Thursday, June 30, 2016

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Shorgul, Tarzan, Missing On A Weekend and Free State of Jones) that was published in Newsband


New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Shorgul

Shorgul is a Bollywood, political drama film directed by Pranav Kumar Singh alias P Singh and Jitentra Tiwari. The film is produced by 24 FPS film Pvt Ltd. Samira Kelkar is CEO of 24FPS Films. The movie is co-produced by Prashant Vijay Singh and Aman Singh. It was earlier titled as Zainab. The film stars Jimmy Shergill, Hiten Tejwani, Suha Gezen, Ashutosh Rana, Narendra Jha, Anirudh Dave and Sanjay Suri in lead roles. The film is loosely based on 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.
The film is based on the innocent friendship between a Hindu boy Raghu (Anirudh Dave) and a Muslim girl Zainab (Suha Gezen) which rapidly escalates into a political minefield, causing unrest and chaos in Uttar Pradesh.
Chaudhry, is a just & influential village Jaat leader who stands up for the farmers and gives them justice regardless of cast, creed or religion. Ranjeet Om on the other hand is a malicious, opportunist MLA. The problem sparks when Chaudhry's justness and fight against the Land Acquisition Bill, comes in the way of Om's political and personal ambitions.
Chaudhry's son, Raghu and Zainab are best friends. Zainab is set to be married to Saleem. Saleem is a fair, reserved and peace loving individual who loves Zainab deeply. Raghu too loves Zainab but deems it useless to reveal his feelings to his best friend, as it will only hurt the people he cares for. Mustakeem, Saleem's cousin and a religious fanatic, is against Zainab's friendship with a Hindu boy. He questions their intentions and plants the seed of suspicion in the otherwise sensible Saleem.
Fuelled by his fanaticism, brainwashed by religious sentiments & political rivals, Mustakeen is seen as an easy pawn to aggravate. Clouded in thought, Mustakeem, kills Raghu under the guise of saving Zainab from him and protecting their Muslim girls from supposed ploys for conversion. The situation gets a communal twist with Om taking advantage of the death of Chaudhary's son, & chooses to bring religion on the center stage. Despite the intervention of the chief minister, the matter snowballs and takes unexpected, ugly turns and becomes a national issue in question.
As the story unfolds, we begin to question; In the midst of this political & religious intolerance, where does humanity really stand?
The movie has Jimmy Shergill as Ranjit Om, Ashutosh Rana as Chaudhary, Narendra Jha as Alim Khan, Anirudh Dave as Raghu, Chaudhary's son, Hiten Tejwani as Saleem, Sanjay Suri as Mithilesh Yadav, Eijaz Khan, Suha Gezen as Zainab, Neetu Pandey as Savitri, Hrishitaa Bhatt and Jay Shanker Pandey 'Jay' as ANWAR.

The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan is a 2016 American action adventure film based on the fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Directed by David Yates and written by Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, its cast comprises Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent and Christoph Waltz.
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa — where he was raised by the great apes — behind for an aristocratic life in Victorian London as John Clayton, 3rd Viscount Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo Free State to serve as a trade emissary of the House of Commons, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the corrupt Belgian Captain Léon Rom (Christoph Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.
The film has Alexander Skarsgård as Tarzan / John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, Rory J. Saper as Young Tarzan, Margot Robbie as Jane Porter, Tarzan's wife, Ella Purnell as Young Jane Porter, Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams, Djimon Hounsou as Chief Mbonga, the leader of an African tribe, Jim Broadbent as Prime Minister, Christoph Waltz as Captain Léon Rom, a corrupt merciless Belgian captain, John Hurt as Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter, Jane's father and Tarzan's father in law, Casper Crump as Captain Kerchover, Hadley Fraser as Tarzan's father and Simon Russell Beale as Mr. Frum.

Missing On A Weekend

Missing on a Weekend is an Indian Investigating Thriller film directed by Abhishek Jawkar and produced by Rajesh Patange, Sebastian Joseph and Abhishek Jawkar.
Missing on a Weekend is an investigating crime story based in Goa. Inspector Ali Ansari (Pavan Malhotra) a top cop from CBI has been transferred to Goa to take charge of the current ugly undercover crime space which has troubled the tourism capital of India.
Ansari has now got a new case in the midst of all the chaos where one guy, Laksh (Karan Hariharan) has been found unconscious on Calangute beach. He is brutally hurt on his head and loses substantial part of his memory. After the brief investigation, Police gets to know his whereabouts in Goa. As the police team reaches the resort where Laksh and his six other friends from Delhi are staying, they found one of his friend dead in one room and all other friends are missing.
Now, Ansari is left with only one suspect cum victim cum survivor, Laksh, who hardly remembers anything that has happened.
The film has Karan Hariharan, Pawan Malhotra, Dishank Arora, Mahsa Kooshesh, Shiva Dagar, Akash Bathija, Siddhant Mahajan, Khushboo Kamal, Jyoti Sethi and Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Free State of Jones

Free State of Jones is a 2016 American war film inspired by the life of Newton Knight and his armed rebellion against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. Written and directed by Gary Ross, the film stars Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali and Keri Russell.
The story is based on the history of Jones County, Mississippi during the Civil War and the immediately following period. Although the plot of the movie is fiction, the overall story follows the history of Jones County, and many of the events portrayed are true.

After surviving the 1862 Battle of Corinth, Newton Knight, a poor farmer from Mississippi, leads a group of deserters and local slaves in an armed rebellion against the Confederacy in Jones County. Knight subsequently makes a home with a former enslaved woman, Rachel. He establishes a mixed-race community. Knight launches an uprising that leads Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War. 

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