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PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 20 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA JUNE 2017 TOTAL RECALL: ST 7 BEST GUE Interv Iew SUPerHero FLICKS of JIM H ALL TIME Sarb THE BEST NEW MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: TUbelIGHT, BANK CHOR, BAYWATCH, CARS 3 AND THE HOUSE GREETINGS ear Movie Lovers, to the otherworldly action universe with our list of 7 best superhero movies of all time. Here’s the June edition of Movies First, your exclusive window to the world of cinema. Trace the journey of filmdom’s most loveable tramp , Charlie Ancient evil returns, and Tom Cruise takes on terrors that Chaplin , and join us in wishing Hollywood’s reigning queen defy comprehension in “ The Mummy .” Prepare to shiver! Angelina Jolie a Happy Birthday. The spotlight this month is firmly on Salman Khan, We really hope you enjoy the issue. Wish you a fabulous who shines brighter than ever in Kabir Khan’s dazzling month of movie watching. “Tubelight.” Riteish Deshmukh plays a dim-witted robber in the heist-gone-wrong comedy “Bank Chor.” Jim Sarbh, Regards the main villain in “ Raabta ” reveals the little-known story behind the past-life story. Travel down memory lane with Sergio Leone’s sprawling Gautam Dutta gangster epic “ Once Upon a Time in America.” And zoom 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 Salman Khan starrer “Tubelight” hits the theatres this month. Will it beat “Baahubali 2” in the race to box office? 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 gets drafted into the Army. A helpless Bharat leaves a devastated Laxman behind. News from the border Tubelight only worsens, as the tension continues to escalate. DO YOU BELIEVE? Seeing the carnage around him and worried for his brother, Laxman decides he must stop this conflict and get his brother back. When it comes to Bollywood, Salman Khan’s stature is almost like that of a deity. He is all powerful, has a massive influence and a devoted fan following, and his movies are celebrated with the fervour of a festival. And this year is no different. Salman Khan’s “Tubelight” ALMAN HAS is all set for an Eid release and has managed to create the kind of buzz you’d expect from the superstar’s GONE BEYOND film. It would also mark his third collaboration with director Kabir Khan after delivering superhits “Ek Tha BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN Tiger” and “Bajrangi Bhaijaan.” IN TUBELIGHT. Drawing inspiration from Alejandro Monteverde’s WAY BEYOND AS film “Little Boy,” the film is set in a small picturesque town in North India. The story revolves around AN ACTOR. Laxman (Salman Khan) who lives with his younger brother Bharat (Sohail Khan). The two have no other – Kabir Khan, Director family and are inseparable. Laxman’s world comes crashing down, when war breaks out and Bharat PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 THE COLLECTION DID YOU KNOW? Documentary maker turned Director Shah Rukh Khan will be making a Kabir Khan made his debut back in cameo in the film. This marks the first 2006 with “Kabul Express.” Since time Shah Rukh Khan and Salman then, he has gone on to make some Khan will be onscreen together since of the highest grossing films in Om Shanti Om (2007), ten years ago. Bollywood. Here is a sneak-peek of his directorial ventures: The film stars Chinese superstar Zhu Zhu in the female lead. The internationally acclaimed actress who started her career as a VJ has also worked with Hollywood A-listers such as Tom Hanks in “Cloud Atlas” (2012), and with Russell Crowe in “The Man With The Iron Fists” (2012). Reason to Watch: “Tubelight” will also be mark the last appearance of veteran actor Om Puri who passed away a few months NEW YORK (2009) before its release. In fact, Om Puri’s look in the film is inspired by Colonel Sanders, the owner of the American fast food franchise Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). EK THA TIGER (2012) TUBELIGHT RELEASE 23 JUNE Genre: Drama, History Language: Hindi Director: Kabir Khan Cast: Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Zhu Zhu Studio: Salman Khan Films, Kabir Khan Films Salman Khan Films Pic Courtesy: BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN (2015) PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER THE MUMMY (2017) MOVIE OF THE MONTH Tagline: ‘Welcome To A New World of Gods Sofia Boutella as the titutal Mummy. If the trailers are and Monsters’ anything to go by, this film will rock your socks off in Director: Alex Kurtzman theatres this summer. Star Cast: Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, and Russell Crowe Genre: Action-Adventure, Horror-Fantasy Studio: Universal Studios HIs IS A MOVIE THAT’S FULL OF “Something ancient has returned, and that’s very bad news SUSPENSE, FULL OF for the world.” adveNture. It has With the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in full swing, and MOMENTS OF HORROR THAT Warner Bros.’ DCU not far behind, it was only time before WIll scare the daYLIghts Universal Studios launched their own Cinematic Universe. OUT OF YOU. BEST OF ALL, The studio which essentially created the monster movie genre back in the 1930s with films like “Frankenstein,” “Dracula,” IT HAS AN UNPREDICTABLE and “The Mummy” will relaunch its classic monster movie TOM CRUISE characters under the “Dark Universe” franchise. – Alex Kurtzman, Director The Dark Universe kicks off with “The Mummy” pitting the extremely bankable Tom Cruise against a devilish-looking PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 THE PLOT: Tom Cruise is an Army officer who stumbles upon an ancient Egyptian tombstone. When the two- thousand-year-old sarcophagus is unwittingly opened, the royal residing inside is reawakened. Killed in her own time for her unshakeable desire to lead Egypt, the Mummy’s quest for revenge has had two millenia to fester. AM PLAYING ‘THE MUMMy’ IN THE CAST: Tom Cruise stars as Nick Morton, an officer ‘THE MUMMy.’ BUT I’VE of the US Army. Cruise jumps from tentpole to tentpole TRIED TO GIVE A HUMAN in trademark style, making even those daredevil stunts he performs look easy. The Mummy is no different in QUALITY to MY CHARACTER; that regard, since Cruise has performed all of his stunts BECAUSE PLAYING A MONSTER again, aiming, as he always does, for a fully immersive IS NOT ENOUGH, WE NEED TO experience. FIND WHY MONSTERS ARE It is Sofia Boutella who will leave a mark with you, however. MONSTERS. THAT’S WHAT The Algerian dancer and actress won audiences with her THE MOVIE TRIES TO DO. silent-but-deadly mercenary act in 2014’s “Kingsman: The – Sofia Boutella, Lead Actor Secret Service,” and clearly we were ready for more of Boutella. As the title character in a Tom Cruise film, this is a massive step in her career. Boutella can also be seen opposite Charlize Theron in the upcoming “Atomic Blonde”. The role is performed with a fierce energy by Sofia Boutella, Russell Crowe’s character is how you know you’re inside allowing this movie to really show off its villain in style. a Cinematic Universe: he plays Dr. Henry Jekyll, a name Relatability is a huge factor when a movie is trying to scare familiar to those who have read Robert Louis Stevenson’s the audience, and humanoid features always add depth to famous story about a doctor with a twisted alternate this approach. personality. With Dr. Jekyll in a film called The Mummy, we can only speculate the direction Universal Studios is taking THE DIRECTOR: Alex Kurtzman is a busy, busy man. When for their films. he’s not serving as Executive Producer, he’s co-writing historical blockbusters with partner Roberto Orci. THE VILLIAN: The main difference between Kurtzman’s reimagining of the Mummy films and the previous trilogy Kurtzman launched his film career when director Michael starring Brendar Fraser, is that the eponymous Mummy is Bay approached him (along with Orci) to rewrite The Island, no longer a villain made entirely out of VFX. a semi-successful sci-fi film. That gig led to Bay inviting PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 TRIVIA The film’s tagline, “Welcome to a new 01 world of gods and monsters”, is a quote from Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which was also produced by Universal. The zero gravity scene took 64 takes 02 and was shot for 2 days in a falling plane. Reportedly, a lot of the crew got nauseous during the scene and vomited, except for the main stars Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis, who were really proud of the stunt. This will be the first movie in The 03 Mummy franchise where the mummy is female. the duo to kickstart the Transformers saga, a five-series franchise which has grossed over $3 billion to date. Things really kicked into high gear when he co-wrote J.J Abrams’ phenomenal “Mission: Impossible III” starring Tom Cruise. The film was a giant hit and there was no looking back for him.