Thursday, 7 May 2020

Veronica

Veronica (SpanishVerónica) is a 2017 Spanish supernatural horror drama film directed by Paco Plaza.It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It is loosely based on true events from the 1991 Vallecas case where Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro died mysteriously after she used a ouija board.

Directed byPaco Plaza
Produced byEnrique López Lavigne
Screenplay byFernando Navarro 
StarringSandra Escacena
Music byChucky Namanera
CinematographyPablo Rosso
Edited byMarti Roca
Release date
  • 25 August 2017
Running time
105 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish
Box office$6.3 million

Monday, 20 April 2020

John Wick (Chapter 1)

John Wick:

 is a 2014 American neo-noir action film directed by Chad Stahelski, in his directorial debut, and written by Derek Kolstad. It stars Keanu ReevesMichael NyqvistAlfie AllenAdrianne PalickiBridget MoynahanDean WintersIan McShaneJohn Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe. It is the first installment in the John Wick film series.
The story focuses on John Wick (Reeves) searching for the men who broke into his home, stole his vintage car and killed his puppy, which was a last gift to him from his recently deceased wife (Moynahan). Stahelski and David Leitch directed the film together, though only Stahelski was credited.
Kolstad had completed the screenplay in 2012 and further developed it for Thunder Road Pictures. The film was produced by Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road Pictures, Leitch, Eva Longoria, and Michael Witherill. It marks Stahelski and Leitch's directorial debut as a team after multiple separate credits as second-unit directors and stunt coordinators. They previously worked with Reeves as stunt doubles on The Matrix trilogy.
Stahelski and Leitch's approach to action scenes drew upon their admiration for anime and martial arts films.The film used fight choreographers and gun fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema.The film also pays homage to works such as John Woo's The KillerJean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samouraï,John Boorman's Point Blank, and the spaghetti western films.




John Wick

Directed byChad Stahelski
Produced by
Written byDerek Kolstad
Starring
Music by
CinematographyJonathan Sela
Edited byElísabet Ronalds
Production
companies
Distributed bySummit Entertainment
Release date
  • September 19, 2014 (Fantastic Fest)
  • October 24, 2014 (United States)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language
  • English
  • Russian
Budget$20–30 million
Box office$86 million

Friday, 17 April 2020

SUPER 30

Super 30 
               is an Indian educational program started in PatnaIndia under the banner of Ramanujan School of Mathematics. It was founded by Anand Kumar, a mathematics teacher, and Abhayanand, the former D.G.P of Bihar. The program selects 30 talented candidates each year from economically underprivileged sections of Indian society and trains them for the JEE. The program is portrayed in the 2019 film, Super 30, starring Hrithik Roshan as Kumar. Kumar, and his school, have been the subject of several controversies, some of which have been carried in Indian media sources.




TypeInstitute
Established2002
PrincipalAnand Kumar
Enrollment30 students
Campus typeEducation
Team nameSuper 30
Website

BAAGHI 3

Baaghi 3
               is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Ahmed Khan. Produced by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment and Fox Star Studios, it is a spiritual sequel to Baaghi (2016) and Baaghi 2 (2018) and the third installment to the Baaghi film seriesBaaghi 3 stars Tiger ShroffRiteish Deshmukh and Shraddha Kapoor.
Principal photography of the film began on 12 September 2019 in Mumbai.It was theatrically released in India on 6 March 2020.


Directed byAhmed Khan
Written byFarhad Samji
(dialogue)
Screenplay byFarhad Samji
Sparsh Khetarpal
Tasha Bhambra
Madhur Sharma
Story bySajid Nadiadwala
StarringTiger Shroff
Ritesh Deshmukh
Shraddha Kapoor
Music bySongs:
Vishal–Shekhar
Tanishk Bagchi
Sachet–Parampara
Rochak Kohli
Pranaay Rijia
Score:
Julius Packiam
CinematographySanthana Krishnan Ravichandran
Edited byRameshwar S. Bhagat
Production
company
Distributed byFox Star Studios
Release date
  • 6 March 2020
Running time
143 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹85 crore
Box officeest. 137.05 crore

3 IDIOTS

3 Idiots
        is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-written (with Abhijat Joshi) and directed by Rajkumar Hirani. Starring Aamir KhanMadhavanSharman JoshiKareena KapoorBoman Irani and Omi Vaidya, the film follows the friendship of three students at an Indian engineering college and is a satire about the social pressures under an Indian education system.The film is narrated through parallel dramas, one in the present and the other ten years in the past. It also incorporated real Indian inventions, namely those created by Remya Jose,Mohammad Idris,Jahangir Painter and Sonam Wangchuk.
Produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films3 Idiots received widespread critical and commercial success upon its release on 25 December 2009. The film was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India, had the highest opening day collections for an Indian film up until that point and also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a Bollywood film. It also became one of the few Indian films at the time to become successful in East Asian markets such as China and Japan,eventually bringing its worldwide gross to 392 crore ($90 million) it was the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time.The film also had a social impact on attitudes to education in India.
The film won six Filmfare Awards including Best Film and three National Film Awards including Best Popular Film. Overseas, it won the Grand Prize at Japan's Videoyasan Awards while was nominated for Best Outstanding Foreign Language Film at the Japan Academy Awards and Best Foreign Film at China's Beijing International Film Festival. This film was remade in Tamil as Nanban (2012), which also received critical praise and commercial success.Nanban had a Telugu dubbed version titled Snehitudu. A Mexican remake, 3 idiotas, was also released in 2017.

Directed byRajkumar Hirani
Produced byVidhu Vinod Chopra
Screenplay byAbhijat Joshi
Rajkumar Hirani
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Story byRajkumar Hirani
Abhijat Joshi
Based onFive Point Someone by
Chetan Bhagat
Starring
Narrated byMadhavan
Music byShantanu Moitra
CinematographyC. K. Muraleedharan
Edited byRajkumar Hirani
Production
company
Distributed byReliance BIG Pictures
Release date
  • 25 December 2009 (India)
Running time
170 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget 55 crore
Box officeest.  460 crore

PATI PATNI AUR WOH


Pati Patni Aur Woh

                                  (transl. The husband, the wife, and 'her') is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Mudassar Aziz and produced by Renu Ravi Chopra. The film is a remake of the 1978 film of same name and stars Kartik AaryanBhumi Pednekar and Ananya Panday in the lead roles. Principal photography began on 4 February 2019 and the film was released on 6 December 2019.It had worldwide earnings of over ₹117 crore (US$16 million).



Directed byMudassar Aziz
Produced by
Written byMudassar Aziz
Based onPati Patni Aur Woh
by Kamleshwar
Starring
Music bySongs:
Tanishk Bagchi
Rochak Kohli
Sachet–Parampara
Tony Kakkar
Lijo George - DJ Chetas
Score:
John Stewart Eduri
CinematographyChirantan Das
Edited byNinad Khanolkar
Production
company
Distributed byAA Films
Release date
  • 6 December 2019
Running time
126 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Box officeest. 117.70 crore

Uri: The Surgical Strike

Uri: The Surgical Strike 
                            is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language military action film. It is directed and written by debutante Aditya Dhar. Produced by Ronnie Screwvala, the film stars Vicky KaushalParesh RawalYami GautamMohit Raina and Kirti Kulhari in lead roles.The plot is a dramatised account of the retaliation to the 2016 Uri attack, following Major Vihaan Singh Shergill of the Indian Army, who plays a leading role in the events.
The film was released on 11 January 2019 and grossed ₹342.06 crore (US$53 million) worldwide.It has received generally positive reviews from critics and ranks among the highest-grossing Indian films.The film has been a recipient of various accolades.

Directed byAditya Dhar
Produced byRonnie Screwvala
Screenplay byAditya Dhar
StarringVicky Kaushal
Paresh Rawal
Yami Gautam
Mohit Raina
Kirti Kulhari
Music byShashwat Sachdev
CinematographyMitesh Mirchandani
Edited byShivkumar V. Panicker
Production
company
Distributed byRSVP Movies
Release date
  • 11 January 2019
Running time
138 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget25 crore
Box officeest. 342.06 crore[

K.G.F: Chapter 1

K.G.F: Chapter 1 
            is a 2018 Indian Kannada-language period action film written and directed by Prashanth Neel, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur under the banner Hombale films. It is the first instalment in the two-part series, followed by K.G.F: Chapter 2. The film centres around Raja Krishnappa Bairya "Rocky", born into poverty, who arrives in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1960s, on a quest for power and wealth as desired by his dying mother. Involved with the gold mafia there, he is recruited to kill Garuda, the oppressive heir-in-waiting, in Kolar Gold FieldsYash stars as Rocky, while Ramachandra Raju features as Garuda. Anant Nag narrates the film while also playing a supporting role alongside Srinidhi ShettyVasishta N. Simha, Ayyappa P. Sharma and Harish Rai. At the 66th National Film Awards, the film won 2 awards for Best Action and Best Special Effects. The film is a blockbuster in Kannada Film Industry as well as Indian Cinema.
The development of the film began in early 2015 when Neel completed writing the screenplay.However, filming began only two years later, in March 2017. Majority of the film is set in Kolar Gold Fields and was filmed on location. Bhuvan Gowda served as the cinematographer and Shrikanth as the editor. Ravi Basrur scored music for the soundtrack and the film's background.

After a North American premiere on 20 December 2018, K.G.F: Chapter 1 was released in Kannada and in dubbed versions of HindiTeluguTamil and Malayalam languages the following day, and received positive response from audiences. However, critics gave the film mixed reviews; while they praised the cinematography, art direction and background score of the film, the screenplay and editing were criticised. The film performed well commercially and collected 76 crore four days into release, in the process breaking the record for the highest grossing Kannada film of all time.The movie was released online by Amazon Prime Video on 5 February 2019[ which earlier bought the digital rights for ₹18 crores and Colors Kannada bought the satellite rights for an undisclosed record price.


 The shooting for K.G.F: Chapter 2 began on 13 March 2019 and the actor Yash shared the picture on his Instagram account too. 



Directed by
Produced by
Vijay Kiragandur
Written by
Dialogues:
·        Prashanth Neel
·        Chandramouli M
·        Vinay Shivangi
Screenplay by
Prashanth Neel
Story by
Prashanth Neel
Starring
·        Yash
·        Srinidhi Shetty
·        Anant Nag
·        Malavika Avinash
·        Vasishta N. Simha
Narrated by
Music by
Cinematography
Edited by
Shrikanth
Production
company
Hombale Films
Distributed by
·        KRG Studios (Kannada)
·        Excel Entertainment & AA Films (Hindi)
·        Vishal Film Factory (Tamil)
·        Vaaraahi Chalana Chitram (Telugu)
·        Global United Media (Malayalam)
Release date
·        20 December 2018 (United States & Canada)
·        21 December 2018 (India)
Running time
155 minutes
Country
India
Language
Kannada
Budget
50–80 crore
Box office
est. ₹250 crore