PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 4 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA JAN 2016 TOTAL RECALL: 7 ACTION MOVIES STARRING WOMEN GUEST INTERVIEW NEIL NITIN MUKESH THE BEST NEW MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: WAZIR, THE REVENANT, AIRLIFT, THE HATEFUL EIGHT! PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 1 GREETINGS ear Movie Lovers, Rewind seven decades to Alfred Hitchcock’s personal favourite film, and take your pick from our selection Wish you a fun, fabulous 2016. of America’s edgiest heroine-led action thrillers. You’ll never guess what Hollywood’s biggest director Here’s the year’s premier edition of Movies First, James Cameron did for a living before he entered your exclusive window to the world of cinema. films—here’s your chance to know the man and his magnificent journey. January 2016 kicks off with a triple bonanza of thrillers: Catch the crashing wave of stunts in Point We really hope you enjoy the issue. Wish you a Break, mounted on a scale never attempted before. fabulous month of movie watching. The intense, brooding Wazir, powered by some of Bollywood’s stellar talent—we’ve got key villain Regards Neil Nitin Mukesh to reveal some dark secrets. Feel the goosebumps awaken along your arms as you watch Airlift, inspired by India’s biggest-ever Gautam Dutta rescue mission. 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. 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 A remake of cult classic Point Break hits the screens this month. So, grab your surfing boards and get ready for some high adrenaline action! Tap for... Tap for... Movie OF THE MONTH GUEST INTERVIEW Tap for... Tap for... MUST WATCH FESTIVAL FLASH Tap for... Tap for... ARCHITECTS OF CINEMA TOTAL RECALL 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 Powerhouse actors Amitabh Bachchan and WAZIR Farhan Akhtar are set to steamroll the screen in MAKE YOUR BEST MOVE… this tautly scripted drama. The film also stars Aditi Rao Hydari and Neil Nitin Mukesh in pivotal roles along with John Abraham who appears in an Dynamic ATs officer Daanish Ali (farhan Akhtar) and extended cameo. wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster Pandit Omkar nath Dhar (Amitabh bachchan) are brought together by grief and a peculiar twist of fate. They must act before they fall prey to a murderer called ‘Wazir’ who shares a personal connection with the two. It’s DID YOU KNOW? the biggest game of their lives. Will the malevolent The wheelchair used by Amitabh ‘Wazir’ checkmate them? bachchan was finalized after Fast-paced and loaded with suspense and action, testing 43 chairs. After selection, Wazir promises to be an intense drama with an the chair was kept at Amitabh’s undertone of violence. The stylishly cut teaser house for 3 months and he would with Amitabh Bachchan’s gripping voice in the background has already upped the anticipation levels sit on it everyday to build his of the audience. bejoy nambiar, the man behind the character. edgy thrillers Shaitan and David, coaxes you to tread even darker territory here. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 Reason to Watch: THE COLLECTION The script, which took five years to develop, has been penned by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat bejoy nambiar has established a unique Joshi and edited by raju hirani: the team that gave style of his own by fusing elements us blockbusters like 3 Idiots and PK. of a thriller with an exploration of morality. he makes his films stand out through stunning visuals and brilliant soundtracks. His previous work: OU GET TO learn so MUch by JUst BEING WITH MR. BACHCHAN. OUR characters share A bond of grief in the film AND THEY FIND REDEMPTION IN EACH OTHER - Farhan Akhtar ReflectionS (2005) Shaitan (2011) WAZIR RELEASE 08 JAN Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery Language: Hindi Director: bejoy nambiar Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Amitabh Bachchan, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Aditi Rao Hydari Studio: Vinod Chopra Films Pic Courtesy: Vinod Chopra Films DaviD (2013) PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PLAY TRAILER PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER POINT BREAK MOVIE OF THE MONTH Director: Ericson Core Almost 15 years later, cinematographer Ericson Core Star Cast: Teresa Palmer, Luke Bracey, Édgar Ramírez returns to the director’s chair to helm the remake of Genre: Action the 90’s classic showcasing daredevil athleticism in a rating: (U/A) way that suggests condensed highlights from ESPN. Release Date:1 January The Plot: A young fbi agent, Johnny Utah (luke Studio: Alcon Entertainment, DMG Entertainment, bracey), infiltrates a cunning team of thrill-seeking Ehman Productions, Studio Babelsberg elite athletes, led by the charismatic bodhi (edgar point break, in surfing terms, is defined as a huge wave that breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline. he first In 1991, Kathryn Bigelow directed the now iconic ‘Point Break’ was amaZing, action-thriller of the same name, imbuing the once inspiring. WE all loved it unknown moniker with new meaning. The term and were inflUenced by it. became synonymous with fast-paced, high-adrenaline WE wanted to Use that action and the thrill seekers were eloquently defined INSPIRATION TO BRING OUR OWN by noted film critic roger ebert: “They aren’t men of vision of ‘Point Break’ to action, but men of thought who choose action as a the screen, EXpanding it way of expressing their beliefs.” on A global scale, with today’S most EXtreme, Starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Gary world-class athletes Busey in pivotal roles, the film grossed $83 million DRIVING THE ACTION. worldwide and went on to become a cult classic, - Ericson Core, Director even inspiring a live stage version called Point break live! PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 ramirez). Deep undercover and with his life in danger, lengths to which Utah must go to take them down will Utah strives to prove these athletes are the architects push him further into untested terrains. of the mind-boggling crimes that are devastating the world’s financial markets. Filmed on four continents, North America, Europe, south America and Asia, “point break” presents extraordinary feats performed by the world’s top extreme sports athletes, and involves some of the most daring exploits ever committed to film. extreme sports featured include snowboarding, wingsuit flying, free rock climbing, high-speed motocross and surfing 70-foot waves. VISUAL APPEAL Core’s lensing, enhanced by outstanding visual effects fully taps into the cinematic potential of dynamic sports such as base jumping, sheer-face snowboarding, wingsuit flying, free climbing and big-wave surfing. Aerial shots of the characters floating between the canyons in their wingsuits are sheer visual poetry, while the scene in which Bodhi and Utah hang off a practically vertical cliff by their fingers is a milestone in novelty as well as composition. UPGRADE ON THE ORIGINAL Director ericson Core and the filmmaking team understood that a big part of what made the original “point break” so compelling was the relationship between its two strong-willed leads: the rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, trying to shake his demons and find his place in the world and his elusive quarryb odhi, a charismatic force of nature with an unusual agenda. This pivotal conflict between the two individuals who appear diametrically opposed but are oddly simpatico remains the core of the story. Additionally, Core states, “many of the philosophic questions bodhi raises merit deeper exploration, like Critique reception the idea of being truly free and living by your own “Director ericson Core has poured his expertise into code, so we kept all of that alive.” devising jaw-dropping stunts and visualizing awesome natural wonders.” – Maggie Lee, Variety What’s radically different in the remake is the canvas on which Utah and bodhi’s conflict plays out amidst “Wisely leaning on its stellar visuals, slick action the larger drama. The crimes that Bodhi and his gang sequences, shooting locations and respectable 3D commit are more sophisticated and dangerous now, conversion, Point Break makes for a thrilling ride.” with far-reaching motives and implications, and the – Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 TRIVIA The production relied on a variety of different 01 digital cameras in order to depict extreme sports in new and innovative ways, including Go-Pros, the RED camera and an Opticom. Some of the world’s best athletes have 02 worked on this film, including wing suit athlete Jeb Corliss, legendary surfers Laird Hamilton and Sebastian Zietz and pro skateboarder bob burnquist. The athletes themselves were equipped with 03 cameras that, in combination with helicopter mounts and strategically placed close-up lenses, will take audiences immediately into the controlled chaos of what it’s like to be riding that edge. While shooting second unit footage at the 04 Jaws surf break in Maui, the crew was fortunate enough to catch one of the largest wave breaks of the last decade, being ridden by the world’s top big wave surfers. The film includes a sequence shot at 05 Venezuela’s legendary Angel Falls. A platform, approximately the size of a football field was built just beneath the summit of the falls with the crew setting up camp on the ground making it look like a “full-scale military operation.” bojesse Christopher who plays the fbi 06 director was in the 1991 version of “point Break” as well.