Ketaki has one more Feather in her Cap
Ketaki Mategaonkar attained name and fame, when she appeared in ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L’il Champs’ a Marathi music reality show on television. Ketaki has so far acted in Marathi films like ‘Aarohi’, ‘Shala’, ‘Kaksparsh’, ‘Taani’, & Timepass. The last one being a super hit film. Now, her two films ‘Time Pass 2′ and ‘Phuntro’ will be released soon.
Ketaki has been happy with the progress of her career as a singer and actress. But, her wish of having her own solo music album, was fulfilled during the week. Ketaki’s solo music album with 9 songs suitably titled ‘Ketaki’ was released yesterday, in Mumbai. Prominent personalities from Marathi film and Music industry and many well wishers were present on the occasion. Mr. Shankar Mahadevan and Mr. Ashok Patki were the special guests of honour during the release of this music album presented by Universal Music Co. With this latest achievement, Ketaki has one more feather in her cap.
Shala
Release Year: 2012
Genres: Drama, Romance
Rating: na
Censor: U/A
Duration: 120 mins
Producer: Vivek Wagh – Nilesh Navalakha
Director: Sujay S. Dahake
Writer: Based on ‘Shala’ ‘the best selling novel by Milind Bokil
ScreenPlay: Avinash Deshpande
Cast & Crew
Director: Sujay S. Dahake
Writer: Based on ‘Shala’ ‘the best selling novel by Milind Bokil
ScreenPlay: Avinash Deshpande
Cast: Dilip Prabhavakar, Devki Daftar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Santosh Juvekar, Jeetendra Joshi, Anand Ingle, Ashwini Giri, Nandu Madhav, Anshuman Joshi, Ketaki Mategaonkar
Website: http://www.shalacinema.com
Synopsis
SURYA (16) is a typical life lover & a great blend of society and hippie culture.
CHITRYA (14) a born genius. Wants to be a scientist. He comes from a modern family setting and is the smartest one amongst the group.
FAVDYA (15) the poorest and dumbest amongst all four. A true friend.
JOSHI (14) comes from an average middle class family, with a confused future. A true lover and a good friend.
Joshi wants the girl to know his feelings. He has been trying hard. He attends the same private tuitions as her just to get a glance of her. He follows her to her house everyday without her knowing about this. So will he let her know…. Will he break the rules of society & express his feelings to Shirodkar. A story of struggle, freedom and liberation with a spice of lonliness.
Adaptation from the book: The screenplay of this film has been adapted from the best selling novel of the same name ,
by reputed Marathi novelist Milind Bokil.
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Jitendra Joshi – An Electrician turned Actor
Jitendra has already made his presence felt through his roles in recent films like ‘Guldasta’, ‘Shala’ and ‘Zhakaas’. Now, his two forthcoming films, namely ‘Matter’ and ‘Tukaram’ are all set for release shortly. He is also working in few more film projects. Marathi Movie World spoke to this multi talented personality. Excerpts from an interview:
Q: How was life, prior to entering this acting field ?
A: Prior to acting, as a youngster I have done lots of hard work expected from any active young boy; like distributing the newspapers and working in a shop. Basically, I am an electrician and during my young days used to run the shop of my uncle.
Q: When exactly you felt that you could become an actor ?
A: One day, while I was in my Uncle’s shop, my teacher Mr. Pardeshi spotted me there. He suggested me that I was at a wrong place. He indicated that my place was in theatre, as according to him, I was good at acting. But, that time, I didn’t know what exactly was required to be done, to become an actor. Later, when I shifted to Pune, I watched some one act plays and dramas. Watching the performances of Subodh Bhave and Lokesh Gupte, inspired me. I joined Satish Tare and Sunil Tare’s group as music operator. One day, in absence of one artist , I was asked to play his role. Mr. Mohan Wagh, who saw me in that role, selected me for his play ‘Three Cheers’ and I landed in Mumbai.
Q: But, how did you turn a lyricist ?
A: I don’t exactly remember, when I took interest in writing. May be, after I shifted to Mumbai. It happened, because of the encouragement from my family and friends. I have done very limited writing. Till now, I have written songs for films like ‘Bokya Satbande’ , ‘Jatra’, ‘Virrudh’ ( Hindi) and ‘Striker’ ( Hindi). Even for the film ‘Matter‘, I have penned one song ‘Bada bada bananeka….’ and even rendered my voice to this song in the company of my co artistes Santosh Juvekar, Sushant Shelar and Music director Abhijit Kavthekar.
Q: You are one of the four heroes in the film ‘Matter‘ . Tell us something about this film.
A: About this film, I would only say that we generally see the happenings in the life of the characters. But, what’s life all about and under what circumstances the characters live their life; ‘Matter’ takes a close look at it. It’s a story of four friends and their struggle in life.
Q: What do you have to say about your much talked about film ‘Tukaram‘ ?
A: Now, everyone knows about this famous saint. All I can say is that I am playing this central character in the film.
‘Shala’ is the most eagerly awaited film
In the recently held Popular awards of Marathimovieworld.com forthcoming Marathi film ‘Shala’ bagged the special award for much awaited film of 2012. On the very next day there was a pres conference held by Mahesh Manjrekar’s The Great Maratha Entertainment, who are presenting this film. Film maker Sujay Dahake, who has worked very hard in making this film on teenage school life and their first attraction towards opposite sex. Based on the popular novel ‘Shala’ written by Milind Bokil, the director has tried to present the parent-child, Teacher-student and Parent-teacher relationship in an effective manner, as seen in the promos shown on the occasion of screening the first look of this film.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Sanjay Dahake suggested that his film was on the backdrop of Emergency period of 1975-76 and has tried to show, how the developments affected the people in small towns of Maharashtra. The film has been shot at Vaai, off Pune-Satara road and Panhala. Mr. Mahesh Manjrekar who also spoke on the occasion felt that the story of the film was appealing. “All of us have gone through this stage of teenage and are carrying fond memories of that time with us,” he added. While answering to a question , as to why there were two-three Marathi films released on the same day and sometimes there are none; he was very critical about the rising number of marathi films without any content.
“For this film, we have a very different kind of campaign and instead of showing the usual song and dance sequence in the short promo, we have decided to present the views expressed by different people about this film,” he added. Mr. Sujay Dahake was very happy that his film had won the award for much awaited film and thanked the viewers of marathimovieworld.com. He said that since he had opened a page of ‘Shala’ on facebook, it could create awareness among net savvy people. Sanjay has engaged foreigners like Diego Romery and Christopher Harvey to handle the photography and sound recording.
‘Shala’ which stars Dilip Prabhavalkar, Nandu Madhav, Devika Daftardar, Jitendra Joshi, Santosh Juvekar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Anand Ingale, Ganesh Mayekar, Shshank Shende, Snehal Ghayaal, Anshuman Joshi & Ketaki Mategaonkar is all set to release on 20th January 2012.
“I am all excited about my film’s release” – Ketaki
Ketaki Mategaonkar the 12th standard student, who few years ago entertained the audience with her magical voice on Zee TV’s popular musical show, is now playing a lead role of a perfect school going 9th standard teenager in Sujay Dahake’s much awaited Marathi film ‘Shala’( School), which is all set to release on 20th January 2012 all over Maharashtra.
Ketaki was lucky enough to be spotted by Film maker Sujay Dahake to play the lead role in his film ‘Shala’. The film was shot during the year 2010-11, when Ketaki was in 11th standard. It was all set to release last year around Ganapti festival time, but couldn’t find a distributor. But when film maker Mahesh Manjrekar saw this film, he was highly impressed with the subject. He also liked the performances of the children. He is now releasing this film under his banner ‘The Great Maratha Entertainment’. The screenplay of this film has been adapted from the best selling novel of the same name , by reputed Marathi novelist Milind Bokil.
The novel looks at the passionate love in its purest and elementary form, in school, i.e. the form of the first love. The movie is an attempt to bring the very essence of pure, unrequited love that the character Joshi a 9th standard schoolboy feels for his classmate, Shirodkar. Ketaki plays this character of Shirodkar and looks very confident in that role. Even before its official release the film has already been shown at various festivals like MIFTA at London, where it was premiered, then at the 10th Asian Film festival, Mumbai, the 7th Asian Film Festival, Pune & Kolhapur and at Leicester Square, Prince Charles Theatre. It has also been screened at NCPA’s Marathi Film Festival- Nave Valan and has received a good response.
Ketaki was present recently during the press conference of this film at Ravindra Natya Mandir, to announce the date of film’s release, when she spoke to MarathiMovieWorld.com about her experience in film. “I began my career as a singer, but when this acting assignment came to me, I became more serious about acting. We had to undergo a workshop on acting, where myself and other children were explained about our behaviour with each other during shooting. Today, we children talk to each other very freely. But, it was different situation 35 years ago, the actual period shown in this film. Hence we all had to pose ourselves very shy, while interacting with each other. Especially, when I faced the camera in scenes opposite my co star Anshuman Joshi. There were many good things we learned from our Cinematographer Diego Romero and it was a good experience.” said Ketaki.
Speaking about managing her shooting schedules besides her studies, Ketaki said that “The shootings of this film took place as per our convenience, in few spells and it was like being with our own family. Sujayda, our director was perfect in his work and I learned so many good things from him. I am really thankful to him for selecting me for this role.” She added. Smart and confident looking Ketaki faced the media with poise. Now, Ketaki is all excited to see how people respond to this film. “Please come and see this film in theatre.” was her appeal.