5 Hollywood movies that Rana Daggubati and Taapsee Pannu’s The Ghazi Attack trailer reminded us of
The Ghazi Attack is scheduled to release on February 17. Karan Johar will be distributing the Hindi version of the movie.
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What a trailer! The promo of The Ghazi Attack proved once again that Indian cinema is slowly pushing itself into new arenas and attempting to do different genres,
that doesn’t have the hero being worshipped by millions or stalking the
heroine and calling it love. Said to be India’s first submarine movie,
or war at sea movie, The Ghazi Attack
is a bilingual movie that stars Rana Daggubati, Taapsee Pannu, Kay Kay
Menon and Atul Kulkarni in the lead roles, with Nassar, Satyadev
Kancharana and Rahul Singh in supporting roles. This is also one of Om
Puri’s last movies after his untimely demise a couple of days back. The
movie is directed by debutant Sankalp Reddy, partially based on his own
book Blue Fish.
The Ghazi Attack is said to be based on the true incidents surrounding the mysterious sinking of PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Submarine by destroyer INS Rajput during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation war. If you have seen the trailer, the Hindi one that is, you would have heard Amitabh Bachchan‘s baritone doing the narration for the trailer. The Ghazi Attack is scheduled to release on February 17. Karan Johar will be distributing the Hindi version of the movie.
Here’s the trailer…
Submarine genre movies used to be one of Hollywood’s fave genre before they went all blockbuster on us. So here are five Hollywood movies The Ghazi Attack’s trailer will proudly remind us of, belonging to the same genre.
Das Boot
This German movie is hailed as one of the best war movies ever made and is often referred to an all time classic. Let me also tell you that the uncut version runs for freaking 293 minutes making it for one of the longest movies ever made. Set during World War II, it tells the fictional story of U-96 and its crew, focussing more on the daily travails of the crew working inside the sub for a war that is not even theirs, than the actual war. If you haven’t watched it, please do yourself a favour and get rent a DVD soon.
The Hunt for Red October
More than a war movie, THFRO is a fantastic thriller based on the backdrop of Cold War, that stars the great Sean Connery as a Soviet Naval officer who wish to defect from his country to the US, along with their most advanced submarine. Then there is Alec Baldwin, playing a CIA analyst who finds out the real motive of Connery’s mission and prevents his country from attacking the submarine and start a real war with Russia.
K-19: The Widowmaker
The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty fame Kathryn Bigelow directs this Harrison Ford thriller that has him play a Soviet naval captain who is commissioned to take charge of the unlucky submarine, K-19. Going by its epithet, the submarine is responsible for making a few widows, but not of the enemy forces but of its own crew. One of the most expensive productions then, the movie could not manage to recover the costs.
Crimson Tide
Directed by late Tony Scott, Crimson Tide has a Russian extremist take hold of amuclear missile station and threaten a nuclear war on who else, USA. Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman play officers on a US submarine sent to patrol the area. The movie is about the clash of their ideals as they contemplate on whether to go for the offensive or wait for the first attack.
U-571
Going by the plot of the Ghazi Attack from the trailer, the film I find it most resembles to is this Matthew McConaughey starrer, that’s about a World War II German submarine being attacked by disguised United States Navy submariners who wants to capture her Enigma cipher machine, and later they sink her to the depths of the ocean. Like The Ghazi Attack, even this is based on a real-life incident fictionalised for the audience.
Any other war at sea movie did The Ghazi Attack remind you of? Please free to mention that in the comments section below…
The Ghazi Attack is said to be based on the true incidents surrounding the mysterious sinking of PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Submarine by destroyer INS Rajput during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation war. If you have seen the trailer, the Hindi one that is, you would have heard Amitabh Bachchan‘s baritone doing the narration for the trailer. The Ghazi Attack is scheduled to release on February 17. Karan Johar will be distributing the Hindi version of the movie.
Here’s the trailer…
Submarine genre movies used to be one of Hollywood’s fave genre before they went all blockbuster on us. So here are five Hollywood movies The Ghazi Attack’s trailer will proudly remind us of, belonging to the same genre.
Das Boot
This German movie is hailed as one of the best war movies ever made and is often referred to an all time classic. Let me also tell you that the uncut version runs for freaking 293 minutes making it for one of the longest movies ever made. Set during World War II, it tells the fictional story of U-96 and its crew, focussing more on the daily travails of the crew working inside the sub for a war that is not even theirs, than the actual war. If you haven’t watched it, please do yourself a favour and get rent a DVD soon.
The Hunt for Red October
More than a war movie, THFRO is a fantastic thriller based on the backdrop of Cold War, that stars the great Sean Connery as a Soviet Naval officer who wish to defect from his country to the US, along with their most advanced submarine. Then there is Alec Baldwin, playing a CIA analyst who finds out the real motive of Connery’s mission and prevents his country from attacking the submarine and start a real war with Russia.
K-19: The Widowmaker
The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty fame Kathryn Bigelow directs this Harrison Ford thriller that has him play a Soviet naval captain who is commissioned to take charge of the unlucky submarine, K-19. Going by its epithet, the submarine is responsible for making a few widows, but not of the enemy forces but of its own crew. One of the most expensive productions then, the movie could not manage to recover the costs.
Crimson Tide
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Directed by late Tony Scott, Crimson Tide has a Russian extremist take hold of amuclear missile station and threaten a nuclear war on who else, USA. Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman play officers on a US submarine sent to patrol the area. The movie is about the clash of their ideals as they contemplate on whether to go for the offensive or wait for the first attack.
U-571
Going by the plot of the Ghazi Attack from the trailer, the film I find it most resembles to is this Matthew McConaughey starrer, that’s about a World War II German submarine being attacked by disguised United States Navy submariners who wants to capture her Enigma cipher machine, and later they sink her to the depths of the ocean. Like The Ghazi Attack, even this is based on a real-life incident fictionalised for the audience.
Any other war at sea movie did The Ghazi Attack remind you of? Please free to mention that in the comments section below…
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