Grand Trailer and Music launch of Marathi film ‘Lokshahi’
After raising curiosity about their film since the launch of their film’s poster recently, the makers of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Lokshahi’ have now released the grand trailer and also launched the music of this film. The trailer of the film gives the glimpse of a political thriller and the music of this film is receiving good response on social media.
But, the most interesting thing about this film is its star cast, which comprises of well known versatile artistes who are involved in this power struggle in politics. During the grand trailer and music launch Producer of this film Mr. Sushilkumar Agrawal was present along with lead artistes of this film Dr. Mohan Agashe, Tejashree Pradhan, Amitriyan Patil and others. This film is directed by Sanjay Amar with the music provided by Sanjay- Raji. Besides Dr. Mohan Agashe, Tejashree Pradhan, Amit Riyan the film also stars Dr. Girish Oak, Bhargavi Chirmule, Samir Dharmadhikari and others in prominent roles.
Vijay Kenkre to celebrate Cenutry of his plays with ‘Kali Rani’
Renowned dramatist and director Vijay Kenkre is all set to celebrate the Century of his plays with his new Marathi play ‘Kali Rani‘ on 11th December 2022. Interestingly, with this inaugural show of ‘Kali Rani’ Vijay Kenkre’s other associates in this play will also be creating new records. This will be writer Ratnakar Matkari’s 90th play, Production designer Pradeep Mule’s 200th play, Music director Ajit Parab’s 40th play, Costume designer Mangal Kenkre’s 50th play, Light effect specialist Sheetal Talpade’s 125th play Akshar Shedge’s 1400th play and Dr. Girish Oak’s 50th play. Above all, Dr. Girish Oak will be appearing in his 6,666 th stage performance through this inaugural show.
Produced by Priya Patil, Dr. Madhuri Sarnaik, Anita Mahajan,Rutuja Shidam and directed by Vijay Kenkre this play revolves around three important characters in film industry- an actress who wants to rule over this industry, a writer whose every film has become a silver Jubilee hit and a showman producer who has given scope to this actress and director in this industry. Dr. Girish Oak, Harish Dudhade and Manva Naik play the lead roles along with Chandralekha Joshi and Anand Patil. We are all aware that Vijay Kenkre who has so far offered variety of subjects through his successful plays, is also expected to give his best direction in this play too
’38 Krushna Villa’ will be Dr. Girish Oak’s 50th play
Dr. Girish Oak is a versatile actor, having performed in various stage plays, TV serials and films. His 50 th play ’38 Krushna Villa (’38 कृष्ण व्हिला’)’ directed by Vijay Kenkre will soon be staged with the inaugural show to be held at Deenanath Mangeshkar Natyagruh @ 4.15 pm on 19th March 2022. This will be followed by 2nd show at Gadkari Rangayatan, Thane on 20th March 2022 @ 4.30 pm.
This play is produced by Mihir Gavali and is written by Shweta Pendse, who has also performed lead role in this play opposite Dr. Girish Oak. Production designer is Sandesh Bendre, while Mangal Kenkre has designed the costumes. Music is by Ajit Parab and Shital Talpade has handled the light effects.
In this play Dr. Girish Oak plays a high profile character of Devdutt Kamat whoi is accused by a stranger woman Nandini Chitre with some serious charges. And then begins the challenge before Devdutt Kamat to prove himself not guilty.
Voices of Vinay Apte, Lalan Sarang and Dr.Girish Oak in audiobook ‘Pani Pani’
Writer Laxmikant Deshmukh’s collection of 14 stories ‘Pani Pani’ is now available in audio book form on Storytel app. Known for his writing on social issues like Environment protection and water conservation, the author has passed a timely message to the society through his stories, which talk about problems faced by people due to neglect towards these most important issues by Politicians and administrators. All his stories are an eye opener and exposes the system and corrupt practices.
We are all aware about the situation in Maharashtra, where we face natural calamities due to heavy rains at some parts and at the same time drought due to non availability of water. All these stories are heart touching and keep the audience engaged. These stories are narrated by renowned personalities from Marathi entertainment field. They are Dr. Girish Oak and the other two are Late Vinay Apte and Late Lalan Sarang . So, the new generation people have a golden opportunity to listen to their voices while narrating these tales on audiobook, which is available on Storytel app.
Zee5 offers variety of popular Marathi plays
During this lock down period what the regular Marathi theatre audience is missing is their favourite pastime of watching Marathi plays in drama theatres. For such people Zee Marathi has offered variety of old Marathi plays in video format. Some prominent pays in the list are, ‘Natasamrat’ starring Mohan Joshi and Rohini Hattangadi. ‘Aaranyak’ starring Dilip Prabhavalkar, Ravi Patwardhanand Pratibha Matkari.
1988 play ‘Kusum Manohar Lele’ starring Shubhangi Joshi, Bal Karve, Manda Desai and Dr. Girish Oak is also another attraction on this Zee5 app, besides another popular play ‘Vahato Hi Durvanchi Judi’ starring Subodh Bhave in the lead role. There is also ‘Kachecha Chandra’ starring Sharad Ponkshe and Harshada Khanvilkar while ‘Vegala Vhaychay Mala’ starring Nivedita Joshi and Jayant Savarkar is also another good choice. Among the other plays in the list are, ‘Pappa Sanga Kunache’ with Late Anand Patwardhan, ‘Goshta Janmantarichi’ with Mohan Joshi and ‘Ghar Shrimantanche’ with Sudhir Joshi.
Actress Sayali Sanjeev to begin new year with a Bang
Actress Sayali Sanjeev who made her debut in Marathi films through ‘Police Line’ 3 years ago, became more popular among home viewers through Marathi TV serial ‘Kahe Diya Pardes’ . But, after the completion of her serial, she received good number of offers from Marathi films. Her second film ‘Aatpadi Nights’ is all set to release this Friday. But, there is much more her in the new year 2020. There are films which are lined up for release and one of them is ‘Daah- Ek Marmasparshi Katha’, which has offered her better scope for acting.
Produced by Rajkumar Badole this film is directed by Malhar Ganesh . Along with Sayali the other lead artistes of this film are Girish Oak Radhika Vidyasagar, Surhud Wardekar, Yatin Karyekar, Uma sardeshmukh & Kishore Chougule. It is a family film based on the couple Dr. Sane and his wife and their daughter Deesha. Music directors Praful- Swapnil have composed the music of this film on the lyrics of Mandar Cholkar and Tejas ranade and popular singers like Swapnil Bndodkar, Bela Shende, Manish Rajgire, Aniruddha Vankar and Madhushree have rendered their voices for the songs.
Usha Jadhav bags IFFI international award for best actress
National award winning actress Usha Jadhav has one more feather in her cap. The talented young actress has now bagged most prestigious international award for best actress , at the International Film Festival of India ( IFFI), which concluded in Goa recently. 200 films from 76 countries had participated in this festival. Usha bagged this award for her brilliant performance in Marathi film ‘Mai Ghat: Crime No. 103/2005′ directed by Anant Mahadevan.
Usha’s name for recommended for this prestigious and by the team of Jury comprising of UK director Lily Ramsey, French Director Robin Campello, Chinese director Zan Ang and Indian Film director Ramesh Sippy. Oscar Academy President John Belly who was head of th Jury was high praise for Usha’s performance in this film. His wife Carol Littletone has also praised Usha for her remarkable performance in this film.
Reacting on this memorable moment, Usha thanked director Anant Mahadevan for the efforts taken by him to extract the best out of her and for selecting her for this role. She also thanked producer Mohini Gupta and her entire team for their support during the shooting. Usha has played a protagonist mother – Prabhavati Amma who fights a long battle of justice for 13 long years , against custodial death of her son. The story of this film is based on a real incident and therefore has a special significance. Along with Usha, the other prominent artistes who have performed in this film are, Suhasini Muley, Kamalesh Sawant, Dr. Girish Oak, Vibhavari Joshi and Vivek Chabukswar.
Welcome Jindagi ( वेलकम् जिंदगी )
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Opening Date: 2017 (30 September)
Production House: Trikut
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Opening Date: 2016 (7 December)
Production House: Jivhala Nirmit, Supriya Productions
Producer(s): Kanta Mhasvekar, Supriya Chavan
Presenter: Govind Chavan
Writer: Anand Mhasvekar
Director: Anand Mhasvekar
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‘Tee Phulrani’ celebrating 50th show
Popular Marathi play ‘Tee Phulrani‘ was written by Well Known playwright P.L. Deshpande. This play was based on G.B. Shaw’s famous English play Pygmalion. Now, director Rajesh Deshpande has revived this play with his new team of artistes comprising of Hemangi Kavi in title role along with Dr.Girish Oak, Vijay Patwardhan & Sunil Jadhav . Though some of critics felt that the flavour of original play was missing; the new play has completed 50 shows successfully.
Produced by Ashtagandha Entertainment & Edonis Multimedia & Enterprises, this play performed its 50th show in Mumbai, after paying tributes to all those who were behind staging this play in the past. And, the audience responded well , appreciating the efforts of this new team. It may be recalled that all old Marathi plays which have been revived in the recent past, have received good response. And ‘Tee Phulrani‘ is the latest addition to this list.