PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 16 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA JANUARY 2017 TOTAL RECALL: SING TOP RI S Star D CONTENDerS Nte 3 Tale le For THE PeoP U WILLS OScarS IN YO THI Meet TH 2017 MON THE BEST NEW MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: RAEEPVRS MOVIES, OK FIRST JAA NU, KAABIL, PASSENGERS AND LIVE BY NIGHT PAGE 1 GREETINGS appy New Year, dear readers! Inch closer to each other! The supernatural-themed “The Bye Bye Man” is going to send chills down your spine. Here’s our January edition of Movies First, your exclusive window to the world of cinema. Robert Zemeckis directs Brad Pitt as a Canadian intelligence officer on a deadly mission in the tense World After years of wait Vin Diesel marks his return as Xander War II thriller “Allied.” Cage in “xXx: Return of Xander Cage,” our Movie of the Month With Academy Awards around the corner, sift through our list of Best Movies of 2016 and pick your own winners. Presenting Shah Rukh Khan in the never-seen-before avatar of a kohl-eyed bootlegger turned don, “Raees.” Regards Emotion powers the action in “Kaabil,” with a visually challenged Hrithik Roshan taking on his beloved’s Gautam Dutta tormentors. 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 Join the action as Vin Diesel reboots Xander Cage after 14 years of exile. Tap for... Tap for... Movie OF THE MONTH 3 TALENTED PEOPLE YOU WILL MEET THIS MONTH 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-PEEK INTO THE BIG RELEASES OF THE MONTH! PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER RAEES EVERYTHING IS FAIR IN LOVE, WAR AND BUSINESS DID YOU KNOW? Shah Rukh Khan has shot high-octane action scenes in the movie, without using THE PLOT: Set in a Muslim ghetto in 1980s Gujarat, a rope or harness. this action-drama tells the story of bootlegger Raees (Shah Rukh Khan) whose business is challenged and eventually thwarted by a police officer, played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui. THE ACTORS: Almost every time that Shah Rukh Khan has played a negative character, his films have been superhits. In Raees, he will be seen in a menacing, bearded avatar, with kohl-lined eyes to boot. His character is pitted against ACP Ghulam Patel, played by the mega-talented Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Matching wits and intensity, the actors power their battle with whistle-worthy dialogue: “Gujarat ki hawa PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 mein vyapar hai sahib. Meri saans toh rokoge, lekin is based on a true story, won rave reviews and fetched him a hawa to kaise rokoge?” National Award. For Raees, Dholakia travelled extensively through Gujarat for two years, fleshing out his story and Adding oomph to the proceedings is Sunny Leone, who creating the world he wanted to set it in. appeares in the smoking-hot number “Laila.” Reason to Watch THE DIRECTOR: Rahul Dholakia entered filmdom after a A movie based on a high profile criminal chased by a successful career in advertising. His 2007 film “Parzania,” determined police officer, toplined by A-list stars and helmed by a National Award winning director, is bound to deliver white-knuckle intensity. Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment, known for taking on quality projects, has co-produced Raees with Shah Rukh Khan’s studio, Red Chillies. AM A VERY URBAN ACTOR, RAEES BUT RAHUL DHOLAKIA RELEASE 25 JANUARY COULD THINK OF ME IN Genre: Action AN EARTHY ROLE. Language: Hindi IT’S SOMETHING I HAVE Director: Rahul Dholakia Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Mahira Khan, NEVER DONE BEFORE. Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Shah Rukh Khan Produced: Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Gauri Khan PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER xXx: Return Of MOVIE OF THE MONTH Xander Cage Tagline: It’s Good To Be Back! Cage. The movie also stars Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Directors: D.J. Caruso Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose and Samuel L. Jackson Star Cast: Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, in key roles and is being directed by D.J. Caruso. Deepika Padukone Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller Rating: (U/A) Release Date: 20 January Studio: Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, One Race Films, Revolution Studios, Roth Kirschenbaum Films AJIRAO TO An extent — WItH THE TRAINING AND THE Vin Diesel is currently one of the biggest action superstars in Hollywood and he doesn’t like to do KIND OF ACTION THE FILM anything in half measures. The talk of him rebooting his REQUIRED — PHYSICALLY role of Xander Cage in the xXx franchise — the one he AND EMOTIONALLY helped launch back in 2002 — had been on cards for a long time. The fans knew that if he’s actually going to PREPARED ME TO return, he would do everything in his power to push the TAKE UP XXX. action over the top. – Deepika Padukone, Actor Finally after years and years of wait Vin Diesel marks his return as Xander Cage in... ahem, xXx: Return of Xander PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 t was veRy excitInG to WoRk witH DEEPIKA AND SHE IS GOING to be SUch A delight. I think tHe WoRlD Although it’s been 14 years since we last saw Cage in action will Go crazy oveR but it doesn’t look like he has missed a step in his hiatus. He her character in still knows how to punch bad guys, ski through forests and skateboard off the sides of buses. THE FILM. – Vin Diesel, Actor THE PLOT: Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel), thought to be long dead, comes out of self-imposed exile. He is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang (Donnie Yen) and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable A sequel “xXx: State of the Union,” followed up in 2005 with weapon known as Pandora’s Box. Recruiting an all-new Ice Cube replacing Diesel in the lead as Darius Stone, a new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, xander finds himself agent in the xxx program, who is sent to Washington, DC enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at to defuse a power struggle amongst national leaders. the highest levels of world governments. THE CREW: Although original xXx director Rob Cohen Packed with the series’ signature deadpan wit and bad-ass was initially expected to helm “Return of Xander Cage” but attitude, “xXx: Return of Xander Cage” will raise the bar on he later dropped out of the project while it was stalled in extreme action with some of the most mind-blowing stunts development. When the project was moved back into active to be ever be captured on film. development in 2015, “Disturbia” and “Eagle Eye” director D.J. Caruso was attached to it shortly after Diesel confirmed THE PREQUELS: Released in 2002, the original xXx his involvement. the film is based on a script by Chad St. (pronounced “Triple-X”) cast Diesel as an extreme athlete John (London Has Fallen) and F. Scott Frazier (Collide). and internet video star conscripted by a shadowy government agency to become a spy and infiltrate an anarchist terror- THE CAST: the third xxx film is being framed as an attempt cell based on their shared lifestyle interests. to reinvent the brand in the mould of the Fast & Furious series, with Xander Cage being reworked from a solo Intended as a star-vehicle and franchise for the then-rising antihero to the leader of a diverse team, aimed at appealing star Diesel shortly after his breakout role in “The Fast & The to a largely overseas international audience. Furious,” the film was a box office success. Diesel ultimately passed on further sequels to pursue the Riddick franchise – Samuel L. Jackson returns to the franchise as an NSA before ultimately returning to the Fast films. operative who serves as Cage’s handler. “Ip Man” and PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 TRIVIA Brazilian professional soccer player 01 Neymar will make an appearance in the film, along with retired nFl player Tony Gonzalez and UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping. This marks the second incident where 02 Vin Diesel opted out of the second entry of a series that he originally launched as the lead before reprising the role again. Diesel also skipped the second entry of ‘The Fast and the Furious’ series. Prior to filming x xx, vin Diesel had 03 never driven a motocross bike before. He was trained by the world’s top motocross riders. The motorcycle that Xander is riding 04 after the Corvette base jump is a1999 MV A gust a Series ORO (Gold Series). It’s one of only 300 produced worldwide. Vin Diesel and Tony Jaa have previously 05 starred together in Furious 7. “Rogue one: A Star Wars Story” actor Donnie yen will play the primary villain for the film — a character named xiang. Bollywood Star Deepika Padukone will be making her Hollywood debut in the film. She’ll be playing the role of Serena, a huntress who is also Xander Cage’s ex-lover. She has revealed that her character is totally opposite to how she is in reality.