Thursday, January 19, 2017

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (The Bye Bye Man, Founder, The Crew, Majaz and Coffee with D) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
The Bye Bye Man

The Bye Bye Man is a 2017 American horror thriller film directed by Stacy Title and written by Jonathan Penner, based on the chapter "The Bridge to Body Island" in Robert Damon Schneck's book The President's Vampire. The film stars Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas, Doug Jones, Carrie-Anne Moss, Faye Dunaway and Jenna Kanell.
Three Wisconsin college students come up against the sinister Bye Bye Man. The luckless victim at the center of the story is Elliot (Douglas Smith), a college kid who just moved into a creepy off-campus rental with his best bud, John (Lucien Laviscount), and girlfriend, Sasha (Cressida Bonas). Life seems perfect until Elliot makes the mistake of looking in the bedside table of this fully furnished haunted house. Obsessively scrawled inside the drawer is the mantra of the movie: “Don’t think it. Don’t say it.” “It” is revealed when Elliot pulls back the drawer lining to see the comically non-terrifying name. “The Bye Bye Man,” he says, out of idle curiosity, not realizing that he has sealed his fate. As it turns out, anyone who says the name gets a visit, and the more friends and acquaintances a person tells, the more people the spirit haunts. The Bye Bye Man is basically a fatal virus. It spreads fast when the afflicted person can’t keep his or her mouth shut. Elliot and his friends start having weird visions and hearing chilling noises. Huge scratches appear on the walls that only Freddy Krueger could have made. Of course there’s a mysterious backstory to all this that isn’t too hard for Elliot to track down at the local library.
The movie has Douglas Smith as Elliot, Lucien Laviscount as John, Cressida Bonas as Sasha, Doug Jones as The Bye Bye Man, Carrie-Anne Moss as Detective Shaw, Faye Dunaway as Widow Redmon, Michael Trucco as Virgil, Cleo King as Mrs. Watkins, Jenna Kanell as Kim and Erica Tremblay as Alice.

The Founder

The Founder is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel. The film stars Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc and portrays the story of his acquisition of the McDonald's fast food chain. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch co-star as McDonald's founders Richard and Maurice McDonald.
The movie narrates the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
The movie has Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, Nick Offerman as Richard "Dick" McDonald, John Carroll Lynch as Maurice "Mac" McDonald, Linda Cardellini as Joan Smith, Patrick Wilson as Rollie Smith, B. J. Novak as Harry J. Sonneborn, Laura Dern as Ethel Fleming, Ric Reitz as Will Davis, Justin Randell Brooke as Fred Turner and Wilbur Fitzgerald as Jerry Cullen

The Crew

The film ‘The Crew’ is directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and produced by Leonid Vereshchagin.
The movie narrates a story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.
The film has actors like Danila Kozlovsky, Vladimir Mashkov, Katerina Shpitsa, Agne Grudyte, Sergey Shakurov, Sergey Romanovich, Sergey Gazarov and Yang Ge.

Majaz

“Majaz” Aye Gham-e-Dil Kya Karun, named feature film on biography of AMU’s alumnus Asrar-ul-Haq Majaz. This is a feature film of two and half hours duration which is produced by the “Dream Merchant Films” and directed by Ravindra Singh. Shakeel Akhtar, an alumus of AMU is the writer of the film. Producers of the film are Shakeel Akhtar alongwith Dr. Madihur Rehman Khan.
Majaz was a renowned Urdu poet popularly known as Majaz Lakhnawi, born on 19 October, 1911 in Barabanki and died on 5 December 1955 at the age of 44 only. He was known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He studied in Aligarh Muslim University and also wrote the University Tarana. The last stanza of his poem, “Jo Abr Yahan Se Uthega Wo Saare JahaN Par Barsega” is mostly used in public gathering of Aligarians.

Coffee with D

Coffee with D is a Hindi film starring Sunil Grover, Zakir Husain, Dipannita Sharma and Anjana Sukhani directed by Vishal Mishra and produced by Vinod Ramani.
The movie has an interesting story. Arnab is a popular news anchor, he has an expensive lifestyle and a pregnant wife to take care of and losing his job would mean a failure on both counts. But the world trusts Arnab to come up with something new as he has always done and so he does! He decides to infuse a new lease of life in his show by announcing an interview with the most infamous and most wanted don of the Mumbai underworld, 'D'. Coffee with D is a hilarious escapade of Arnab and his team of Neha, Roy, Rummy and Chussi. The plot revolves around how Arnab manages to get an audience with D in Pakistan and the extent to which he has to go to make that happen. And finally, the interview with the man himself whose motivations of doing this interview are totally different and utterly sinister.
The film has Sunil Grover as Arnab, Zakir Hussain as D, Dipannita Sharma as Neha, Anjana Sukhani as Parull, Arnab's wife and Rajesh Sharma as News channel owner.

All lyrics of the film are written by Sameer; all music composed by Superbia. The film has songs like "Coffee With D" sung by Anu Malik, "Nation Wants To Know" by Shaan, "Ali Ali" by Shabab Sabri and "Tumhari Mohabbat" by Shaan. 

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