A-list releases are giving way this week to modestly budgeted movies because of the ongoing Cricket World Cup.
Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Sharat Katariya’s Dum Laga Ke Haisha is the bittersweet tale of a thin man and his fat wife.
Katariya’s second movie features Ayushmann Khurana as Prem, a cassette shop owner who is compelled by circumstances to marry a woman who will keep his crumbling home in order. The catch: she is overweight. First-time actor Bhumi Pednekar plays Sandhya, the woman of Prem’s nightmares. The movie features a comeback soundtrack from Anu Malik, an evocative small-town setting, and the promise of the gentle, observational comedy that marked Katariya’s debut, 10ML Love.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Matthew Vaughn picks up yet another title from his comic book collection.
Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class, directs the adaptation of the comic book series The Secret Service by Mark Millar Dave Gibbons. A recruit to an organisation of spies headed by Colin Firth’s very British Harry Hart is put through a highly rigorous training programme. Meanwhile, a mysterious billionaire is putting the final touches to his plan to destroy the planet through eco-terrorism.
Ab Tak Chhappan 2
This is one remake we definitely did not need, but here we are.
The original Ab Tak Chhappan, directed by Shimit Amin and produced by Ram Gopal Varma in 2004, dramatised the urban war that was being waged between the Mumbai police and various factions of Mumbai’s underworld at the time. Eleven years later, Nana Patekar’s Sadhu Aghashe still has his finger on the trigger, and is still chasing members of rival gangs that sound suspiciously like the ones headed by Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan.
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
Sharat Katariya’s Dum Laga Ke Haisha is the bittersweet tale of a thin man and his fat wife.
Katariya’s second movie features Ayushmann Khurana as Prem, a cassette shop owner who is compelled by circumstances to marry a woman who will keep his crumbling home in order. The catch: she is overweight. First-time actor Bhumi Pednekar plays Sandhya, the woman of Prem’s nightmares. The movie features a comeback soundtrack from Anu Malik, an evocative small-town setting, and the promise of the gentle, observational comedy that marked Katariya’s debut, 10ML Love.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Matthew Vaughn picks up yet another title from his comic book collection.
Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class, directs the adaptation of the comic book series The Secret Service by Mark Millar Dave Gibbons. A recruit to an organisation of spies headed by Colin Firth’s very British Harry Hart is put through a highly rigorous training programme. Meanwhile, a mysterious billionaire is putting the final touches to his plan to destroy the planet through eco-terrorism.
Ab Tak Chhappan 2
This is one remake we definitely did not need, but here we are.
The original Ab Tak Chhappan, directed by Shimit Amin and produced by Ram Gopal Varma in 2004, dramatised the urban war that was being waged between the Mumbai police and various factions of Mumbai’s underworld at the time. Eleven years later, Nana Patekar’s Sadhu Aghashe still has his finger on the trigger, and is still chasing members of rival gangs that sound suspiciously like the ones headed by Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan.
