Dr. Bharat Balwally & Suresh Wadkar to perform live on 16th September
Renowned singer Pandit Sureh Wadkar has always impressed the classical music lovers with his mesmerizing songs in the past, through his songs in the films and also with his live performances. Now, Pandit Suresh Wadkar will offering a double treat to music lovers in Pune, as he will be perform along with another talented classical singer Dr.Bharat Balawally live, at Pune’s Balgandharva Rangmandir on 16th September 2017 at 7 pm. And the occasion is 83rd Foundation day of Bank Of Maharashtra.
Both these renowned singers , who are performing together for the first time, will be singing classical songs, Ghazals, and film songs to entertain the audience. Kamlesh Bhadkamkar will be providing music for this programme, while other singers like Shruti Bhave, Sagar Sathe, Ninad Mulavkar, Madhav Pawar, Makarand Kundale, Vinayak Netke will also perform in this programme. Many prominent personalities will be attending this event titled ‘Swaryadnya’ . During this programme, the hosts will be offering financial help to the relatives of some brave Indian soldiers, who lost their lives, while fighting for security of our country.
Two Marathi films released this Friday at box-office
The first film is ‘Tula Kalnnaar Nahi‘ is in the form of love story which is a big banner film presented by Actor turned producer Swwapnil Joshi and others and directed by Swapna Waghmare Joshi. This film is produced by three companies together and stars Subodh Bhave and Sonalee Kulkarni in the lead. The big news is that the makers of this film have also organised a grand premiere show of this film at PVR Icon, Versova on the first day of its release, in presence of Marathi and Hindi film fraternity. Some of the seats have also been reserved for lucky members of a Cultural club.
And the second Marathi film ‘Boyz‘ presented by Singer / Music director turned film maker Avadhoot Gupte and directed by Vishal Deorukhkar, this film is all about the teenagers besides some veteran artistes in it. With the presence of Sunny Leone in special appearance, the film is banking more on the songs composed by Avadhoot Gupte. So, it remains to be seen, which Marathi film would succeed in inviting maximum audience to the cinema halls.
Marathi film ‘Krutant’ launched with song recording
Now days, we are noticing a big change in Marathi films, especially the presentation part with new subjects. And, they are receiving good response from sensible film lovers. Now, debutant Producer Mihir Shah and writer- director Datta Bhandare are also promising one such new subject, through their so called path breaking film ‘Krutant‘.
Recently, this film was launched with song recording in the voice of singer Hrishikesh Ranade on the music of Vijay Gawande at Ajivasan Studios, Juhu, Mumbai. On this occasion, besides the singer and music director, artistes and technical members of the film were also present.
Till now, four main artistes of ‘Krutant‘ film have been finalised and they are, Sandeep Kulkarni, Suyog Gorhe, Vidya Karanjikar & Sayali Patil. The shooting of this film will begin shortly.
Singer Kailash Kher all praise for Marathi literature and music
After creating his magic in Bollywood and some of the south films and having won several awards, popular singer Kailash Kher recently rendered a song for an untitled Marathi film, on the music of Mangesh Dhakde. It so happened that Mangesh Dhakde and director of the film Milind Shinde were in search of a singer suitable for the song, for which music was already composed. And, they could not find anyone better than Kailash Kher for that song.
Kailash Kher too enjoyed singing this Marathi song, as he came all prepared for the recording. After a long time, Kailash is singing for a Marathi film. But, he was all praise for Marathi literature and music , which according to him has always been touching the heart of the audience. he also praised the Marathi film makers for carrying forward this tradition of Marathi films, which focused on good scripts and music. This Marathi film is set on the backdrop of Athletics and is being produced by Radhe Motion Films.
Many Marathi artistes are part of film forthcoming Hindi film ‘Daddy’
Marathi artistes playing important characters in Hindi film is not new to Hindi film viewers. In the past, Many Marathi artistes like Lalita Pawar, Sulochana, Dr.Shreeram Lagoo, Vikram Gokhale, Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo, Smita Patil , Nana Patekar, Amol Palekar, Ashok Saraf, Laxmikant Berde, Reema Lagoo, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Mahesh Kothare, Varsha Usgaonkar, Mahesh Manjrekar and many many others have earned respect in Hindi film industry, besides working simultaneously in Marathi films. Now, the tradition is being carried forward by some of our talented artistes from Marathi film industry, whom we notice in Hindi films in prominent roles.
Now, Producer Arjun Rampal and director Ashim Ahluwalia have also opted for talented Marathi artistes, to play important characters in the forthcoming Hindi film ‘Daddy‘ which is all set to release on 8th September 2017. Actor turned director Nishikant Kamat will be seen in the role of Police Officer Vijaykar, while Marathi film hero Rajesh Shringarpure is playing an important character of Rama Naik in this film. Award winning Marathi actress Usha Naik will be playing lead Character’s mother, while other Marathi artistes like Anand Ingale, Shrikant Yadav, Purnanad Wandekar, Deepak Damle and Vijay Sanap are also playing prominent roles in ‘Daddy‘ film. Above all, another award winning actress Veena Jamkar has dubbed for the lead actress in this film.
‘Vitthala Shappath’ to present a new pair
Not only Bollywood but even Marathi film industry has offered many new lead pairs , which later turned out to be hit pairs on big screen. Now, writer – director Chandrakant Pawar who will be presenting a new lead pair of Vijay Sairaj and Krutika Gaikwad through his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Vitthala Shappath‘, which is all set to release on 15th September 2017. This is the first film of Vijay and Krutika together. While Krutika has some experience of acting, for Vijay has faced the camera for the first time, through this film.
While Vijay plays the character of Krushna, Krutika is playing the character of Nayna. The film ‘Vitthala Shappath‘ presents the story of a father and son and is set on the backdrop of faith in Lord Vitthala by his true devotee. The director was in search of a new face to play this young hero and he found his choice in Vijay. Besides Vijay Sairaj and Krutika Gaikwad, the film also stars Mangesh Desai, Anuradha Rajadhyaksha, Uday Sabnis, Vidyadhar Joshi, Sanjay Khapre, Anshuman Vichare, Ketan Pawar, Vijay Nikam, Pranav Raorane and Rajesh Bhosale. Chinar- Mahesh have composed the music of this film.
‘तू माझा सांगाती’ मालिकेमध्ये भरत जाधव विठ्ठलाच्या भूमिकेत
‘तू माझा सांगाती’ मालिकेमध्ये प्रेक्षकांना तुकारामांची विठूरायावर असलेली निस्सीम भक्ती बघायला मिळाली. आता मालिकेचे नवे पर्व सुरु होणार आहे पहील्यांदाच महाराष्ट्राचा लाडका अभिनेता म्हणजेच भरत जाधव विठ्ठ्लाच्या भूमिकेत तर स्मिता शेवाळे रखुमाईच्या भूमिकेत दिसणार आहे.
विठ्ठल म्हणजे कृष्णाचं रूप, पण यामागे देखील आख्यायिका आहे. असे म्हणतात कि, रुक्मिणी काही कारणास्तव कृष्णावर रुसली आणि द्वारिका सोडून पृथ्वीतलावर आली. आपल्या रुसलेल्या पत्नीच्या शोधात कृष्ण विठू रायाच रूप घेऊन पृथ्वीवर आला. पण, नव्या रुपात समोर उभ्या ठाकलेल्या कृष्णाला रुक्मिणी ओळखूच शकली नाही. आपल्या चतुर बोलण्याने विठ्ठ्लाने रुक्मिणीचे मन जिंकले आणि तिचा सखा बनला.
‘तू माझा सांगाती’ पर्व दुसरे या मालिकेविषयी बोलताना कलर्स मराठी प्रमुख Viacom18 निखील साने म्हणाले, “रंगमंच्याचा हुकमी एक्का ठरलेला, तसेच निव्वळ विनोदच नव्हे तर आशयपूर्ण भूमिकादेखील तितक्याच ताकदीने साकारलेला कलाकार म्हणजे भरत जाधव. कुठलीही भूमिका सहज, सुंदरपणे साकारून प्रेक्षकांच्या हृदयात स्थान मिळवणे हा भरतचा हातखंड आहे“.
या मालिके विषयी बोलताना भरत जाधव म्हणाले, “मी खूप खुश आहे कि, मला ही भूमिका साकारण्याची सुवर्णसंधी मिळाली. कलर्स मराठीकडून जशी ही भूमिका माझ्याकडे आली मी लगेच माझा होकार कळवला. याच महत्वाचं कारण असं कि, आमच्या घरी गेल्या बऱ्याच वर्षांपासून गोकुळाष्टमीचा सण साजरा केला जातो“. तेंव्हा बघायला विसरू नका ‘तू माझा सांगाती’ पर्व दुसरे – विठ्ठल रखुमाईची संसारगाथा ६ सप्टेंबर पासून सोम ते शनि संध्या ७.३० वा. फक्त कलर्स मराठीवर.
Mukta Barve grabs all the attention in ongoing TV serial ‘Rudram’
Many a times the selection of a particular artiste for an important role makes a big difference in popularizing a TV serial. And, if that artiste is a popular star, the viewership of the serial certainly goes up. At present, popular actress Mukta Barve is grabbing all the attention in Zee Yuva‘s ongoing suspense filled TV serial ‘Rudram‘. Playing the role of Ragini, a young widow who has lost her family except her mother in a car accident, Mukta perfectly fits into the character of an angry young woman.
But, what is important is that the character penned by the writer Girish Jayant Joshi is tailor made for talented actress like Mukta and she has given full justice to that character in few initial episodes telecast so far, since its beginning three weeks ago. In every scene she appeared, she seemed totally involved into this character of Ragini, who doesn’t think anything else than revenge against all those evil people, behind the murder of her family members. Girish Jayant Joshi who has written the story has also penned the screenplay and dialogues of this serial directed by Bhimrao Mude.
Besides Mukta Barve, there are renowned artistes like Dr.Mohan Agashe, Vandana Gupte, Mitali Jagtap, Sandeep Pathak, Sagar Talashikar and above all Suhas Palshikar in equally important roles. Looking at the instant popularity of ‘Rudram‘ serial, the makers had telecast 3 hours special show, covering all the past happenings on 27th August 2017 and that gave an impression of a suspense filled murder mystery. However, when we watch a particular episode, we find very little happenings in that half an hour long episode, with commercial breaks. Why can’t the makers think of playing one hour long episode? Even otherwise, this serial is limited to 60 episodes and some more actors like Kiran Karmarkar are yet to appear.
Will ‘Bandookya’ deliver the social message effectively ?
We are all aware that the Nomadic Tribes and Denotified Tribes consist of about 60 million people in our country, out of which about five million live in the state of Maharashtra. There are 315 Nomadic Tribes and 198 Denotified Tribes. Now, there is one particular tribe ‘Pardhi‘ in Maharashtra, which is part of Nomadic tribes and not much of attention has been paid towards their reforms from the traditional old practices observed by them.
But, when it comes to inviting attention of the people towards the most neglected tribes in our society, our Marathi films play a very important role. In the past, there have been award winning films like ‘Khwada‘, ‘Fandry‘ and few others, which have not only invited the attention of audience but also our Government. This Friday release film ‘Bandookya‘ also revolves around the lifestyle of one such ‘Pardhi‘ community under the Nomadic tribes in Maharashtra.
Produced by Rajendra Borse and Pratibha Borse and directed by Rahul Manohar Chaudhari, the film will present the problems faced by a particular tribe . With a combination of some versatile and new artistes, it remains to be seen, how the writer director is able to present the subject effectively. But, there is certainly some hope from talented actor like Shashank Shende, who was also part of award winning Marathi film ‘Khwada‘ which was also based on a similar subject. The film’s music is by Parikshit Bhatkhande with popular singers like Javed Ali, Mahalaxmi Iyer and Adarsh Shinde having rendered their voices for the songs in this film.
By the way, ‘Bandookya‘ is the only Marathi film releasing after a long break of two weeks. And, this film has already received awards at the Maharashtra State awards. So, it remains to be seen, whether ‘Bandookya‘ will deliver the social message effectively ?
‘विठ्ठला शप्पथ’ या चित्रपटात पहायला मिळणार एक नवी कोरी जोडी
गुरुदर्शन फिल्म्स आणि पहेल प्रोडक्शन एल.एल.पी यांची निर्मिती असलेल्या ‘विठ्ठला शप्पथ’ या चित्रपटातही प्रेक्षकांना एक नवी कोरी जोडी पहायला मिळणार असून हा चित्रपट येत्या १५ सप्टेंबरला आपल्या मनोरंजनासाठी येत आहे.
चंद्रकांत पवार दिग्दर्शित ‘विठ्ठला शप्पथ‘ या चित्रपटाच्या निमित्ताने विजय साईराज आणि कृतिका गायकवाड ही जोडी प्रथमच एकत्र आली आहे. या चित्रपटामध्ये पवार यांनी विठ्ठलाच त्याच्या भक्ताशी असलेलं भावनिक नातं अधोरेखित केलं आहे. वडील आणि मुलगा यांच्यातील नात्यावर आधारित असलेल्या या चित्रपटात मुलाची भूमिका साकारण्यासाठी एका नव्या चेहऱ्याची गरज होती. ऑडीशनद्वारे बऱ्याच जणांचा शोध घेतला पण हवा तसा चेहरा दिग्दर्शकांना मिळत नव्हता. मात्र ओळखीतून विजयचं नाव समोर आलं.
दिग्दर्शनासोबतच चंद्रकांत पवार यांनीच ‘विठ्ठला शप्पथ‘ चित्रपटाची कथा-पटकथा लिहिली असून, विजय-कृतिका या जोडीसोबत या चित्रपटात मंगेश देसाई, अनुराधा राजाध्यक्ष, उदय सबनीस, विद्याधर जोशी, संजय खापरे, अंशुमन विचारे, विजय निकम, प्रणव रावराणे, या कलाकारांच्याही भूमिका आहेत. राहुल देशपांडे, स्वप्नील बांदोडकर, आनंदी जोशी, आदर्श शिंदे, प्रवीण कुवर या मराठीतील आघाडीच्या गायकांच्या आवाजात या चित्रपटातील गीतरचना रसिकांना ऐकायला मिळणार आहेत. मंगेश कागणे, क्षितीज पटवर्धन यांनी लिहिलेल्या गीतांना चिनार-महेश या मराठी चित्रपटसृष्टीतील सध्याच्या आघाडीच्या संगीतकार जोडीने संगीत व पार्श्वसंगीत दिलं आहे.