Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Ghayal Once Again, BHK Bhalla@Halla.Kom, Sanam Teri Kasam, The Finest Hours and The Choice) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamathi

Ghayal Once Again

Ghayal Once Again is an Indian action film directed by and starring Sunny Deol and produced by Dharmendra. It is the sequel to the 1990 super-hit film Ghayal and will continue from where the first version left off.

After finishing off his life sentence, Ajay starts a newspaper called Satyakam and manages to make a credible name for himself in investigative journalism. Ajay earns quite a fan-following among the youth, who like his fearless and unforgiving approach. Among his die-hard fans are four teenagers. These four friends, while out on photography expedition, accidentally record a murder on camera. The footage turns out to be explosive as it clearly shows two of the city's most powerful people involved in the murder. The kids get entangled and have to fight it out with the most powerful man in the city. Will Ajay be able to save them? Will the kids be successful in their mission to stand by the truth? Only time will tell!

The film has Sunny Deol as Ajay Mehra, Om Puri as ACP Joe D'Souza, Shivam Patil as Rohan, Aanchal Munjal as Anushka, Soha Ali Khan as Rhea, Narendra Jha as Raj Bansal, Manoj Joshi, Tisca Chopra, Ruhanika Dhawan, Sachin Khedekar, Rishabh Arora as Varun, Neha Khan as Renu, Nadira Babbar, Abhilash Kumar as Kabir Bansal, Diana Khan as Zoya and Amrish Puri as Balwant Rai (flashback only).

BHK Bhalla@Halla.Kom

BHK Bhalla@Halla.Kom is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Rakesh Chaturvedi Om and produced by Dhiraj Rokad, with Rokad, Ashok Tripathi, and Rakesh Chaturvedi Om. The film stars Ujjwal Rana and Inshika Bedi. The concept was given by Safdar Abbas and Rakesh Chaturvedi Om whereas dialogue was written by Neeraj Badhwar, Satyavrat Mudgal, and Rakesh Chaturvedi ‘Om’.

The movie narrates a story of a common man who is struggling to have his own house in the city of dreams Mumbai; it’s a light hearted situational comedy, where no one is trying to crack a joke but situation makes it very funny. Filmmaker Rakesh Chaturvedi, was inspired from his own life when he was rejected for marriage multiple times due to not having his own house. The story came to his mind when he faced obstacles just as people face in day to day life for not owning a home in big cities. Owning a house in any big city like Lucknow, Delhi or Mumbai is a dream of any common man. Also every person has to struggle a lot to have a house. Everyone require their own house. This flick will show the experiences of Chaturvedi who is going through the same turmoil when he was rejected seven, eight times for marriage due to not having my own house. That made him write a script on this subject in a lighter way.

Sanam Teri Kasam

Sanam Teri Kasam is a Bollywood romance film directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru and produced by Deepak Mukut. The film stars Harshvardhan Rane and Pakistani actress Mawra Hocane in lead roles.

Sanam Teri Kasam is a musical romantic movie exploring the journey that ensues when the blue blooded boy Inder (Harshvardhan Rane) who wanted to love no one crosses paths with Saru (Mawra Hocane) whom no one wanted to love. All their lives they were waiting to meet, but they just didn’t know it. It is a beautiful story of two individuals who are living with two different identities. Inder had spoilt his life by drinking too much until he meets a Bhalu-girl (teddy bear) Saru who wants to love to live her live freely but inspite of good looks no one is ready to love her. But when they both meet their life gets completely changed and they fall in love with each other. What turn the story takes next makes the movie interesting. Thus the film is a musical tale of love, longing and loss. Sanam Teri Kasam - A Love story sealed with a Curse.

The film has Harshvardhan Rane as Inder, Mawra Hocane as Saru, Anurag Sinha, Manish Choudhari, Murli Sharma, Vijay Raaz, Sudesh Berry, Pyumori Mehta and Divyetta Singh.

The soundtrack is directed by Himesh Reshammiya. Lyrics were penned by Sameer Anjaan, Shabbir Ahmed, Himesh Reshammiya, Subrat Sinha. The film has songs like Sanam Teri Kasam, Kheech Meri Photo, Bewajah, Tera Chehra, Haal-E-Dil (male), Haal-E-Dil (Female), Ek Number, Main Teri Yadoon Mein and Sanam Teri Kasam (Reprise).

The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours is a 2016 American historical disaster drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures from a screenplay written by Eric Johnson, Scott Silver, and Paul Tamasy, based on The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman. The film stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and Eric Bana, and chronicles the true account of the 1952 United States Coast Guard rescue of the SS Pendleton, after it split apart during a nor'easter off the New England coast.

The movie has an interesting plot. Bernard "Bernie" Webber, a crewman at the Coast Guard station in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, has fallen in love with a local girl, Miriam Pentinen. The two plan to marry on April 16, but as per Coast Guard regulations, Bernie must seek permission from the station's commander, Daniel Cluff. On the day he is due to ask permission, Bernie is dispatched to pilot his lifeboat, CG 36500, to rescue the oil tanker, SS Pendleton, which broke in half off the Chatham coast after getting caught in a nor'easter. Bernie takes Andrew Fitzgerald, Ervin Maske, and Richard P. Livesey as his crew.

When Miriam hears about this, she, like a number of other townspeople, thinks this is a suicide mission. Few people in Chatham trust Cluff, since he isn't from the area and doesn't know its treacherous weather. Miriam even goes as far as to drive to the station and urge Cluff to call Bernie back. Cluff refuses, and brusquely orders Miriam out. Bernie steers CG 36500 to the stricken tanker, even though he loses his compass along the way. Even though his boat is only designed to take on 12 people, Bernie manages to rescue 32 crewmen. Relying on his knowledge of the coast in place of his compass, he turns CG 36500 toward home--a task made more difficult when Chatham loses power. However, Miriam and the other townspeople drive their cars to the pier and turn on their headlights to guide Bernie in. Two months later, Bernie and Miriam are married; they stay together for 58 years until Bernie's death in 2009. Webber and his crew receive the Gold Lifesaving Medal.

The Choice

The Choice is an American romantic drama film directed by Ross Katz and written by Bryan Sipe, based on Nicholas Sparks' 2007 novel of the same name about two neighbours who fall in love at their first meeting. The film stars Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, Maggie Grace, Alexandra Daddario, Tom Welling, and Tom Wilkinson.

The movie has an interesting plot. Travis Parker, living in a small coastal town Beaufort, falls in love on his first meeting with Gabby Holland, who moves in next door. “The Choice” tells the story of Travis Parker (Walker) and Gabby Holland (Palmer), who meet first as neighbors in a small coastal town and end up pursuing a relationship that neither could have foreseen. Spanning a decade and tracing the evolution of a love affair that is ultimately tested by life’s most defining events, this story features a memorable ensemble of friends and family in Sparks’s beloved North Carolina setting, culminating in the question that every couple must ask themselves: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?