Imtiaz Ali’s Tamasha had the November 27 release date all to itself. On the other hand, six movies are jostling for attention on December 4.
Angry Indian Goddesses Pan Nalin, best known for his Buddhism-themed Samsara, returns with a female buddy flick set in Goa. Freida (Sarah-Jane Dias) invites her friends over to her family home and drops the bombshell: she is getting married. The revelation leads to further revelations and the casualties pile up. The camera-friendly cast includes Sandhya Mridul, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anushka Manchanda, Amrit Maghera, Rajshri Deshpande, Arjun Mathur and Adil Hussain. The Central Board of Film Certification has swung an axe at the movie’s supposedly explicit sequences (read profanity and kissing), so expect a bowdlerised version.
In the Heart of the Sea Ron Howard’s period adventure, set in 1820, follows the incident that inspired Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick. A whaling ship that sets out for what is thought to be a routine expedition to kill whales and extract oil from their carcasses runs into a particularly angry mammal. The whale destroys the ship, leaving the crew at the mercy of the sea. Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy are in the main roles, while Ben Wishaw plays Melville, who visits one of the survivors decades later.
Hate Story 3 Sharman Joshi, Zarine Khan, Karan Singh Grover and Daisy Shah line up to spook and be spooked in director Vishal Pandya’s third contribution to the Hate Story franchise. Like with Angry Indian Goddesses, the Censor Board has had a stern look at the erotic horror film, so don’t let this trailer raise false hopes.
The Good Dinosaur Arlo the misfit Apatosaurus and a feral child become unlikely friends in Disney Pixar’s new animated adventure. Peter Sohn, who has directed the short Partly Cloudy, is in charge of the Jungle Book-style adventure told from the point of view of the dinosaur.
Legend Tom Hardy plays Reggie and Ronnie Kray, identical twins and brutal rulers of the London underworld during the 1960s. Legend has been directed by Brian Helgeland, the writer of such films as Robin Hood, Mystic River and LA Confidential and the director of A Knight’s Tale. The cast includes Christopher Eccleston, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Duffy and Taron Egerton.
Kajarya Madhureeta Anand’s social drama explores the crime of female foeticide in Haryana through the interlinked stories of a woman condemned to be a witch by her village (Meenu Hooda) and a journalist (Ridhima Sud) who comes knocking for a headline-grabbing story.
