Bollywood Movie Releases 2017 January- June

Tubelight

Release date: June 23   

Genre: Action/Drama

Director: Kabir Khan

Cast: Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Zhu Zhu, Matin Rey Tangu, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Om Puri, Yashpal Sharma, Shah Rukh Khan (cameo)

Half Girlfriend

Director: Mohit Suri

Producer: Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Mohit Suri, Chetan Bhagat

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Rhea Chakraborty

Written by Ishita Moitra Udhwani (Dialogues)

Screenplay by    Tushar Hiranandani

Based on Novel -Half Girlfriend by Chetan Bhagat

Release Date: May 19

Genre: Romance/Drama

     

          

Sachin: A Billion Dreams

Director:  James Erskine

Producers: Ravi Bhagchandka; Carnival Motion Pictures

Written by James Erskine; Sivakumar Ananth

Cast: Sachin Tendulkar Virender Sehwag, Mayuresh Pem

Music by A. R. Rahman

Release date: 26 May 2017

Genre: Biopic

Hindi Medium

Gnere:  Drama/Romance

Director:Saket Chaudhary

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal

Release date: May 18 2017

Meri Pyaari Bindu

Genre: Romance

Director: Akshay Roy

Producers: Aditya Chopra, Maneesh Sharma

Writer: Suprotim Sengupta

Music by Sachin–Jigar

Cast: Akshay Roy, Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra

Release date: May 12

               

Sarkar 3

Genre: Political Crime Thriller

Director:Ram Gopal Varma         

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee, Amit Sadh, Yami Gautam, Ronit Roy

Release date: May 12

Begum Jaan

Genre: Period Drama    

Cast: Vidya Balan, Gauhar Khan, Naseeruddin Shah

Release date: April 14

Director: Srijit Mukherji

Producers: Mukesh Bhatt, Vishesh Bhatt

Writer: Kausar Munir (Dialogue)

Screenplay by Srijit Mukherji, Kausar Munir

Story by Sumair Malik

Based on Bengali movie Rajkahini (2015)by Srijit Mukherji

                                         Noor

Director: Sunhil Sippy

Producer: Raja Mishra , Krishan Kumar, Vikram Malhotra

Writer:  Ishita Moitra Udhwani(Dialogues)

Screenplay:Althea Delmas-Kaushal,Shikhaa Sharma,Sunhil Sippy, Saba Imtiaz

Based on book: Karachi, You're Killing Me! by Saba Imtiaz

Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Kanan Gill, Shibani Dandekar,Purab Kohli

Music - Songs:Amaal Mallik Background score: Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor

                                         Baahubali 2: The Conclusion

Release date: April 28   

Genre: Epic/Action

Director: S. S. Rajamouli

Producer: Shobu Yarlagadda, Prasad Devineni

Cast:      Prabhas,  Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah, Ramya Krishnan, Sathyaraj, Nassar, Tamannaah

Screenplay: K. V. Vijayendra Prasad,S. S. Rajamouli

Story: K. V. Vijayendra Prasad

Music:   M. M. Keeravani

Language:Telugu/Tamil/Malayalam/Hindi

                                        Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Release date: March 10

Genre:  Romance/Comedy         

Director: Shashank Khaitan

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt

                                           Rangoon             

Release date: February 24          

Genre:Romance/Drama              

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj            

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Kangana Ranaut

                                      Jolly LLB 2

Release: February 10

Genre:Drama   

Director: Subhash Kapoor            

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Huma Qureshi, Annu Kapoor

          

     

                                         Kaabil   

Release date: January 25

Genre: Action/Drama

Director: Sanjay Gupta

Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Yami Gautam, Ronit Roy, Rohit Roy Narendra Jha

                                             

                                       Raees

Release date: January 25

Genre:Action/Thriller

Director: Rahul Dholakia

Cast; Shah Rukh Khan, Mahira Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui

                                        OK Jaanu

Release date: January 13

Genre: Romance/Drama

Director: Shaad Ali

Cast: Aditya Roy Kapur, Shraddha Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Leela Samson

Bollywood Movie Releases -Nov and Dec 2016

Rock On 2

Directed by Shujaat Saudagar

Produced by Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani

Written by Abhishek Kapoor, Pubali Chaudhuri

Starring : Farhan Akhtar, Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Prachi Desai, Shashank Arora

Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Release dates:11 November 2016

Running time: 143 minutes

Tum Bin 2

Directed by Anubhav Sinha

Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Anubhav Sinha

Written by Anubhav Sinha

Starring : Neha Sharma, Aditya Seal, Aashim Gulati

Music by Ankit Tiwari & Nikhil-Vinay

Cinematography Ewan Mulligan

Release dates: 18 November 2016

Force 2

Directed by Abhinay Deo

Produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, Viacom Motion Pictures,John Abraham

Written by Parveez Shaikh, Jasmeet K. Reen

Starring John Abraham, Sonakshi Sinha, Tahir Raj Bhasin

Release dates: 18 November 2016

Dear Zindagi

Directed by Gauri Shinde

Produced by Gauri Khan, Karan Johar, Gauri Shinde

Writer and screenplay - Gauri Shinde

Starring : Shah Rukh Khan,  Alia Bhatt

Music by Amit Trivedi

Release dates: 23 November 2016 (United States); 25 November 2016 (Worldwide)

Kahani 2

Directed by Sujoy Ghosh

Produced by Sujoy Ghosh, Jayantilal Gada

Written by Sujoy Ghosh, Ritesh Shah (dialogues)

Story by Sujoy Ghosh, Suresh Nair

Starring : Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal

Music by              Clinton Cerejo

Release dates: 2 December 2016[1]

Running time: 119 minutes

Befikre

Directed by Aditya Chopra

Produced by Aditya Chopra

Screenplay and story  by Aditya Chopra; Sharat Katariya (dialogues)

Starring: Ranveer Singh, Vaani Kapoor

Music by Vishal-Shekhar

Release dates: 9 December 2016

Dangal

Directed by Nitesh Tiwari

Produced by Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, Siddharth Roy Kapur

Written by Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta, Shreyas Jain, Nikhil Meharotra

Based on Mahavir Singh Phogat

Starring Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra

Music by Pritam Chakraborty

Release dates: December 23, 2016

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Review

The title "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" - says it all- Love is complicated and difficult, and so is the Movie!

Directed by Karan Johar

Produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar

Written by Karan Johar

Starring : Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Fawad Khan

Music by Pritam

Cinematography: Anil Mehta

Release dates: 28 October 2016

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdNKsW-E_po

Genre: Romance

Review : Birjis Adeni Rashed

Rating: ***(3 /5)

(The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. But minor details have been divulged for a proper review!)

The movie makes attempts to define love in various ways- platonic, passionate, physical, pretentious gold digger kind, one sided & unrequited, heartbroken,  friendship vs love comparison.... but in spite of this exhausting exercise, love is still left unexplained!

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil has clichéd romantic configurations like other Karan Johar’s movies “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”, “Kabhi Alvida na Kehna”, “Kal Ho Na Ho” and has shades, recall of dialogs, reminders and mash up of all these movies and more.   But ADHM in spite of glamorous stars, excellent acting, and beautiful cinematography falls short with its lack of fresh story becoming just an exaggerated and superficial takeoff.    

The story based in London revolves around Ayan (Ranbhir), a rich, unfocused, MBA student wanna be singer, and  Alizeh (Anoushka)  a  privileged, fun loving,  spirited girl who is always seeking life’s distractions. They meet at a pub and find they have a lot in common like their taste in tacky 80s music, fascination for living out Bollywood dream sequences,  taking off in private jets at whims and fancy,  and such, and become soulmates!  

 But things get complicated when Ayan falls in love with Alizeh while she wants to remain friends with Ayan and yearns for her Ex- Ali ( Fawad Khan). Each ones perspectives of love is different and this leads to conflict. Ali re-enters in Alizehs life and Ayan bounces off to new flame Saba (Aishwarya). Karan Johar tries to share more philosophies on love and drags the confusing saga. And to complicate the already perplexing situation with no resolution, he takes a deviant twist to the story and comes out to a disjointed conclusion!

 The characters in the movie are complex with strong emotions and all the actors give out quality performances reflecting those personalities. Ranbhir Kapoor expressively conveys a compendium of emotions to reflect his confused characters many phases and moods at the risk of even being irritating.  Anoushka’s acting skills are excellent and echoes her strong minded character. Aishwarya adds an aura of self-importance with her ethereal aloofness and mirrors the role perfectly.  Fawad Khan is not more than eye candy for his fans since his role is sadly chopped small due to recent Indo-Pak controversies.  Lost in edits, the details of love story and reasoning of passionate yearning of Alizeh for Ali are left for assumption. Lisa Hayden as the gold digger/ temporary girlfriend, provides some comic relief in the movie. Johar even introduces couple special appearances to make it glossier, if it was not enough!

The songs are the highlight of the movie and are melodious specially the title songs-Ae Dil Hai Mushkil,  Channa Mereya and  Bulleya. Cinematography across London, Paris and Vienna is good if you don’t delve in to the unrealistic jet setting reasoning.

 If you were expecting to walk out of the theater with exhilaration or poignancy or even simple satisfaction  like other Karan Johar movies, you will be disappointed.  End of this movie you are just restless and confused!

 More Audience Reactions after movie viewing in Austin, TX :

Farah said- “ It had good acting, some good songs, good looking people… but too long, and story was bakwas”

H said - “Movie is good if watched as few different segments, as a whole it doesn’t have a clear focus or main theme. And it was too long and rather confusing.”

M said- “Movie was confusing”

S said –“I just like the songs”

Tanveer said- “It has a bunch of nice looking guys and gals....all rich, bekaar, self-absorbed, and weighed down by heavy emotional baggage.…. When these worthies are not flirting, mating, or making preparations to mate, they break into old Bollywood songs. Seems like Johar is mocking and celebrating the 70s and 80s Bollywood era... all at the same time. Corny dialogues, kitschy costumes, awful sweaters, navel-baring georgette sarees and short cholis.....all are recalled for nostalgic effect…..The mating ritual keeps going but soon gets tiresome for all the players who now want to grow up. The fidgety audience is also getting tired of this mating game and wants to head home.”

You are welcome  to add your opinions and point of views  in the comments . Thank you.

Bollywood Movie Releases: Fall & Summer 2016

Check out  the movies Released in Fall and Summer of 2016 (October, September, August, July, June)

October:

Mirzya

Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo9HkpIPt2k

Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Produced by Rohit Khattar, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, P.S. Bharathi, Rajiv Tandon

Written by Gulzar

Starring : Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher, Art Malik, K.K.Raina, Om Puri, Anjali Patil, Anuj Chaudhary

Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Cinematography Paweł Dyllus

Release dates: 7 October 2016

Genre:Romance

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

Directed by Karan Johar

Produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar

Written by Karan Johar

Starring : Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Fawad Khan

Music by Pritam

Cinematography: Anil Mehta

Release dates: 28 October 2016

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdNKsW-E_po

Genre: Romance

Shivaay

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poLjq0u4_5A

Directed & Produced  by Ajay Devgan

Written by Sandeep Srivastava, Robin Bhatt

Story by Ajay Devgan

Starring :  Ajay Devgan, Sayyeshaa Saigal

Music by Mithoon

Cinematography: Aseem Bajaj

Release dates: 28 October 2016

Genre: Action/Drama

September:

Baar Baar Dekho:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiuj_GHlb64

Directed by Nitya Mehra

Produced by Karan Johar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar

Written by Anvita Dutt (dialogues)

Screenplay by Nitya Mehra, Anuvab Pal, Sri Rao

Story by Sri Rao

Starring : Katrina Kaif, Sidharth Malhotra

Music by: Amaal Mallik Arko, Badshah, Jasleen Royal, Bilal Saeed

Cinematography: Ravi K. Chandran

Release dates: 9 September 2016

Genre:Romance/Drama

Akira

Directed  by AR Murugadoss

Produced by      AR Murugadoss, Fox Star Studios

Written by Karan Singh Rathore (Dialogue)

Screenplay by AR Murugadoss; (Additional Screenplay)Santha Kumar(Original Screenplay)

Story by Santha Kumar

Based on Mouna Guru By Santha Kumar

Starring:  Sonakshi Sinha, Konkona Sen Sharma, Anurag Kashyap

Music by Songs:Vishal–Shekhar’ Background Score: John Stewart Eduri

Cinematography: R. D. Rajasekhar

Release dates: 2 September 2016

Genre:Action/drama

Pink

Directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

Produced by Rashmi Sharma Telefilms Limited / Rashmi Sharma; Shoojit Sircar

Writer /Screenplay /Story by Ritesh Shah

Starring : Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari Andrea Tariang, Angad Bedi Dhritiman Chatterjee Piyush Mishra

Music by Anupam Roy, Shantanu Moitra, Faiza Mujahid

Cinematography Abhik Mukhopadhyay

Release dates: 16 September 2016

Genre: Court room Drama

Manamarziyan:

Directed by Sameer Sharma

Produced by Anand L. Rai

Written/Screenplay  by Anand L. Rai

Starring : Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Vicky Kaushal

Music by Amit Trivedi

Release dates: 23 September 2016

Genre:Comedy

Banjo:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29m2livchlI

Directed by Ravi Jadhav

Produced by Krishika Lulla

Written by Kapil Sawant, Nikhil Mehrotra, Ravi Jadhav

Starring:  Riteish Deshmukh, Nargis Fakhri

Music by Vishal–Shekhar

Release dates: 23 September 2016

Genre: Romance

Freaky Ali

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT6ywcPNTWk

Directed by Sohail Khan

Produced by Sohail Khan

Written by Sohail Khan, Raaj Shaandilyaa

Based on Happy Gilmore by Tim Herlihy

Starring : Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz Khan, Amy Jackson

Music by Sajid–Wajid

Cinematography: Mahesh Limaye

Release dates: 9 September 2016

Genre: Sports/ comedy

M.S. Dhoni –Untold Story

Directed by Neeraj Pandey

Produced by Arun Pandey, Fox Star Studios

Written by: Neeraj Pandey(Dialogue)

Screenplay/Story  by Neeraj Pandey, Dilip Jha

Based on Life of Mahendra Singh Dhoni -cricketer and captain of Indian team

Starring:  Sushant Singh Rajput

Music by Songs: Amaal Mallik, Rochak Kohli; Score: Sanjoy Chowdhury

Cinematography:  Santosh Thundiyil

Release date: 30 September 2016

Genre: Biopic/Sports

August:

Mohenjadaro:

Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker

Produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur, Sunita Gowariker

Written by Preeti Mamgain (Dialogue)

Screenplay /Story by      Ashutosh Gowariker

Starring:  Hrithik Roshan, Pooja Hegde

Music by A. R. Rahman

Cinematography: C. K. Muraleedharan

Release dates: 12 August 2016

Rustom

Directed by  Tinu Suresh Desai

Produced by Neeraj Pandey, Aruna Bhatia, Nittin Keni, Akash Chawla, Bhaumik Gondaliya, Ishwar Kapoor

Shital Bhatia

Written by Vipul K Rawal

Based on K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra

Starring : Akshay Kumar, Ileana D'Cruz, Esha Gupta, Arjan Bajwa, Pavan Malhotra, Kumud Mishra, Usha Nadkarni

Music by Ankit Tiwari, Jeet Ganguly, Raghav Sachar, Arko Pravo Mukherjee

Cinematography: Santosh Thundiyil

Release dates: 12 August 2016

 Flying Jatt

Directed by Remo D'Souza

Produced by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor

Written by Aakash Kaushik, Madhur Sharma(Dialogue)

Screenplay :Tushar Hiranandani, Remo D'Souza;Additional screenplay:Aakash Kaushik,Madhur Sharma

Story by Remo D'Souza

Starring : Tiger Shroff, Nathan Jones, Jacqueline Fernandez

Music by Sachin-Jigar

Cinematography: Vijay Kumar Arora

Release dates: 25 August 2016

Genre: super hero action!

July:

Sultan:

Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar

Produced by Aditya Chopra

Dialogue/Screenplay/Story : Ali Abbas Zafar

Starring:  Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda, Amit Sadh

Music by  Julius Packiam (score), Vishal-Shekhar (songs)

Cinematography : Artur Zurawski

Distributed by   Yash Raj Films

Release dates: 6 July 2016

Great Grand Masti

Directed by Indra Kumar

Produced by Sameer Nair, Aman Gill, Ashok Thakeria, Sri Adhikari Brothers, Anand Pandit

Screenplay by Madhur Sharma & Aakash Kaushik

Story by Tushar Hiranandani

Starring : Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh Aftab Shivdasani, Urvashi Rautela

Music by Sanjeev Darshan, Shaarib & Toshi, Shaan

Cinematography              Nigam Bomzan

Release dates: 15 July 2016

June:

Houseful 3

Directed by Sajid-Farhad

Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala

Screenplay & Dialogue  by Sajid-Farhad

Additional Screenplay: Rajan Agarwal

Story by K. Subash

Starring : Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Lisa Haydon

Nargis Fakhri

Music by Sohail Sen, Mika Singh, Sharib-Toshi, Tanishk Bagchi Milind Gaba

Cinematography: Vikas Sivaraman

Release dates: 3 June 2016

Te3n

Directed by Ribhu Dasgupta

Produced by Sujoy Ghosh, Gulab Singh Tanwar, Hyunwoo Thomas Kim, Suresh Nair, Sameer Rajendran, Gauri Sathe

Screenplay by Suresh Nair, Ritesh Shah Bijesh Jayarajan

Starring : Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan, Sabyasachi Chakraborty

Music by Clinton Cerejo

Cinematography Tushar Kanti Ray

Release date: 10 June 2016

Remake of Korean film:  Montage 

Bollywood Movie Releases- April and May 2016

Ki and Ka

Director: R. Balki

Producers: R. Balki, R K Damani, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Sunil Lulla

Writer:  R. Balki

Starring : Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor

Music: Ilaiyaraaja

Songs: Ilaiyaraaja, Mithoon, Meet Bros Anjjan

Running time: 126 minutes

Genre: Romance/ Comedy

Release dates: 1 April 2016

Fan

Director: Maneesh Sharma

Producer: Aditya Chopra

Starring:  Shah Rukh Khan

Music-  Songs: Vishal–Shekhar

Background score: Andrea Guerra

Running time: 138 minutes

Genre: Drama/thriller

Release dates: 15 April 2016

Baaghi

Director: Sabbir Khan

Producer:  Sajid Nadiadwala

Writer: Sanjeev Dutta

Starring: Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor, Bruno Carlo, Tafshila Khan, Sudheer Babu

Music: Meet Bros, Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari, Manj Musik

Background Score: Julius Packiam

Genre:Action

Release date: 29 April 2016

Azhar

Director: Tony D'Souza

Produced: Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor

Writer: Rajat Aroraa

Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai, Nargis Fakhri, Lara Dutta

Music: Amaal Mallik, Pritam

Genre: Biopic based on famous Indian cricketer Azharuddin

Release dates: 13 May 2016

Sarabjit

Director: Omung Kumar

Producer: Vashu Bhagnani, Bhushan Kumar, Sandeep Singh,Omung Kumar, Deepshikha Deshmukh, Krishan Kumar, Jackky Bhagnani

Writers: Utkarshini Vashishtha, Rajesh Beri

Starring:  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadda, Darshan Kumaar

Music: Jeet Gannguli, Amaal Mallik, Shail-Pritesh, Tanishk Bagchi, Shashi Shivam

Genre: Biopic

Release date: 20 May 2016

Te3n

Director: Ribhu Dasgupta

Producers: Sujoy Ghosh, Hyunwoo Thomas Kim, Suresh Nair, Sameer Rajendran, Gauri Sathe

Screenplay: Suresh Nair, Ritesh Shah, Bijesh Jayarajan

Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan

Music: Clinton Cerejo

Genre: Thriller

Release date: May 20, 2016