Thursday, February 14, 2019

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies released in Navi Mumbai’ (Gully Boy, Facebook Wala Pyar, Hum Chaar and I Am Banni) that was published in Newsband

New movies released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Gully Boy

Gully Boy is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film written by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, and directed by Akhtar. The film is co-produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar under the banners of Tiger Baby and Excel Entertainment productions. Loosely based on the life of street rappers Divine and Naezy (rapper), it stars Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, and features Kalki Koechlin, Vijay Raaz and Siddhant Chaturvedi in supporting roles.
The movie Gully Boy is a coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai. It’s a musical drama that follows the journey of a gifted street rapper who becomes the face of Mumbai's underground rap music. College student Murad (Singh) lives with his family in a crowded tenement in the densely populated Mumbai slum of Dharavi. Tension in the tiny home reaches breaking point when his father Shakir (Vijay Raaz) takes a second wife, played out in a terrific scene in which a fuming Murad puts on headphones and drowns out traditional wedding tunes with A$AP Rocky’s “Everyday.” Murad’s heart is shared equally between rap music and his girlfriend Safeena (Alia Bhatt,), a sharp-witted medical student from a religiously conservative higher caste family who has to hide her relationship from her strict parents. At a university jam session, Murad meets amateur rapper Sher (impressive relative newcomer Siddhant Chaturvedi), who encourages the hesitant student to perform his own lyrics, brimming with social injustice and the obscenity of the caste system. Possibilities are opening up, but then Murad’s father has an accident and forces his son to take his place as a chauffeur for a rich family. The pressures are huge: finish school, work on his raps, drive around the entitled employers, and try to steal some time with Safeena. Once his father is back on the job and Murad graduates, the idea is for him to work in his uncle’s office; for Shakir, it represents the pinnacle of what can be expected from the son of a lowly servant. However, Murad’s plans have started to soar under Sher’s encouragement, and the pair record a rap video in the neighborhood that goes viral. Rich wannabe music producer Sky (Kalki Koechlin) sees the video and offers to fund a professional recording session around the same time that Nas announces he’s sponsoring a rap battle where the winner will be his opening act. Naturally, Safeena gets crazy jealous of Sky, and of course there’s a break up more or less at the moment when Shakir’s violence against Murad’s mother Razia (Amruta Subhash) and Murad himself comes to a boil, forcing them to flee. Here’s when one of the side plots really goes off the rails: to earn much-needed money, Murad joins up with his buddy Moeen (Vijay Varma), a smalltime drug dealer and car hijacker. Moeen’s a nasty character who happily employs kids to do his dirty work.  Murad feels the disparity around him, rebels against his father’s attempt to limit his horizons in the name of tradition, and refuses to end his relationship with Safeena just because her family comes from another class. Similarly, Safeena won’t give up Murad and plays the game of being the dutiful hijab-wearing daughter (she’s an expert prevaricator) until such time as she and her loved one can be independent.
The film has Ranveer Singh as Murad Sheikh, Alia Bhatt as Safeena Ali, Kalki Koechlin as Sky, Siddhant Chaturvedi as MC Sher, Vijay Raaz as Aftab Sheikh, Vijay Varma as Moeen, Amruta Subhash as Afreen Sheikh and Sheeba Chaddha.
The soundtrack is composed, and performed by a myriad of Indian musicians, MCs, and producers, such as Divine, Naezy, Sez on the beat, Rishi Rich, Dub Sharma, Jasleen Royal, Ace, Ishq Bector, MC Altaf, MC TodFod, 100 RBH, Maharya, Noxious D, Viveick Rajagopalan, and others. The film has songs like "Asli Hip Hop", "Mere Gully Mein", "Doori Poem", "Doori", "Train Song", "Jingostan Beatbox", "Sher Aaya Sher", "Jahaan Tu Chala", "Azadi", "Kab Se Kab Tak", "Kaam Bhaari", "Ek Hee Raasta", "Apna Time Aayega", "Jeene Mein Aaye Maza", "Har Gham Mein Khushi Hai", "Jingostan", "Goriye"     and "India 91".       

Facebook Wala Pyar

The film Facebook Wala Pyar is made under the Banner AKKI Film Productions Dream World Cinema. It’s a drama film produced by Tinku Quraishi and directed by Narayan K. Shahu with star cast consisting of Rahul Bagga, Nancy Thakkar, Rajesh Sharma and Akhilendra Mishra. Music director is Raja Pandit.  Lyricists are Shweta Raj and Raja Pandit.
The movie questions: What would you prefer - Arranged marriage or love? The answer to this question is pretty easy for our protagonist Raj Kuwar Chaturvedi. Born into a family where people have always opted for the more orthodox arranged marriages, Raj is a rebel. A rebel who ceaselessly negates any effort by his lawyer father to get him married. Reason - he does not want to settle for an arranged marriage. And as the father worries, Raj does find love. But in the most unlikely manner, on Facebook. He falls in love with a girl he has never met, or for that matter seen in real life. A girl, who refuses to even put up her own photograph on her profile. What happens when they finally meet offline, in the real world? Does Raj actually find the love of his life? Or is it all going to be in vain?

Hum Chaar

Hum Chaar is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language film, which is written and directed by Abhishek Dixit. It is produced by Rajshri Productions that has delivered blockbusters hits since 1947. Hum Chaar is a Bollywood drama, helmed by Abhishek Dixit. The movie stars Prit Kamani, Simran Sharma, Anshuman Malhotra and Tushar Pandey in the lead roles. Hum Chaar will be produced by Rajshri Productions.
'Hum Chaar' is all about the unbreakable bond of friendship. The story of the film revolves around four college friends who went their own direction in their life but remained inseparable from each other. The film introduces four new faces to play the lead roles in the film. The tagline of the film "Friends Bhi Family Hain" sums up that the movie is centered around friendship. The film will remind you of singer Mohammed Rafi's evergreen song "Meri Dosti Mera Pyar" from the 1964 classic film 'Dosti'. The movie then moves on to individual frames of four friends who complain about each other and reveal that they stopped talking after a big fight. However, later we realize that the four unknowingly still keep a track on each other even though they don't meet up.
The film will introduce newcomers Prit Kamani, Anshuman Malhotra, Simran Sharma and Tushar Pandey in the lead roles.

I Am Banni


"I Am Banni" is a Hindi feature film Produced by Mr. Anil Garg along with Rahul and Gaurav Garg of RG Movies production and Directed by Nitin Chaudhary and K.K. Makwana. Promoting the social cause "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao", I am Banni features Actress Roshni Walia, Gaurav Garg, Harjinder Singh, Amanda Rodario and Vikas Shrivastav in the lead role. Shot in Bhuj and across the grandeur of the Rann of Kutch, "I am Banni" highlights the struggles of a young girl who wants to study and also enables other girls of her conservative village to be allowed to study. The movie aims at educating the audience that even in 2018 there is an appalling amount of girls who are not allowed to study due to the archaic rules of our society.

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