Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Hichki, Baa Baa Black Sheep and Pacific Rim Uprising) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Hichki

Hichki (English: Hiccup) is an Indian Bollywood drama film, directed by Sidharth P Malhotra and produced by Maneesh Sharma and Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. The film is an adaptation of Hollywood film Front of the Class (2008), which itself was based on the book, Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had by Brad Cohen, of which Yash Raj Films acquired the rights. The film stars Rani Mukerji in the lead role of a teacher having Tourette syndrome.

After several interviews and numerous rejections, a woman who has Tourette's syndrome lands a job as a teacher at an elite school. She soon tries to do whatever she can to make her rebellious and troublemaking students realize their full potential. Thus Hichki presents a positive and inspiring story about a woman who turns her biggest weakness into her biggest strength. In fact, Rani, who plays Naina Mathur, a woman with Tourette syndrome, is struggling to get a job as a teacher but fails as her tics are beyond her control. Finally, she gets an opportunity and a bigger challenge in the form of tutoring 14 unruly students, who come from financially weak backgrounds and are struggling to be accepted by their school. How she forms a bond with them and changes their lives forms the crux of the film.

The film has Rani Mukerji as Naina Mathur, Harsh Mayar as Aatish, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Kunal Shinde, Shivkumar Subramaniam, Neeraj Kabi, Asif Basra, Hussain Dalal, Ivan Rodrigues as Principal, Suprio Bose as a Senior Male and Jannat Zubair Rahmani.

The music of Hichki is composed by Hitesh Sonik and Jasleen Royal, with the former composing the film score] and latter, the songs. The lyrics have been penned by Raj Shekhar, Jaideeep Sahni, Neeraj Rajawat, Aditya Sharma, David Klyton. The film has songs like "Oye Hichki", "Madamji Go Easy", "Khol De Par", "Teri Dastaan", "Phir Kya Hai Gham", "Soul of Hichki" and "Naina's Theme (Instrumental)".

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Baa Baa Black Sheep is a film directed by Vishwas Paandya and written by Sanjeev Puri and Vishwas Paandya.      

The world turns upside down for Baba on his 25th birthday, when he learns that his apparently boring father is in fact a dreaded hitman, and that his family has made a tradition out of this morbid business for the past 12 generations! Now, the time has come for Baba to take over as the 13th. And as if all of this is not enough, there is the strange case of the love interest with her own secrets, a stolen Renoir painting and prowling contract killers. The plot thickens, but is Baba ready for the mayhem that's about to ensue!?

The film has Anupam Kher as Charudutt Sharma / Charlie, Annu Kapoor as Brian Morris / Santa Claus, Manish Paul as Baba, Kay Kay Menon as ACP Shivraj Naik, Manjari Phadnis as Angelina Morris, Manish Wadhwa as             Utpal Shivalkar, Natasha Suri as Kamya, Sahil Vaid    as Ashish Shivalkar, Aakash Dabhade          as Fixer and Vineet Sharma as Daniel.

Music of the film is given by Roshan Balu, Gourov Dasgupta and Shaan.

Pacific Rim Uprising

Pacific Rim: Uprising is a 2018 American science-fiction action film directed by Steven S. DeKnight (in his feature-film directorial debut) and written by DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, and T.S. Nowlin. It is the sequel to the 2013 film Pacific Rim by Guillermo del Toro, who acted as a producer here. The film stars John Boyega (also making his producer debut), Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Jing Tian, Adria Arjona and Zhang Jin, with Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman returning from the original film.

The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all-out assault on humanity in Pacific Rim Uprising. John Boyega stars as the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity’s victory against the monstrous Kaiju. Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father’s legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)—who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war. As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction. Jake is joined by gifted rival pilot Lambert (Scott Eastwood) and 15-year-old Jaeger hacker Amara (Cailee Spaeny), as the heroes of the PPDC become the only family he has left. [Universal Pictures]

The film has John Boyega as Jake Pentecost, Scott Eastwood as Nate Lambert, Cailee Spaeny as Amara Namani, Madeleine McGraw as Young Amara Namani, Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori, Charlie Day as Dr. Newt Geiszler, Burn Gorman as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb, Jing Tian as Liwen Shao, Adria Arjona as Jules Reyes, Zhang Jin as Marshal Quan, Karan Brar as Suresh, Ivanna Sakhno as Vik, Mackenyu as Ryoichi, Shyrley Rodriguez as Renata, Levi Meaden as Ilya, Rahart Adams as Tahima Shaheen, Zhu Zhu as Juen and Nick E. Tarabay as Sonny.