PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 19 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA MAY 2017 TOTAL RECALL: SEVEN GUest Best Interv I ew MotHer’S Y DAY MovIes VIKRANTand MASSE H AMIT SAD THE BEST NEW MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: HALF GIRLFRIEND, SARKAAR 3, ALIEN: COVENANT GREETINGS ear Movie Lovers, It’s the month to celebrate motherhood. Enjoy “7 Best Mother’s Day Movies” with your Mom—keep hankies handy! Here’s the May edition of Movies First, your exclusive window to the world of cinema. Trace the incredible journey of India’s most iconic filmmaker, Satyajit Ray, and join us in wishing living legend Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” continues Clint Eastwood a Happy Birthday. the team’s adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. We really hope you enjoy the issue. Wish you a fabulous month of movie watching. Amitabh Bachchan returns as the simmering Subhash Nagre in “Sarkaar 3,” and Goldie Hawn breezes back Regards to the big screen with “Snatched.” Shraddha Kapoor plays Arjun Kapoor’s enigmatic but irresistible” Half Girlfriend,” while the peppy Parineeti Chopra portrays “Meri Gautam Dutta Pyaari Bindu.” 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 Come onboard as Star-Lord and his band of misfits head off to another adventure in the galaxy. 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 Differences arrive when madhav falls for Riya Half and wants to get into a relationship with her. Not interested in a commitment, Riya turns him down Girlfriend and instead offers to be more than his friend – a half MORE THAN A FRIEND. LESS THAN A GIRLFRIEND. girlfriend. “Half Girlfriend” has all the right ingredients you possibly need to make a successful Bollywood rom- com. A bestselling plot, young A-list star cast, a HETAN successful director, and a constant in every Mohit Suri film - good music. Bhagat iS my maRVEL The movie is an adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s novel of the same name that released back in 2014. COMIC BOOK AND interestingly, the film rights to the novel were sold even before it was published. i’m hiS SuPERhERO. The plot revolves around the love story of Madhav – Arjun Kapoor, Actor (Arjun Kapoor), a boy from Bihar, and a high society Delhi girl Riya (Shraddha kapoor). however, in spite of their vastly different backgrounds, the two end up becoming good friends. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 THE COLLECTION DID YOU KNOW? One of India’s biggest selling English This is the second time Arjun Kapoor novelist, Chetan Bhagat’s book have is playing the lead in a film adaption been manuscripts for Bollywood of a Chetan Bhagat novel. the first blockbusters. Here is a sneak-peek one was “2 States” which went on to become one of the biggest of his work that has made it to the blockbusters of 2014. silver screen: Helmed by “Aashiqui 2” director Mohit Suri and produced by Ekta Kapoor, the movie has been shot in Miranda House in New Delhi, and Times Square and the UN Headquarters in the New York City. Reason to Watch: The movie sets out to explore the ‘in-between’ space in relationships of today. As Chetan Bhagat commented, HELLO (2008) “When I observe today’s youth, I see many situations where people are more than friends, but not quite in a relationship. that situation when you find someone special, but are not yet fully together.” KAI PO CHE! (2013) HALF GIRLFRIEND RELEASE 19 MAY Genre: Romance, Comdey Language: Hindi Director: Mohit Suri Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Seema Biswas Studio: ALT Entertainment Pic Courtesy: ALT Entertainment 2 STATES (2014) PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER GUARDIANS OF MOVIE OF THE MONTH THE GALAXY 2 Tagline: This summer, the galaxy won’t save itself moniker of “Star-Lord.” To his utter dismay, however, he Director: James Gunn finds the name never really caught on in the galaxy he was Star Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, supposedly saving. Dave Bautista, kurt Russell, and the voices of Vin Diesel as Baby Groot and Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon Genre: Sci-Fi, Action Adventure Studio: Marvel Studios HIS IS a mORE intimatE, EmOtiOnaL StORy. Perhaps the most eagerly awaited film in years, guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a power-packed action-adventure. it’S funniER than thE fiRSt taking place some three months after the events of the first film, Vol. 2 kicks off another set of amazing adventures with OnE. thE aCtiOn iS mORE Peter Quill, gamora, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, and the nebula ExCiting. it’S a BiggER of cuteness that is Baby Groot. anD BEttER mOViE in the first guardians of the galaxy film turned things around Marvel-lously for the entire genre of superhero EVERy SingLE aSPECt. films.g one was the need to make every hero a dark, grim – James Gunn, Director soul with heroic intentions only. Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill is a hilariously flawed space outlaw, who goes by the PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 THE PLOT: Set to the backdrop of “Awesome Mixtape 2,” Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” continues the team’s adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the Cosmos. the guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill’s true parentage. Old foes become new allies and fan- favourite characters from the classic comics will come to our heroes’ aid as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand. THE (RETURNING) CAST: Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill/Star- Lord, Zoe Saldana’s Gamora, Dave Bautista’s Drax, Vin Diesel’s (Baby) groot and Bradley Cooper’s Rocket Racoon are all officially back for the sequel!m ichael Rooker’s yondu udonta is rocking a new hairdo and will graduate to official member of the Guardians. Karen Gillan returns as Nebula, with Gunn promising that she’s going to be a huge character in the film. Debicki plays the role of Ayesha, aka Kismet, aka Paragon, aka Her, the sequel’s primary villain. kurt Russel makes his marvel universe debut in the film as Ego, the Living Planet. A quartet of power-hungry scientists known as The Enclave created the world’s first genetically perfect beings in an effort The team will have a new face in Mantis, played by Pom to reboot mankind. First there was Him, a male specimen klementieff. Raised by Ego, she is a telepathic alien of that escaped and became known as Adam Warlock. Then immense power, having defeated even Thor in the comic there was Her, who also rejected her makers and escaped to books! outer space where she eventually became known as Ayesha. Despite abandoning The Enclave, Ayesha still believes that But the real mouth watering piece de resistance is the Adam Warlock is her genetic soulmate, and winds up on a addition of Sylvester Stallone himself, who features in a quest to find him so that they can mate and create a new small-but-important cameo. race of perfect beings. THE VILLIAN: “The Man From U.N.C.L.E”s Elizabeth That’s the comic book version, anyway. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 TRIVIA Ego’s planet VFX is comprised of a 01 trillion polygons, and is considered to be the biggest visual effect ever made. unlike the last film where it was just his 02 voice, Vin Diesel will also provide motion capture for Baby Groot. In the comics, Mantis is half-German 03 and half-Vietnamese. She is portrayed in the film by Pom klementieff, who has a South Korean mother and a French- Russian father. THE DIRECTOR: James Gunn began making 8mm films at the age of 12, many of them comedic splatter films featuring his brothers being disembowelled by zombies. Dropping out of college to pursue a rock and roll career, he also wrote and drew comic strips for underground and college newspapers. Gunn eventually returned to school and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Beginning his career with “Troma Studios” a B-Movie production company, Gunn moved from New York to L.A., where he wrote and acted in the film “the Specials” (2000). Gunn co-wrote and directed the Marvel Studios adaptation of Guardians of the Galaxy, which released on August 1, 2014. The rest, as they say… PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 9 SEVEN TOTAL RECALL Best Mother’s Day Movies MOTHER INDIA (1957) MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson. The movie went Director: Mehboob Khan on to pick five academy awards in 1984 and was nominated for Cast: nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra kumar another six. STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989) Director: herbert Ross Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field One of Bollywood’s biggest all-time blockbusters, “Mother India” is a tale of a poverty-stricken woman who raises her sons through many trials and tribulations.