Movie Time – India Box Office

Anurag Kashyap’s much awaited Bombay Velvet and George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, are the releases this week on India Box Office.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD: the fourth in the Mad Max series, features Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, leaving out Mel Gibson for the first time.

The earlier versions were released in 1979, 1981 and 1985.

An Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller it opens with Tom Hardy taking the baton from Mel Gibson. Charlize Theron is seen as Furosia, who takes over the rescue mission as the adventure begins.

The world is in ruins and now it is a matter of survival. Will this Mad Max be worth waiting for 3 decades?

BOMBAY VELVET: This is a period crime drama directed by Anurag Kashyap. It features Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Karan Johar, Kay Kay Menon and Siddharth Basu.

This is a story about Johnny Balraj and Rosie Noronha that takes us to a different era in the city of dreams, Mumbai. While Johnny is a street fighter who turns mobster, Rosie is a Jazz singer.

Bombay Velvet, based on Gyan Prakash’s book Mumbai Fables, has many twists and turns.

The songs and the background score bring back the 60’s era. One particular number Fifi, an original O.P. Nayyar gem, has been revamped by Mickey McCleary and sung by Suman Shridhar. 

We also see famous producer director full Karan Johar making a full time acting debut. He plays media moghul Kaizad Khambata helping Johnny to make it big. However he then turns out a villian that certainly should be a watch.

As the film direcor puts it heartthrob Anushka’s character is a tribute to Lorna Cordeiro, a jazz singer, who ruled the night clubs with her silky voice in the 60’s. 

Till next week … ciao.

Movie Time – India Box Office

G Caffe wishes all its readers, listeners, followers and contributors a Merry Christmas. Laugh and be merry. This week Anurag Kashyap, Shawn Levy and K.S. Ravikumar bring us ‘Ugly’, ‘Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb’ and ‘Lingaa’.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB: The third and last in the series is out this Friday. Director Shawn Levy and Ben Stiller (the main lead) have been associated with the series of ‘Night At The Museum’, since 2006 when the first part – Night At The Museum – was released; the second part being ‘Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian’ (2009).

The latest ‘Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb’ features Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens, Ben Kingsley (of Gandhi fame), Mickey Rooney and Robin Williams. Before this part could be completed, Mickey Rooney and Robin Williams died and so the movie’s release got a bit held up.

The story begins from where they left it in part 2, the security guard Larry Daley secretly creeps in the Smithsonian Institution to rescue his friends Jedediah and Octavius, who are trapped in the museum by mistake.

The ‘Night At The Museum : Secret Of The Tomb’ is also the last Hollywood movie to be released in 2014.

UGLY: Directed by Anurag Kashyap, it deals with darkness of soul. A little girl goes missing from a car parked in the middle of a busy market. Clueless parents, who are now divorced, run from pillar to post to rescue their daughter who seems to be kidnapped. The mother is now remarried to a police officer who offers to help. The ugly truth is spilled out which does not spare the parents as well. The film features Ronit Roy, Rahul Bhatt, Surveen Chawla, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Vineet Singh.

LINGAA: A Tamil drama film (dubbed in Hindi), directed by K.S. Ravikumar features Rajnikanth, Jagapati Babu, Sonakshi Sinha and Anushka Shetty in the lead roles. Superstar Rajnikanth is back with another blockbuster and he plays a double role too.

Seasons Greetings. Till next week … ciao.