Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (The Accidental Prime Minister, Uri: The Surgical Strike, Khamiyaza, 706 and Battalion 609) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

The Accidental Prime Minister

The Accidental Prime Minister is a 2018 Indian biographical political drama film, presented by Rudra Production (UK), Bohra Bros in association with Dr Jayantilal Gada (Pen India Limited). Directed by Vijay Ratnakar Gutte and written by Mayank Tewari. The film stars Anupam Kher as Manmohan Singh, the economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014 under the United Progressive Alliance. The film is based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Sanjaya Baru.

Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, the Accidental Prime Minister explores Manmohan Singh's tenure as the Prime Minister of India, and the kind of control he had over the cabinet and the country. The story touches on several scams that took place under the reign of Congress. Everything happened in the public domain, whether it was 2G, 3G, or the coal scam. There was something wrong which is why the Congress lost the last election by the biggest ever margin. It’s all there in the film but tackled sensitively. And at the end of the day, it is an entertaining film, not a documentary.

The movie has Anupam Kher as Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of Republic of India during 2004 to 2014, Akshaye Khanna as Sanjaya Baru, political commentator, Suzanne Bernert as Sonia Gandhi, former president of Indian National Congress, Aahana Kumra as Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Sonia Gandhi, Arjun Mathur as Rahul Gandhi, son of Sonia Gandhi, Vimal Verma as Lalu Prasad Yadav, Avter Saini as Lal Krishna Advani, Anil Rastogi as Shivraj Patil, Ajit Satbhai as P. V. Narasimha_Rao, former Prime Minister of India, and Chitragupta Sinha P. V. Ranga_Rao,Elder son of P.V.Narasimha Rao.Music is composed by Sudip Roy and Sandhu Tiwari while lyrics are written by Baba Ngarjun.

Uri: The Surgical Strike

Uri: The Surgical Strike is a 2019 Indian action film written and directed by debutant Aditya Dhar and produced by Ronnie Screwvala under his banner RSVP Movies. Starring Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal, Mohit Raina and Yami Gautam, the film is based on the 2016 Indian Army's surgical strikes on Pakistan Administered Kashmir as a retaliation for the Uri attack.

URI chronicles the events of the surgical strike conducted by the Indian military against the suspected militants in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). It tells the story of the 11 tumultuous events over which the operation was carried out.  The movie is all about surgical strike carried out by Indian army on Pakistani terrorists positioned across the Line of Control. Uri stars Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal, Yami Gautam, Kirti Kulhari, etc. in the lead roles. The film has been divided into chapters which ultimately culminates in the surgical strikes. Major Vihaan Singh Shergill (Vicky Kaushal) is a valiant army man who aces in strategic operations. However, when his mother's (Swaroop Sampat) Alzheimer starts progressing rapidly, he bids goodbye to his border adventures and requests for a transfer to an army base in the Capital so that he can spend some time with her. Unfortunately during that period, Vihaan's brother-in-law Karan (Mohit Raina) who is also his fellow army-man gets killed in the Uri attack. This incident triggers Vihaan to join the surgical strike operation and go all guns blazing to avenge the loss of his slained fellow officers in the Uri attacks.

The film has Vicky Kaushal as Major Vihan Singh Shergill, Paresh Rawal as Govind, Yami Gautam as Pallavi Sharma, Kirti Kulhari as Jaskeerat, Mohit Raina as Captain Karan Kashyap, Ivan Rodrigues as Brian D'souza, Yogesh Soman as Manohar Parrikar and Mansi Parekh.

Shashwat Sachdev composed songs for the film. Kumaar, Raj Shekhar and Abhiruchi Chand are the lyricist. The film has songs like "Challa (Main Lad Jaana)", "Beh Chala", "Jigra", "Manzar Hai Ye Naya" and "Jagga Jiteya".

Khamiyaza

The film Khamiyaza is directed by Deekshit Kaul. Nilu Kaul co-produced. Sandeep Tiwari is executive producer and Heramb Tripathi and Rajesh Tripathy – producers.

Khamiyaza is story of a common man Abhimanyu who dares to save a life of a social worker Satya Prakash without knowing that Satya Prakash is on Mantri's target. So in return Abhimanyu sacrifices his own life for his good deeds. Khamiyaza is a story of corruption, brutal system and a Common Man.

The film has Heramb Tripathi , Piyali Munshi, Alok Chaturvedi, Shravni Sahay, Sunil Thappa, Shakku Rana, Ehasan Khan, Javed Haider, Bakshi Rohit and Aanand Dev.          

Music is by Sunjoy Bose, Jitendra Jawda and Imran Wasim.

706

The film 706 is directed by Shravan Kumar. The film has Rocky Patel as executive producer and Sandip Patel as producer.

Dr. Suman Asthana is a doctor, whose husband Anil Asthana is missing since last 11 days and investigating officer DCP Shekhawat is unable to find him. A psychic child patient revels the whereabouts of Dr.Anil and opens the doors of secrets.

The film has Mohan Agashe as Dr. Anil Asthana, Raayo S. Bakhirta as Rahul Bora, Divya Dutta as Dr. Suman Asthana, Atul Kulkarni as DCP Shekhawat, Yashvit Sancheti and Anupam Shyam as Baba.

Music is by Amar Mohile.

           

Battalion 609

Battalion 609 is an Indian action film written and directed by Brijesh Batuknath Tripathi and produced by Naraindas Lalwani under his banner N.J Lalwani Films. Starring Shoaib Ibrahim, Elena Kazan, Farnaz Shetty, Sparsh Sharma, Vishwas Kini, Vicky Ahuja, Vikas Srivastava and Chandraprakash Thakur.

The story revolves around a cricket match between Indian Army and the Pakistan army gone wrong and narrates the tale of the brave soldiers of Battalion 609 putting up a fight with the mighty Taliban.