Sunny Deol returns with a Ghayal sequel, while The Finest Hours is the latest disaster-at-sea drama.
Ghayal Once Again Rajkumar Santoshi’s Ghayal (1990) was one of the biggest hits of Sunny Deol’s career. The bulky actor with the hand that is rumoured to weigh 2.5 kilos played a boxer who avenges the murder of his brother by a crooked businessman. A whole 26 years later, Deol is trying to cash in on the memories of his most audience-friendly moment. Ajay Mehra is back to save four young people from the clutches of Narendra Jha’s villain.
The Finest Hours Craig Gillespie’s high-seas rescue drama is set in the 1950s and based on The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue by Craig Sherman and Michael J Tougias. The movie follows the efforts of the Coast Guard to save the ship SS Pendleton after a storm splits it into pieces. The cast of actors who look fetching in period threads includes Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck and Eric Bana.
Sanam Teri Kasam Telugu actor Harshvardhan Rane makes his Bollywood debut in the company of Pakistani VJ and actress Mawra Hocane. The official synopsis best describes this romance about “a love story sealed with a curse” directed by music video makers Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru: “A musical romantic movie exploring the journey that ensues when the blue blooded boy Inder (Harshvardhan Rane) “Who wanted to love no one” crosses paths with Saru (Mawra Hocane) “Whom no one wanted to love.”
The Choice Nicholas Sparks strikes again! In this adaptation of the best-selling romance writer’s 2007 novel of the same name, neighbours in an American small town meet and fall in love. Their relationship is severely tested when Gabby (Teresa Palmer) goes into a coma after an accident. What should lover boy Travis (Benjamin Walker) do, stay by her bedside forever or move on?
