Thursday, September 14, 2017

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Simran, Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Lucknow Central and American Assassin) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Simran

Simran is an Indian Comedy-drama film directed by Hansal Mehta which features Kangana Ranaut in the lead role. The movie is loosely based on the life of Sandeep Kaur, an NRI in the United States who has been convicted of four bank robberies.
A Gujarati housekeeping lady in the US allows ambition to get the better of her & gets involved in a world of crime. Simran is a racy, fun film with Kangana Ranaut playing the titular role. Simran, a young Gujarati girl, who works as a housekeeper in the US, turns into a kleptomaniac and alcoholic after she becomes addicted to gambling. The National Award winner does a great job as a self-destructive rebel. She makes robbing banks look like child’s play and is reckless at a casino, but Kangana Ranaut manages to inject a degree of adorability in Praful Patel, the flawed protagonist in her latest film, Simran. Thus Simran is the tale of a 30-year-old Gujarati woman, a divorcee who lives with her conservative parents in the state of Georgia, going rogue. Patel, who leads a pretty uneventful life as housekeeper in a fancy hotel, turns into an amateur criminal. The transformation is swift and uneven and therefore, unbelievable. One day she’s looking at buying herself an apartment and is hoping that her home loan would come through and the next she’s swatting off bestial loan sharks who snort cocaine and pummel debtors to the ground. The problem is that dating a wrong guy or not able to shed off those extra kilos aren’t as grave a problem as looting a bank to settle debts gathered after a stupid night of gambling. But credit has to be given to Ranaut for injecting verve into a character whose rebellion seems displaced. Her antics — even if ridiculous — make you smile because Ranaut is a skilled actor. The scene in which she tries to flirt with an American is pure gold.
The film has Kangana Ranaut as Simran, Mark Justice, Soham Shah, Hiten Kumar, Esha Tewari Pande as Salma, Manu Narayan, Aneesha Joshi, Rupinder Nagra and Usha Jerajani.
The music of the film have been composed by Sachin-Jigar while the lyrics have been penned by Priya Saraiya and Vayu. The film has songs like "Lagdi Hai Thaai", "Pinjra Tod Ke", "Meet", "Majaa Ni Life", "Simran", "Baras Ja", "Single Rehne De" and "Meet (Female Version)".

Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi

Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi (English: Punjabi wedding of Patel) is an Indian Hindi romantic comedy film, starring Rishi Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Vir Das, Payal Ghosh and Prem Chopra. This film is directed by Sanjay Chhel and produced by Bharat Patel of Bholenath Movies. Rishi Kapoor and Paresh Rawal will be seen together for the first time in 20 years.
The story is about a Punjabi, played by Rishi Kapoor and a Gujarati, played by Paresh Rawal, whose children are getting married to each other. Payal Ghosh will debut as Paresh Rawal's daughter, who plays the love interest of Rishi Kapoor's son, to be played by Vir Das. The story goes like this. Hasmukh Patel, a conservative Gujarati, and the owner of a grocery shop hates Punjabis. But, as destiny would have it, Guggi Tandon, a flamboyant Punjabi second-hand car dealer comes to live in the Gujju society near Patel's house. His arrival triggers many fights between him and Hasmukh Patel, leading to a series of comedic situations. To make matters worse for the two, Monty, Tandon's son tries to woo Patel's daughter, Pooja. Will the Tandon family win the hearts of their Gujarati neighbors and why does Patel hate Punjabi's so much, forms the crux.
The film has Rishi Kapoor as Guggi Tandon, Paresh Rawal as Hasmukh Patel, Vir Das as Monty Tondon, Prem Chopra, Payal Ghosh as Pooja Patel, Jinal Belani, Divya Seth, Bharati Achrekar, Tiku Talsania and Shilpa Shinde in an item number.


Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (also referred to as Terminator 2 or T2) is a 1991 American science-fiction action film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Patrick, with Edward Furlong also in its principal cast as John Connor. It is the sequel to the 1984 film The Terminator, and the second installment in the Terminator franchise. Terminator 2 follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her ten-year-old son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator, the liquid metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John Connor and prevent him from becoming the leader of the human resistance. A second, less advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent back in time to protect John.
In a future, war-ravaged Los Angeles in which the machines have taken over the earth, a faction of human rebels led by an adult John Connor do battle with the cyborgs. Two "intelligent machines" have been dispatched to the past, one -- a replica of the Terminator model T-800 which dominated the original film -- to protect the young Connor, the other -- a shape-shifting metallic T-1000 -- to kill him.
The film has Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator / T-800 (Model 101): An android, built as a synthetic organism composed of living tissue over a titanium "hyperalloy" endoskeleton, reprogrammed and sent back in time to protect John Connor, becoming his surrogate father in the process. Edward Furlong as John Connor: The ten-year-old son of Sarah, given survival training from a young age, but taken into foster care after his mother is institutionalized. Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor: Mother of John, the future leader of the Resistance in the war against Skynet. Robert Patrick as the T-1000: An advanced shapeshifting prototypical Terminator composed of liquid metal sent back in time to assassinate John. Joe Morton as Miles Bennett Dyson: Director of special projects at Cyberdyne and a destined creator of Skynet. Earl Boen as Dr. Peter Silberman: Sarah's psychiatrist, skeptical of her prophecies of machines destroying humanity. Boen is also reprising his character from the 1984 film. The cast was rounded out with Jenette Goldstein and Xander Berkeley, who portray John's foster parents, Janelle and Todd Voight. S. Epatha Merkerson plays Tarissa Dyson, the wife of Miles Dyson. Cástulo Guerra plays Sarah's friend, Enrique Salceda, who provides her with weapons. Danny Cooksey plays Tim, John's friend. Michael Biehn returned to the series as Kyle Reese, a soldier from 2029, in a short appearance in Sarah's dream. Biehn's scene was not featured in the theatrical release of the film, but it was restored in extended versions of the film. Hamilton's then-twenty-month-old son Dalton plays her on-screen son in a dream sequence set in a playground. Sven-Ole Thorsen played a security guard when John is at the Galleria with his friend Tim. DeVaughn Nixon played Danny Dyson, the son of Miles and Tarissa Dyson.

Lucknow Central

Lucknow Central is an Indian Hindi prison escape movie, directed by Ranjit Tiwari and produced by Nikhil Advani, under the banner of Emmay Entertainment. The film stars Farhan Akhtar in the lead role.
Kishen Mohan Girhotra (Farhan Akhtar) is a young man who belongs to Moradabad, a city in Uttar Pradesh. One fateful day, Kishen gets accused of murder which lands him in Lucknow Central Jail where he’s awaiting his High Court trial for a death penalty. Meanwhile, a diligent NGO worker Gayatri Kashyap (Diana Penty), is compelled to form a Band of Prisoners for the band competition which is to be held in the dreaded jail of ‘Lucknow Central’ that year and this is how Kishen’s and her paths cross. Kishen befriends four other inmates, namely Dikkat Ansari, Victor Chattopahdyay, Purushottam Pandit, Parminder Trehan and convinces them to join the band. The dramatic narrative of Lucknow Central portrays how Kishen’s life progresses in jail and how music becomes an intricate part of not only his journey, but the rest of the band’s as well.
The film has Farhan Akhtar as Kishan Mohan Girhotra, Diana Penty as Gayatri Kashyap, Gippy Grewal as Parminder Singh Trehan, Deepak Dobriyal as Victor Chattopadhyay, Rajesh Sharma as Purushottam Madan Pandit, Inaamulhaq as Dikkat Ansari, Ronit Roy as Jailer, Uday Tikekar, Sukh Kunwar, Vineet Gill, Ravi Kissen as Pawan Singh Chaturvedi and Manoj Tiwari (special appearance).
The music of the film is composed by Arjunna Harjaie, Sukhwinder Singh, Mychael Danna, Rochak Kohli and Tanishk Bagchi while the lyrics have been penned by Kumaar, Sukhwinder Singh, Mychael Danna and Adheesh Verma. The film has songs like "Kaavaan Kaavaan", "Meer-e-Kaarwan", "Teen Kabootar", "Rangdaari", "Baaki Rab Pe Chhod De" and "Kaavaan Kaavaan (Remix)".


American Assassin

American Assassin is an American action thriller film directed by Michael Cuesta and written by Stephen Schiff, Michael Finch, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, based on Vince Flynn's 2010 novel of the same name. The film stars Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Shiva Negar and Taylor Kitsch.
Mitch Rapp (O'Brien), 23, lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of 14, as well as his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Lathan) as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Keaton) to train Mitch. Together they will later on investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent, Annika (Negar), to stop a mysterious operative, nicknamed "Ghost" (Kitsch), intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.

The film has Dylan O'Brien as Mitch Rapp, Michael Keaton as Stan Hurley, Sanaa Lathan as Deputy Director Irene Kennedy, Shiva Negar as Annika, Taylor Kitsch as "Ghost", David Suchet as Stansfield, Navid Negahban as Behurz, Scott Adkins as Victor and Charlotte Vega as Katrina Harper.

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