Six films to watch: Star Wars – The Force Awakens, Concussion, Wazir, Kung Fu Panda 3, The Hateful Eight and Mastizaade
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Will Smith in Concussion, Wazir, Kung Fu Panda 3, Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and Mastizaade – films out in December 2015 and January 2016.
Star Wars – The Force Awakens
The epic space opera is back. The Force Awakens is actually the first film in the third Star Wars trilogy. The movie features Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Max von Sydow. The story is set 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi. FYI, the 3D glasses for the movie will be a special Captain Phasma shades! Out on 25th December.
Concussion
The upcoming 2015 American biographical stars Will Smith, portraying Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who fought against efforts by the National Football League to suppress his research on brain damage suffered by professional football players. Dr Bennet’s race against time to publicise CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) and the NFL’s plot to deny the report will get the best out of Will Smith in this sports thriller drama. Out on 25th December.
Wazir
The most awaited release of 2015 was pushed time again, but it’s finally set for release. Wazir is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster (Amitabh Bachchan) and a brave ATS officer (Farhan Akhtar). Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest game of their lives. But there’s a mysterious dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows who is set to checkmate them. P.S. Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar have recorded a duet for the movie. Need more reasons to throng the theatres? Out on 8th January.
Kung Fu Panda 3
The Dragon Warrior is back with legendary adventures of awesomeness! Oh, yeah, Po is back. Our favourite obese Panda must now upgrade from a warrior to become a kung fu master and teach other pandas to fight Kai. While Po is happily living with his friends, his real Panda father comes and takes him to live in a secret village of pandas. Kai has attacked the village and now it’s time for Po to save his kind, with a bit of humour. Out on 29th January.
The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino is back and for the last time he is directing a movie. It ought to be epic in every sense. First thing? It has been shot in 70mm film projection technology. Some of the world’s finest movies of 50s and 60s were shot in 70mm. The movie is set sometime after the American Civil War as 8 passengers are stuck in the picturesque landscape of Wyoming. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our 8 travellers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock, their ultimate destination, after all. Written and directed by Tarantino, we dare you, we double dare you to miss this one! Out on 15th January.
Mastizaade
If one Sunny Leone was too hard to handle, here’s double trouble! The upcoming Bollywood sex comedy is finally seeing the light of the day after being cleared by the censor board for release. The movie stars Sunny Leone in a double role alongside Tushar Kapoor, Vir Das and Shaad Randhawa. Riteish Deshmukh is also set for a cameo appearance in the film. While one is a nerd, the other is sexy in the adult comedy which has now been cut down significantly to match the ‘Adult’ category. Out on 29th January.
From the December 2015 – January 2016 issue of FHM India.
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