owen Wilson) pays for her (and did for others) escort services despite being married to the star Delta Simmons (Kathryn Hahn) of his new play A Grecian Evening. The playwright Josh (Will Forte) falls for her as well, despite the fact that he’s already dating her therapist Jane Claremont (Jennifer Aniston), whose alcoholic mother and psychotherapist (Joanna Lumley) is in rehab in Tuscany for six months, leaving all her patients to her daughter. Actor Seth Gilbert (Rhys Ifans) the counterpart to Delta Simmons in the play is in love with her since years. The intertwined relations of all roles lead to misunderstandings, hidings and surprises.