Thursday, March 30, 2017

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Naam Shabana, Poorna, Power Rangers, A Dog’s Purpose and Boss Baby) that was published in Newsband


New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Naam Shabana

Naam Shabana (English: The name is Shabana) is a 2017 Indian action spy-thriller film directed by Shivam Nair and produced by Neeraj Pandey and Shital Bhatia under the Friday Filmworks banner. It is a spin-off from the 2015 film Baby with Taapsee Pannu reprising her role as Shabana. Other cast includes Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher and Prithviraj Sukumaran who play important supporting roles in the film.
Shabana is an angry young woman with special Kudo skills. She has a back-story, and a painful one at that. She is recruited by an “agency” that does service to the country and kills the enemies. But the reason Manoj Bajpayee gives will make you shudder, “Women are born spies!” When Pannu is sent all the way to foreign land to interrogate a woman, she meets Akshay Kumar’s character. Taapsee gets ample chance to put her martial arts training to use. It frankly is great fun to see a woman kick some serious butt and she manages to do it convincingly. However, for some reason, she is far more constricted in this film than she ever was. At one point, right after making mincemeat of criminals, she suddenly freezes and must be rescued by Akshay Kumar, who drags her confused self out of ground zero. The movie begins three years before the events of Baby, setting the plot around 2011. Indian secret service suffers humiliation when they are unable to catch a dreaded arms dealer, Mikhail, who kills two of their agents. The action moves to Mumbai, where we find Shabana (Taapsee Pannu), a Commerce student who is also a Kudo champion. She is being tracked by this secret agency for some time without her knowledge. One fateful night, during a late night ride with her boyfriend, a group of hooligans accost them and her boyfriend is killed in the process. When Shabana doesn’t find justice for the murder in law, she receives a call from Ranveer (Manoj Bajpayee), one of the senior officers in the secret service. He helps her take revenge on the main killer, while inducting her in his team. Once her vendetta saga is over, she is trained to become a secret agent, and then given her first official mission and that involves assisting Ajay Singh Rajput (Akshay Kumar) to eliminate Mikhail. The movie then proceeds towards the climax.
The film has Taapsee Pannu as Shabana Khan, Akshay Kumar as Ajay Singh Rajput, Prithviraj Sukumaran as Tony, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher as Om Prakash Shukla, Danny Denzongpa as Feroz Ali Khan, Madhurima Tuli as Anjali Singh Rajput, Denzil Smith, Murali Sharma as Mr. Gupta, Elli Avram as special appearance in a song and Taher Shabbir Mithaiwala.
The songs of the film are composed Rochak Kohli and Meet Bros. Lyrics are written by Manoj Muntashir and Kumaar. The music rights are acquired by T-Series. The film score is composed by Sanjoy Chowdhury. The film has songs like "Rozana", "Zinda", "Zubi Zubi" and "Baby Besharam".

Poorna

Poorna is an Indian film directed by Rahul Bose. This is Rahul's second film as a director. The film stars himself with Aditi Inamdar as Malavath Poorna, the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest.
A young tribal girl from Telangana overcomes modest beginnings to become the youngest girl in history to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Aditi Inamdar has essayed the role of this young mountaineer in this film, who climbed Mount Everest on 25 May 2014 and pitched a flag on the summit at 6 am. Interestingly, Inamdar too, hails from Telangana. The film was shot in Malavath's village in 11 days, and Inamdar was picked from among 109 other girls who auditioned for the role. Poorna has Rahul Bose narrating the story of Poorna Malavath, a 13-year-old girl from a tribal village in remote Telangana who became the youngest girl to scale Mount Everest in 2014. Bose plays the role of her mentor Praveen Kumar, a state government official who nurtures and encourages the girl to leave her home and worries behind as she prepares for the difficult expedition. In the process, the underlying story of Bose’s struggle to turn around the state government school system plays out.
The film has Aditi Inamdar as Poorna, Rahul Bose as Dr. R. S. Praveen Kumar, Heeba Shah as Meena Gupta, Dhritiman Chatterjee as Alexander, S. Mariya as Priya, Harsha Vardhan as the CM of Andhra Pradesh, Gyanendra Tripathi as Shekhar Babu, Manoj Kumar as Anand, Dr. Rayala Harischandra as Priya's father, Lakshmi Kola as Poorna's Mother and Arif Zakaria as Colonel Khan.
  
Power Rangers

Saban's Power Rangers (or simply Power Rangers) is a 2017 American superhero film based on the team of the same name, written by John Gatins and directed by Dean Israelite. It is the third film of the Power Rangers film franchise, and is a reboot that features the main characters of the original Power Rangers television series, portrayed by a new cast. The film stars Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Becky G, Ludi Lin, Bill Hader, Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Banks. In the film, Zordon recruits five high school students to form a team that must stop an alien threat led by the witch Rita Repulsa. It is the first blockbuster film to feature LGBTQ and autistic superheroes.
Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove – and the world – is on the very foe being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it’s too late, band together as the Power Rangers.
The film has Dacre Montgomery as Jason Scott / Red Ranger, the leader of the Power Rangers, Naomi Scott as Kimberly Hart / Pink Ranger, a Power Ranger and Jason's love interest, RJ Cyler as Billy Cranston / Blue Ranger, a Power Ranger who is autistic, Becky G as Trini Kwan / Yellow Ranger, a Power Ranger who is questioning her sexual orientation, Ludi Lin as Zack Taylor / Black Ranger, a Power Ranger who is bilingual, Bill Hader as the voice of Alpha 5, the robot assistant of Zordon, whose metallic body can transform for various purposes, Bryan Cranston as the voice and motion capture of Zordon, the mentor of the Power Rangers and original ancient Red Ranger. Zordon lived millions of years ago before his conscious becomes a part of the Morphing Grid upon his death, Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa, an alien invader, and enemy of the Power Rangers. Repulsa is a 65-million-year-old former Green Ranger who has gone rogue. She formed the monster Goldar while attempting to steal the Zeo Crystal, an artifact that channels the Morphing Grid dimension and also gives the Power Rangers their powers. David Denman as Sam Scott, Jason's father. Caroline Cave as Beverly Scott, Jason's mother. Anjali Jay as Maddy Hart, Kimberly's mother. Patrick Sabongui as Trini's father. Erica Cerra as Trini's mother. Kayden Magnuson as Pearl Scott, Jason's sister. Sarah Grey as Amanda Clark. Emily Maddison as Rebecca. Jaime Callica as Officer Bebe. Matt Shively as Damo. Garry Chalk as Captain Bowen. Fred Tatasciore as the voice of Goldar, a gigantic winged monster made of gold. Fred Tatasciore also provides the vocal effects of the Putties who are depicted as stone golems that can be made from rocks, gold, concrete, and anything of the Earth element. Jason David Frank and Amy Jo Johnson, two of the stars of the original TV series, cameo as Angel Grove citizens.

A Dog’s Purpose

A Dog's Purpose is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and written by W. Bruce Cameron, Cathryn Michon, Audrey Wells, Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky, based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Cameron. The film stars Britt Robertson, KJ Apa, Juliet Rylance, John Ortiz, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Peggy Lipton, Dennis Quaid and Josh Gad. The film was subjected to scrutiny after a video from the set was leaked of a dog being forced into running water, then submerged and requiring human rescue. Resulting investigations concluded that the video images were authentic, but had been edited. The film is co-production between Amblin Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment, Walden Media, and Pariah Entertainment Group.
 Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog’s Purpose shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love. The Genre of the film: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Family.
The film has Josh Gad as the voice of Bailey, Ellie, Tino and Buddy. Dennis Quaid as Ethan Montgomery (adult). KJ Apa as teenage Ethan Montgomery. Bryce Gheisar as eight-year old Ethan Montgomery. Juliet Rylance as Elizabeth Montgomery, Ethan's mother. Peggy Lipton as Hannah (adult). Britt Robertson as young Hannah. John Ortiz as Carlos Ruiz. Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Maya. Pooch Hall as Al. Luke Kirby as Jim Montgomery, Ethan's father. Logan Miller as Todd

Boss Baby

The Boss Baby is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated comedy film, loosely based on the 2010 picture book of the same name written and illustrated by Marla Frazee. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the film is directed by Tom McGrath and written by Michael McCullers. It stars the voices of Alec Baldwin, Miles Christopher Bakshi, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow and Tobey Maguire. The plot follows a baby who is a secret agent in the secret war between babies and puppies.
 Meet a most unusual baby. He wears a suit, speaks with the voice and wit of Alec Baldwin, and stars in the animated comedy, DreamWorks’ The Boss Baby. The Boss Baby is a hilariously universal story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim. [Dreamworks Animation]

The film has Alec Baldwin at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, Miles Christopher Bakshi as Tim Templeton, Boss Baby's 7-year-old brother, Tobey Maguire as an adult Tim, the narrator, Alec Baldwin as The Boss Baby Templeton, Steve Buscemi as Francis E. Francis, the CEO of Puppy Co., Jimmy Kimmel as Ted Templeton, Lisa Kudrow as Janice Templeton and Conrad Vernon as Eugene Francis.

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