PVR MOVIES FIRST VOL. 42 YOUR WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF CINEMA JUNE 2019 21 LITTLE-KNowN FACTS AboUt…. CHRIS HEMSwoRTH GUEST W INTERVIE AN ARJ A BAJW OTHER BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES PLAYING THIS MONTH: BHARAT, KABIR SINGH, SECTION 375, TOY STORY-4 GREETINGS ear Movie Lovers, Also, discover the filmmaking genius of Danny Boyle, and meet Arjan Bajwa, who plays a pivotal role in Kabir Singh. Here’s the June issue of Movies First, your exclusive window to the world of cinema. Don’t forget to take a shot at our movie quiz, too. This month, we wait with bated breath as one of the We really hope you enjoy the issue. Wish you a fabulous X-Men’s most beloved characters, Jean Grey, evolves month of movie watching into the iconic Dark Phoenix. Salman Khan holds family values aloft on his powerful shoulders in the sweeping Regards saga of Bharat. Cricket meets romance in the film adaptation of Anuja Chauhan’s bestselling novel, The Gautam Dutta Zoya Factor. 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IT DEPICTS expensive production. SALMAn’S CHARACTER WHICH HAS MANY LAYERS. IF YOU WANT TO WITNESS The Plot A REAL RELATIONSHIP THEN THIS IS THE During the Partition of India in 1947, Bharat’s father stays FILM—iT HAS ALL THE COLOURS OF LOVE. SALMAN KHAN AND back in Pakistan and makes his eight-year-old son promise KATRINA KAIF’S CHARACTERS GROW to lead the household and keep the family together, no OLD TOGETHER IN THE FILM LIKE matter what. Bharat’s life over a period of 60 years, from TRUE SOULMATES OR FRIENDS 18 to 70 years of age, traces India’s post-independence – Atul Agnihotri, history as well as his determination to keep his word to Co-producer his father. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 4 Bharat joins The Great Russian Circus in 1964 and earns a Trivia reputation for being a playboy. The discovery of oil in the Gulf region in the mid-1970s leads to a subsequent Indian This is the third collaboration of Salman migration to the territory. Here, Bharat begins a romantic Khan and Ali Abbas Zafar after Sultan relationship with his chief engineer Kumud Raina. He (2016) and Tiger Zinda Hai (2017), both of volunteers for the Indian Navy and later holds the family which were blockbusters. business together during the period leading to economic liberalisation in the 1990s, all the while keeping his promise to his father. Behind the Scenes Director Ali Abbas Zafar has stated that making Bharat was like making seven different films. He spent one- and-a-half years along with his production designer and stylists to study the different eras before kickstarting the shoot. He based his depiction of the Partition on Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi. The Partition sequences were shot in the freezing cold over 10 days in Punjab. They recreated a station near Lahore, replete with a real steam engine, which was brought to the location. It happens to be one of only five functioning steam engines in the country. The art department worked on it for four days to make it match those from the Northern Frontier Railways of 1947. Salman Khan sports prosthetics for the first time in his career. He will be seen in four to five different looks in the film through 60 years. The crucial part will focus on his late 20s, in which he looks lean and youthful. The technology used in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has been harnessed to BHARAT transform Salman’s looks. RELEASE 05 JUNE The film has been shot in diverse locations including Abu Dhabi, Spain, Genre: Drama Malta, Punjab and Delhi. The climax Language(s): Hindi has been shot in Filmcity, Delhi and Director: Ali Abbas Zafar will reportedly see a 10-crore set being Star Cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Tabu Studio: Salman Khan Films destroyed. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 5 PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 6 PLAY TRAILER BOOK TICKETS X-Men: Dark Phoenix MOVIE OF THE MONTH Release Date: June 05, 2019 Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi Language: English Director: Simon Kinberg Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence HIS IS A Studio: 20th Century Fox, Bad Hat Harry Productions, MOVIE THAT IS UNLIKE The Donners’ Company, Marvel Entertainment, TSG OTHER X-MEN MOVIES. IT’S Entertainment A MOVIE WHERE SHOCKING, INTENSE, DRAMATIC THINGS Pic Courtesy: 20th Century Fox HAPPEN. PEOPLE DOn’T JUST FALL OFF BUILDINGS AND DUST THEMSELVES OFF AND WALK AWAY. THERE’S A REALITY THE Plot: AND A CONSEQUENCE TO In 1992, nearly a decade after the events of X-Men: Apocalypse, the X-Men are national heroes going on THIS MOVIE. – Simon Kinberg, increasingly risky missions. When a solar flare hits them Director during a rescue mission in space, Jean Grey loses control of her abilities and unleashes the Phoenix. PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 7 “” Like other comic book movies Superman III (1983), Spider- Man 3 (2004) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), the film is about a superhero succumbing to his or her dark side and turning evil. This is the 2nd X-Men movie in which Jean Grey succumbs to her dark side and transforms into Dark Phoenix. DOn’T THINK thIS movIE IS A comedY The Stakes BY ANY meaNS, Nor do I Phoenix will feature some of the series’ biggest set pieces thINK IT’S A MUSIcal BY ANY to date, including the X-Men’s first trip to outer space. meaNS; that’S what I’M It’s also the most sinister, and somber chapter in the saga and includes a massive twist halfway through that reallY excIted aboUT IN will irrevocably change the course of the franchise. “This thIS FIlm, that there’S A is probably the most emotional X-Men we’ve done and good balaNce of everYthING the most pathos-driven,” McAvoy says. “There’s a lot of AND GUY RItchIE does AN sacrifice and a lot of suffering.” INCREDIBLE JOB AT THAT. – Mena Massoud, The movie becomes a fight for Jean’s soul as Phoenix Lead Actor threatens to overtake her mind and divide the X-Men, particularly Jean and her mentor, Charles. “It’s about the butterfly effect of this thing happening,” says Turner, who studied schizophrenia and multiple personality disorders “One of the things I wanted to do with it is to get the to prepare. “What happens when the person you love the movie outside and make it feel like you’re on location and most falls into darkness?” put it in real world environments as much as its also in otherworldly environments. But I wanted it to feel like it The Cast could take place in your neighbourhood,” says Kinberg. Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, “That particular neighborhood we built from the ground up. Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Nicholas Hoult and Evan The entire street was a build on the studio up in Montreal, Peters reprise their roles from previous X-Men movies. and it was a massive build. All those houses and the bridge Jessica Chastain joins the series as a mysterious shape- you see in the distance, all of that was built really not for shifter. the sake of secrecy, but obviously it helped with that. But more because there’s a lot of action that takes place there. The Shoot Houses get blown up, and you couldn’t obviously do that There’s a lot more handheld camerawork and a lot more in a real environment.” close-ups and a lot more of a feeling of intimacy, and with that comes a certain level of intensity because you feel the The Director characters’ emotions and anger more than you would in Simon David Kinberg (born August 2, 1973) is a British- big wide shots. born American screenwriter, film film and television PVR MOVIES FIRST PAGE 8 “” TRIVIA Hans Zimmer decided to retire from 01 composing superhero movies after having worked on scores for Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man, but Simon Kinberg convinced him to work on this film. This will be the first X-Men film to 02 not feature or reference either Logan/ Wolverine or the actor that portrays him, Hugh Jackman. This is because Jackman retired from the role, which he portrayed since X-Men (2000). This is the fourth movie that James 03 McAvoy had to shave his head for, the first three beingX-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Split (2017), and Glass (2019). 04 It’s rumored that Dark Phoenix will be the final installment of the X-Men film franchise and that the X-Men film franchise will be rebooted.