The week after a handful of releases, including Angry Indian Goddesses and In The Heart of the Sea, marks the lull before the storm. Two A-list productions, Bajirao Mastani and Dilwale, go head to head on December 18, so no noteworthy titles are being released on December 11, whether Hindi or English. The logic is that these films won’t do any business beyond a week, so what’s the point of releasing them?
Did anybody expect Sorry Daddy to break box-office records? You can’t be in the movie business if you are not the hopeful type.
Sorry Daddy Shamim Khan plays an honest police officer who rescues a teenager who has become embroiled in a child trafficking ring. This sincere attempt to expose the exploitation of street children is bait for fans of B-movies.
Everly Hollywood’s contribution to the week’s trash pile is this woman-in-peril-who-resembles-Salma Hayek action thriller. When a gangster finds out that prostitute Everly (Hayek) is actually a police informant, he sends a gang to take her down. Unbeknownst to him, Everly is quite the fighter. Don’t go by the promise of sadism and torture promised by the international trailer.
The Silent Heroes Thirteen hearing impaired children from a school in Uttarakhand decide to become mountaineers. Mahesh Bhatt has lent his gravitas to this saga about the triumph of the underdogs.
The Peanuts Movie The beagle Snoopy takes on his adversary, The Red Baron, while Charlie Brown tries to conquer his beating heart. The animators behind the Ice Age have brought this version of Charles M Schulz’s enduring creation to the big screen.
