Priyanka Chopra’s Marathi film ‘Ventilator’ all set to release on 4th November
Priyanka Chopra’s debut Marathi production ‘Ventilator‘ may be called a debut Marathi film for director Rajesh Mapuskar and is also a comeback Marathi film for Ashutosh Gowarikar after almost 18 long years. The film also stars another Bollywood personality Boman Irani, who is making his debut in Marathi, through this film, with a small role. The official trailer of this film was released recently at a function in Mumbai.
The film’s story revolves around Kamerkar Family, which unites in their ancestral village to celebrate the festival of Ganpati. This time, with three days to go for the festival, a doyen of the family, and most loved Gaju kaka, goes into a coma. He is put on life support with the ventilator and the confusion follows.
Speaking about her association with this film, producer Priyanka Chopra said, “From the minute I heard the script, I knew I wanted to make this film. It’s one single moment that defines the rest of the film. It is funny, ironical and a deeply moving tale that will leave you laughing and crying. I am very lucky to have such a talented collection of actors coming together for my debut Marathi production“.
Writer director Rajesh Mapuskar reacts, “It’s a wonderful feeling when people love and connect with your work . Once again, I’m very eager to see their reaction to the Ventilator trailer.” Produced by Purple Pebble Pictures and presented by Zee Studios, ‘Ventilator‘, is scheduled to release on November 4, 2016.
Swwapnil and Subodh interchange surnames to promote their film ‘Fugay’
Swapna Waghmare Joshi is back again as a director. This time she is presenting a so called unique romantic backstory,’Fugay‘. For the first time Swwapnil Joshi, the favourite actor of the director, will be seen with Subodh Bhave in this film. Recently, the teaser poster of this film was launched digitally which quickly received good response from the fans of this duo.
Presented by Inder Raj Kapoor and produced by Arjun Singgh Baran, Kartik Nishandar and Anuradha Joshi under the banners STV Networks, GSEAMS and MAAY Productions the film has raised a lot of curiosity about the interchanging of surnames by the lead actors on the digital poster. There is a possibility that these could be their character names in the film ‘Fugay‘. One way, this is a good way of promoting the film and raising curiosity among the prospective audience.
‘Nivdung’ all set to release on 21st October
The hit pair of small screen Bhushan Pradhan and Sanskruti Balgude, who entertained home viewers through their serial ‘Pinjara‘, will now be seen together in forthcoming Marathi film ‘Nivdung‘, which is also based on a social subject on today’s youth. The film is all set to release on 21st October 2016. Sara Shravan, who was also part of their popular serial ‘Pinjara‘, will also be seen along with them, in equally important role.
Made under the banner of Meena Shameem Films has been produced and directed by Munnawar Shameem Bhagat and also stars Astad Kale ( ‘Saraswati‘ serial fame), Prajakta Dighe and Shekhar Phadke. The film has been shot been shot extensively at the real locations of Kakdi near Shirdi. While tackling the serious subject of drought, director Munnawar Bhagat has also interspersed the film with a love story . Megha Sampat has choreographed three different numbers in the film.
Marathi film ‘Valan’ launched with song recording
Looking at the way the Marathi film industry is moving, many Bollywood personalities have already stepped in to produce Marathi films. Now, producers Suman Patel and Anil Dube under their banner of Mudra Entertainment Pvt.Ltd. recently launched their new Marathi film ‘Valan‘, with the recording of a song at M square Studios, Goregaon, in the voice of Janhavi Prabhu Arora, on the music of Nitin Hiravkar.
Not much is known about the story of ‘Valan‘ film, but the film is set on the backdrop of college happenings which are so important in bringing the changes in the lives of youngsters, which could be good or bad. It is for the students to accept what is good for them. According to the producers, they will be showing the changing path in the lives of these students, in order to create awareness among such students. They have also claimed that the story of this film will be different from what has been presented by other films so far.
Directed by Shiva Tripathi, the film stars Mohan Joshi, Varsha Usgaonkar, Ruturaj Phadke, Pankaj Vishnu, Jaimini Rajkanojia in important roles. Kumar Bhagat will handle the camera work.
Swwapnil’s return to small screen is helping him to regain popularity
Swwapnil Joshi was at the top of popularity chart among the Marathi artistes, after his serial ‘Eka Lagnachi Doosari Goshta‘ was aired four years ago. Prior to that he had already been part of Hindi and Marathi television.
As far as his career in films is concerned, he received good response for his films ‘Mumbai Pune Mumbai‘( 2010), ‘Duniyadari‘(2013), ‘Mangalashtaka Once More‘(2013), ‘Mitwa‘(2015) and ‘Mumbai Pune Mumbai-2‘(2015). But, at the same time, his films ‘Pyarwali Love Story‘, ‘Welcome Zindagi‘, ‘Tu Hi Re‘ and ‘Lal Ishq‘ didn’t do well during past two years. In the meanwhile, Swwapnil had also switched over to Marathi stage, playing the lead role in ‘Get Well Soon‘, which also received good audience response . But, that was not enough for him to stay on top of the popularity among the Marathi artistes. And, who doesn’t want to remain popular ?
Perhaps, realizing this, Swwapnil must have decided to take up this good offer of show host of a big reality show from a big production house, ‘Kon Hoeel Marathi Crorepati‘ on Colors Marathi. And, he seems to have taken a wise decision, as this Quiz show has been receiving very good response with Swwapnil Joshi making every pair of participant very comfortable in his presence. In short, his return to small screen, is helping him to regain his popularity. An artiste can’t remain popular in the long run, just on the basis of performance in films, he or she have to balance it well between small and big screen in order to attract the larger section of the society.
Vikram Gokhale releases first Marathi EDM song album
Power Bridge Entertainment Asia (P) Ltd have released their Indo China Venture’s first Marathi EDM song recently, at the hands of veteran Marathi actor Vikram Gokhale. Present on the occasion were Marathi Chitrapat mahamandal President Meghraj Bhosale, Producers Anjela, Tejas Bhalerao, Rajaram Kore of HR Zoom, director Rahul Zende , actor-singer Vaibhav Londhe , actress Saisha Pathak and others.
Speaking on the occasion chief guest Mr. Vikram Gokhale appreciated the efforts of this Indo China Company. He also appealed to them to highlight Indo China friendship through the films to be produced by them. He also emphasized the importance of songs and music in such films and added that the culture of both the countries was almost the same and will help both the countries to build good relations with each other.
Producer Tejas Bhalerao assured that Marathi artistes will have ample opportunity through his production company and said that their first Marathi electronic dance Music video album will be appreciated by all. Mukesh Gaikwad was the anchor of this show.
Priyanka Chopra unveils teaser of her debut Marathi production ‘Ventilator’
A well known name in Bollywood, actress Priyanka Chopra has already established herself in Film industry, besides being a singer model & philanthropist. A Former Miss World, she has made her progress in this entertainment industry with sheer determination and hard work. Now, Priyanka Chopra is producing a Marathi film ‘Ventilator‘ under the banner of Purple Pebble Pictures, which is written and directed by Rajesh Mapuskar and presented by Zee Studios.
Recently, Priyanka, who was holding the suspense about the cast of her film, has revealed the faces of some renowned Marathi artistes, through this first look teaser. And, the biggest surprise is in the form of Film maker Ashutosh Gowarikar, who returns to Marathi screen, after a long time, as an actor. Ashutosh does play a very important role in this film. The two songs audio of this film were launched during Ganapati festival and they have received good response. Speaking about this film, director Rajesh Mapuskar is all excited and is eager to see the reaction of the people to the teaser of this film.
‘Sister Concern’ making all efforts to promote their film ‘Family Katta’
Well Known actress Vandana Gupte and singer Rani Verma both daughters of doyen of Hindustani classical music Late Manik Verma have come together to produce their first Marathi film ‘Family Katta‘ under the banner of ‘Sister Concern Entertainment‘. The film is all set to release on 7th October 2016 and the sisters are making all efforts to market their film, so as to reach out to maximum people. During the last week, both were busy promoting their film visiting all the three important media houses like television, Radio and newspapers. And, they received very good response.
Though their film has presently booked 120 screens all over Maharashtra, there is more demand coming from Pune theatres. ‘Family Katta‘ is releasing simultaneously with another big banner Marathi film ‘Jaundya Na Balasaheb‘; but, this is not new to Marathi cinema. In the past, many good films have been released simultaneously and the Marathi audience have welcomed both the films. What is important is the ‘word of mouth’ publicity, which is noticed in the second week, after the film is released. ‘Family Katta‘ being a family social is banking on family audience and the sisters Vandana Gupte and Rani Verma look confident about their creation. “Ours is not a traditional family package, but there is something more, which the Marathi audience would appreciate,” said the sisters while speaking about their film, during the press show.
‘Family Katta‘ has a big star cast comprising of big names like Dilip Prabhavalkar, Vandana Gupte herself, Kiran Karmarkar, Pratiksha Lonkar, Sachin Deshpande, Sulekha Talwalkar, Sanjay Khapre, Gauri Nalawade, Alok Rajwade, Sai Tamhankar and late Adesh Shrivastav . The film is based on Marathi play ‘Celebration‘ written by Prasahant Dalvi and is directed by the same director Chandrakant Kulkarni.
“I was completely sold to the concept of ‘Vikta Ka Uttar'”- Riteish Deshmukh
After having a successful stint in Bollywood , actor Riteish Deshmukh made his debut in Marathi films as a producer and actor two years ago. But now, Riteish is making his small screen debut on Star Pravah Marathi channel in the role of a show anchor through a reality Quiz show ‘Vikta Ka Uttar‘. On Monday afternoon Riteish met the media persons in a unique way.
Before addressing the press conference, he actually played a mock show for them, involving all of them in this show. He picked up three of them as players for questioning and the rest of them played the traders, in case the players needed their help. The trader selected for help by the player, had to bargain for a price to offer the correct answer. It was an entertaining show with a difference.
Speaking to the media after this mock show, Riteish Deshmukh admitted that he was more than happy to receive this offer. He also revealed that he had really worked hard to get the right Marathi accent, to present this programme in the capacity of an anchor. “I was completely sold to the concept of this show,” he said. “Till now, we have shot 25 episodes and it was a learning process for me, though script was provided by four talented writers“. Riteish was all praise for Hrishikesh Joshi, writer and actor, who was present on this occasion. “Besides using his writing skills, we also thought of involving him in this show and that’s how, you will find him entering towards the end of every episode in different get ups,” added Riteish.
All in all, this reality show sounds interesting, as participants from different segments in Maharashtra are part of this show, trying their luck to win cash prizes. The show is all set to go on air from 7th October 2016 on Star Pravah channel .
Now, a Marathi film ‘Raaiba’ inspired by ‘The Godfather’
World famous author Mario Puzo’s crime novel ‘The Godfather‘ which was published in 1969 became so popular that it inspired 1972 Hollywood film with the same name, followed by sequel few years later. This novel also inspired 80 film makers from all over the world to make films in their language on this subject.
‘The Godfather’ is a famous crime novel written by Italian American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969. It details the story of a fictional Mafia family based in New York City, headed by Don Vito Corleone and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood. In Hindi, we have seen films like ‘Dharmatma‘ , ‘Dayavan‘ and many other crime based films on underworld, inspired by this novel.
Now, Marathi film maker Milind Arun Kavde, who has made films like ‘Yedyanchi Jatra‘, ‘Four Idiots‘,’Just Gammat‘, ‘Shinma‘ and ‘1234‘ has accepted the challenge of making a Marathi film titled ‘Raaiba‘ on this subject. Having noticed the success of films like ‘Rege‘ and ‘Dagadi Chawl‘, it is not surprising that a film based a world famous crime novel is being made. According to Milind Kavde, he was in search of a script to make a film on this subject. And, he felt that the subject of Godfather was more interesting. He has however made suitable changes to suit the subject to Marathi audience. This will be the story of a farmer’s son, who later becomes a Don. The film will star 35 well known artistes from Marathi film industry and it will be a song based film.