The latest film making waves with the press is Prince, a film that is being played in both Tamil and Hindi theater! The movie is trilingual, and has voice acting for Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu. Prince is an action film that promises to have audiences in awe from beginning to end. The actor who plays the main character is esteemed Vivek Oberoi, who is extremely confident of the success of this upcoming film. He states “Get ready for an edge-of-the-seat experience,” while discussing the movie in a promotion.
Prince is about an intelligent thief who is an absolute expert at his job.Vivek Oberoi also gives details on the thriller to press, stating “Prince wakes up to know that someone has stolen his memory. He has to find out who he is and why people are chasing him; he only has six days to live.” The movie is two hours long, and Oberoi is absolutely convinced that audiences will be spellbound for every minute of Prince. The charming thief woos three women in the film, hinting that the movie will also be highly amusing to viewers.
While memory loss is not necessarily a new concept in film making (in fact, the subject has been covered in over 80 films) Prince boasts to not be inspired by any of these movies, and is in fact a completely different experience than all of them.
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For almost half of a year, Oberoi has worked his skills and physique into peak condition for Prince. Oberoi states that he loves action sequences, and from the moment that he read the script detailing the intense stunts, he decided he wanted to jump on the opportunity to work as his own stunt performer. In the movie he hangs eight thousand feet in the air and jumps from rooftop to rooftop on a motorbike. This movie bound to be Oberoi’s pride and joy, as he also states that it was the biggest challenge he has encountered thus far as an actor.
With a Chennai mother, Oberoi decided to dub the Tamil movie promos by himself. Unfortunately he is not entirely confident in his Tamil knowledge, so he was unable to dub the entire film. He is very enthusiastic to Tamil audiences, however, stating that he really wants to concentrate on bilingual and trilingual films that are showed in both Hindi and Tamil.
Oberoi warns audiences that Prince is a movie that can only be experienced to its fullest in theater. Resul Pookutty is an Academy Award winning sound engineer that specifically created stunning audio that could only be fully enjoyed through theater viewing. Oberoi stated to the public “You cannot enjoy Prince in pirated discs, or on the small screen. You must watch Prince in cinemas for a thrilling Hindi movie experience.”
Awaara is a film produced in 1951 for Hindi theater. The Hindi film is directed, produced, and performed by Raj Kapoor. Raj plays the lead male role, while he casts his father as the lead male role’s father. Awaara focuses on the lives of Raj (Raj Kapoor) and Rita (Nargis). Rita is privileged and wealthy, while Raj is a poor tramp.
Judge Raghunath is Raj’s wealthy father. Raghunath is a very ambitious and esteemed man of the court, and refuses to allow anything to taint his image. When his wife is kidnapped by robbers, she is found to be pregnant and is thrown from his house. While Raj, her unborn son was actually Judge Raghunath’s true son, the man is blinded by his fear that the son of a thief will become a thief regardless of proper parenting. Raj grows up without a father, in extreme poverty and desiring a father figure in his life. He suffers through school, but is overcome with the stress of having to keep a job as stay in school to care for himself. He meets a young girl named Rita, who soon becomes his best friend and confidant. Raj falls deeply in love with the beautiful girl, but fate separates them. Raj is kicked out of school for being unable to juggle both a job and an education, and he is separated from Rita. Alone and depressed, he often thinks of Rita and remembers how lovely she was, even as they spend so much time apart.
Raj, left without an education and little money for himself, turns to a life of crime as he steals to survive. Jagga, a criminal, acts as his father figure and the man that Raj looks up to. They band together and commit various crimes, Raj pleased with his ability to stay alive and have someone like Jagga to look after him. One desperate day they decide to rob a local bank. The pair, however, do not have a car in which to escape in, which poses a difficulty in their plan. Struck with a plan, Raj steals a purse from a woman exiting her car. He escapes her notice and hides, searching through her purse frantically for her keys. He cannot find them, however and is shocked and mortified by the fact that he has the purse and no keys to show for it. Raj elaborately acts as if he caught the thief and retrieved the purse for the robbed woman, only to find that the woman is Rita, the beautiful girl from his childhood. Raj later finds out a terrible secret on his father figure Jagga, and the aftermath pays a terrible toll on Raj.
The story is dramatic and compelling to the very end as the audience follows Raj through plot twist to plot twist. His life becomes an emotional rollercoaster that, while a little clichéd, is extremely entertaining for audiences everywhere. This Hindi movie is absolutely a must-watch.
