Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is back on the screens on May 20, as are the mutants.
Sarabjit Directed by Omung Kumar (Mary Kom), Sarabjit is a biographical account of Sarabjit Singh, the alleged Indian spy who was arrested by Pakistan in 1990 in a bomb blasts case and convicted. Singh died in 2013 after being attacked by fellow inmates in a prison in Lahore. In India, his sister, Dalbir Kaur, tirelessly (and unsuccessfully) campaigned for his release. Omung Kumar’s movie is the fictionalised account of this unfortunate Indian who died miles away from home. Randeep Hooda plays Sarabjit, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is Dalbir Kaur, while Richa Chadha portrays Sarabjit’s wife Sukhpreet.
X-Men: Apocalypse Despite the title, this is not the final edition of the hugely lucrative franchise based on the comic books but merely the ninth. Bryan Singer is back in the director’s chair, and he oversees the rise of En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), a mutant with phenomenal powers who decides to make the world in his own image. He will not be the first comic villain to have harboured this ambition. Among the mutants who fight for and against him are Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Professor X (James Mcvoy), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Phoenix (Sophie Turner), Quicksilver (Evan Peters) and the dependable outlier Wolverine (Hugh Jackman).