‘कॅरी ऑन मराठा’मध्ये अरुण नलावडे यांची ग्रे शेड भूमिका
अरुण नलावडे हे नाव घेतलं की डोळ्यासमोर उभं राहत ते साध सुध व्यक्तिमत्व. त्यांनी भूमिकाही आपल्या व्यक्तिमत्वाला साजेशा अशाच केल्या. ‘श्वास’ चित्रपटात त्यांनी नातवासाठी तळमळणाऱ्या आजोबांची भूमिका केली तर त्यांच्या गंमत जंमत नाटकाने धमाल उडवली होती. आपल्या अभिनयाने त्यांनी अगदी साध्या भूमिकाही जिवंत केल्या. कॅरी ऑन मराठामध्ये अरुण नलावडे यांनी ग्रे शेड असलेली भूमिका साकारली आहे. पहिल्यांदा अशा वेगळ्या भूमिकेत आणि लूकमध्ये पाहायला मिळणार आहेत. सिनेमातला त्यांचा लूक त्यांच्या भूमिकेला साजेसा असा आहे. त्यांचे चाहते त्यांच्या या भूमिकेवरही प्रेम करतील यात शंकाच नाही.
Bhushan Pradhan pairs with Manwa Naik in ‘Dhinchyak Enterprise’
In the recent past, we have seen Bhushan Pradhan paired with newcomers like Mrinmayi Kolwalkar, Nidhi Oza, Sai Lokur and Amruta Deshmukh. But, in the forthcoming Marathi film ‘Dhinchyak Enterprise’ you will find him paired with Manva Naik. Isn’t that a big surprise ? Recently, during the music release of this film, Bhooshan himself admitted that, he was initially scared to face the camera with Manva, because the kind of characters she has played before.
Anyway, ‘Dhinchyak Enterprise’ is a musical love story, with a social message, according to the makers of this film. Today, love relationship is changing according to time. And, it is very difficult to judge the true relationship. So, get ready to watch this new love relationship between Bhooshan and Manwa, when the film releases on 31st August 2015. Directed by debutant Nishant Sapkale , the music of this film was released recently, in presence of the lead pair along with lyricists Sachin Pathak , Mayur Sapkale , music director Sameer Saptiskar, singers Harshdeep Kaur, Aadarsh Shinde, cinematographer Udaysingh Mohite and others. Mika Singh, who has also rendered one song, was however absent. Also present on this occasion were senior artistes Jayant Savarkar ,Anant Jog and special guest Pooja Sawant.
Sundeep Kochar’s debut Marathi film ‘Bhavishyachi Aishi Taishi’
Celebrity Astrologer Sundeep Kochar is making his debut through a Marathi film, ‘Bhavishyachi Aishi Taishi – The Prediction’. This film is a story of three young Maharashtrian girls, working and staying together. They have different views about life, in general. All is well, in their small world, until a fateful day, when they encounter with an astrologer; which changes their lives forever.
Produced by Ramesh Talware, the film is directed by Surinder Verma, it has been called as India’s first film based on astrology. The film’s promotion was in full swing with music released sometime in April 2015. The film was announced for release in June 2015. But, it seems , it’s release has been postponed.
The film stars Sandeep Kochar in the role of an astrologer , along with Varsha Usgaonkar, Manasi Naik , Ruchita Jadhav ,Karol Zine, Asawari Joshi, Kishor Nandlaskar, Swapnil Joshi( Jr.) & Ananda Karekar .
Vandana Gupte to release her ‘Family Katta’ in October
Popular veteran Marathi actress Vandana Gupte, after her 44 year long career in acting, is now getting ready to offer her first Marathi Home production ‘Family Katta’ in October 2015. Having won several awards for her performance on stage, television and films, she is also active in the field of acting. In forthcoming Marathi film ‘Murder Mestri’, she is playing a prominent role.
This Marathi film is being made under her home production ‘Sister Concern Entertainment’, which is in partnership with her younger sister and veteran singer Rani Varma. Both Vandana and Rani are daughters of legendary Hindustani classical & playback singer late Manik Varma. Their father was also associated with Indian classical music, besides being a lyricist and dialogue writer.
Umesh & Girish promise variety through ‘Highway – Ek Selfie Aarpaar’
Many Marathi film makers have travelled on Mumbai Pune Expressway very often. But, none of them thought of making a film on the backdrop of this highway, till writer Girish Kulkarni thought about it. Girish and his long time friend Umesh Kulkarni sat together and they decided to make a film, on a one liner. Their friend Vinay Ganu joined them as a producer and thus the idea of ‘Highway! Ek Selfie Aarpaar’ was born.
Recently, the music release and unveiling of the first look of the film was held in a ceremony, which saw many dignitaries from Marathi film industry and Bollywood. Actually, the star cast and technical team of this film itself is a combination of Marathi and Bollywood artistes and technical people. The film has two Bollywood actresses Tisca Chopra and gorgeous Huma Qureshi, playing important roles, while the music of the film is composed by Amit Trivedi. It was for this reason, both Umesh and Girish Kulkarni spoke in Hindi and Marathi, while delivering their speech, so that their special invitees understood, what they said.
The music of this film was launched by popular music director duo Ajay Atul, while the poster of the film was unveiled by Everest’s Sanjay Chabriya, Esselvision’s Deepak Rajadhyaksha and actress Jyoti Subhash. Mr. Satish Alekar, who is also part of the film’s team, was asked to release the first look of the film. The film does promise variety through this fun filled journey on the highway, undertaken by the big team of artistes comprising of Girish Kulkarni, Satish Alekar, Remuka Shahane, Mukta Barve, Sunil Barve, Umesh Jagtap, Kishore Kadam, Nagraj Manjule, Vidyadhar Joshi, Shrikant Yadav, Shilpa Anaspure, Sameer Bhate, Vrushali Kulkarni many others. The film is all set to release on 24th July 2015
Girija Oak turns active through small screen ads
Well known Marathi actress had almost taken a break for a while from acting in films and serials. But, she remained active presenting a cookery show. Now, we understand that her film and drama will be released soon. In the meanwhile, we are watching her in two popular advertisements on small screen, which are repeatedly played, during the break of popular TV serials during prime time.
Even otherwise, our Marathi artistes are seen in many TV ads. Prominent among them is Nikhil Ratnaparkhi. Now days, we notice Sachit Patil, Pankaj Vishnu, Aishwarya Narkar also part of some popular ads. One way, it is a good way of for artistes to remain in limelight, as audience to tend to forget a particular artiste, if the artiste doesn’t have much work in films and serials. Some prefer to be part of Marathi dramas; but, playing a model for popular brands, is always a good option. You always remain in the limelight.
Last week International Yoga day was celebrated throughout the world. And, our Marathi TV serials were nowhere behind. Most of them tried to propagate the importance of Yoga among the audience. And, that was a very fine gesture.
Last week Star Pravah began a new serial ‘Yek Number’ on the backdrop of an Engineering college. This serial was is in news prior to its telecast, because of the small screen debut of Chirag Patil, son of former test Cricketer Sandeep Patil. Chirag is not new to acting, as he has been part of one Hindi and one Marathi film, before making his television debut. But, in presence of his talented co star Madhuri Desai , he hasn’t been much impressive, through his body language and dialogue delivery. Though, he has a very good personality, he needs to brush up his acting skills, if has to remain in the race.
Another Star Pravah serial ‘Runji’ seems to be moving off the track, with unwanted and unconvincing happenings noticed in past few episodes. So, it will be difficult for talented Pallavi Patil to carry forward this show, only at her own strength. One more serial ‘Kamala’ on Colors channel, which had generated a lot of interest in the initial stage, also seems to be moving off the track, with not much interest generated, through its ongoing screenplay.
Finally, when we talk about ‘Honar Sun Mee Hya Gharchi’ on Zee Marathi, it is felt that it is enough of Shree-Janhavi drama. Both are losing their popularity. Even Mothi Aai looks tired now, through her body language, repeating the same dialogues again and again.
Abhijit & Jitendra getting ready to play ‘Dhol Taashe’
Till now, we had only heard about the loud beats of musical instruments ‘Dhol Taashe’ during wedding ceremonies and festive seasons in Maharashtra. In fact, they are part of our Indian culture. But now, a Marathi film titled ‘Dhol Taashe’ is about to create a noise, with Abhijeet Khandkekar and Jitendra Joshi, the two lead stars of this film, all set to play.
Brahmandnayak Movies will be presenting this Marathi film ‘Dhol Taashe’, which revolves around a Politician, who tries to use this cultural activity, to promote his political party & pull the middle class boy, into his dirty game.
Needless to say that soon this young boy becomes the leader of a party called ‘Maharashtra Yuva Dhol Taashe Aghadi’. The film is a story about these two characters and their reciprocation to each other, over an immense cultural gadget called Dhol Tashe. Film releasing on 3rd July. The film stars Abhijeet Khandkekar, Jitendra Joshi, Hrishita Bhatt, Pradip Velankar, Ila Bhate, Vinay Apte & others. Cinematography by Kedar Gaekwad, music by Nilesh Moharir and lyrics by Guru Thakur are other credits.
Nominations for Prabhat Puraskar announced
Nominations for the Prabhat Puraskar to be conferred to the winners in 27 categories of Marathi films, have been announced. ‘Happy Journey’, ‘Khwada’, ‘ Nagrik’ & ‘Salaam’ find nominations in the best film category, while Bhaurao Karhade( Khwada), Jayprad Desai ( Nagarik), Kiran Yadnyopavit( Salam), Sachin Kundalkar ( Happy Journey) & Srihari Sathe(Ek Hazarachi Note) have been nominated in Best Director’s category.
In the best actor’s category , the nominees are Alok Rajwade( Rama Madhav) , Atul Kulkarni (Happy Journey) , Riteish Deshmukh (Lai Bhari) , Sachin Khedekar (Nagrik) and Subodh Bhave (Lokmanya) , while in best actress category Devika Daftardar (Nagrik) , Pooja Nayak (Agneepankh), Priya Bapat (Happy Journey), Tejaswini Pandit (Candle March) & Usha Naik (Ek Hazarachi Note) find their nominations.
There seems to be good competition for actress in Best Debut category, with names like Mrinmayee Kolwalkar( Miss Match) , Pallavi Patil (Classmates) , Sanskruti Balgude (Sangato Aika) , Sanskruti Kher (Swami Public Ltd.) & Sayali Sahasrabuddhe (Candle March) finding their names in the list, while the competition for the actor in Best Debut is only among three artistes, namely Kashyap Parulekar(Taptapadi) , Bhauraosaheb Shinde (Khwada) & Rohit Mugullu( Agneepankh) .
‘Welcome Zindagi’ Music launched by paying tributes to Phalke
There was something special at the music launch of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Welcome Zindagi’. The producers of this film, Ajit Satam, Sanjay Ahuwalia, Bibhas Chaya and director Umesh Ghadge, began the event, paying tributes to Late Dadasheb Phalke, showing the video of his passion for film making. Incidentally, this is 102 year of celebration, since the first Indian feature film was made by Mr. Phalke.
Bollywood writer Salim Khan, who was the chief guest for the occasion, entertained the audience , narrating some humor filled experiences in his life. Instead of himself releasing the music, he asked Mr. Honey Chaya his old friend and father of producer Bibhas Chaya to do the honors.
Present on the occasion were all team members of the film, including big team of music directors comprising of Amitraj, Pankaj Padgham, Shamir Tandon,Soumeel & Siddhant. The film starring Swapnil Joshi, Amruta Khanvilkar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Dr.Mohan agashe, Bharati Achrekar, Prashant Damle, Urmila kanetkar, Pushkar Shrotri and others will be released on 26th June 2015.
Raj Thackeray takes up issue of Marathi films
For the past few years Marathi films have been getting step motherly treatment from Multiplex owners in Maharashtra, in spite of getting the tax exemptions from the state government. As per the existing agreement between Maharashtra Government and Multiplex owners, it is obligatory for Multiplexes to screen Marathi films but many Multiplexes are either avoiding the screening or screening Marathi films at odd timings or giving some excuses. The High court ruling on this issue is also very clear. Then why can’t our Maharashtra Government take strict action against such multiplex owners?
On the occasion of the third anniversary of the Manase Chitrapat Worker’s Association, Manase chief Mr. Raj Thackeray took strong note of this issue and has issued instructions to his party workers to prepare a list of such theatre owners, who are not screening Marathi films from 11th August onwards. For the past few days this issue is in the news, as few multiplex owners have been deliberately avoiding the screening of Marathi films.
After the successful run of films like ‘Natarang’, ‘Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho’, ‘Mi Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy’, ‘Harischandrachi factory’,’Haapus’, ‘Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai’ in the recent past, even the Film Trade Analyst had predicted that Marathi films would give a tough competition to Bollywood in Maharashtra. MarathiMovieworld had also received some complaints from viewers about the raw deal given to Marathi films by Multiplexes in Maharashtra. In one recent complaint against a Multiplex Kulraj Broadway in Borivali, it was alleged that the only show of Marathi film ‘Jetaa’ was cancelled at the last minute, giving an excuse that the Projector was not working. In the same theatre they do not allow advance booking of Marathi films, whereas advance booking is allowed for Hindi films. Isn’t that something strange?
In another recent development, it has also come to notice that while issuing licenses to some Multiplexes, there is also a condition that they are supposed to reserve one of the screening halls for presentation of Drama (stage play). But, how many of them have such a facility and who is checking the same ?