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‘Vazandar’ presents casual entertainment with light humour

Vazandar Marathi Film Poster
Rating: ★★½
Genres: Drama
Censor: U
Duration: 120 min.
Studio/presenter: Landmarc Films
Producer(s):  Vidhi Kasliwal
Director: Sachin Kundalkar
Music: Avinash-Vishwajeet
Writer: Sachin Kundalkar
Cinematographer (DOP): Milind Jog
Cast: Sai Tamhankar, Priya Bapat, Siddharth Chandekar, Chirag Patil, Chetan Chitnis, Gaurav Ghatnekar
Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke

Weight gain has always been a problem for young women, whether married or about to get married. Latest Marathi film ‘Vazandar‘ tries to deal with this issue to generate light humour. Actually, the film doesn’t have an interesting plot to appeal all. Prior to its release, this film had already created a lot of hype through its promotion, banking on the two top actresses from Marathi films coming together for the first time. So, obviously, there were big expectations from this film. But, it has turned out to be a casual entertainer with light humour, offered especially to young women, who are the target audience.

Vazandar‘ is a narrative by mesomorph body type happy go lucky girl Pooja( Priya Bapat) who is born and brought up at Pachgani by her mother, who works as a Hotel Manager. Pooja is a computer Engineer who is trying to migrate to USA. She lives a happy life in the company of her friend Kaveri ( Sai Tamhankar), who is recently married to Omkar Jadhav( Chirag Patil) son of a owner of a big Strawberry garden . Kaveri has some restrictions at home. So, to fulfill her desire to dance at a local Pub, she accompanies Pooja, when her family members are away.

Priya Bapat and Sai Tamhankar
Priya Bapat and Sai Tamhankar in Marathi movie ‘Vazandar

When both Pooja and Kaveri go high, dancing on the table to get noticed, the table breaks and both of them fall down. This embarrassing moment is captured on a video by someone present there and the clip goes viral on youtube. They are named as dancing aunties , being out of shape. Pooja turns furious and goes to lodge a police complaint. She also decides to trace the person who uploaded this video. In the meanwhile, she becomes friendly with Alok Dixit ( Siddharth Chandekar) who poses himself as an expert trekker rather than a tour guide. In the company of Alok Pooja develops a complex and decides to reduce her extra fat. While she attempts those widely advertised Slim fit methods of consuming pills for fat loss, she further goes to the extent of attempting a bariatric surgery. At the same time, her friend Kaveri without the knowledge of her husband and family visits a Gymnasium to shape herself for a zero figure.

How their methods help them in their respective lives, is all that ‘Vazandar‘ has tried to show in this 2 hour length film. The film does succeed in creating the right environment for fitness lovers with the selection of right locations, such as morning walks, Gymnasium, health Spa and the natural indoor hotel atmosphere of a hill station, with the suitable sound and art designs , but it lacks crispy dialogues, required to create spontaneous laughter. The first half the film does generate some interest; but, in the second half it fails to hold the grip on its screenplay. First of all, the plot of this film itself is not so appealing, as uploading the video clip showing the fall of two overweight girls from a table while dancing in a Pub, is itself a non sensational happening. This is also endorsed in the screenplay of this film by the Police Inspector on duty, who advises them to approach the Cyber cell, to decide the seriousness of such an act.

Moreover, after the Video clip going viral , Kaveri and Pooja are recognized by local schoolchildren and even vegetable vendors , but still, no one from Kaveri’s family comes to know about it, through external sources, which is surprising. Simply showing that Kaveri’s husband has stopped using PC doesn’t convince the audience. Except for few humor filled happenings, director Sachin Kundalkar couldn’t develop the story of this film, the way he did through his previous films. But still, ‘Vazandar‘ offers good performances from the lead characters played by Priya Bapat and Sai Tamhankar.

Being a women oriented film, there is less scope for the lead hero Siddharth Chhandekar. But, he has played his part well. Good support comes from other characters like Mike Sir the Gym Instructor played by Sameer Dharmadhikari, Sai’s husband played by Chirag Patil, Family Doctor of Jadhav family, played by Gaurav Ghatnekar , Police Inspector played by Umesh Jagtap, Chetan Chitnis as Pooja’s childhood friend and others. Avinash-Vishwajeet’s music just good enough to fit into the much needed requirement of space for songs in this film. But, the Photography by Milind Jog and dress design by Amit Divekar are worth appreciating.

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Vazandar ( वजनदार )

Vazandar Marathi Film Poster
Release Year: 2016 (11 November)
Genres: Drama
Rating: ★★½
Censor: U
Duration: 130 min.
Studio/presenter: Landmarc Films
Producer(s): Vidhi Kasliwal
Executive  Producer: na
Director: Sachin Kundalkar
Writer: Sachin Kundalkar
ScreenPlay: na
Dialogues: na
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Producer(s): Vidhi Kasliwal
Executive Producer: na
Director: Sachin Kundalkar
Assistant Director: na
Writer: Sachin Kundalkar
ScreenPlay: na
Dialogues: na
Lyrics: Omkar Kulkarni
Music: Avinash-Vishwajeet
Playback Singer:   na
Cinematographer (DOP): Milind Jog
Editor: Gorakshnath
Starcast: Sai Tamhankar, Priya Bapat, Siddharth Chandekar, Chirag Patil, Chetan Chitnis
Art Director: Abhishek Redkar
Costumes: Amit Divekar
Makeup: na
Sound : Anita Kushwaha
Background Score: Debarpito Saha
Choreographer: Mansi Aggarwal
DI, VFX: na
D.I. Colourist:  na
Promos: na
Music Label: na
Publicity Designs: na
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‘Vazandar’ : Marathi movie ‘Vazandar‘ is an endearing journey of two young and beautiful girls – Kaveri and Pooja who are on a mission to lose weight and get down to the much-hyped ‘Size Zero’. What follows in their quest is a series of funny, eye-opening incidents that change their lives forever.

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Priya & Sai starrer film ‘Vazandar’ to release on 11th November
Who will prove ‘Vazandar’? Priya or Sai ?
Vidhi Kasliwal’s ‘Vazandaar’ towards completion

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Vazandar Marathi Film Poster

Priya & Sai starrer film ‘Vazandar’ to release on 11th November

Vazandar Marathi Movie
Actress Sai Tamhankar, Priya Bapat Kamat

Ever since, Marathi film ‘Vazandar has been launched, it has been in the news for a simple reason that  Priya Bapat Kamat and Sai Tamhankar the two top actresses in Marathi, are working together. The past experience tells us that whenever two top actresses work together, that particular film is always remains in news during the shooting of that film, for a simple reason that they can never get along well together.

But, in the case of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Vazandar‘, this doesn’t seem to be true, as director Sachin Kundalkar has not only completed the shooting of this film in time, but has also announced its release date as 11th November 2016. It may be recalled that in the past 10 years, we have not noticed any kind of rivalry among Marathi actresses. They have always tried to remain good friends with each other, even if they are not working together. And, talking about Sai and Priya, they were seen together in a happy mood, at a success party of other film recently .

Produced by Vidhi Kasliwal, ‘Vazandar‘ also stars Siddharth Chandekar in the lead role, along with Sameer Dharmadhikari, Chirag Patil and Chetan Chitnis.

Vidhi Kasliwal’s ‘Vazandaar’ towards completion

Vidhi Kasliwal Marathi Movie Producer
Vidhi Kasliwal, Producer

After making a film like ‘Sangato Aika‘ with Sachin Pilgaonkar, Vidhi Kasliwal is now towards completion of her new venture ‘Vazandaar‘ under the banner of Landmarc Films, with another exciting subject and an equally talented star cast, comprising of Priya Bapat Kamat, Sai TamhankarSiddharth ChandekarChirag Patil and Chetan Chitnis.

Director Sachin Kundalkar, well known for dealing with unique topics through his films, has come up with yet another compelling story.  ‘ Vazandaar‘ has a very personal subject and it struck the chords with producer Vidhi Kasliwal, who has been all praise for the writer- director. ” Sachin is a very sensitive and sharp person who open-mindedly takes all suggestions and beautifully weaves them into the layers of the film,” says Vidhi Kasliwal.

Till now, nobody knows what the story is about, about Marathi film lovers will be keen to watch Priya and Sai together in ‘Vazandaar’.

Who will prove ‘Vazandar’? Priya or Sai ?

Priya Bapat Sai Tamhankar, Actress Pictures
Priya Bapat and Sai Tamhankar

After being ignored by film maker Sanjay Jadhav, for his film ‘Guru’, Sai Tamhankar has joined the camp of national award winning filmmaker Sachin Kundalkar. It may be recalled that she was part of Sanjay Jadhav’s films, since ‘Duniyadari’ , followed by ‘Pyarwali Love Story’ and ‘Tu Hi Re’. But, the last two films, didn’t do well.

Sai has now completed shooting of his film ‘Vajandar’ which also has Priya Bapat in parallel role. Presently, the post production work of this film is going on and the film will be released soon. Priya, who had already worked with Sachin Kundalkar before, in his film ‘Happy Journey’ is still riding with the success of this film, besides two other successful films, ‘Lokmanya’ and ‘Time Pass-2’.

However, same is not the case with Sai Tamhankar. Except for ‘Classmates’ which was a multi starrer and released early last year, none of her films received success. So, she desperately needs a hit film, to stay in the race. But, we understand that Priya has worked very hard, to give her best in ‘Vazandar’. She had also put on additional weight, to meet the requirement of her role. And, now, she is back to normal. Anyway, it will be a good competition to watch between the two actresses in the same film.