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PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 14 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA NOVEMBER 2016 TOTAL RECALL: 7 Best Animated Movies of ALL TIME C FANTASTI FIVE S 5 staR IN THE MAKing THE BEST NEW MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: DEARPVR ZMOVIESindagi FIRST , FantastiC Beasts AND WHERE TO FIND THEM PAGE 1 GREETINGS ear Movie Lovers, Zindagi. John Abraham reprises the towering role of tough cop ACP Yashvardhan in Abhinay Deo’s Force 2. Here’s the November edition of Movies First, your exclusive window to the world of cinema. Matthew McConaughey is aging like fine wine. Join us in wishing a happy 47th birthday to the Academy Award Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne lets a suitcase full of magical winning actor. creatures loose on 1920s New York, in the the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The It’s the month of Children’s Day! Stir up some hot chocolate and magic is back, Potter fans! pick from our list of the finest animated movies ever made. “Doctor Strange,” the latest movie in the ever-expanding We really hope you enjoy the issue. Wish you a fabulous Marvel Cinematic Universe, casts an impressive spell of its month of movie watching. own, with the charming Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead. Regards Thomas Dam’s troll dolls come alive in Dreamworks Animations musical comedy Trolls. Shah Rukh Khan plays a life mentor to Alia Bhatt, a Gautam Dutta promising young cinematographer in Gauri Shinde’s Dear 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 Read on as we follow Mazoologist Newt Scamander’s adventures in JK Rowling’s magical world. Tap for... 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He arrives in New York for a Where to Find Them brief stopover, and might have come and gone without A NEW ERA OF MAGIC BEGINS incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble As Harry and Ginny bid adieu to their son Albus Severus at for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds. platform 9¾ in the closing minutes of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2, the potterverse fans might have Along with a former auror Tina, her sister Queenie, and his thought they have seen the very last of JK Rowling and her new No-Maj friend Jacob, Newt forms a band of unlikely world of magic. But it seems that the author and Warner heroes, who must recover Newt’s missing beasts before Bros had other plans. they come to harm. There were plenty of reasons to smile for the fans of the wizarding world when the studio announced production of the spinoff series ‘Magical Beasts and Where To Find DID YOU KNOW? Them’ trilogy with the first film set to hit the theatres on The name Newt Scamander November, 2016. Although we won’t be seeing Harry and appears on the Marauder’s Hermoine again anytime soon, this definitely looks like the next best thing in store. Map in the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Set in New York in 1926, seventy years before the events (2004). of Harry Potter series, the plot revolves around Newt Scamander, a Magizoologist who has been travelling the PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 Reason to Watch: The Collection Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is going to be With a total of 4 installments under his belt, one of 2016’s biggest films, also because of its obvious David Yates holds the record for directing similarities to Harry Potter. With a stellar cast, a proven the most Harry Potter films. His work on director and Rowling screenplay all on board, there’s so the series brought him major commercial much to look forward to in the film. success along with accolades. Here is a sneak-peek of his work from the franchisee: HE FILM IS NEITHER A PREQUEL NOR A SEQUEL TO THE HARRY POTTER SERIES, BUT AN EXTENSION OF THE WIZARDING WORLD. NEWT’S HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007) STORY WILL START IN NEW YORK, SEVENTY YEARS BEFORE HARRY GETS UNDERWAY. – J.K. Rowling, Author & Screenwriter HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) FANTASTIC BEASTS AND HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLy Hallows – PART 1 (2010) WHERE TO FIND THEM RELEASE 18 NOVEMBER Genre: Adventure, Fantasy Language: English Director: David Yates Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz Studio: Heyday Films Pic Courtesy: Warner Bros. Pictures HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLy Hallows – PART 2 (2011) PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS SET REMINDER ROCK ON 2 MOVIE OF THE MONTH Tagline: Every Generation Finds its Voice THE PLOT: Eight years after the Mumbai rock grunge Release Date:11 Nov band Magik reunited in Rock On!!, they are back with a Director: Shujaat Saudagar fresh story centered around music, emotions and life. Star Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Shraddha Kapoor, Prachi Desai Genre: Musical/Drama Rating: (U) Studio: Excel Entertainment Y PICK Rock On!! was perhaps the first Hindi film that was made about a rock band, and went on to achieve cult status. With OF THE FILM IS FARHAN’S this sequel, Magik, the band, is back, but the stakes and the CHARACTER, ADI. LIKE HIM, scales are higher now. The film turns the spotlight on the conflicts in the North-East, weaving the issues there into its I TRIED TO RUN BUT I KNEW narrative through music and human relationships. I COULD NOT HIDE. BOTH FILMS HAVE HIM FACE HIS As Farhan Akhtar’s character tells his audience, Magik has not performed for many years and now, “This. Is. It.” The DEMONS. I IDENTIFY WITH “it” promises to be the high point of Rock On 2. THAT A LOT. – Shujaat Saudagar, Director Advertising filmmaker Shujaat Saudagar dons the directorial hat for the first time with Rock On 2, replacing Abhishek Kapoor, who helmed the prequel. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 Without giving the story away, the director says, “The with the ladies. Luke Kenny, keyboardist of the band in essence of the plot is to bring out the dynamics of Rock On!! is missing, since his character died in the end. relationships that people share with each other through life. He is replaced by actor-musician Shashank Arora. It is about human bonds that go beyond romance and love as we traditionally define them.” A key element of the film is Shraddha Kapoor, who plays a talented but unsure youngster whom Farhan Akhtar’s character Aditya Shroff mentors. THE CHARACTERS It is an emotionally intense story, like the first one. But the Rock On!! was about friends falling out. Rock On 2 deals characters have grown older and play their current age. with internal conflict. This film is emotionally stronger. Arjun’s son is now a teenager. Farhan’s son is eight years old. Purab is still single because he still cannot get lucky THE SETTING Rock On 2 has been shot in Meghalaya, with a lot of Khasi music. Wildly popular local band Somersault features in it. Shillong is the rock capital of the country. When the Scorpions came to India, that was the only place where they T’S INCREDIBLE performed. Once the idea of setting the film in the North- TO SEE THE RECALL VALUE East concretised, the team flew to Guwahati and drove to Shillong. “As soon as we crossed into Meghalaya, we OF THE FIRST FILM’S SONGS. THE MINUTE THE SONGS START FROM THE ALBUM, THE ENERGY OF THAT CROWD JUST COMPLETELY CHANGES. WITH THE SEQUEL, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUSH THAT EVEN FURTHER. – Farhan Akhtar PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 TRIVIA Shradha Kapoor, who astonished 01 everyone with her beautiful voice in Ek Villain, sings jazz for the first time in Rock On 2. She has been mentored by singer and vocal coach Samantha Edwards, who earlier trained Priyanka Chopra and Alia Bhatt for their movie singing debuts The script of Rock On 2 took three 02 years to write, because the director felt they needed that much time to arrive at the emotions they needed to convey The film was scheduled to be 03 shot in Himachal Pradesh, but a series of attacks on North-Eastern students in different parts of the country prompted the team to bring this region into the limelight Shashank Arora, the young actor 04 who got noticed in the critically acclaimed Titli, plays a sarod player in Rock On 2 knew we were shooting there. We spent a week, ten days, absorbing the culture,” says director Shujaat Saudagar. In Cherrapunji, where you do not meet anyone for hours, the team suddenly heard music coming from the mist.