A cop goes after a serial killer, while aliens invade Earth yet again.
Raman Raghav 2.0 Anurag Kashyap’s new movie is a tribute to Sriram Raghavan’s video film Raman Raghav (1991), which details a police hunt for a deadly serial killer in 1960s Mumbai. In Kashyap’s dark and ultraviolent version, the psychopath Raman (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is hunted by an equally disturbed police officer, Raghav (Vicky Kaushal). Who is chasing whom?
Independence Day: Resurgence Hollywood is never one to forget a blockbuster. Twenty years after the events of Independence Day, destruction specialist Roland Emmerich returns with a sequel that replaces Will Smith with Liam Hemsworth. The United Nations has created Earth Space Defense, a warning system against a possible repeat of the alien invasion that devastated whole cities in the first movie. However, there are still enough aliens to cause further mayhem. Reduced to rubble are Las Vegas, Singapore, London and Dubai, but India has been spared. The cast includes Jeff Goldblum, Charlotte Gainsborough and Bill Pullman.
Rough Book Anant Mahadevan’s latest movie after Gour Hari Dastaan focuses on the lack of creativity in the classroom. Tannishtha Chatterjee plays an idealistic physics professor who is saddled with a class of poor performers. She eggs them on to realise their true potential.
Shorgul This controversial drama by Pranav Kumar Singh and Jitendra Tiwari is set against the backdrop of the recent communal riots in Uttar Pradesh. The romance between a Hindu man and a Muslim woman provides the leaders of various political parties with the perfect storm. The movie stars Jimmy Shergill, Ashutosh Gowariker, newcomer Suha Gezen, Eijaz Khan, Sanjay Suri and Narendra Jha.
Junooniyat Undeterred by the indifferent response to his ideological tract Buddha in a Traffic Jam, Vivek Agnihotri is back with a glossy romance. Junooniyat stars rumoured real-life lovers Pulkit Samrat and Yami Gautam as fellow Army officers serving in the troubled state Jammu & Kashmir.
