New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Jai Ho
Jai Ho is a
Hindi-language Indian action Drama feature film directed by Sohail Khan and produced by Sohail Khan alongwith Sunil Lulla, starring Salman Khan and newcomer Daisy Shah alongwith Sana Khan and Suniel Shetty in major roles. The film has Tabu playing Salman's
sister while Danny Denzongpa plays
the main antagonist. The film is a remake of Telugu film Stalin starring Chiranjeevi.
Jai Ho is the story of
Major Jai Agnihotri, who creates a
nation-wide movement by convincing people to do a good deed for three people
who must in turn each do good deeds for three other people.
Jai, an upright common man is fighting a
solitary war against corruption and injustice. Honest and incorruptible, he has
made it his mission to help as many people as he can. His mantra is quite
simple - help somebody and then request that person to lend a helping hand to
somebody else - thus forming an ever growing circle of people helping each
other.
In a strange
twist of fate, he finds himself pitted against a powerful politician and his
vile family. Jai who is an ex army
officer, will not shy away from a battle, however bloody it may get and firmly
believes that you do not have to wear an uniform to serve your country. As the
politician unleashes his violent goons on brave heart Jai, Geeta, Jai's sister, realizes the horrific consequences this
can have on her brother and the rest of their family.
She persuades a
reluctant Jai to make peace with the politician. But when this leads to humiliation
being heaped on him, Jai loses his
cool and declares all out war. It is an unequal war - one side stand the
politician with his numerous henchmen and on one side is Jai - alone.
But unknown to
him, a silent revolution is taking place. The voiceless public, he has helped
in the past, is gathering force. It finally has a voice and this voice cannot
and will not be silenced.
Because Jai Ho
is the resounding sound of victory...Jai Ho is the warrior cry of someone
determined to win at all cost...
Thus the film
has Salman Khan as Major Jai Agnihotri, Tabu as Riya Agnihotri (Jai's
Sister), Suniel Shetty as Officer Ranvir Kaul, Danny Denzongpa, Sana Khan, Daisy Shah, Nadira
Babbar, Genelia D'Souza, Naman Jain, Mahesh Thakur, Resham Tipnis, Ashmit Patel,
Yash Tonk, Haroon Qazi, Mohnish Bahl, Mahesh Manjrekar, Prerit Joshi, Aditya
Pancholi, Sharad Kapoor, Pulkit Samrat, Tulip Joshi, Varun Badola, Syed Mozzam,
Nauheed Cyrusi, Vikas Bhalla, Bruna Abdullah, Sudesh Lehri, Santosh Shukla as
Maanik - a corrupt politician, Ankit Pandey as Chor and Vinay Prakash Yadav
as Sadhu.
The soundtrack
of Jai
Ho is composed by Sajid-Wajid,
Devi Sri Prasad and Amal Malik.
The film has songs like Baaki Sab First
Class Hai, Tere Naina Maar Hi Daalenge, Photocopy, Tumko To Aana Hi Tha, Love
You Till The End (House Mix), Naacho Re, Jai Jai Jai Jai Ho (Title Track), Photocopy
(Remix) and Baaki Sab First Class Hai
(Remix).
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is a 2013
British/South African biographical film directed by Justin Chadwick from a script written by William Nicholson and stars Idris
Elba and Naomie Harris. The film
is based on the 1995 book Long Walk to Freedom by
anti-apartheid revolutionary and former South African President Nelson Mandela.
The film is based
on President Nelson Mandela's early life, his coming of age, education and 27
years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country’s
once segregated society. Idris Elba
stars as Nelson Mandela, Naomie Harris stars as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, with Justin Chadwick directing.
In this film, Idris Elba plays Nelson Mandela, starting out as a young black lawyer of proud Xhosa
heritage in post-war Johannesburg, sharp of both wits and dress, attempting to
remedy the desperate situations of the dispossessed who ask for his help. At first,
he shuns the members of the ANC who beseech him to get involved, but as the
grotesqueries of the apartheid regime become closer and more intimate, his
political radicalism takes root.
He grows apart
from his first wife and closer to his ANC colleagues and a glamorous, outspoken
22-year-old social worker called Winnie
Madikizela (Naomie Harris),
who’s to become his second wife.
The movie
depicts the major events of 20th-century South African history: the extension
and heavy enforcement of the Pass Laws; the stark brutality of the 1960
Sharpeville massacre of black protestors; the ANC’s ensuing campaign of
sabotage; and the trial at which Mandela
and his fellow ANC members were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Yet, if the film
is a tale of political action, it is also one of wider personal sacrifice, of
which Mandela’s own 27-year
imprisonment is but one element. The story dwells, rightly, on the ferocity of
absence: the relentless hollowing-out of what should have been a happy family
life. We glimpse the husbandless wife, the fatherless children, the space for
resentments and infidelities. When Mandela
is finally released from jail, he finds himself married to a nation, but
estranged from his dearly loved wife.
The movie also
exposes the cruel circumstances in which Winnie’s
ruthlessness was forged: the state torture, solitary confinement, exile and
house arrest that drain the joie de vivre from her and replace it with
something more bitter. Somehow, Mandela
himself manages to move in the opposite direction: there is a small, touching
scene in which he gently chastises his grand-children for ridiculing his white
guards.
Nearing the end,
with Elba’s face partly immobilised
in ageing make-up, the pace slows respectfully along with him.
Thus the film
has Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela, Naomie Harris as Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela, Tony Kgoroge
as Walter Sisulu, Riaad Moosa as Ahmed Kathrada, Zolani Mkiva
as Raymond Mhlaba, Simo Mogwaza as Andrew Mlangeni, Fana
Mokoena as Govan Mbeki, Thapelo Mokoena as Elias Motsoaledi, Jamie
Bartlett as James Gregory, Deon Lotz as Kobie Coetzee and Terry
Pheto as Evelyn Mase.
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