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  • Break into the New Year with your favourite stars on Lionsgate Play

    Break into the New Year with your favourite stars on Lionsgate Play

    Mumbai: ‘Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.’ As we step into the New Year, it’s important for us to look back and cherish the moments, people and memories that stayed with us. Be it your friends, family or partner, commemorating the start of a ‘new chapter’ should be special in every sense. So, as you cosy up with your fam-jam for a quiet night in, Lionsgate Play brings to you a slate of titles across every genre. From the action-packed Keanu Reeves’ blockbuster John Wick: Chapter 4 to the critically acclaimed Past Lives, the platform has a binge-list. Kick-back, relax and get ready for a banging 2024 with your favourite stars from across the globe.

    John Wick: Chapter 4

    Indulge in the action movie of the year! There’s a price to pay and Baba Yaga has come to collect! Keanu Reeves is back with a Bang in Lionsgate Play’s John Wick: Chapter 4 as he looks to go up against the mighty High Table. Given the unlimited resources at the High Table’s disposal, John turns to allies Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, and Lance Riddick to help him for the fight of his life. With his life on the line will John Wick be able to pull off the impossible once again?

    Past Lives

    A love story that makes everything pale in comparison. Starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro, Golden Globe Nominee, Past Lives is the heart-wrenching tale of two childhood friends who are separated when Nora immigrates to America. Almost a decade later when Hae Sung comes looking for Nora, they both confront destiny, love and the choices they made. Directed by Celine Song, the film is soul-food for every romance lover.

    About My Father

    This Robert De Niro starrer makes for the perfect laugh. Unlike the usual bitter-sweet chemistry between father and son, this one surely sets itself apart. Based on the life of the popular comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, this rib-tickling comedy has a high quotient of never-ending laughter and impeccable comic commentary on family and culture. The film promises to be a hilarious and heartwarming tribute to different cultures and experiences as told through the eyes of one of today’s most beloved comedians, starring Sebastian Maniscalco himself along with Kim Cattrall and Leslie Bibb.

    JoyRide

    These girls just want to have fun! Packed with comedy, drama and some NSFW instances, Joy Ride follows Audrey Sullivan on a path to self-discovery. When Audrey’s business trip to Asia goes wrong, she calls on her childhood bestie, Lolo, her college friend Kat and Lolo’s eccentric cousin Deadeye for help. Stranded in a country with nowhere to go, this wild squad embarks on a journey of utter chaos and debauchery that unveils their true loving selves. Starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu in titular roles, Joy Ride is the vacation we all want to go on.

    Minus One: New Chapter

    This seasoned show takes you through the story of Varun and Riya as they navigate the complexities of modern love and being broken up. From not being able to live without each other in Season 1, to never wanting to see each other again in Season 2, Lionsgate Play’s Indian Original Minus One: New Chapter is a roller coaster of emotions. Starring Ayush Mehra and Aisha Ahmed, Minus One is a story of love, longing and heartbreak as it touches on the themes of honesty, transparency and unrequited love.

    Plane

    An action film starring Gerard Butler and Mike Colter, Plane follows a commercial pilot named Brodie Torrance and a terrifying crash that marks only the beginning of his epic journey in the film. While an action film starring the two may seem like an obvious win for most audiences, the film’s plot is a darker action adventure with a life-or-death scenario. In Plane, Butler and Colter band together as pilot and fugitive to protect their fellow besieged crash survivors from swarming, hostage-taking pirates.

    Shotgun Wedding

    Wear your best clothes as you are invited to the biggest wedding celebration of the year. Featuring Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel, the story builds on an ultimate destination wedding, hijacked by criminals, where suddenly everyone’s lives are in danger when the entire party is taken hostage. In the process of saving their families, the couple rediscovers why they fell in love in the first place. With a stellar star cast and amazing comedic chops, the movie will be a journey of fun, wit and tickling humour while the bride and the groom try to save the day and their wedding. 

  • CNN examines the legacy of indias brave heart in worlds untold stories: the fearless one

    CNN examines the legacy of indias brave heart in worlds untold stories: the fearless one

    MUMBAI: It was a phone call that no parent wants to receive. But on the fateful night of December 16, 2012, the parents of a 23-year-old Indian medical student had the police on the line saying their child has been taken to the hospital. Little did they know that what lay ahead would not only change their life forever, but shake the conscience of an entire nation and effect a concrete change in its judicial system.

    What started as an ordinary evening at the movies for this young girl, turned out to be an unimaginable night of horror as she was raped, brutally beaten and violated by a group of men in a bus and then left to die on the roadside. This month, CNN’s World’s Untold Stories: The Fearless One recounts this young student’s courageous struggle for life before succumbing to injuries that her attendant doctor described as the most “atrocious, unbelievable” he had seen in his career spanning four decades. The documentary examines how her suffering brought together a nation’s public to demand justice for a girl that they had never seen, whose very name was unknown to them*, and how her enduring legacy has left a lasting impact on India’s social fabric.

    The depravity and inhumanity of the crime meant that the men gang raped and violated a girl with an iron rod while out for a “joyride” and showed no signs of remorse, being “very casual” and “cracking jokes” throughout their trial. CNN recounts the horrible chain of events of that night through extensive interviews with the girl’s parents, the police investigators and doctors. Viewers hear from the parents about the brave young girl who was the family’s “pillar of strength” and their hope for a better life and also from the investigating police officers about the arrogance of the rapists who “didn’t think they would get caught”. They will hear from the doctors about her incredible fighting spirit which prevailed despite her grievous internal injuries “unparalleled, unheard neither before nor after.”

    The documentary also chronicles the nationwide protests which erupted to say that ‘enough was enough’ and that more needed to be done to protect women in India. The protestors braved tear gas and water cannons in Delhi’s bitter winter chill to demand justice. Their support provided the victim’s parents the courage to “put up a tough fight” and made them feel that “humanity still prevails on this earth.”

    Finally, The Fearless One highlights the legacy that this brave girl created. This included a change in India’s law against sexual offences, as well as smaller but equally-significant change visible on-ground with the police officers reporting that people “have got emboldened” to report sexual crimes of all hues. It sheds light on the bereaved parents’ hope that their daughter’s fight will lead to more “positive changes in the future” keeping her “alive in one form or the other”.

    *Indian law prohibits revealing the identity of a rape victim