World Food day is celebrated across the world perhaps introducing new food recipes for food lovers. But, that reminds us as to what our Marathi film makers have offered to the viewers, after being inspired by food items to name the titles of their films. It all began in 50s, when a film with the title ‘Shevgyachya Shenga’ directed by Shantaram Athavale was released starring Baby Nanda , Sumati Gupte and others. Besides winning the National award for best Marathi film, the film had also entered the Cannes Festival, raising the curiosity of World audience as to what relevance the nutritious Drumsticks had with this film’s story.

In 80s we saw Producer director V.K.Naik offering a film with the name ‘Khichadi’ perhaps trying to show the relevance of this recipe with the human life. Thereafter, for a long period, there were no titles of Marathi films related to any food items. But, since 2009 we have seen many films using the titles derived from food items. ‘Ek Cup Chya’ released by producer Yeshwant Oak and directed by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar, had used a cup of tea normally a symbol of hospitality, as a metaphor for a bribe. The film was based on the RTI act.

Then we saw the film ‘Masala’  (Movie review) produced by Girish Kulkarni and directed by Sandesh Kulkarni, when we saw how a couple running away from moneylenders, from one place to other, after failing in different attempted business meet the right people to add that required flavour required in their life. There were many other films which we saw later, with the names ‘Murambba’, ‘Gulabjaam’ ‘Restaurant’, ‘Coffee Ani Barach Kahi, ‘Khari Biscuit’ ‘Jai Maharashtra Dhaba Bhatinda’, ‘Haapus’ and others which were able to deliver what the respective film makers had in their mind behind using these titles.