Thursday, March 3, 2016

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Jai Gangajal, Zubaan, Zootopia, London Has Fallen, 45 Years and 13 Hours) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Jai Gangajal

Jai Gangaajal (English: Ganges' Waters or literally means Hail Holy Waters) is a 2016 Indian Hindi action drama film, directed by Prakash Jha. It is a sequel of the 2003 crime film Gangaajal, and starres Priyanka Chopra in the lead role with Jha appearing in a supporting role. The film also features Manav Kaul, Rahul Bhat and Queen Harish.
The film features SP Abha Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur (Manav Kaul) and henchmen of Lakhisarai district. Thus Jai Gangaajal is about a female cop, who takes on some powerful and influential men in her district. It is about today's dictum of society-police relationship. This one has all the bizarre things happening around us in reality. Priyanka Chopra plays the role of superintendent of police Abha Mathur who is posted to a fictitious district called Bankipur in northern India. Priyanka’s brutally fierce and bold avatar is overwhelmingly impressive. Her character Abha is fearless and feisty and in the movie she is seen teaching a lesson for life to all those who attempt to corrupt the society. In a fury of wildness, she shows what exactly it takes to be a ‘junglee billi’. She is so fearless that she has her neck in a vice-like grip of a dirty, corrupt politician, played by Manav Kaul. The film is a confusing blend of social commentary on mob justice, the rich-poor divide and power-hungry politicians. Priyanka, in fact, has elevated this police drama into an engaging film. But she’s no miracle worker but what she can do exceptionally well is hit hard with a stick. The scenes in which she bludgeons a grimy goon, who attempts to sexually abuse a girl, packs a punch. Chopra is not awkward as a police officer nor does she try to be manly in her male-dominated workplace, but her perfectly-stained lips are a distraction. In the climax after a particularly rough encounter with the villain, she comes out of it looking like a bruise-free peach. Jai Gangaajal is full of issues such as corporate greed, debt-ridden farms, lawless cities and frustrated civilians, but there’s no particular direction to all that chaos.
Music of the film is composed by Salim-Sulaiman. This movie has total 11 soundtracks. Besides the two songs, Maya Thagni Nach Nachave and Tetua, the film also has songs like Joganiya sung by Udit Narayan, Dheere Dheere by Pravesh Mallick, Ghanghor Ghana Ghan by Keerthi Sagathia, Najar Tori Raja by Richa Sharma, Dinu Baadar by Divya Kumar, Sanke Hai San San by Bappi Lahiri, Maai by Sugandha Date and Sab Dhan Maati.
Thus the film has Priyanka Chopra as SP Abha Mathur, Prakash Jha as Bhola Nath Singh aka B.N. Singh, Manav Kaul, Rahul Bhat, Ninad Kamat, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Murli Sharma, Vega Tamotia, Sambit Samal and Queen Harish

Zubaan

Zubaan is a 2015 Indian musical drama film written and directed by Mozez Singh, starring Vicky Kaushal and Sarah Jane Dias, with music composed by Ashutosh Phatak.
The film is the coming of age story of a young boy (Vicky Kaushal) who loses his faith and develops a fear of music and his journey in fighting that fear and thus finding himself. Zubaan is an uneven but engrossing drama about a young Punjabi bumpkin whose big-city ambitions lead him down many a dark alley en route to the more upbeat land of self-discovery. The opening sequence is of a young boy named Dilsher (Harmehroz Singh) wandering through a Sikh temple — where he’s greeted in song by a man whose identity will emerge in due course. A runty kid who lives with his impoverished family in the dusty village of Gurdaspur, Dilsher is mercilessly bullied by the other boys for his pronounced stutter, and quickly learns a thing or two about defending himself. He also receives some life-altering advice from a tough-minded adult onlooker named Gurcharand Sikand (Manish Chaudhari), who teaches him that the only person he’ll ever be able to rely on in life is himself. Dilsher has fully absorbed the implications of that cruel lesson when we catch up with him in Delhi several years later (now played by Vicky Kaushal), craftily orchestrating a long-overdue reunion with Gurcharand, an extravagantly wealthy tycoon who oversees a sprawling multinational empire. Shrewdly intervening in a clash between company executives and striking construction workers, Dilsher soon talks his way into Gurcharand’s good graces, his stutter largely receding as he emphasizes their humble roots in the same village (the big boss is known as “the Lion of Gurdaspur”), and makes clear that he, too, longs to be a self-made man someday. Before long, Dilsher has landed a job at the company’s Dubai headquarters and taken up residence in his boss’s magnificent estate, to the chagrin and bewilderment of Gurcharand’s son and heir, Surya (Raaghav Chanana). Of course, making his way into this privileged position will require minor compromises.
The soundtrack of Zubaan is composed by Ashutosh Phatak. Lyrics are penned by Varun Grover (Writer), Ashutosh Phatak, Surjit Patar.

Zootopia

Zootopia (known as Zootropolis in Europe)[5][6] is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated action buddy comedy neo-noir adventure. The film is produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 55th Disney animated feature film. The film is directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, co-directed by Jared Bush, and starring Ginnifer Goodwin Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, J.K. Simmons, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, and Shakira. It is scheduled to be released in the Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats on March 4, 2016.
The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you can be anything. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde, to solve the mystery.

London Has Fallen

London Has Fallen is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John, and Christian Gudegast. It is a sequel to Antoine Fuqua's 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen and stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman, with Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Melissa Leo, and Radha Mitchell in supporting roles.
In London, the British Prime Minister has died under mysterious circumstances and his funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the Western world. What starts out as the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. The only hope of stopping it rests on the shoulders of the U.S. President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), his formidable US Secret Service lead agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), Vice President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), and British MI6 agent Jacquelin Marshall (Charlotte Riley) who rightly trusts no one.

45 Years

45 Years is a 2015 British romantic drama film directed and written by Andrew Haigh. The film is based on the short story "In Another Country" by David Constantine. The film has Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay playing the main roles.
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's (Charlotte Rampling) 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband (Tom Courtenay). The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

13 Hours

The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (also known simply as 13 Hours) is a 2016 American biographical war film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Chuck Hogan, based on Mitchell Zuckoff's 2014 book 13 Hours. Billed as being based on a true story, the film follows six members of a security team who fight to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya after waves of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2012. The film stars James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Max Martini, Toby Stephens, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Freddie Stroma, and Alexia Barlier.

A key assertion in the film — that the security team defended the compound against the orders of the local CIA chief — has been disputed. It’s a chilling portrait of anti-American hatred by “bad guys” — a repeated phrase in a script occasionally too blunt for its own good. During the initial strike on the compound occupied by Ambassador Chris Stevens, Silva and company are nearby but are ordered to do nothing even though residents are sitting ducks. But they do an end-run, setting the stage for streaming gunfights, high-speed car chases and explosions, each crackly choreographed for maximum impact. Not everyone makes it out alive, as reported at the time.

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