PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 29 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA MARCH 2018 21 LITTLE-KNOWN THINGS ABOUt…. GUEST VIEW CHARLIZE INTER THERON NEERAJ KABI THE BEST NEW MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: PARI, 3 STOREYS, HICHKI. BaaGHI 2, DEATH WISH AND GRINGO GREETINGS ear Movie Lovers, We rewind to “ Matrix” (1999) the visually dazzling cyber- adventure that​​ lifted sci-fi cinema to a new level. Here’s the March edition of Movies First, your exclusive window to the world of cinema. ​​Take a peek at the life and films of Hollywood’ s current sweetheart ​​​Dakota Johnson , and join us in wishing the ​​​​​This month brings you an exciting mix of action-packed legendary ​​Kurt Russell a Happy Birthday. blockbusters and plot-rich gems. We really hope you enjoy the issue. Wish you a fabulous ​​“ T​​omb Raider” Lara Croft delves into her most perilous month of movie watching. adventure yet. Expectation are high as Academy Award winning actress Alicia Vikander dons the mantle Angelina Regards Jolie once owned. ​​Jennifer Garner’s spy drama “Red Sparrow” lands on your screen​​. “Daas Dev” ​​​Sudhir Mishra’s reverse retelling of Devdas shows the lover go from pathos to power. ​​Learn 21 fun facts about superstar Charlize Theron, Gautam Dutta whose action comedy “Gringo” releases this month. CEO, PVR Limited USING THE MAGAZINE We hope youa’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. PLAY TRAILER SET REMINDER BOOK TICKETS SHARE PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 2 CONTENTS Tap for... Tap for... Movie OF THE MONTH UP CLOSE & PERSONAL Tap for... Tap for... MUST WATCH FESTIVAL FLASH Tap for... Tap for... GUEST INTERVIEW RISING Star TO BOOK TICKETS GO TO PVRCINEMAS.COM OR DOWNLOAD OUR MOBILE APP. AVAILABLE ON PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 3 RELEASING THIS MONTH A SNEAK-PEAK INTO THE BIG RELEASE OF THE MONTH! PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER He also met other officers to understand how the department works, how things were in that period of time. “Today, if Raid there is a raid in someone’s house - whether it is a big fish HEROES DON’T ALWAYS COME IN UNIFORM The Plot: Raid revolves around Amay Patnaik, a fearless Income Tax officer who carries out a non-stop raid at the mansion of Tauji, the most powerful man in Lucknow. Y The Inspiration: The film is set in the 1980s, a time when CHARACTER IN THE FILM conducting an income-tax raid on an influential person, in a IS VERY HEROIC, BUT REAL place like UP, was considered very dangerous. “You didn’t know how many days it would continue, you didn’t know AT THE SAME TIME. WE TRIED whether you would return or not if you get into that kind of TO KEEP IT REAL EVEN WITH space,” says director Rajkumar Gupta. THE PUNCHLINES. IT DOESn’T So when he stumbled upon the story on India’s longest- FEEL YOU’RE WATCHING running raid, he was intrigued by the content, the people A MOVIE.. involved and the time frame. Gupta says he met the officer involved, and learnt first hand from him the facts related to - Ajay Devgn, Actor the case and also how things happened during those times in general. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 The Collection DID YOU KNOW? Rajkumar Gupta is known for his gritty, • The film is written by Ritesh socially relevant cinema. Stories of real- Shah, who also wrote the life heroes fascinate him. Here’s a glance critically acclaimed “Pink” at the director’s body of work: and “Airlift.” • It is India’s first film on income tax raids. • The real life raid on which the film is based went on for 18 hours, with 45 people counting notes. or small fish, it will immediately be on Twitter. But those days were different,” says Gupta. Saurabh Shukla plays the villain called Tauji, who is the most powerful man in Lucknow. Government officials don’t aamir (2008) even dare to kill mosquitoes at his mansion, he observes, but Patnaik’s team has had the gumption of organising a tax raid. In a chilling moment, Tauji tells Patnaik, “You have come inside my house but how will you leave?” no one killed Jessica (2011) RAID RELEASE 16 MARCH Genre: Drama Language: Hindi (U/A) Director: Rajkumar Gupta Cast: Ajay Devgn, Ileana D’Cruz, Saurabh Shukla Studio: Panorama Studios, T-Series Pic Courtesy: T-Series Ghanchakkar (2013) PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER Tomb Raider MOVIE OF THE MONTH Tagline: Who is Lara Croft? EXTRAORDINARY STAR-POWER: Vikander, who won an Oscar for her work in 2015’s “The Danish Girl,” has Release Date: 09 March, 2018 previously taken on action films with performances Genre: Action, Adventure Language: English (U/A) Director: Roar Uthaug Cast: Alicia Vikander, Daniel Wu, Walton Goggins, Dominic West, Kristin Scott Thomas geNUINely Studio: Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn- BELIEVE THAT LARA CROFT: Mayer, Initial Entertainment Group TOMB RAIDER, IN THIS NEW Pic Courtesy: Warner Bros. INCARNATION, IS THE ORIGIN STORY OF THIS VERY, VERY, VERY POWERFUL WOMAN. VOGEL IS A COG IN THE WHEEL, AND WHAT THE STORY: Seven years after the disappearance of her THE AUDIENCE DOESn’T KNOW father, 21-year-old Lara Croft sets out to find out what happened to him, and travels to his last-known location: a IS HOW BIG OF A PLAYER tomb on an island somewhere off the coast of Japan. The HE TRULY IS. stakes couldn’t be higher as Lara must rely on her sharp – Walton Goggins, Actor mind, blind faith and stubborn spirit to venture into the unknown. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 ARA CROFT NOT AN ACTION HERO WHEN WE MEET HER IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS FILM. SHE’S A GIRL WHO LIVES WITH HER FRIENDS IN EAST LONDON, LIKE I DID WHEN I WAS IN MY EARLY TWENTIES. THEN FATE DELIVERS INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES THAT LEAD LARA TO BECOME THE HEROINE WE KNOW AND LOVE. – Alicia Vikander, Actor the genre formulas. Although he makes genre movies, the human aspect is always central. He gets in close to the characters and creates people we can relate to as in “Ex Machina,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” and “Jason an audience. So even Lara Croft, under Roar Uthaug’s Bourne.” She is the first Swede to win an Academy Award direction, will become a person we can all recognize since Ingrid Bergman in 1975. ourselves in, in a completely different way than before. “Lara Croft is uniquely different to other characters I THE NEW LARA: HOW SHE SETS HERSELF APART: She have taken on previously. It’s a lot of fun trying to get has shed her outlandish, almost invincible traits. The new into Lara’s head and the challenge of getting to grips with Lara is someone the audiences can relate to. By contrast, such a physical role is an element of this project that I the original Angelina Jolie version of the character was find an absolute thrill,” says Vikander. very much a product of the 1990s. The original Tomb Raider, and to a greater extent Lara Croft Tomb Raider: In order to get into arrow-shooting, rock-climbing, butt- kicking shape like her impressive and adventurous video game counterpart Lara Croft, Vikander underwent a grueling exercise routine and dietary program with super- trainer Magnus Lygdback. The fellow Swedes worked together for months in order to add 16 pounds of muscle to the 5’ 5” Oscar-winner’s slender frame. THE DIRECTOR: Norwegian director Roar Uthaog is a revered name in his native country. He made a splash with “The Wave,” Norway’s first disaster movie. It was themed around a devastating tsunami that hits the towns around a Norwegian fjord. It was a great success at home and in the US. Soon, Uthaug was offered a job he couldn’t refuse – to direct Tomb Raider, the Lara Croft reboot. Effects and action apart, Uthaug’s films also stand out for the way in which he creates believable characters within PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 TRIVIA Alicia Vikander was actually a fan of the 01 video game series growing up. In one of the trailers released for the 02 movie Lara Croft is seen buying two Heckler and Koch USP Match handguns and saying “I’ll take two.” In the ‘Lara Croft’ movies starring Angelina Jolie, Lara wields the same weapons in both movies. Alicia Vikander put on a lot of muscle to 03 play Lara, as she wanted the character to be as realistic as possible and also did all of her own stunts. Alicia Vikander will not only be the 04 second actress to portray Lara Croft in a movie, but also the second Oscar winning actress to do so after Angelina Jolie. Daniel Wu is the second Hong Kong 05 movie actor to star in adaptation of Tomb Raider after Simon Yam in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). The Cradle of Life, portrayed the character as essentially a living video game character – nearly omnipotent, and effortlessly badass in the face of overwhelming odds. This worked in an era defined by films like The Matrix and the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies, but audiences have become much more accustomed to dark, gritty, and human protagonists in recent years. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 9 MUST WATCH BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS MAR MAR PARI 02 VEEREY KI WEDDING 02 THE DEVIL’S OUT TO PLAY Genre: Horror Genre: Comedy, Family Language(s); Hindi Language(s): Hindi Director: Prosit Roy Director: Ashu Trikha Cast: Anushka Sharma, Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Jimmy Parambrata Chatterjee, Rajat Shergill, Kriti Kharbanda Kapoor Studio: Make My Day Studio: Pooja Entertainment, Entertainments Universal Pictures Pic Courtesy: Make My Day Pic Courtesy: Universal Pictures Entertainments PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER Movie Plot: A woman is possessed by a demon.