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After the Oscar Fever and Made in India festivals,
Star Movies is all set to take its viewers on a roller coaster ride
this April with the premier of the latest award winning and box
office hits like- The Pianist, Road to Perdition, The Ring, Jeepers
Creepers and Bullet-proof Monk.
With some of the best performances by some of Hollywood's great
stars, the premiere is kick starting with The Pianist, on
Friday 2 April at 9.00 pm. The film is an adaptation of the autobiography
of Wladyslaw Szpilman, the renowned Polish composer and pianist,
was made by the acclaimed director Roman Polanski and was the winner
of three Oscars.
The next blockbuster on the track is Road to Perdition to
be aired on 9 April, starring two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks along
with Paul Newman and Jude Law. Directed by Oscar winning director
of American Beauty Sam Mendes, the film is set in the depression-era
Chicago where hit man Michael O'Sullivan (Tom Hanks) is known to
his friends and enemies alike as the 'Angel of Death', a person
who is uncompromising in his work but at the same time devoted to
his private life. But when these two worlds collide, taking the
lives of his wife and his younger son, O'Sullivan embarks on a startling
journey of revenge.
The next on 16 April at 9.00 pm is The Ring, a suspense
thriller starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson, the lead actor
of Gurinder Chadha's forthcoming Bride & Prejudice. Directed
by Gore Verbinski, this film is a remake of one of Japan's biggest
box office hits.
That's not all. Another film in the horror-suspense genre Jeepers
Creepers awaits on 23 April. The film is about a group of unsuspecting
teens from college across the US, encounters a supernatural creature,
hell bent on killing them. In their attempt to escape, this fast
paced thriller fills one with heart-stopping jolts and mind-bending
twists.
The month ends with the action packed Bulletproof Monk starring
Chow Yun-Fat and Seann William Scott to be aired on 30 April. The
story is about a mysterious monk who has for 60 years protected
an ancient scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. But when
a streetwise punk saves him from capture, the monk thinks that he
has found a replacement protector for the scroll.
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