7 Greatest Biographical Movies of All Time
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PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 15 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA DECEMBER 2016 TOTAL RECALL: 7 GreateST BIograPHIcal MOVIES OF ALL TIME TIC FANTAS FIVE S 5 Star IN THE MAKIng THE BEST NEW MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: KAHPVRAAN MOVIESI 2,FIRST BE FIKRE, COLLATERAL BEAUTY AND ASSASSIN’S CREED PAGE 1 GREETINGS ear Movie Lovers, Emma Stone revive their chemistry as lovers in Damien Chazelle’s La La Land. Here’s the December edition of Movies First, your exclusive window to the world of cinema. A long wait ends: Sujoy Ghosh and Vidya Balan reboot their gritty thriller Kahaani with a sequel. Aamir Khan is back with the highly anticipated sports drama Dangal. Based on the life of former Indian wrestler Doused in the spirit of Paris, Aditya Chopra celebrates Mahavir Singh Phogat and his two wrestler daughters’ contemporary romance in Befikre, a free-spirited love story. struggle for glory in the face of societal oppression. We really hope you enjoy the issue. 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EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER DANGAL MOVIE OF THE MONTH Tagline: Are my daughters any lesser than the boys? of former Indian wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his director: nitesh Tiwari two wrestler daughters’ struggle for glory in the face of star Cast: Aamir khan, sakshi Tanwar, societal oppression. Fatima Sana Shaikh Genre: Sport, Drama Rating: (u/A) Release date: 23 december Studio: Disney World Cinema, Aamir Khan Productions iTEsh hAs WRiTTEn A WOndERfuL Bollywood’s current list of blockbusters boasts gritty sports sTORy. ThE TOPiC is dramas and powerful stories on women empowerment. VERy imPORTAnT And The stupendous success of Bhaag milkha Bhaag, mary Kom, Queen and the more recent PINK, Sultan and MS dRAmATiC. iT hiGhLiGhTs Dhoni has compelled bigger studios and stars to invest ThE disCRiminATiOn in such stories. And of course, the millennial multiplex audience is loving the trend. ThAT is mETEd OuT TO ThE GiRL ChiLd in indiA. Intense and highly anticipated, Aamir Khan’s Dangal is – Aamir Khan, Actor the latest entrant into the box office ring this month. Titled on the native name of wrestling pits in india, Dangal is a biographical sports drama based on the life PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 The film took almost four years to materialise from scratch and required Aamir to go through some drastic physical transformation and training to portray the role of a wrestler. hen we THE PLOT: Dangal is the story of Mahavir Singh Phogat, WERE nARRATEd a champion wrestler from Haryana who aims to bag a gold medal for India in International wrestling ThE sTORy By (diRECTOR) competitions. unable to realise the dream himself, Phogat nitesh Tiwari, we loved resolves that he’ll make his son accomplish what he ThE fact That There was himself couldn’t. nOThinG fAkE in iT. But as fate would have it, Phogat’s wife Daya Kaur (Sakshi iT WAs ALL ABOuT WhAT Tanwar) is unable to bear him a son and gives birth to four actually happenEd in daughters - Geeta, Babita, Ritu, and sangita. Although OuR LiVEs. Phogat loves his daughters dearly, he is disappointed to – Babita Kumari, see his dream crash as he believes that girls are not cut out Wrestler for a tough sport like wrestling. However, when two of his daughters, Geeta and Babita are sent home from school for beating up two boys who were teasing them, Phogat realises how wrong he was and up look of elder Mahavir Singh and the trimmed down begins to rigorously train his daughters in wrestling even version of his younger self. though he faces some backlash from the society. Phogat’s faith in his daughters is rewarded when Geeta and Babita Keen to get the wrestling sequences as realistic as possible, qualify to represent India at the Commonwealth Games in he trained for more than a year under Arjun awardee 2010 and go on to win gold and silver medals respectively. wrestler Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi. Aamir’s sincerity and Phogat was later awarded the prestigious Dronacharya dedication left Bishnoi smitten who went on to compliment Award by the Government of India. the actor as an “obedient student.” AAMIR AS MAHAVIR SINGH PHOGAT: While the characters YOUNG DEBUTANTS of Geeta and Babita are important to the story, the film While the presence of Aamir is good enough to drive is largely centered on Mahavir Singh Phogat, played on crowds in the theatre, Dangal will see quite a few debuts the screen by mr. Perfectionist Aamir khan. As the film on the big screen: transcends through different timelines, Aamir will be • Sanya malhotra – A trained ballet dancer from delhi, metamorphosing in two different looks: the 20-year-old Sanya will be making her debut as Mahavir’s younger wrestler and the 60-year-olds father and coach. daughter Babita Kumari. he trained under mahesh Bhatt’s son Rahul Bhatt and • Zaira Wasim: Child actress and model Zaira will be seen salman khan’s personal trainer Rakesh to attain the bulked playing the younger Geeta Phogat. SANYA MALHOTRA ZAIRA WASIM APARSHAKTI KHURANA PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 TRIVIA After gaining 28 kgs for the initial shoot, 01 Aamir khan lost 25 kgs in 20 weeks to portray the younger, 25-year-old character of Mahavir Singh Phogat. About 21,000 girls auditioned for the 02 role of Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat, before the roles were bagged by Fatima Sana Sheikh and Sanya Malhotra. Geeta Phogat won india its first ever gold 03 medal in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. she is also the first indian woman wrestler to have qualified for the Olympics. Within 24 hours of being posted, the 04 trailer became the 3rd most-viewed video in the world, after “50 shades darker” and “star Wars—The force Awakens.” Although the story is based in Haryana, 05 the film has been mostly shot in the villages of Ludhiana in Punjab.