Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Gold, Satyameva Jayate and Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Gold

Gold is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language historical sports drama film directed by Reema Kagti and produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under the Excel Entertainment banner. It stars Akshay Kumar, Mouni Roy, Kunal Kapoor, Vineet Kumar Singh, Amit Sadh, and Sunny Kaushal.

After India's independence, a drunk, Indian Hockey Team Manager (pre-independence), Tapan Das (Akshay Kumar), holds aspirations of playing hockey as a free country, coaching a novice hockey team to earn India's first Olympic gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics while battling his own personal demons. There’s a line repeated four times in the film which posits that India winning gold in hockey at the 1948 London Olympics would mean “do sau saal ki ghulami ka badla (200 years of slavery avenged)”. The first person to say it is Tapan Das (Akshay Kumar), a sports official consumed with the idea of India winning at the Olympics as an independent nation (three previous hockey golds had gone to British India). The third is Tapan’s wife, who tells the Buddhist monks helping her cook for the team: “Don’t think that you’re just preparing food – you’re taking revenge for 200 years of slavery.” Gold begins with the 1936 Berlin Olympics. As the Indian players leave the stadium after a game, two young men break from the crowd and try to raise the Swaraj flag. In the ensuing confusion, Tapan, who’s on the team staff, grabs the flag and stuffs it under his coat. The flag makes a cameo when India, captained by the brilliant Samrat (Kunal Kapoor) –a stand-in for Dhyan Chand – wins the final. But its big dramatic moment comes later in the film. It’s 1946, and Tapan is a down-on-his-luck alcoholic reduced to influencing punters at wrestling matches. The news that India is planning to send a hockey team to the London Games – the 1940 and ‘44 Olympics were cancelled because of the war – gives him some purpose in life, and he talks the higher- ups into allowing him to scout for players. After Samrat tells him that his playing days are over, Tapan brings in another player from 1936, Imtiaz (Vineet Kumar Singh), as captain. Younger players are recruited as well, including Raghubir Pratap Singh (Amit Sadh), of the Balrampur royal family, and Sikh village boy Himmat Singh (Sunny Kaushal), set on a collision course by an early musical number which cross-cuts between their respective childhoods. The film is an interesting one.

The film has Akshay Kumar as Tapan Das, Kunal Kapoor as Samrat, Mouni Roy as Monobina Das, Tapan's Wife, Amit Sadh as Raghubir Pratap Singh, Vineet Kumar Singh as Imtiaz Shah, Sunny Kaushal as Himmat Singh, Nikita Dutta as Simran, Dalip Tahil, Jatin Sarna, Bhawsheel Singh Sahni as Tej Singh Randhawa and Abdul Quadir Amin as Haries.

The music and background score of the film were composed by Sachin-Jigar. Additional songs were composed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee and Tanishk Bagchi. The lyrics were written by Javed Akhtar, Vayu and Arko Pravo Mukherjee and Chandrajeet Gannguli. The film has songs like "Naino Ne Baandhi", "Chad Gayi Hai", "Ghar Layenge Gold", "Monobina", "Khel Khel Mein", "Rasta Rasta", "Jaaga Hindustan" and "Bolte Parini".

Satyameva Jayate

Satyameva Jayate (transl. Truth alone triumphs) is a 2018 Indian vigilante action film directed by Milap Zaveri.

Driven by his harrowing past and a strong sense of justice, a man sets out on a mission to take down corrupt and degenerate cops. However, his vigilantism soon finds a nemesis in a righteous police officer, who is determined to stop his violent killing spree. A cat-and-mouse game ensues, and the two men are about to find out that they have a lot in common despite being on either side of the law. In the film's opening sequence, a homily-spouting pyromaniac, Veer (John Abraham), in the middle of the night, burns a corrupt cop alive on a funeral pyre to the accompaniment of ear-splitting scriptural incantations. He doesn't stop there. Early next morning, he leaves the victim's ashes outside the police station neatly stuffed into an urn. A few sequences later, Veer is back in action, viciously pumping gasoline into the mouth of another policeman gone astray and lighting a matchstick to send the man up in flames. "Tu iss aag mein jalega dard agle janam tak chalega (You will burn in this fire, the pain will last until your next birth)," the vigilante thunders, revealing his fascist fangs in all their ugliness. Before the final strike, he quips to his cornered quarry that the next morning's newspaper headlines will read: "Petrol ke daam aur Damle dono upar gaye (The price of petrol and Damle have both gone up)." Just a tad earlier, before dispatching another errant cop to a fiery death, Veer had uttered: "Note badle par neeyat nahin, Patil ho ya Qadri sabki ek biraadari (Currency notes have changed but not the intentions, be it Patil or Qadri they are of the same fraternity)." One angry man in the street, supporting the cop killings, stands before a TV camera and expresses the hope that similar treatment is meted out to avaricious government officers as well. Not a word on the politicians. In the worldview propounded by Satyameva Jayate, the cops are to blame for all our ills. The marauder's intention is to instill fear in the hearts of corrupt policemen. He isn't afraid of the law and that is his biggest strength, says the Mumbai police commissioner (Manish Chaudhary), summoning his best officer, deputy commissioner of police Shivansh Rathod (Manoj Bajpayee) from an outing and tasking him with the job of capturing the dangerous vigilante on the loose. Rathod is out fishing with his daughter when he receives the chief's SOS. So, this is another old cat-and-mouse game. The upright, fearless DCP Shivansh Rathod, on his part, takes upon himself the mission of restoring the rule of law. But the film isn't interested in peaceful means of settling scores: it revels in relentless bloodshed.

The film has John Abraham as Virendra Rathod(Veer), Manoj Bajpayee as DCP Shivansh Rathod, Aisha Sharma as Shikha, Amruta Khanvilkar as Sarita, Shivansh's wife, Tota Roy Chowdhury as Mrinal Sharma, Devdatta Nage as inspector Shankar Gaikwad, Nora Fatehi as herself (special appearance in song "Dilbar") and Ratnesh Mani as DCP Rane.

The music for the film is composed by Sajid-Wajid, Tanishk Bagchi, Rochak Kohli and Arko Pravo Mukherjee while lyrics are penned by Shabbir Ahmed, Kumaar, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Danish Sabri and Ikka. The background score is composed by Sanjoy Chowdhury. Thus the movie has songs like "Dilbar" (Original composition by Nadeem-Shravan), "Paniyon Sa", "Tajdar-E-Haram" and "Tere Jaisa".

Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se

Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se is an Indian Bollywood action comedy film, directed by Navaniat Singh. It is a sequel to the 2013 film, Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 and the third installment of Yamla Pagla Deewana film series. The film stars Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol and Kriti Kharbanda in lead roles.

The film would not be a continuation of the earlier parts, but a completely new story with Dharmendra, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol playing new characters. We are once again presented with the Deol trio. Veteran actor Dharmendra is presented as an alcoholic womaniser who hallucinates pretty women around him. Sunny Deol harnesses his ‘dhai-kilo-ka-hath’ image once again. Bobby Deol is the romantic hero of this film as the makers have tried to give him a love story. The movie takes the three Punjabi men to Gujarat where they have to pretend to be Gujaratis. Towards the end, there is also a cameo by Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Rekha, where the cast is seen grooving to a new rendition of the song “Rafta Rafta Dekho Aankh Meri Ladi Hai”.

The film has Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol as Kalaa, Shatrughan Sinha, Kriti Kharbanda as Chikoo, Binnu Dhillon, Johnny Lever, Asrani, Satish Kaushik, Sharat Saxena, Paresh Ganatra, Gurmeet Saajan, Rana Ranbir, Salman Khan as Mastana (Cameo Appearance), Rekha special appearance, Sonakshi Sinha special appearance and Gippy Grewal as cameo appearance.

The soundtrack of the film has been composed by Sanjeev-Darshan, Sachet - Parampara, Vishal Mishra and D Soldierz while the lyrics have been written by Pulkit Rishi, Kunwar Juneja and D Soldierz. The film has songs like "Little Little" and "Nazarbattu".