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  • Dinesh Vijan’s Angrezi Medium starring Irrfan, Kareen Kapoor Khan and Radhika Madan shakes hands with India’s most trusted University Admissions Brand, Leverage Edu

    Dinesh Vijan’s Angrezi Medium starring Irrfan, Kareen Kapoor Khan and Radhika Madan shakes hands with India’s most trusted University Admissions Brand, Leverage Edu

    MUMBAI: After a scintillating performance at the box office with comedy-drama – Hindi Medium, Dinesh Vijan is back with the much-awaited sequel to the movie that is set to release on 13th March this year. With its former counterpart ringing the bells of the Filmfare Awards bagging awards for both Best Film and Best Actor for Irrfan, Angrezi Medium definitely has a huge fan base to dazzle.

    On the lines of news of the release promotions, New-Delhi headquartered University Admissions company – Leverage Edu has joined hands with the movie as its Official Education Partner. “This is the very first “Bollywood X LeverageEdu” partnership, and it just couldn’t have happened with a film more in-soul with our DNA than Angrezi Medium. It’s an honest and emotional story of an ambitious student, and her Dad – who go through many challenges, which is where we come in with a trusted brand that delivers transparency and success using easy-to-consume technology and a vast network of personality-matched mentors,” says Akshay Chaturvedi, Founder & CEO, Leverage Edu. He added, “We hope Indian families are motivated to take the leap for their children, and be able to help them become global citizens of tomorrow.”

    The movie’s message aligns with the problem Leverage Edu is trying to solve in India. By providing Indian students with a Career Platform stacked with multiple workshops on Goal Clarity, University Shortlisting, Application Assistance and Education Loans, Leverage Edu aims to ensure that the Taru’s (portrayed by Radhika Madan) of the world have the right resources and mentors to guide them and the Father’s (portrayed by Irrfan) don’t have to knock a thousand doors to provide for their kids what they truly deserve, irrespective of financial or social status.

    About Leverage Edu : Leverage Edu initially began as a higher education mentorship marketplace in Silicon Valley’s Draper University’s 2015 cohort by Akshay Chaturvedi, and formally launched as a company later in January 2017. The company is now a full stack university admissions player, using AI to help students work with best-matched mentors from around the world in personalized career workshops. Leverage Edu has demonstrated industry-leading student outcomes in the last three years, and now also helps students with value-added services like education loan, accommodation options, on-campus/ long-term mentoring, and more. It’s recently launched vertical Univalley.com partners with select universities across vetted courses and programs, to help students with an end-to-end curated discovery-to-dorm room journey across select regions globally.

  • ‘The Expose’…Limited Exposure

    ‘The Expose’…Limited Exposure

    MUMBAI: The composer singer Himesh Reshammiya, wanting to turn and be accepted as an actor, is a mission that is into its fourth essay with The Expose, a film to re-re-re- launch him. The earlier attempts being Aap Kaa Surroor, The Moviee–The Real Luv Story and Karzzzz which were blanks, neither earning Himesh monies nor stardom.

    In the latest search for recognition and stardom, Himesh has managed to shed much weight and assumed a new- mustached look. Also, the subject has been selected that does not tax an artiste too much while also creating the scope to play with music and atmosphere.

    This is 1960s and 70s and Himesh is a star from South films who was a cop responsible for shooting a politician. His carries an attitude like South superstar Rajnikant; he does not require his face to be touched up as he believes he was born with makeup. He is now making his debut in a Hindi film.

    There is a film awards function. Pitted against each other are two female debutantes, Zoya Afroz and Sonali Raut, who shared a PG accommodation and struggled together. Sonali pips Zoya at the awards and a catfight follows. Next, one knows, Sonali has fallen from the terrace. After initially calling it a suicide, it is later declared a murder. This leads Himesh to assume his original profession, he is a cop again.

    Producers: Vipin Reshammiya.

    Director: Ananth Narayan Mahadevan. ,

    Cast: Himesh Reshammiya, Sonali Raut, Zoya Afroz, Honey Singh, Ananth Mahadevan, Irrfan

    The director and the camera are dedicated to Himesh rather than get into the details of the era the film is set in; it tries to be smarty pants. The dialogue is the plus with Himesh’s sense for music adding to the advantage. While Himesh tries his best but remains static as an actor, the girls are okay while Irrfan as a ticket black-marketer is a misfit.

    The Expose holds limited appeal due to music factoronly.

  • Gunday: Old wine rebottled

    Gunday: Old wine rebottled

    MUMBAI: Gunday is a story based in 1970s and 80s. And, in keeping with the era, the story is also what was called mass masala in those days. What is new about it? Well, after seeing a lineup of films with Delhi background, this has Kolkata as the backdrop.

    Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor are two orphaned refugee kids from Bangladesh who join the tide of other refuges and enter a refugee camp in Bengal. Wanting to cash in on their innocence, an officer and a tout decide to use them as conduits to transport guns outside the camp. When the officer gets the urge for a woman and finds none in the camp, he decides to use one of the two boys. This leads to the boys committing their first crime as the officer is shot dead. They make their escape on a goods train carrying coal and come to Kolkata.

    While doing odd jobs, they dream big, which of course, is not easy to achieve unless one gets into illegal dealings. They see the use of coal all around and think of the wagon train they travelled in and decide to steal from wagons and sell coal at half the market price. It is the 1980s now and the lads have grown up and graduated to stealing entire trainloads of coal instead of just a few kilos, in the process killing the earlier don and his whole gang. With that materialises the car and the home they dreamt of all along. The boys are more than blood brothers, so inseparable that they even share the same bed!

     

    Producer: Aditya Chopra.

    Director: Ali Abbas Zafar.

    Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, 
    Irrfan Khan, Saurabh Shukla. (Darshan Gurjar and Jayesh
    V Kardak as young Ranveer
    and Arjun.)

    The two soon start other businesses and even have a logo designed for their ventures: BB (for Bala and Bikram, the screen names). While they have been busy building an empire and establishing themselves as the most feared dons of Kolkata, the police chief is busy collecting a horde of files on their crimes. As the duo looks unstoppable, the chief hands over the case to one cop who can stop them – Irrfan Khan. But they remain unperturbed as even with so many files, the police had no proof or witnesses so far. Irrfan takes on the onus to collect proof against them. He starts his job by planting a mole around them.

    The duo has financed a night club and gets the privilege of inaugurating the club. There they set their eyes on Priyanka Chopra, the club’s star performer. Both fall in love with her instantly. Two men in love with same woman, just the situation that is enough to put their friendship to the test. Circumstances are created whereby not only the friendship is broken but now the friends for life are ready to kill each other. The enmity starts with a no-holds-barred fistfight and later leads to the use of guns.

    As the film gets into the latter parts post interval, things become predictable. The surprises don’t surprise the viewer.

    With few characters to carry it, the film is too lengthy at 153 minutes. It could have been shorter. With a loose script, the direction is copybook, offering no sparks of genius. Kolkata locations are exploited well. The film’s music works to its advantage with three songs having popular appeal in Asalaam- e-ishqum…, Jashn- e- ishq…… and Tune maari entriyaan and has helped the film get a better opening. The lead actors, Ranveer and Arjun are not really known for histrionics but having nothing negative against their names so far, they draw the young crowd. However, they needed a younger girl to fall in love with rather than Priyanka whom one would consider in the senior league. Irrfan and Saurabh Shukla are good as usual.

    Gunday has had a good opening all over (Delhi, NCR and UP affected a bit earlier in the day due to rains). With solo release as an advantage and its two young heroes, the film has everything working for it at the box office.