‘Deool Band’ will respect the sentiments of people – Pravin Tarde
The director duo of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Deool Band’ are trying their best to convince the media persons, that their Marathi film is not a traditional film. “It’s different! When it comes to having faith in God, we have tried to show both sides in the film; but, our intention is not to hurt the sentiments of the people, having such a faith. We are well aware that in our country, majority of the people, belonging to any religion, do have total faith in God. Some people have even tried to remove even that faith, calling it blind faith. There is a big difference between faith and blind faith. This is what we have tried to explain through our movie.” said Mr. Pravin Tarde, who was more vocal, between the two.
The film’s first look unveiled recently, was very appealing. With wonderful photography, good performances, interesting theme, hard hitting dialogues and suitable background music; it only gave a glimpse of what they had in store for the film lovers. With veteran actor Mohan Joshi playing an important role, the film also offers debutant Gashmeer Mahajani, in the role of a young scientist along with beautiful Girija Joshi. The first look of this film was unveiled by actor film maker Mahesh Manjrekar, who has also played a very special role in this film, along with a big team of artistes like Dr.Mohan Agashe, Sunil Barve, Nivedita Saraf, Ravindra Mahajani, Sushant Shelar, Prasad oak, Satish Alekar ,Deepak karanjikar, Sunil Abhyankar, Pravin Tarde,Vibhavari Sharma, Shweta Shinde, Satish Alekar, Kiran Yadnyopavit, Sharvari Jamenis and many others. The film is all set to release on 31st July 2015.
Raj Thackeray launches music of ‘Nilkanth Master’
Having directed more than 40 films, during the past 12 years, renowned Marathi film director Gajendra Ahire is now coming with his new film ‘Nilkanth Master’, produced by Meghmala Balbhim Pathare. Recently the music of this film was launched in a big way in Mumbai, at the hands of Maharashtra Navanirman Sena Chief Raj Thackeray. On this occasion all the three main artistes of the film, namely Pooja Sawant, Omkar Govardhan, Neha Mahajan & Adinath Kothare were present , along with music director duo Ajay Atul and well known singer Javed Ali. The film has total four songs in the voices of Javed Ali , Ajay Gogavle and Shreya Ghoshal. The other two important artites of the film are Vikram Gokhale & Kishore kadam.
On this occasion, the video clippings of the songs picturised on lead artistes were shown. The film is set on the backdrop of the period of 1940s and also covers the dawn of India’s freedom, with Vande Mataram song. The song was played live, by 15 singers, who were part of the chorus, along with Ajay Atul. Though Omkar Govardhan , who plays title role was dressed up in simple clothes, both Pooja and Neha presented themselves with designer clothes, for this occasion. While speaking on the occasion, Mr. Raj Thackeray praised singer Javed Ali, for his clear pronunciation of Marathi in the song. He also recalled the olden days, when late Mohammed Rafi used to visit his music director father, to learn proper Marathi pronunciation from him, to enable him to sing Marathi songs on his music.
The show was anchored by Abhijit Khandkekar, who did a good job, interviewing all those important persons connected with this film. ‘Nilkanth master’ is due for release on 7th August 2015.
Salman Khan releases trailer of Marathi film ‘Janiva’
Producers Arwind Kumar, Milind Vishnu & Sharman Jain had an occasion to celebrate with Bollywood actor Salman Khan. Yesterday evening, the three producers had invited him to release the trailer of their forthcoming Marathi film ‘Janiva’, in presence of celebrities, invitees and media persons. It almost gave a look that it was a Bollywood film. While speaking on the occasion, Salman Khan said that her very much liked the first look of this film and offered best wishes to the entire team. The film is directed by Rajesh Ranshinge
‘Janiva’ is scheduled for release on 31st July and stars Mahesh Manjrekar’s son Satya Manjrekar,Vaibhavi Shandilya, Usha Nadkarni, Renuka Shahane, Sanket Agarwal, Anuradha Mukherjee, Devdutt Dani, Kiran Karmarkar, Indira Krishnan and Atul Parchure. Actor- film maker Mahesh Manjrekar, who was in Hyderabad, specially flew in, to attend this function, as his son Satya was playing lead role in the film. Among the special invitees present on the occasion were, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Sachin Khedekar, Ekta Jain, Sargun , besides the artistes of the film.
‘Murder Mestri’ – A comedy of coincidences and clumsiness
Rating: ★★★
Studio/presenter: Nadiadwala Gennext Productions, VTB Enterprises
Producer: Abrar Nadiadwala, Vaibhav Bhor
Cinematographer, Director: Rahul Jadhav
Story: Neha Kamat
Dialogues: Prashant Loke
Editor: Imran Mahadik, Faisal Mahadik
Genres: Comedy
Censor: U
Duration: 129 Min.
Cast: Dilip Prabhavalkar, Hrishikesh Joshi, Vandana Gupte, Vikas Kadam, Kamalakar Satpute, Sanjay Khapre, Mansi Naik, Kranti Redkar, Shruti Nigde
The ploy of ‘mistaken identity’ , used to be the plot of the Shakespearean comedies, including ‘Comedy of Errors’. Perhaps, inspired by the idea, debutant story writer Neha Kamat thought of writing the story of the film ‘Murder Mestri’, produced by Abrar Nadiadwala and director Rahul Jadhav.
So, the idea of a village based postman reading all the letters before delivery and then finding one of them, as murder plan of a person living in adjacent village, seemed interesting. So, we see the postman going out of his way, in search of the concerned person Madhav Mestri, whose murder has been planned. But, before this happening, the screenplay of the film by Prashant Loke failed to pick up in the first half. However, he succeeded in carrying forward the same, through the interesting second half, with some humour filled dialogues, penned by himself.
The actual plot picks up, when this postman Prabhakar Sawant (Hrishikesh Joshi) arrives in this adjacent village, to save the life of one Madhav Mestri, the real fun begins. On his arrival, he finds out through voters’ list that there are three persons with the name of Madhav Mestri. So, he is required to deliver the letter, cautioning all three of them, on the basis of the plan of murder, mentioned in the post card. With this limited plot, the screenplay takes you to the surprise climax, which reveals the real story behind the plan, mentioned in the post card.
Now, talking about the characters of Madhav Mestri, they comprise of three men, in different age groups, i.e 25, 35 and 75 respectively, living in the same village. The first being newly married (Vikas Kadam) with his over enthusiastic wife Hemlata ( Manasi Naik) eager to proceed on their honeymoon. The second one being a former Sarpanch (Sanjay Khapre) who is in a regular habit of drinking and his wife Saraswati ( Kranti Redkar) trying different tricks , to stop his bad habit. And, the eldest among them, being a retired medical practitioner ( Dilip Prabhavalkar), migrated from Mumbai to this village. His wife Malini ( Vandana Gupte) is fed up of his strange behavior. All of them have performed well, with good support coming from Shruti Nigade, as postman’s wife, Kishor Chougule, as tea stall owner and friend of the postman and Kamlakar Satpute , the wanted gangster.
The film has been shot at a totally different location, somewhere in Sawantwadi and surrounding areas, which gives a perfect feel of a village; but, the director has not been very clear about the exact period. Except for showing the postcard period. But, still, few errors are noticed, in the screenplay. However, looking at the sincere effort put in by all versatile artistes, these can be ignored. Music of the film provided by Pankaj Padghan is apt for the location, it is not very impressive, except for one song. In one of the songs, Bollywood’s influence has been clearly noticed. What impresses most, is Amar Mohile’s background music. It is too good.
It was only because of some cinematic skills used by cinematographer and director Rahul Jadhav, the film has turned out to be a little above average comedy. Overall, it has turned out to be a comedy of coincidences and clumsiness. Nevertheless, it is still enjoyable, by those, who keep their logical thinking aside, while watching such type of plots.
‘Nanda Saukhyabhare’ – will be one more Saas-Bahu serial
Having seen enough of ‘Saas Bahu’ serials on television, one more serial ‘Nanda Saukhyabhare’ will add to the list from Monday 20th July 2015 on Zee Marathi at 7.30 pm. This serial will be telecast from Monday to Saturday. Produced by Aadesh and Suchitra Bandekar’s Soham Entertainment, this new serial will star Suhas Paranjape, Chinmay Udgirkar and Rutuja Bagwe in the lead role.Varsha Dandale will be seen in supporting role, along with other artistes.
‘Nanda Saukhya bhare’ is a story of Hypocritical Mother in-law and her straight forward daughter in law. Written by Sampada Joglekar, screenplay by Archana Joshi & dialogues Mithila Joshi, this serial is directed by Vaibhav Chinchalkar. The serial goes on to show, how the honest daughter in law Swanandi , scores over her cunning mother in law Lalita, with her presence of mind and tactful methods.
Now, how this serial is going to be different from traditional Saas bahu serials, it remains to be seen.
Are Marathi TV artistes more popular than Marathi Film stars?
Recently, Marathi Movie World carried a news, wherein it was mentioned, how the young artistes of ‘Dil Dosti Duniyadari’ stole the show; during the first look of their director’s forthcoming film. Incidentally, they were also invited for this event. But, this is the fact. And, one has to accept it.
At a recent award function of Marathi films, only those artistes who have performed in Marathi TV serials and are presently part of films, invited more attention of press photographers, than those little known film artistes, who had even won awards.
The reason is simple. Marathi TV artistes are reaching every household in Maharashtra. Moreover, more than their real names, they gain popularity with their character names. Also, their serials go on to create record, with the score of 300 or 500 episodes. After playing the role of Shubhra in ‘Asambhav’ few years ago , Urmila kanitkar is still known with this name, though she has done four to five Marathi films, after that.
Now, Swarda Thigale, will also be known by this name Shubhra, because of her ongoing serial, which is being aired for the past two years. Another example is that of Mrunal Dusanis. Mrunal did act in a film , after her performance in ‘Tu Tithe Mee’, but even today, she is recognized as Manjiri.
The character names of our popular TV artistes, become household names. Swapnil Joshi who played the character of Ghana in ‘Eka Lagnachi Doosari Goshta’, about four years ago, is still fresh in the memory of almost all Marathi TV viewers. Ask them, what were the names of characters played by Swapnil in films like ‘Duniyadari’ or ‘Mitwa’? But, majority of Marathi people will not be able to tell the same. The same is the case with Ila Bhate, who is still known as Ghana’s mother. By the way, has anyone tried to take a survey, to find out, how many people regularly watching Marathi TV serials, watch Marathi films?
This is the magic created by our Marathi TV stars. The Marathi home viewers spread across the state and all over the world, get attached or co relate themselves with the characters played by these TV artistes. No wonder, popular Marathi TV stars like Swapnil Joshi, Mukta Barve, Siddharth Chandekar, Mrunmayee Deshpande ,Umesh kamat, Priya Bapat and few others, have also gained popularity as film stars.
Dr. Jabbar Patel to head a new film making School at MIT Pune
Dr. Jabbar Patel is a distinguished personality in Marathi film industry. Over the years, he has always been active in offering training to talented artistes and directors .Now, the good news is that Dr.Patel will be heading a Film Making School at MIT Pune. The MIT School of Filmmaking was launched recently, with Dr.Jabbar patel as its Chairman. This school will be offering post-graduation programmes in various disciplines of Film Making and TV production, under the auspices of some of the respected names in the film Industry, like Mani Ratnam, Mamooty, Goutam Ghose, Jahnu Barua, Samar Nakhate, Vinod Pradhan, Resul Pookutty, Kamlesh Pandey, Shankar Mahadevan and others.
The first batch of this Film and Television School , will commence from September this year. MIT –School of Film & Television(SFT) is located at the sprawling campus in Rajbaug , off . Loni, which is about 25 kms from Pune. The School will offer courses in Film Making and Television Production, for the disciplines of Direction, Cinematography, Sound Recording & Designing, Editing, Production Design & Art Direction and Screenplay writing.
‘DDD’ TV artistes more popular than ‘Tu Hi Re’ film stars
Having seen many films on the subject of love and friendship, one more film in Marathi, adds to this list. The master filmmaker Sanjay Jadhav, having made his previous films ‘Duniyadari’ and ‘Pyarwali Love Story’, is now offering one more film, on this subject, suitably titled ‘Tu Hi Re’.
Recently, to unveil the first look of this film, Sanjay along with his big group producers Mrudula Padwal Oza, Shital Kumar Manere, Ashish Wagh, Deepak Rane, Utpal Acharya & Sanjay Ghodawat, had invited media people at Inox, Malad. On this occasion, besides the three lead stars of this film Swapnil Joshi, Sai Tamhankar & Tejaswini Pandit; Sanjay had also invited the artistes from his popular television serial ‘Dil Dosti Duniyadari’.
But, the media camera persons, news reporters and press photographers seemed to be more keen on covering the artistes of Dil Dosti Duniyadari. They not only clicked their photos in a group and solo; but, also took their interviews. Except for Swanandi Tikekar, who could not make it, the other five youngsters who were present stole the show. Amongst them bearded Pushkaraj Chirputkar who plays the role of Ashu, was the main attraction, of the press photographers.
Now, who are more popular? Our Marathi film stars or our Marathi TV artistes ? According to us, obviously the TV stars, as they are reaching every household in Maharashtra. Let’s hope, next time, Sanjay Jadhav while launching his next film’s promotion, will not repeat this mistake.
Will Gajendra Ahire’s ‘Nilkanth Master’ inspire youth?
It is not necessary that the biopics on the lives of great personalities only inspire youth. If the script is strong, then the characters presented through the film, can also inspire today’s youth. Film maker Gajendra Ahire has tried this experiment through his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Neelkanth Master’, which is scheduled for release on 7th August 2015, all over Maharashtra.
Recently, the first look of this film was released in Pune, in presence of Music director duo – Ajay Atul; when besides director Gajendra Ahire, the female artistes of this film Pooja Sawant and Neha Mahajan were also present. The film talks about the values and shows how for the love of country, a youth sacrifices his own love. Omkar Govardhan has played the lead role in this film, produced by Meghamala Baliram Pathare. The music is by Ajay Atul, which assures good quality music.
‘आम्ही सारे खवय्ये’त विविध तज्ञांचे मार्गदर्शन
दर बारा कोसावर भाषा बदलते तशी दर कोसावर खाद्यसंस्कृतीही बदलते. महाराष्ट्राची ही वैविध्यपूर्ण खाद्यसंस्कृती केवळ देशभरातच नाही तर जगभरात प्रसिद्ध आहे. महाराष्ट्रीयन खाद्यसंस्कृती जगभरात आपला ठसा उमटवते ती त्याच्या साधेपणामुळे आणि वैविध्यपूर्ण लज्जतीमुळे. महाराष्ट्रात खाद्यसंस्कृतीचा समृद्ध वारसा असूनही आज एकूण धकाधकीच्या जीवनात रोजच्या आहारात जागा घेतलीय ती फास्टफूड किंवा डाएटफूडने.
अनेक व्याधींपासून मुक्तता मिळवण्यासाठी लोकांचा कल आहारसुद्धा संतुलित आणि योग्य पद्धतीचा घेण्याकडे वाढतोय. मात्र संतुलित आणि योग्य आहार म्हणजे नेमकं काय हे माहित नसल्यानं आहार संतुलनापेक्षा चुकीचा आहार घेतला जातो आणि आरोग्याची समस्या अधिक बिकट होते. झी मराठीवर ‘आम्ही सारे खवय्ये’ कार्यक्रमात येत्या काही भागांमध्ये विशेष तज्ञमंडळींना पाचारण करण्यात येत आहे.
आरोग्याबाबत काही खास सूचना देताना किंवा विविध विषयावर मार्गदर्शन करताना काही विशेष पाककृतींची ओळखही ही तज्ञमंडळी करून देणार आहेत. ६ जुलैला कान-नाक-घसा तज्ञ डॉ. ज्योत्सना जगताप तर ७ जुलैला ज्येष्ठ सौंदर्यतज्ञ माया परांजपे नोकरदार स्रियांनी कमीत कमी वेळेत पोषक आणि संतुलित तसेच सौंदर्य टिकवण्यसाठी काय आहार घ्यावा यासाठी मार्गदर्शन करतील. तसेच ८ जुलैला स्त्रीरोगतज्ञ डॉ. ललिता मायदेव आणि ९ जुलैला मार्गदर्शक सुचित्रा सुर्वे दहावी – बारावी झालेल्या मुलांना व पालकांना मार्गदर्शन करतील.