November 2022 – Page 2 – DesisLive News and Reviews

THE SANTA CLAUSES HAS A RIGHT WING SANTA

Set several decades after the events of the 2006 film The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, the Disney+ series brings back Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, the former toy salesman who became Santa Claus. After years of serving as the sleigh-riding, gift-giving, elf-managing icon of Christmas, Scott and his wife Carol (Elizabeth Mitchell) find themselves pondering what comes after life at the North Pole when Scott begins to suspect he’s nearing the end of his term as jolly old St. Nick.

BTS’S JUNGKOOK SINGS DREAMERS FOR FIFA WORLD CUP 2022 ALBUM

On November 20 at 2 p.m. KST, Jungkook released the new song “Dreamers,” his contribution to the soundtrack of this year’s World Cup in Qatar.

DHARAVI BANK IS A RUN OFF THE MILL THRILLER WITH NO MEAT

Dharavi Bank is the story of Thalaivan and his underworld business. Thalaivan is a ruthless gangster who is in charge of the Dharavi Bank, a 30,000 crore worth estate where all the big shots hide their money.

SONG JOONG KI’S REBORN RICH BEBUTS AT 2ND HIGHEST EVER RATINGS IN JTBC HISTORY

“Reborn Rich” is a new fantasy drama starring Song Joong Ki as Yoon Hyun Woo, a loyal secretary to a chaebol family. When he dies after being framed for embezzlement by the very family that he had faithfully served, he is reborn as the family’s youngest son Jin Do Joon, and he plots to take over the company out of revenge.

The Gentlemen’s League: The Ultimate Sports Cross-Over

The Gentlemen’s League is a South Korean reality TV series about an amateur soccer team comprised of Korea’s top national and Olympic athletes

May I Help You: A Somber Yet Funny Story of Granting One Last Wish

May I Help you is a somber yet comedic story following the life of Dong-Joo, a funeral home director who sees ghosts, and Tae-Hee, an owner of a low-cost errand company.

Reborn Rich: A Dark Drama Spanning The Present and Future

Reborn Rich follows the journey of Hyun-Woo, a dedicated yet mistreated employee of Soonyang, who is reborn as the youngest grandson of the family that murdered him.

CAT: RANDEEP HOODA STARS IN NETFLIX’S PUNJABI CRIME SERIES

The one-and-a-half minute trailer introduces Hooda’s character, Gurnam Singh, who is left with no choice but to take up a policeman’s offer to become a mole, in an effort to save his brother from the clutches of the law.

ISHAAN KHATTER’S WAR MOVIE PIPPA TO RELEASE ON DEC 2

The war drama, headlined by Ishaan Khatter, Mrunal Thakur, Priyanshu Painyuli, and Soni Razdan, will hit screens on December 2

AAMIR KHAN HAS A CAMEO IN KAJOL’S SALAAM VENKY

Kajol plays a doting mother who is determined to be a pillar of support to her terminally ill son (played by Vishal Jethwa).

DRISHYAM 2 IS GRIPPING IN EVERY WAY

Very logically plotted, the movie does a good job holding the audience captive from scene one till the end. Almost seven years after Vijay Salgaocar (Ajay Devgn) sold his riveting story to us, the modest cable operator’s take on the alleged murder of Sameer Deshmukh, son of top cop Meera Deshmukh (Tabu), is not as foolproof as it sounded by the end of the first part, in which he and his family were saved from the might of the system.

OSCARS: PAKISTAN REVERSES JOYLAND BAN

The ban briefly threatened Joyland’s Oscar chances, as all international feature contenders must have a minimum seven-day theatrical run in their country of origin or a similar run outside their home nation, to qualify for the Academy Awards.

ANOUSHKA SHANKAR, BERKLEE INDIA ENSEMBLE GET GRAMMY NOMS

Exes Taylor Swift and Harry Styles will be going head to head in two major categories at the Grammy Awards 2023. For Song of the Year, Harry’s As It Was will be competing alongside Taylor Swift’s All Too

Set in Lahore, Pakistan, “Joyland” revolves around Haider, the youngest son of the middle-class, patriarchal Rana family. As the Ranas yearn for the birth of a baby boy, Haider secretly joins an erotic dance theater and finds himself falling for a fiercely ambitious trans starlet. Their love story illuminates the secrets and desires of the entire Rana family.

MALALA COMMENTS ON PAKISTAN’S DECISION TO BAN HER MOVIE JOYLAND

2022 proved to be a banner year for Pakistani artists. Aftab delivered the country’s first Grammy award, winning for best global music performance. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directed episodes of “Ms. Marvel,” the critically-acclaimed Disney+ series featuring the first Muslim superhero in the Marvel universe. Novels like Soomro’s “Other Names for Love” and Mohsin Hamid’s “The Last White Man” won praise from critics.

IRRFAN KHAN’S SON DEBUTS WITH NETFLIX’S QALA

Set in the 1940s, the film’s trailer follows a singer who is at the peak of her career, played by Triptii Dimri. As she gets more successful, she starts losing her sense of reality and the new competition in the form of Jagan, played by Babil Khan, starts messing her up.

RRR IS GETTING A SEQUEL

“RRR,” one of the most expensive movie ever made out of India with a reported budget of $72 million, has had an incredible ride since its debut in March.

PAKISTAN BANKS OSCAR CONTENDER “JOYLAND” FOR IT’S “REPUGNANT MATERIAL”

Set in Lahore, Pakistan, “Joyland” revolves around Haider, the youngest son of the middle-class, patriarchal Rana family. As the Ranas yearn for the birth of a baby boy, Haider secretly joins an erotic dance theater and finds himself falling for a fiercely ambitious trans starlet. Their love story illuminates the secrets and desires of the entire Rana family.

Love O2O Perfectly Blurs the Lines Between the Real and Virtual Worlds

Love O2O is a Chinese drama that follows the virtual and real relationships of Bei Weiwei and Xiao Nai.

Curtain Call: The Perfect Monday Cathartic Cry

Curtain Call is a South Korean drama following the heartache and success of a woman who escaped from North Korean during the Korean War.

PATHAAN WILL SHOWCASE DEEPIKA IN PROBABLY HER HOTTEST AND COOLEST SELF! : SIDDHARTH ANAND

The on-screen jodi of Deepika and Shah Rukh Khan is probably one of the biggest pairings that Indian cinema has ever seen, given their incredible successes in the past. And in Pathaan we have presented SRK and DP in a way that’s unprecedented

TANAAV IS A REALISTICALLY HARD-HITTING POLITICAL THRILLER

Kabir Farooqui (Manav Vij) has retired from a special forces unit and runs a jam-making business, living a peaceful life with his wife Nusrat (Sukhmani Sadana) and two children. His commander Vikrant Rathore (Arbaaz Khan) drops by with the bombshell news that the dreaded terrorist Umar Riaz (Sumit Kaul), believed to have been killed by Kabir, is alive.