This Article is From Apr 18, 2014

Today's big releases: 2 States, Transcendence

Today's big releases: 2 States,  Transcendence

Stills from Transcendence and 2 States

Highlights

  • It's a 'Good Friday' in every way at the box office with the much-awaited 2 States finally arriving on screens.
  • Alia Bhatt and Arjun Kapoor star as young management students from two opposite ends of the country in the film adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's novel. For Tamil Ananya (Alia) and Punjabi Krish (Arjun) falling in love is just the beginning, the cultural divide between their respective families proves a hurdle that threatens to split the couple. Directed by Abhishek Varman and co-produced by Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala, 2 States also stars Ronit Roy and Amrita Singh as Arjun's parents and Revathy and Shiv Kumar Subramaniam as Alia's.
  • Bollywood also offers political satire Dekh Tamasha Dekh starring Satish Kaushik and Tanvi Azmi, among others. Coinciding with election season, the film deals with death, religion and oppression as symbolized by a poor man killed by a hoarding of a politician which falls on him.
  • Up from Hollywood is sci-fi film Transcendence starring Johnny Depp as a scientist researching artificial intelligence whose consciousness is uploaded onto a computer to keep him alive after assassination attempts. Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara and Morgan Freeman also star.
New Delhi: It's a 'Good Friday' in every way at the box office with the much-awaited 2 States finally arriving on screens.

Alia Bhatt and Arjun Kapoor star as young management students from two opposite ends of the country in the film adaptation of Chetan Bhagat's novel. For Tamil Ananya (Alia) and Punjabi Krish (Arjun) falling in love is just the beginning, the cultural divide between their respective families proves a hurdle that threatens to split the couple. Directed by Abhishek Varman and co-produced by Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala, 2 States also stars Ronit Roy and Amrita Singh as Arjun's parents and Revathy and Shiv Kumar Subramaniam as Alia's.

Bollywood also offers political satire Dekh Tamasha Dekh starring Satish Kaushik and Tanvi Azmi, among others. Coinciding with election season, the film deals with death, religion and oppression as symbolized by a poor man killed by a hoarding of a politician which falls on him.

Up from Hollywood is sci-fi film Transcendence starring Johnny Depp as a scientist researching artificial intelligence whose consciousness is uploaded onto a computer to keep him alive after assassination attempts. Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara and Morgan Freeman also star.

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