Jai Gangaajal

Producer: Prakash Jha, Play Entertainment

Director: Prakash Jha

Filmmaker Prakash Jha is revisiting the cop-drama genre with Jai Gangaajal, 13 years after his National Award-winning film Gangaajal (2003) was first released. However, the Priyanka Chopra-starrer is not a sequel to the Ajay Devgn super-hit.

The difference between the two films is that they are stories and situations of two different Indian societies — the society of 2003, which is hugely different from that of 2016. The similarity is the kind of compulsions under which the police functions and the challenges they have to face. The film also stars Rahul Bhatt, Manav Kaul, Murli Sharma, Nimad Kamat, Vega Tamodia and Ayush Khedekar.

Zubaan

Producer: Wave Cinema, Guneet Monga and Shaan Vyas of Sikhya Entertainment, Metamozez Entertainment

Director: Mozez Singh

Veteran action director Sham Kaushal’s son Vicky Kaushal, who was appreciated for his critically acclaimed movie Masaan released last year, plays the lead role in this coming-of-age musical — Mozez Singh’s Zubaan. Zubaan stars Vicky Kaushal and Sarah Jane Dias in the lead roles. The film has already won accolades at the Busan International Film Festival.

Zootopia

Producer: Clark Spencer

Director: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared  Bush                                                                                                                                  After the splendid success of Disney’s Oscar-nominated Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, Walt Disney Animation Studios is all set to kick-start 2016 with an unusual and exciting new animation movie, Zootopia. The quirky animation boasts of stellar voices such as those of international superstar Shakira, Jason Bateman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Idris Elba and more.

London Has Fallen

Producer: Gerald Butler, Danny Lerner, Matt Otoole, Alan Siegel, Les Weldon

Director: Babak Najafi

The Gerald Butler action movie London Has Fallen, a sequel to 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, centres on an attack on London during the funeral of the British prime minister, who has died under mysterious circumstances. Butler reprises his role as an ultra-resourceful US secret service agent. The film stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Robert Foster, Melissa Leo and Radha Mitchell in supporting roles. Trevor Morris is the music composer.

— Dharam  Pal