Padmashri Madhu Mangesh Karnik , famous for his literary works in Marathi literature, was the chief guest at the Muhurat of a new Marathi film ‘Shalee’, which is being produced by Jaysingh Satam under the banner of ‘Kanak Entertainment‘. The story of the film has been adapted from late Shankar Patil’s novel ‘Sharee’ by Atul Samant who is responsible for direction and screenplay too. Reportedly speaking on the occasion, Mr Karnik said “Many great writers like H N Apte, Aachrya Atre, Shanta Shelke, G D Madgulkar, Vyankatesh Madgulkar, P Savlaram, Vijay Tendulkar have contributed for the marathi films in the past. When approached, I liked the story. So I decided to write dialogues for this film ‘Shalee’.”

Director Atul Satam has been associated with amateur, experimental as well as professional Marathi theatre for a long time, also dabbling with direction of short films and documentaries. The story of ‘Shalee’ has a backdrop of natural beauty of Konkan region and almost 90% of the film is going to be shot there. The film’s story takes place in the 70-80s period depicting behavioural patterns of people of the region which is said to have tough exterior but soft and loving hearts. The regional festivals, customs, traditions and folk culture will be displayed with authenticity in the film, claims the maker.

The Muhurat took place in the presence of complete team of the film at Suresh Wadkar’s Aajivasan studio by recording a song composed by music director Vijay Narayan Gavavde, written by Guru Thakur and voice rendered by Bela Shende