PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 34 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA AUGUST 2018 21 LITTLE-KNOWN THINGS ABOUt…. MARK WaHLBERG GUEST VIEW INTER TI ApaRSHAKA KHURAN THE BEST NEW MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: MULK, KARWAAN, LIFE’S GOOD, GENIUS AND 5 WEDDINGS GREETINGS ear Movie Lovers, Meet rising star Patrick Gibson and get up close and personal with Hollywood superstar Mark Wahlberg, a man Here’s the August issue of Movies First, your exclusive of many tattoos and turbulent tales. window to the world of cinema. We really hope you enjoy the issue. Wish you a fabulous This month’s underwater rescue mission “The Meg” is month of movie watching. equal parts fascinating and frightening, with a 70-foot shark adding to the chills. Leena Yadav cooks up a delicious Regards domestic tale in “Rajma Chawal,” while Sriram Raghavan returns with “Andhadun,” his latest thriller about a Gautam Dutta blind pianist. 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THE PLOT: A historical sports drama inspired by India’s first Olympic gold medal. The film traces the golden era of Indian hockey through the journey of Tapan Das, a young assistant manager in 1936, who dreams of playing for an DID YOU KNOW? independent nation. It is an inspirational story of a team The Bradford Bulls rugby that fought against all odds to bring their nation hope, pride league stadium in Odsal, and respect. It explains resistances and outbreaks faced by Bradford, West Yorkshire, the hockey players and portrays the true story of victory doubled for London’s among the swirling turmoil of riots. Wembley Stadium for the shooting of the Olympics THE IDEA: The director was always interested in sports Hockey final. films. Her friend, lyricist Ankur Tiwari shared the idea of a Although the actual score film on the historic hockey match that India played at the of the hockey final was 4-0, 1948 Olympics and brought home India’s first gold medal. the film has a score of 5-4, This story really appealed to Kagti and she decided to make because the producers felt that a film on this. the audience would appreciate more of a cliffhanger score. This movie is set in 1948 and tells the historic story of the Indian Hockey team. It highlights India’s emergence from PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 The Collection Reema Kagti was born in Guwahati, Assam. She was 24 when she joined the film T IS NOT A industry and her first big break was as an BIopIC. It IS A complete assistant director with Rajat Kapoor. She FIctIONal story BUT IT IS then worked as an assistant director with set agaINst A real BacKdrop Farhan Akhtar, Ashutosh Gowariker, Honey Irani , and Mira Nair. She is one of the best BetweeN 1933-48, ABOUT women film directors in India today. what the coUNtry was, She made her debut as director with the the sports… ABOUT hocKey. critically acclaimed ‘Honeymoon Travels It IS Not Based ON ANY Pvt. Ltd’ (2007). The story is about six CHARACTER. couples, who are on their honeymoon and - Ritesh Sidhwani their trials and tribulations during their four day journey to Goa. Her next film ‘Talaash’ (2012) was a suspense drama where a police inspector, The director says, “Mine would be a fictional take on what who is dealing with a depressing past, has actually happened. The game of hockey would feature to investigate a high profile murder case, prominently in the plot. But there will also be a strong human drama playing at the forefront. And it wouldn’t be deal with his crumbling marriage and use just the Olympics victory in 1948, we will be looking at. the help and solace of a prostitute by the ‘Gold’ will look at 12 crucial years in India’s history.” name of Rosie. It had worldwide earnings of over 26 million dollars, becoming one of the highest grossing Indian films of 2012. GOLD RELEASE 15 AUGUST Genre: Drama, Biography Language: Hindi Director: Reema Kagti Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mouni Roy, Kunal Kapoor, Vineet Kumar Singh, Amit Sadh, Sunny Kaushal Studio: Excel Entertainment Pic Courtesy: AA Films India PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER THE MEG MOVIE OF THE MONTH Tagline: Opening Wide imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered Release Date: 10 August, 2018 this same terrifying creature. Now he must confront his Genre: Action, Horror fears and risk his life to save everyone trapped below, Language: English bringing him face to face once more with the greatest Director: Jon Turteltaub and largest predator of all time. Cast: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, Cliff Curtis Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Gravity Pictures, Flagship Entertainment, Apelles Entertainment, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Maeday Productions Pic Courtesy: Warner Bros. Pictures T REQUIRES A PHYSICALITY FOR SURE FOR THIS ROLE THE STORY: A deep sea submersible part of an BECAUSE HE HAS TO PUT international undersea observation programme has been HIMSELF IN HARM’S WAY FOR attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to THE GREATER GOOD be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific, with its crew trapped inside. OF EVERYBODY ELSE. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver SO IT’S A REALLY GREAT Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary HEROIC ROLE. Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao) to save the – Jason Statham crew and the ocean from this pre-historic 75 foot long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 N THE EARLY STAGES OF THE PREP, WE TOOK A trIP to FIJI, AND we weNT DIVING WIth some BUll sharKS. These thINgs are three metres IN leNgth, HUGE BIG THINGS. THERE WERE 20 or 30 of these thINgs, AND they were haND-feedING them BIG TUNA heads, AND we got very, VERY CLOSE, AND IT WAS A SPECTACULAR MOMENT. THE HERO: Jason Statham, born in 1967, is an English actor – Jason Statham and film producer. He is one of the most bankable stars in the movie industry today. Typecast as the anti-hero, he is known for his action-thriller roles and portraying tough, irredeemable and machiavellian characters. Throughout (2014). In this film, she plays the role of Dr. Zhang Suyin, his film career, Statham has regularly performed his own the lead oceanographer, who works together with a former stage combat and stunts. Naval Captain to rescue the deep sea submersible trapped at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. He started his film career with the crime-comedy-thriller ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ (1998). The movie Ruby Rose is an Australian model and actress. She has was well received by both critics and audiences and helped pursued a career in acting from 2008 onwards and is put Statham in the public eye. Thereafter he was seen one of the most in-demand stars in the action genre. In in ‘Snatch’(2000), ‘Ghost of Mars’ (2001) and ‘The One’ 2016 and 2017, she appeared in three big action film (2001). He is very well-known for his lead role of driver Frank sequels, ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’ alongside Vin Martin in the action movie series ‘The Transporter’(2002), Diesel, ‘Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’ and ‘John Wick: Transporter 2 (2005) and Transporter 3 (2008). His other Chapter 2’ alongside Keanu Reeves. In this movie, she films include ‘Mean Machine, ‘The Italian Job’ ‘Cellular’, plays Jaxx Herd, an engineering genius, who is working ‘Crank’, ‘Death Race’, ‘The Expendables’, ‘The Mechanic’, alongside the marine research team and gets caught up ‘Killer Elite’, ‘Fast and Furious 6’, ‘Spy’and ‘Furious 7’. in the deadly action. THE FEMALE LEADS: Bingbing Li is a Chinese actress and Jessica McNamee is an Australian actress. She rose to has starred in the Hollywood blockbusters ‘Resident Evil: fame in while playing roles in the television programmes Retribution’ (2012) and ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ ‘Home and Away’ and ‘Packed to the Rafters’. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 TRIVIA 01 It is based on the 1997 science fiction book ‘Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror’ by Steve Alten and is the first book that he has ever published. Ruby Rose almost drowned while 02 filming a water scene with co- star Rainn Wilson at Auckland’s Kumeu Film Studios. In the scene, her character was supposed to be drowning but the crew couldn’t tell the difference between Rose’s acting and her really struggling to stay afloat. It marks the return of noted film 03 producer Gerald R.