List of Marathi Movies Released In 2016.
List of Marathi Movies Released In 2017.
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Sushant Shelar Returns To Marathi Stage
Actor Sushant Shelar who for the past six years has been active with Marathi films, will now be returning to Marathi stage after a gap of six years. Sushant is playing lead role in satirical format of Acharya P.K.Atre’s old famous Marathi play ‘Ekach Pyala’. The play will be directed by Satish Pulekar and the inaugural show will be presented on 9th June 2017 at Pune’s Balgandhava Rangmandir.
After the inaugural show, the regular shows of ‘Ekach Pyala’ play will be performed in Mumbai and all over Maharashtra from 14th June onwards. At present the rehearsals of this play are in full progress. In this play, along with Sushant Shelar the artistes who will be performing in ‘Ekach Pyala’ play are, Pallavi Vaidya, Swapnil Rajshekhar, Amol Bavdekar, Vinayak Bhave, Mrunalini Javale & Hemant Bhalekar. The play is produced by Prafull More with music by Dnyaneshwar pendharkar and background music by Nandlal Rele.
Sushant himself is very happy about this offer and feels that to work with director Satish Pulekar is itself a great experience for him.
Will Prashant’s detective image work on big screen ?
Prashant Damle is the favorite actor on Marathi stage today, with lots of fan following. He has already created a record of performing in more than 10,000 shows on stage. For the past 30 years, Prashant Damle has played variety of roles on Marathi stage and television. During 80s and 90s, he was part of many Marathi comedy films. But, in the recent past, he had focused more on his stage shows. Prashant will now be returning to big screen, that too in lead role, in forthcoming Marathi film ‘Bho Bho‘, which is all set to release on 22nd April 2016. By the way, Prashant is playing a detective and it remains to be seen, whether his new image will work in Marathi films?
In the film, Prashant plays the central character of Detective Vyankatesh Bhonde and it is understood that producer-director Bharat Gaikwad has used all his skills, to extract the best out of Prashant Damle. Luckily, he has good support coming from team of other talented artistes like Subodh Bhave, Sanjay Mone, Sharad Ponkshe, Saurabh Gokhale, Anuja Sathe Gokhale, Ashwini Ekbote, Kishore Chougule & Ketaki Chitale.
Jeevan Gaurav award for Dr. Mohan Agashe
Popular veteran Marathi and Hindi stage and film personality Dr. Mohan Agashe will be felicitated with the prestigious ‘Jeevangaurav’ award on 5thNovember 2011 by the Akhil Bharatiya Natyaparishad, Pune. The award will be presented to him by renowned senior actor Dr. Shreeram Lagoo. Incidentally, Dr. Agashe has completed 50 years of his acting career.
Dr. Mohan Agashe, who began his career with Sai Paranjape’s Little Theatres went on to perform in various Marathi popular plays like ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’, ‘Begum Barve’ and ‘Aadhe Adure’ in Hindi; besides doing memorable roles in films like ‘Saamna’, ‘Sinhasan’, ‘Jait Re Jait’ and Aruna Raje’s Hindi film ‘Rihaee’. He was also in Ram Gopal Verma’s film ‘Ab Tak Chappan’. At present, his marathi play ‘Katkone Trikon’ is in the news. Dr. Agashe is also doing a serial ‘Guntata Hriday Hey’ on Zee Marathi.
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Bhooshan & Mrinmayi getting ready for ‘Miss Match’ release
Gold Coin Entertainment and U.K.Film’s New Marathi film ‘Miss Match’ is getting ready to release soon. Recently, the first look of this film along with music was released in presence of artistes and media. Music director Avadhoot Gupte and senior artiste Uday Tikekar were the guests of honour on this occasion . Presented by Alkok Shrivatava, (who is also creative director of this film); the film is directed by Girish Vasaikar, who has directed many TV serials.
This is the first film of producer Alok Shrivastava in Marathi and he preferred model Mrinmayi , as the right choice for the female lead. By the way, Mrinmayi is also making her debut in films, through this film. So, there are many debutants, like director Girish , lyricist Dr.Ashish and music director Niraj. However, popular singers like Asha Bhosale, Hariharan, Sonu Nigam, Avadhoot Gupte,and Bela Shende have rendered their voices for songs in this film. Script by Nitin Dixit, Choreography by Ganesh Acharya and camera by Bharni Kannan are the other credits.
Besides the lead pair of Bhooshan Pradhan and Mrinmai Kolwalkar, the film also stars Uday Tikekar, Bhau kadam and Jaywant Bhalekar. The film is all set to release on 12th December 2014.
Actor Atul Abhayankar is no more
Popular Marathi actor Atul Abhyankar is no more. He died due to severe heart attach during early hours today morning. Atul had recently won the best character award from Zee Marathi, for his wonderful portrayal of Pradhan in popular period TV serial ‘Jai Malhar’ . Atul was always noticed with his smiling face in that role, suggesting solution to every problem faced by King Khandoba.
Atul had also performed in few Marathi Dramas and films. He had portrayed the role of a Police officer before. According to reliable sources, his last rites will be performed at D
Music of ‘Punha Gondhal Punha Mujra’ launched
Makarand Anaspure while travelling by an aeroplane, met Producer Navin Singh and there in the air it was decided to make this movie, ‘Punha Gondhal Punha Mujra’. It’s a sequel to a successful film ‘Gallit Gondhal Dillit Mujra‘ . This sequel is being produced under the banner, Siddhivinayak International Films and S M S Entertainment, by producers Navin Singh and Rakesh R Bhosale, along with co-producers Sayaji Shinde, Makarand Anaspure & Suresh Suvarna. This political comedy film is directed by Balkrishna Shinde, being his first directorial venture. The movie is slated for release on 10th Oct’14.
Music of ‘PGPM’ was launched at the hands of Navin Singh, producer of this film. While addressing the gathering he thanked his whole team for the great efforts put in and expected to do good business. Ashish Vidhyarti, Hindi film and theatre actor, who will be seen in a guest appearance, was present. He said that he enjoyed the work culture of marathi film industry, where everybody is treated as family member. ‘Babuji’ of Hindi films, Aloknath will also be seen in a guest appearance. Samir Dixit of Pickle Entertainment, distributor, presented a cheque to the producers as a part of his serious involvement in the film’s distribution, on their part. Music director Shashak Powar, (another composer is Sandip Jamdar) thanked the lead actors and cameraman (Suresh Suvarna), choreographer (Amit Baeing) for being actively involved in the process of compositions so as to make the outcome look excellent. Songs by Reshma Sonavne and Urmila Dhangar are sure to be chart busters.
Now, Atul Kulkarni speaks Arabic…
Do you want to learn Arabic language? Ask Atul Kulkarni. Recently, the Mr. Perfectionist Marathi actor learned Arabic language, to enable him to render some of the dialogues in this language, in his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Happy Journey’. “La alaime gidar kala malhain an alhain shai majhul ” (No, I am busy right now), and “Aana erja savi telephone ant. Bah salaam” (I will call you, once I am back) are some of the lines he spoke in Arabic on the sets of this film.
Atul is portraying a businessman called Niranjan, who is back from Dubai after spending years in business over there. Niranjan, well versed in Arabic, is in constant touch with his business fraternity and friends there and converses with his Dubai pals in the language over phone. These scenes of Atul talking in fluent Arabic have been shot for ‘Happy Journey’.
Speaking about his encounter with the language during the shooting, the National Award Winner star said, “I spent hours in learning the language as I wanted perfect diction and scene coming live, and for this purpose took help of Shamim Sayyed, an Arabic language expert.
“Whenever I got time, I listened to the dialogue and rehearsed for the scene. The dialogue has about 10 to 12 sentences in Arabic language. The mannerisms of the language, accurate diction, style of talking the language, were the factors I focused on. Sayyedji helped me a lot in this effort,” Atul added.
The film is produced by Everest Entertainment led by Sanjay Chhabria. The film, directed by Sachin Kundalkar, has noted Marathi actress Priya Bapat and Pallavi Subhash in lead roles. Many youngsters from various fields of technology are associated with the film. It has helped the production in getting a fresh look to the film. State-of-the-art production design, music and costume designs are set to be unique features of the film. This has created a buzz about the film, not only in the industry but among the cine-goers too. The film is set to release in next few months.