This is the mad week we warned you about, the one in which your love for the movies will be severely tested. What will it be? Bollywood-style horror? Hollywood-style Oscar bait? Or Tamil-style spectacle?
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Hit-making Tamil director Shankar’s latest extravaganza is opening in Tamil on January 14 and in the north in Hindi on January 16.
Vikram plays a model and bodybuilder who is disfigured by a professional rival (Bollywood starlet Upen Patel). The beauty is now a misshapen beast, and he abducts his one true love, played by Amy Jackson, to seek revenge. The music is by AR Rahman and the cinematography by PC Sreeram, while the grand spectacle is courtesy Shankar’s 70mm-sized brain.
Alone
Hindi cinema’s resident Scream Queen Bipasha Basu is back after the debacle of last year’s Creature.
Bhushan Patel’s loose remake of the Thai movie with the same name features Basu as Sanjana, who is haunted by visions of her dead conjoined twin Anjana. Is Sanjana imagining Anjana’s presence, or has her departed twin actually returned from the beyond to ruin Sanjana’s relationship with her husband Kabir (Karan Singh Grover)?
The Theory of Everything
This acclaimed biopic of Stephen Hawking’s early years is sweeping the awards circuit.
James Marsh’s biographical drama is based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, written by the British theoretical physicist’s ex-wife Jane Wilde Hawking. The movie charts the courtship and marriage between Stephen and Jane and his doughty battle against the debilitating motor neuron disease that robs him of his mobility and, eventually, the ability to communicate.
The Imitation Game
Another ode to British brilliance, but this time about a figure who wasn’t as feted as Stephen Hawking in his lifetime.
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, the highly intelligent and creative Cambridge-educated mathematician who played a vital role in Great Britain’s efforts to break a highly complicated Nazi code during WWII. Yet, Turing was later prosecuted for being a homosexual, and he is said to have killed himself. The cast includes Keira Knightley and Charles Dance.
Crazy Cukkad Family
Meet the Cukkads, the antithesis of the syrupy sweet Indian family.
Four siblings wait for their ailing father to die so that they might inherit his riches. But the old man takes his time. The cast includes Swanand Kirkire, Shilpa Shukla, Ninad Kamat and Kushal Punjabi.
American Sniper
The indefatigable Clint Eastwood is back with an adaptation of Chris Kyle’s war memoir American Sniper.
Bradley Cooper plays the US Navy SEAL who is credited with the maximum number of kills in his country’s military history. The movie traces Kyle’s recruitment, his tours of Iraq, his ambivalent feelings towards his reputation, and his precarious relationship with his wife (Sienna Miller) back home.
Paddington
Britain’s favourite teddy bear gets a movie outing.
A mass of fur and cuteness leaves his home in the Peruvian rainforest after it is destroyed in an earthquake and lands up in London to look for the explorer who had encouraged him to come pay a visit. The bear, voiced by Ben Wishaw, is taken in by the kindly Brown family. Nicole Kidman plays Millicent, the taxidermist who wants to add the cuddly animal to her collection.
Sharafat Gay Tel Lene
Zayed Khan (remember him?) makes a comeback in this comedy about a white-collared professional whose bank account is mysteriously credited with Rs 100 crore. Does he fess up, or does he go on a world tour? Also starring Tena Desae and Rannvijay Singh.
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Hit-making Tamil director Shankar’s latest extravaganza is opening in Tamil on January 14 and in the north in Hindi on January 16.
Vikram plays a model and bodybuilder who is disfigured by a professional rival (Bollywood starlet Upen Patel). The beauty is now a misshapen beast, and he abducts his one true love, played by Amy Jackson, to seek revenge. The music is by AR Rahman and the cinematography by PC Sreeram, while the grand spectacle is courtesy Shankar’s 70mm-sized brain.
Alone
Hindi cinema’s resident Scream Queen Bipasha Basu is back after the debacle of last year’s Creature.
Bhushan Patel’s loose remake of the Thai movie with the same name features Basu as Sanjana, who is haunted by visions of her dead conjoined twin Anjana. Is Sanjana imagining Anjana’s presence, or has her departed twin actually returned from the beyond to ruin Sanjana’s relationship with her husband Kabir (Karan Singh Grover)?
The Theory of Everything
This acclaimed biopic of Stephen Hawking’s early years is sweeping the awards circuit.
James Marsh’s biographical drama is based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, written by the British theoretical physicist’s ex-wife Jane Wilde Hawking. The movie charts the courtship and marriage between Stephen and Jane and his doughty battle against the debilitating motor neuron disease that robs him of his mobility and, eventually, the ability to communicate.
The Imitation Game
Another ode to British brilliance, but this time about a figure who wasn’t as feted as Stephen Hawking in his lifetime.
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, the highly intelligent and creative Cambridge-educated mathematician who played a vital role in Great Britain’s efforts to break a highly complicated Nazi code during WWII. Yet, Turing was later prosecuted for being a homosexual, and he is said to have killed himself. The cast includes Keira Knightley and Charles Dance.
Crazy Cukkad Family
Meet the Cukkads, the antithesis of the syrupy sweet Indian family.
Four siblings wait for their ailing father to die so that they might inherit his riches. But the old man takes his time. The cast includes Swanand Kirkire, Shilpa Shukla, Ninad Kamat and Kushal Punjabi.
American Sniper
The indefatigable Clint Eastwood is back with an adaptation of Chris Kyle’s war memoir American Sniper.
Bradley Cooper plays the US Navy SEAL who is credited with the maximum number of kills in his country’s military history. The movie traces Kyle’s recruitment, his tours of Iraq, his ambivalent feelings towards his reputation, and his precarious relationship with his wife (Sienna Miller) back home.
Paddington
Britain’s favourite teddy bear gets a movie outing.
A mass of fur and cuteness leaves his home in the Peruvian rainforest after it is destroyed in an earthquake and lands up in London to look for the explorer who had encouraged him to come pay a visit. The bear, voiced by Ben Wishaw, is taken in by the kindly Brown family. Nicole Kidman plays Millicent, the taxidermist who wants to add the cuddly animal to her collection.
Sharafat Gay Tel Lene
Zayed Khan (remember him?) makes a comeback in this comedy about a white-collared professional whose bank account is mysteriously credited with Rs 100 crore. Does he fess up, or does he go on a world tour? Also starring Tena Desae and Rannvijay Singh.
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