Here's a look at the movies releasing today:
Dam 999
Genre: Thriller
Director: Sohan Roy
Cast: Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajit Kapur, Vinay Rai, Vimala Raman, Linda Arsenio, Megha Burman
Synopsis: Based on the award winning short documentary DAMs - The Lethal Water Bombs and the Banqiao dam disaster of 1975 that claimed the lives of 2,50,000 people in China and anticipated calamity for Mullaperiyar Dam in Kerala, the story revolves around the central edifice in this movie, a 100-year-old dam built by the British during their colonial days in India. Like a dam, each character holds back his/her emotions. Eventually the dam breaks, including that of the film’s characters, drawing the audience to a gripping climax. The number 999 has great importance in British Colonial Indian history. The story reveals the concealed truth of India’s age-old myths and science.
Desi Boyz
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rohit Dhawan
Cast: Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Chitrangda Singh, Deepika Padukone
Synopsis: Jerry “Rocco” Patel (Akshay Kumar) and Nick “Hunter” Mathur (John Abraham) originally came to the United Kingdom to study as overseas students at Oxford University. Some years later, life is good in their comfortable London pad. Nick’s got a lucrative investment banking job and a beautiful fiancée, Radhika (Deepika Padukone). Jerry happily sponges off his wealthy pal while bringing up his nephew Veer (Shraman Jain) and romancing his former teacher Tanya (Chitrangda Singh). But then the recession starts to bite, Nick finds himself abruptly downsized, and social services threaten to place Veer in a foster home. When they see no hope left, they open a door to the most popular strip-club in town, Desi Boyz, whose owner (Sanjay Dutt) picks them as pole-dancers. But under their new alter egos Rocco and Hunter, the two friends now become bitter rivals.
The Muppets
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Bobin
Cast: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper
Synopsis: On vacation in
Los Angeles, Walter, the biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary and Gary’s girlfriend Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze Muppet Studios and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage a telethon and raise the $10 million needed to save the studio, they reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie
now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a
high-powered plumbing magnate.
The Muppets
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Bobin
Cast: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper
Synopsis: On vacation in
Los Angeles, Walter, the biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary and Gary’s girlfriend Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze Muppet Studios and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets’ former stomping grounds. To stage a telethon and raise the $10 million needed to save the studio, they reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie
now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a
high-powered plumbing magnate.
The Help
Genre: Drama
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Viola Davis, Allison Janney, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Sissy Spacek, Jessica Chastain and
Cicely Tyson
Synopsis: Set in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s, the film chronicles the relationship between three different and extraordinary women, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. A remarkable sisterhood emerges from their improbable alliance, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them, and the realisation that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed, even if it means bringing everyone in town face to face with the changing times. Deeply moving, filled with humour, hope and heart, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the ability to create change.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — part 1
Genre: Drama, fantasy-romance
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner
Synopsis: The movie follows the events of the previous movie where Bella Swan and Edward Cullen get married, leaving behind a heartbroken Jacob. When Bella faces an unexpected situation, she does what it takes to undergo the ultimate transformation and fight the final battle to save her love. This part of the movie shows the completion of the incomplete relation of Bella and Edward, with their incredible love followed by their wedding. The movie is spiced up with some honeymoon scenes. It also captures moments of Bella giving birth to their baby. The movie released here yesterday.
Jack & Jill
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino
Synopsis: The film is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year and that is the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). Jill’s neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down with her innocent and goofy habits. Katie Holmes plays Erin, Jack’s wife, who always tries to persuade him to not lose his temper on his sister before he comes to terms with her.
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