Sandeep Kulkarni speaks about his latest film ‘Night School’

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‘Night School’,” said renowned Marathi actor Sandeep Kulkarni, while addressing a press conference hosted by Producer Nitin Mawani at Hotel Midtown Pritam, Dadar on Friday evening. He further added that when the script was shown to him, he did not know some of the truths and felt that it was a challenge doing this role. The occasion was to release the First look of his forthcoming film ‘Night School’. Also present on the occasion were writer-director Mansingh Pawar, actress Deepa Chafekar, (who is also assistant director of this film), Shrikant Yadav and other members of the unit.

In this film, Sandeep accepts the challenge of a social activist running a Night School, to join his school and show 100% result, as he proved in his standard day school. But, after accepting this job, he has to face many problems, including the harassment from anti social elements in the locality and the builder, who eyes on the school plot for redevelopment. Deepa Chafekar plays Sandeep’s wife in this film, while Prasad Pandit plays the Night School operator and social worker. Others in the supporting roles are Shrikant Yadav, Raju Mawani, Raju Govilkar, Anvay bender, Shivraj Walvekar, Ashit Ambekar and about 40 others playing the students, out of which 25 are real life night school students.

Director Mansingh Pawar looked confident about his film and thanked the producer for coming forward to make this film. “We have shot the film at actual locations to present reality,” he said. While speaking to Marathi Movie World, he said that he was also trying to send his film at International Film festivals, for presenting a universal theme; i.e. importance of education to change the life of people, who do laborious jobs during daytime and yet would like to study after their work hours.

The film has two songs on the music of Babhu Bhosale. Editing by Paresh Manjrekar and photography by Prakash Shinde are other credits. The film is all set for release on 2nd November 2012.