PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 43 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA JULY 2019 21 Little-Known facts About…. Quentin Tarantino
22 Years of Harry Potter
Other Blockbuster Movies Playing This Month: MALAAL, STUBER, CRAWL, THE LION KING GREETINGS
ear Movie Lovers, Did you know that Michael Jackson once tried to buy Marvel Studios? Learn 7 fascinating facts about the world’s Here’s the July issue of Movies First, your exclusive window biggest movie company, and another 21 about maverick to the world of cinema. director Quentin Tarantino.
This month, watch your friendly neighbour superhero Don’t forget to take a shot at our movie quiz, too. spin his way out of a complex web in Spider-Man: Far We really hope you enjoy the issue. Wish you a fabulous from Home. Superstar Hrithik Roshan returns to the big month of movie watching. screen as the noble Mathematics magician Anand Kumar in Super 30, while Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao play Regards mind games of a different kind in the psychological thriller Gautam Dutta Judgemental Hai Kya. . CEO, PVR Limited USING THE MAGAZINE We hope you’ll find this magazine easy to use, but here’s a handy guide to the icons used throughout anyway. You can tap the page once at any time to access full contents at the top of the page.
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never imagined The Plot: that Super 30 would be such a Super 30 is a biographical drama film on Anand Kumar, successful initiative. I couldn’t go to Cambridge, as I didn’t have flight fare. who trains 30 underprivileged students for the IIT exams Soon after my father’s sudden death, I used every year. to sell papad and then I would teach little kids. That time, I never thought that this program will be such a hit. I started in 1997 It traces his journey from tutoring children in a top and in 2002, I created Super 30. It’s been coaching centre to opening a modest space. He goes 19 years and slowly, it has expanded. against all possible societal odds to provide for them. His When this movie was planned, I couldn’t believe that my story would students hail from families where their fathers are drivers, reach millions labourers in factories or are no longer alive. He almost – Anand Kumar, wages a war against the entitled through his indigenous Founder, Super 30 methods of training.
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 The Inspiration Anand Kumar Super 30 is a highly ambitious and innovative educational Up Close program running under the banner of “Ramanujan School After his father’s death, his mother of Mathematics,” founded by Anand Kumar, who could not Jayanti Devi began selling papads fulfill his own dream of studying abroad. It hunts for 30 for income. Anand would help her meritorious talents from among the economically backward in the business in evenings and give sections of the society and shapes them for India’s most mathematics tuitions during the day. prestigious institution – indian Institute of Technology (IIT). In the last seven years, it has produced hundreds He started Super 30 with just two IITians from extremely poor background. During this students. The number grew to more than program students are provided absolutely free coaching, 500 within a few years. lodging and food. Scores of parents have seen with sheer A book called ‘Super 30’ by Biju Mathew disbelief in their eyes that their children are now going to documents the entire journey of Anand be top technocrats. Kumar’s life.
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Genre: Biopic, Drama Language(s): Hindi Director: Vikas Bahl Star Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Amit Sadh Studio: Phantom Films, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment Pic Courtesy: Reliance Entertainment
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Release Date: July 04, 2019 Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Comedy Language: English Director: Jon Watt Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Tom Holland, Marisa Tomei Studio: Marvel Studios, Columbia Pictures, Pascal Pictures his is Pic Courtesy: Marvel Studios more of a road trip movie. We’re getting Peter The Story: out of New York City. I Peter Parker returns in Spider-Man: Far From Home, the guess we are creating next chapter of the Spider-Man: Homecoming series. Our our own subgenre: sort friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European of a young, James Bond, vacation. However, Peter’s plan to leave super heroics globetrotting. behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery – Jon Watts, Director of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent.
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 The film sounds pretty much straightforward, but Holland promises some big surprises, one of which includes the revelation of Tony’s secret lab.
Ideally, you need to have seen Avengers: Endgame to enjoy this film better, since Far From Home is set after the n this movie, events of that film—Peter Parker is mourning the death Peter Parker still loves of Tony Stark. But going forward, we see more of Peter being Spider-Man, but just Parker’s new friendship with Quentin Beck, aka Mysterio, needs a break, a holiday, like his growing romantic feelings for MJ, and his sheer terror everyone does at times. And at having to work for Fury. that’s not possible when you’re The Core a superhero and you have At the end of the day, it’s always about saving people and responsibilities to save lives. doing the right thing. The world is at risk in this film, so So it’s an interesting balance— the stakes are much higher for Peter, and he understands kind of watching your kid that. But at the heart of the film, Peter Parker just wants do his homework. to tell the girl he really likes that he loves her, and have a – Tom Holland, actor nice holiday. And that all gets ruined when Brad gets in the way. The Suit Mysterio Peter Parker (Tom Holland) has a new suit that’s mostly Mysterio’s powers and origins are as mysterious as his black. This is the “stealth suit”, and he gets it from Nick name. Don’t go by the trailer, which shows Jake Gyllenhaal Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) after the two meet up in Europe. siding with Spidey to take on the monstrous Elementals. The look of the suit is inspired by the Spider-Man comics In the comics, Mysterio has hatched more than a few evil Spider-Man: Noir and Spider-Man: Big Time. plots – most of which involve using illusions and mental trickery to manipulate and try to kill Spider-Man. Nick Fury So far, the clues indicate that there are two Nick Furys. Wow factor: The role marks A-lister Jake Gyllenhaal’s The Chameleon-Fury that appears towards the start of return to the big-budget blockbuster scene for the first the film and takes Peter to meet the ‘hero’ Mysterio time since 2010’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. in the underground and the real Fury, who gets wind For nearly a decade, the actor has been focused on dark of the deception and appears to straighten Peter out thrillers like Nocturnal Animals and Nightcrawler, serious later in the film, high above ground. Which one will dramas like Everest and Stronger, and unique oddities like the film finally reveal? We’re waiting to find out, with Netflix’s Okja. He will also be seen in the upcoming release bated breath. Velvet Buzzsaw.
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 Trivia
Zendaya, starring as MJ and love interest 01 of Spider Man, began her career in music by recording songs independently and releasing the singles “Swag It Out” and “Watch Me” in 2011. She made her film breakthrough in 2017, starring as MJ in the superhero film Spider-Man: Homecoming. This movie will be Tom Holland’s 5th 02 cinematic appearance as Peter Parker / Spider-Man. This continues Marvel Studios’ trend of maintaining the same actors for character roles, a trend that began with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man. Peter’s suitcase has the letters “BFP” on 03 it. This refers to Benjamin Franklin Parker, Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben whose death motivated him to become Spider-Man. Peter’s passport lists August 10th as his 04 birthday. Spider-Man’s first appearance was in Amazing Fantasy #15, released August 10th, 1962
The Director Born and raised in Colorado, USA, Jon Watts studied film at New York University. Before directing movies, he made television commercials. When trying to get the job directing Spider-Man: Homecoming, Watts got a tattoo of Spider- Man on his chest to make himself “stand out in the field”.
Once he got the job and made the film, Spider-Man: Homecoming made $880,166,924 worldwide from the combined domestic and foreign markets.
Spider-Man: Far from Home is expected to make $90 million within the first 3 days.
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JULY Malaal 05
Genre: Romance Language(s): Hindi Director: Mangesh Hadawale Cast: Meezaan, Sharmin Segal Studio: Bhansali Productions Pic courtesy: Bhansali Productions
Movie Plot: It’s a contemporary love story between Astha and Shiva, who are from contrasting backgrounds and live in a Mumbai chawl.
Did You Know: The film is a remake of the 2004 Tamil language film 7G Rainbow Colony.
JULY Jai Mummy Di 12
Genre: Drama Language(s): Hindi Director: Navjot Gulati Cast: Sunny Nijar, Sonnalli Seygall, Aayush Sharma Studio: T-Series, Luv Films Pic courtesy: Luv Films
Movie Plot: It is a light-hearted family comedy that portrays the trials and tribulations a couple has to undergo due to the dynamics between their respective mothers.
Did You Know: Actor Sunny and Sonnalli were seen together before as mismatched lovers in the blockbuster hit Pyaar Ka Panchnama 2.
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JULY Judgemental Hai Kya 26
Genre: Comedy Language(s): Hindi Director: Prakash Kovelamudi Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Jimmy Sheirgill Studio: Balaji Motion Pictures, Karma Media, ALT Entertainment Pic courtesy: Balaji Motion Pictures
Movie Plot: Kangana Ranaut plays a girl who’s suffering from a mental condition and the film revolves around the prejudices and social taboos attached to the topic.
Did You Know: The film’s director Prakash Rao Kovelamudi is an actor, screenwriter and film director from Telugu cinema. He is the son of Tollywood director K. Raghavendra Rao.
JULY Arjun Patiala 26
Genre: Romance, Thriller Language(s): Hindi Director: Rohit Jugraj Cast: Diljeet Dosanjh, Kriti Sanon, Varun Sharma Studio: Sony Pictures Pic courtesy: Sony Pictures
Movie Plot: A tall lady journalist falls in love with a Sardar from a small town in Punjab. A number of hilarious situations crop up due to their height difference.
Did You Know: Kriti Sanon is moving from Bareilly to Patiala to deliver another small town surprise and this time she is holding a pen as a journalist in the film.”
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JULY Yesterday 12
Genre: Comedy, Musical Language(s): English Director: Danny Boyle Cast: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran Studio: Working Title Films Pic Courtesy: Working Title Films
Movie Plot: A struggling musician realizes he’s the only person on Earth who can remember ‘The Beatles’.
Did You Know: Ed Sheeran, who plays himself in this movie, said in real life that ‘The Beatles’ are his main inspiration for his songs.
JULY Stuber 12
Genre: Action, Comedy Language(s): English Director: Michael Dowse Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, Iko Uwais Studio: 20th-century Fox Pic courtesy: 20th-century Fox
Movie Plot: A detective recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure.
Did You Know: The film’s lead actor Kumail Nanjiani is a Pakistani- American stand-up comedian, actor and writer best known for The Big Sick. He played a key role in HBO’s Emmy Award-nominated series Silicon Valley.
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JULY Crawl 12
Genre: Horror Language(s): English Director: Alexandre Aja Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson Studio: Ghost House Productions, Raimi Productions Pic courtesy: Ghost House Productions
Movie Plot: A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
Did You Know: This movie was inspired by a true alligator event from Hurricane Florence.
JULY The Lion King 19
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama Language(s): English, Hindi Director: John Favreau Cast: Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Beyonce Knowles-Carter Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Pic Courtesy: Walt Disney Pictures
Movie Plot: After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.
Did You Know: Shah Rukh Khan and his son Aryan will be lending their voices for the characters Mufasa and Simba respectively in The Lion king Hindi version.
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01 Quentin Tarantino was born March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
02 His full name is Quentin Jerome Tarantino.
03 He is the only child of Connie McHugh, who is part Cherokee and part Irish, and actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before Quentin was born.
Tarantino claims that 04 he was simply bored by school, and so dropped out at the age of 16 to devote his life to movies.
05 His formative years were largely spent working in a video rental store.
06 He worked as an usher at an adult film theater for a time.
07 With no experience as an actor, Tarantino listed phony credits on his resumé, saying he’d had roles in the filmsDawn of the Dead (1978) and King Lear (1987).
08 At 14 years old, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Quentin Tarantino Captain Peachfuzz and the PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 18 Anchovy Bandit, where a thief steals pizzas 20 He is now reportedly worth $90million, but from a pizzeria. before he became rich he was so poor he couldn’t pay his parking tickets, so served time Quentin Tarantino has an incredible IQ 09 in jail instead. of 160.
10 He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d’Or, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy.
11 He has played small roles in some of the movies he has directed. One of these roles was that of an Elvis impersonator in The Golden Girls.
12 He is terrified of rats and admits that his worse fear is to be trapped in a room with one.
13 As a boy he was obsessed with G.I. Joes. Till today, he collects toys and board games. Guess the Movie Tarantino also collects old lunch boxes.
14 He wrote the script of Kill Bill as a birthday • This small-budget Hollywood present for Uma Thurman. blockbuster was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and 15 His multi-million-dollar home on Hollywood Hill in Los Angeles is a little slice of won eight, including Best Picture, Mediterranean style paradise, with white- Best Director, and Best Adapted washed walls and red roofs. Screenplay. 16 In all of his original screenplays, the name of a police detective named Scagnetti is referred to • The film was adapted from a novel at least once. by an Indian author.
17 Even though he uses both elements in his • The lead character of the film is movies, he strongly detests violence and an 18-year-old Indian boy from drugs. Mumbai. 18 He regularly drives around his home town of Malibu in the ‘Pussy Wagon’ from Kill Bill. • A.R. Rahman took just 20 days to compose the entire soundtrack of 19 The majority of his movies contain a scene involving women’s feet and has said in an this film. Quentin Tarantino interview that he enjoys filming feet. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 19 22 Years of Harry Potter Harry Potter It has been 22 years since the first Harry Potter book was published — 26th June, 1997, and still, the world is hooked up to the magic JK Rowling created.
would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. – J.K. Rowling
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 20 Harry Potter by the Numbers Harry Potter
Fun Fact:
Rowling has said that she almost reneged on her promise to herself to keep the Golden Trio alive and killed Ron halfway through the series when she “wasn’t in a very happy place” in her life. She now believes that she wouldn’t really have been able to go through with it, but at the time she considered it “out of sheer spite.” intances of wand usage overall
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 21 Tom Holland
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 22 Tom Holland RISING STAR PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 23 Tom Holland RISING STAR
Tom Holland is best known for playing Spider-Man in the As part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he first Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). His father, Dominic, is appeared as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War a comedian and his mother is a photographer. Tom is the (2016). The film was a massive critical and commercial oldest of four brothers. success, grossing over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 2016, with Holland receiving A Born Actor tremendous critical praise. This performance earned In 2008, Holland played the title role of Billy Elliot the Holland a Guinness Book of World Records title as the Musical in London’s West End. But it took him eight youngest actor to play a title role in the MCU. auditions and two subsequent years of training to get this career-defining role. Then on, there was no looking back. In July 2017, Spider-Man: Homecoming was released, in which Holland reprised his role from Captain America: Holland acted in The Impossible (2012) alongside Civil War. Earning $117 million in its first weekend, Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. His performance was Homecoming sealed Holland’s place among the century’s praised so highly that there were even rumours he was fastest rising stars. No one was surprised when the film a contender for an Academy Award nomination. The film went to the gross over $800 million worldwide. premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2012, earned $180.3 million worldwide and Future Films won Holland several awards. Soon after, he starred in In Holland now has a six-picture deal with Marvel Studios, the Heart of the Sea (2015), and The Lost City of Z (2016). not including his Captain America: Civil War appearance. In 2017, Holland received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He is also set to voice Walter Beckett in Spies in Disguise
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 24 (2019) and Jip in The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (2020). noticed him and gave him a chance to perform on stage. Holland has also signed on to star in The Devil All the Time, Onward and as Nathan Drake in Uncharted (all Even as a child, Holland would wear cheap Spider-Man in 2020). suits for days. Sometimes, he would sleep in them and even spend the whole day in them. Tom Holland aims at becoming a director in near future. For now, he wants to take up challenging and unique acting roles, something which he has been doing for quite some time now. Fun Facts Holland often posts his impressive acrobatic moves and boxing skills on social media. His fans also love posts about his pit bull, Tessa.
Holland was in competition with hundreds of other people for the role of Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, so he decided to add some punch to his audition tape by somersaulting in and out of the frame. The trick worked!
Holland was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was young. QUICK FACTS His father sent him to an expensive private school in order to get him more personalised attention. BIRTH NAME: Holland took hip-hop lessons at a dancing school in Thomas Stanley Holland ______Wimbledon, England. That’s where a choreographer first OCCUPATION: Actor ______
BIRTH DATE: 1 June 1996 ______
PLACE OF BIRTH: Kingston-upon-Thames, England ______
YEARS ACTIVE: 2008–present ______
Nationality: British
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 25 Sir Ridley Scott
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 26 Sir Ridley Scott Masters@Work
Iconic Films: Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Big-city Setting Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), In Ridley Scott’s universe, cities are almost always Matchstick Men (2003) massive and treated like characters. Remember the Oscars: Best Picture (Gladiator, 2000) sprawling future cities of Blade Runner and ancient In His Own Words: “I’m a filmmaker, not a Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven? Osaka, Japan in documentarian. I try to hit the truth.” Black Rain and New York in American Gangster were an integral part of the story. You can’t imagine those 5 Signs You’re Watching a stories in any other settings. Ridley Scott Movie Characters With Daddy Issues Be it Vickers and Weyland in Prometheus or Roy and Angela in Matchstick Men, Scott’s films are full of characters who do not enjoy happy relationships with their fathers. Remember Commodus in Gladiator? And Roy Batty and the creator of the androids from Blade Runner? All of them have to deal with bitter, complicated relationships between themselves and their male parents.
Extreme Lighting This director loves to play with lighting. Look at any Ridley Scott film and you will notice this. InKingdom of Heaven, the light is bright and washed out. The aura of Legend is ethereal and stunning. In Blade Runner, Scott chose dark tones for the most part, Strong Women but when natural light pervades the story it signals Ridley Scott has never featured women who are something significant. weak and suffering. Be it Aliens, Thelma & Louise or Prometheus, a main character in a Ridley Scott movie is Classical Music strong, intelligent, and powerful, regardless of gender. Ridley Scott chooses sweeping, bold, and classical music in his films. He often works with the same composers, and his favourites include Vangelis, Hans Zimmer and Marc Streitenfeld.
Weather Scott’s movies are atmospheric because he uses weather to convey the tone of the film. Interestingly, he uses a lot of water and a curtain of smoke to convey a sense of mystique, such as in Black Rain, G.I.Jane and Alien.
PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 27 They said
“Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.”
— Will Smith, Hitch
“Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life”. — Rocky Balboa, Rocky IV
“No one ever made a difference by being like everybody else.”
— P.T. Barnum, from The Greatest Showman
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
— The Emperor, from Mulan
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
— John Keating, Dead Poets Society Quiz Answer: Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Answer: Quiz
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MOVIE NAME (LANGUAGE) GENRE FORMAT icons RELEASE DATE
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (ENGLISH) ACTION, ADVENTURE, COMEDY 3D/IMAX 3D/4DX 04 JUL
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MALAAL (HINDI) ROMANCE 05 JUL
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YESTERDAY (ENGLISH) COMEDY, MUSICAL 12 JUL
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STUBER (ENGLISH) ACTION, COMEDY 12 JUL
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CRAWL (ENGLISH) HORROR 12 JUL
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JAI MUMMY DI (HINDI) DRAMA 12 JUL
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SUPER 30 (HINDI) BIOPIC 12 JUL
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THE LION KING (ENGLISH/ HINDI) ANIMATION, ADVENTURE, DRAMA 3D / IMAX 3D / 4DX 19 JUL
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Judgemental Hai Kya (HINDI) COMEDY 26 JUL
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ARJUN PATIALA (HINDI) COMEDY, ROMANCE 26 JUL
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