‘Urfi’ actress Mitali Mayekar is the talk of the town
She is beautiful fresh face in Marathi films, besides being a talented actress. Her on screen presence in the film ‘Urfi’ and prior to that her appearance in the song promos of the film, on Marathi music television channels, had spread the word of mouth praise among youngsters. No wonder, ‘Urfi’ is drawing good crowds in theatres in Mumbai and other towns of Maharashtra including Thane. And, we have the news that yesterday, i.e. on the fourth day of the film’s release Mitali, who lives in Thane, had gone to see the response to her film, at Viviana Mall and was shocked to see a full house show.
MarathiMovieworld.com spoke to director of the film Vikram Pradhan, who said that he made the selection of Mitali from among 1800 candidates from all over Maharashtra, who had given their auditions. Mitali had worked in few Marathi serials as a child artiste as also in Bollywood film ‘Billoo Barber’, as Irrfan Khan’s daughter. Now, with the release of ‘Urfi’, Mitali has proved that her selection was right. In just 5 days, she has great fan following. Don’t be surprised to find her lifting Fresh face of the Year award in forthcoming Marathi film award functions. MarathiMovieWorld.com, wishes her a bright future.
Umesh Kulkarni continues with his good work of encouraging new short film makers
After the success of previous three editions of his ‘Shoot a short’ workshop on short film making, Umesh Kulkarni has announced the fourth edition of this workshop, which is to be held between10th December to 13th December 2015 at NFAI, Kothrud, Pune. The enthusiasm shown by the participants & continuous enquiries from the people, has encouraged Umesh to arrange the workshop for the fourth time.
Three time National Award recipient director Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni and film academician Samar Nakhate will be conducting this workshop. And, the workshop will primarily be held in Marathi Language. Therefore for Prospective Marathi film makers, this is a golden opportunity to learn something worthwhile, from these experts.
Passionate about short films, as an independent form of storytelling, Umesh Kulkarni says that despite the easy access to technology and resources available to upcoming filmmakers, there aren’t good content driven short films, being made in India. “By providing the right inputs through this workshop, I believe, enthusiast participants can develop a better perspective and understanding of the medium of short filmmaking. Short films and feature films are as different as short stories and novels, hence should not be compared on the same level”, he added.
At the workshop, aspects such as basic concepts of film making, fundamentals of Production of Short Film, Translating Idea into a Script, Pre-Production, Production and Post Production, working with Actors / Non Actors, Crew Management and Scope for Shorts at Short Film Festivals will be dealt with. After the workshop, participants will be asked to submit scripts of their short films out of which 4 will be selected and produced by Aroh Velankar’s “Rangartha Productions”. The workshop is open for people above 18 years of age.
It may be recalled that besides producing feature films like Valu, Vihir, Deool and Highway , Umesh has eight short films to his credit. More importantly, Umesh Kulkarni has also kept his passion for short films alive. And therefore, to keep the short films movement growing, he has also started a short film club in Pune. The workshop will be conducted in the National Film Archive of India, Kothrud on 10, 11, 12 & 13th of December 2015.
For further information contact – 020-25433549, +91 9167677801, +91 8149630510
अभिनय कट्ट्याच्या किरण नाकतीचे सिने-दिग्दर्शनात पदार्पण
जवळपास पाच वर्षांपूर्वी एक चळवळ म्हणून सुरु केलेल्या ‘अभिनय कट्टा’ या कलेच्या बिजांकूराचा आज वटवृक्ष झाला आहे तो फक्त मायेनं अन आस्थेनं सिंचन करत राहिलेल्या कट्ट्याच्या सुत्राधारांमुळे म्हणजेच किरण नाकती यांच्यामुळे.
येथे दर रविवार न चुकता कलाकारांसाठी हक्काचं व्यासपीठ नि रसिक प्रेक्षकांसाठी उत्तमोत्तम कलाविष्काराची मेजवानी सादर होते . ज्यात ठाणेकरांसमवेत संपूर्ण महाराष्ट्रातील रसिका रविवारची एक सुखद संध्याकाळ अनुभवतात.
अभिनय कट्टा व कृपासिंधु पिक्चर्स यांच्या संयुक्त विद्यमाने साकारलेल्या आणि ओम श्री संकल्प फिल्म प्रॉडक्शन्सची प्रस्तुती असलेल्या ‘सिंड्रेला’ या आगामी सिनेमात जास्तीत जास्त कलाकार हे अभिनय कट्ट्याचे आहेत. यावेळी कट्ट्याचे हे विद्यार्थी फक्त पडद्यावरील कलाकार म्हणूनच नव्हे तर पडद्यामागेही यशस्वी भूमिका सांभाळताना दिसतील.
जवळपास पाच वर्षांपूर्वी एक चळवळ म्हणून सुरु केलेल्या ‘अभिनय कट्टा’ या कलेच्या बिजांकूराचा आज वटवृक्ष झाला आहे तो फक्त मायेनं अन आस्थेनं सिंचन करत राहिलेल्या कट्ट्याच्या सुत्राधारांमुळे म्हणजेच किरण नाकती यांच्यामुळे.
येथे दर रविवार न चुकता कलाकारांसाठी हक्काचं व्यासपीठ नि रसिक प्रेक्षकांसाठी उत्तमोत्तम कलाविष्काराची मेजवानी सादर होते . ज्यात ठाणेकरांसमवेत संपूर्ण महाराष्ट्रातील रसिका रविवारची एक सुखद संध्याकाळ अनुभवतात.
अभिनय कट्टा व कृपासिंधु पिक्चर्स यांच्या संयुक्त विद्यमाने साकारलेल्या आणि ओम श्री संकल्प फिल्म प्रॉडक्शन्सची प्रस्तुती असलेल्या ‘सिंड्रेला’ या आगामी सिनेमात जास्तीत जास्त कलाकार हे अभिनय कट्ट्याचे आहेत. यावेळी कट्ट्याचे हे विद्यार्थी फक्त पडद्यावरील कलाकार म्हणूनच नव्हे तर पडद्यामागेही यशस्वी भूमिका सांभाळताना दिसतील.
“सिंड्रेला” या वैशिष्ठ्यपूर्ण सिनेमाचे शिल्पकार हे किरण नाकती आहेत. सदर सिनेमाची कथा आदित्य हळबे व किरण नाकती यांनी लिहिली असून पटकथा, संवाद व दिग्दर्शक या तिन्ही बाजूही त्यांनी अतिशय उत्कृष्ट पद्धतीने सांभाळल्या आहेत.
“सिंड्रेला” या सिनेमाच्या नावातच या सिनेमाचे वेगळेपण दडलेले आहे. या सिनेमाच्या माध्यमातून भावा-बहिणीच्या अनोख्या नात्याची कथा या सिनेमात पहायला मिळणार आहे.
सिनेसृष्टीत पदार्पण करणाऱ्या रुपेश बने आणि यशस्वी वेंगुर्लेकर या बालकलाकारांनी आपल्या अभिनयाची चुणूक दाखवली असून त्यांचा हा पहिलाच सिनेमा आहे. सुप्रसिद्ध कॅमेरामन राजा फडतरे यांच्या नजरेतून या सिनेमाचे चित्रीकरण करण्यात आले असून आशिष म्हात्रे यांनी उत्कृष्टरित्या या सिनेमाचे संकलन केले आहे. येत्या ४ डिसेंबरपासून संपूर्ण महाराष्ट्रात प्रदर्शित होणार आहे.
“सिंड्रेला” या वैशिष्ठ्यपूर्ण सिनेमाचे शिल्पकार हे किरण नाकती आहेत. सदर सिनेमाची कथा आदित्य हळबे व किरण नाकती यांनी लिहिली असून पटकथा, संवाद व दिग्दर्शक या तिन्ही बाजूही त्यांनी अतिशय उत्कृष्ट पद्धतीने सांभाळल्या आहेत.
“सिंड्रेला” या सिनेमाच्या नावातच या सिनेमाचे वेगळेपण दडलेले आहे. या सिनेमाच्या माध्यमातून भावा-बहिणीच्या अनोख्या नात्याची कथा या सिनेमात पहायला मिळणार आहे.
सिनेसृष्टीत पदार्पण करणाऱ्या रुपेश बने आणि यशस्वी वेंगुर्लेकर या बालकलाकारांनी आपल्या अभिनयाची चुणूक दाखवली असून त्यांचा हा पहिलाच सिनेमा आहे. सुप्रसिद्ध कॅमेरामन राजा फडतरे यांच्या नजरेतून या सिनेमाचे चित्रीकरण करण्यात आले असून आशिष म्हात्रे यांनी उत्कृष्टरित्या या सिनेमाचे संकलन केले आहे. येत्या ४ डिसेंबरपासून संपूर्ण महाराष्ट्रात प्रदर्शित होणार आहे.
Resul Pookutty records on-location background music for Marathi film ‘Kshitij’
Oscars award winner famous Indian film sound designer Resul Pookutty recently experimented something new for Marathi films. Resul recently recorded On- location background music for Marathi film ‘Kshitij’. The shooting of this film was recently held in a village Nanaj in Jamkhed Taluka place, where the makers were shooting a devotional bhajan. So, this experiment of recording on location sound was attempted by Resul Pookutty.
Later, speaking about this experiment in Marathi films, the award winning sound designer said, “There are many changes taking place in films during the past few years, due to technological developments. But, the changes were noticed in sound effects only during the past two years. Generally, sound effects were used in post production stage. But, in Marathi cinema, we have tried this On Location sound recording, for more perfection, to give a realistic look to the film, which you will notice in the film ‘Kshitij’. “ he said.
‘Kshitij’ is produced by Navroz Prasala & Karishma Mahadolkar and directed by Manoj kadam. The film stars Upendra Limaye, Manoj Joshi, Kanchan Jadhav, Sanjay Mone, child artiste Apurva Mandrupkar in lead roles along with other new artistes. This film will ready for release in the coming year.
‘Double Seat’ turns favourite at Zee-MFK awards
Every year Zee talkies have their separate awards function in the form of ‘Maharashtracha favourite Kon?’ with the voting open for shortlisted Marathi films and their artistes & other technical experts. This year too, there was overwhelming response from the viewers, who casted their votes, for their favourites. And, this year ‘Double Seat’ bagged maximum awards in different sections of this Viewer’s choice awards. The awards were presented to the winners, at an event held in Mumbai, recently.
However, the best film award went to ‘Dr.Prakash Baba Amte’ a sensible film made on a social subject. The best direction award went to Paresh Mokashi for the film ‘Elizabeth Ekadashi’. Needless to add that Ankush Choudhary and Mukta Barve were adjudged the favourite actor and actress respectively . The favourite supporting actor and actress awards went to Vaibhav Mangale and Sai Tamhankar. The main attraction of the event was the presence of Nana Patekar and Makarand Anaspure, who were felicitated by Zee talkies, for their efforts to help the families of poor farmers, in drought hit places in Maharashtra. A cheque amounting to Rs. 5 Lakh was presented to their NAAM Foundation. Some entertaining programmes were also presented by popular Marathi artistes, on this occasion. Siddharth Chandekar and Vaibhav Tatwavdi anchored the show.
Telecast of this event will be shown on 20 the December 2015 at 7 pm on Zee talkies channel.
‘Partu’ promises ‘out of the box’ content
Marathi films are known for their offering variety of content. Keeping with the trend, forthcoming Marathi film ‘Partu’ also promises ‘out of the box’ content. Made under the banner of Hollywood’s ‘East West Films’ and written and directed by Nitin Adsul , an Indian settled in USA, the film has already raised lot of curiosity about its subject, which is based on a real life story.
Though the artistes of this film are from Marathi film industry and Bollywood, the technical support comes from highly qualified international technical persons. The film has been shot in Rajasthan and Maharashtra; but the cinematography and background music of this film, are expected to make a big difference. The film stars Kishore Kadam, Smita Tambe, Saurabh Gokhale, Gayatri Deshmukh, Anshuman Vichare, Navani Parihar, Raja Bundela, Ravi Bharatiya and child artiste Yash Pande , around whose character, the film revolves.
Music by Shashank Powar, background music by Hollywood’s Greg Sims, editing by Rajesh Rao and cinematography by Sanjay Khanjode are other credits.
Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni bag Marathi Filmfare awards
The beautiful black lady is now in the hands of many Marathi film award winners. Only difference was that during this Filmfare awards for Marathi films, the traditional musical instruments of Maharashtra, the Dhol -tashe , Lejhim and Tutari, were played in the background music , to honour the award winners. So, one thing is clear that Filmfare have started recognising the strength and progress of Marathi films, during the past few years.
Several celebrities from Bollywood were also present on the occasion. Prominent among them were, Vidya Balan, Urmila Matondkar, Tabu, Athiya shetty, Varun Dhavan & Suraj Pancholi.Among the top celebrities in Marathi were Ramesh Deo, Mahesh Manjrekar, Riteish Deshmukh, Sonali Kulkarni, Mrinal Kulkarni, Mahesh Kothare & others.
Films like ‘Lai Bhari’,’ Rege’,’ Elizabeth Ekadashi’ & ‘Fandry’ shared most of the awards, while ‘ Prakash Baba Amte- The real hero’ bagged the Filmfare award for the best film, besides bagging the best actor( Nana Patekar) and Best actress( Sonali Kulkani) awards. The award for the best popular actor award went to Riteish Deshmukh for his debut in Marathi through super hit Marathi film ‘Lai Bhari’.
The first award for Film fare Lifetime achievement, went to veteran actor Ramesh Deo, who at the age of 86 years, is still active with his acting assignments.
Five Marathi films to release together on November 27th
This week not a single Marathi or Hindi film was released; but, on coming Friday, i.e.27th November 2015 five Marathi films will be releasing together. The names of these films are ‘Dhangarwada’, ‘Mahanayak’, ’Shali’, ’Shinma’ and ‘Urfi’. Now, taking about the genre of all these films, we find that ‘Dhangarwada’ presented by Alka Kubal Athalye and directed by her cinematographer turned director Sameer Athalye, the film presents the story on the backdrop of the shepherd community and their struggle for survival. It will be the last film of Late Sadashiv Amrapurkar, who has played an important role in this film. It is understood that Mr. Amrapurkar had taken part in film’s shooting, in spite of his ill health, to keep his commitment.
‘Mahanayak’ is a biopic on the life of Vasantrao Naik , the dynamic and most respected former chief Minister of Maharashtra. Chinmay Mandlekar plays the central character and it will be interesting to see, whether he has given justice to his role. The film is directed ny Nilesh Raosaheb Jalamkar. The third film ‘Shali’ is based on the story of late Shankar Patil and is about the happening of events in the life of a young girl. Except for few senior artistes the artistes in this film are new.
Milind kavade’s next film ‘Shinma’ is also releasing coming Friday; but, the director is not worried about competition faced by his film, from other films. This film has a big star cast, but the songs of this film have already popularized, as Mr. kavade has ensured a timely message about importance of water in the lives of people living in drought affected villages.But, he has tried to pass it on, in an entertaining manner. Hindi film & TV actress Gurleen Chopra is making her debut through this film, which also stars Ajinkya Deo, Saurabh Gokhale, Sanskriti Balgude, Vijay Patkar, Kishori Shanane, Nisha Parulekar, Ganesh Acharya and others.
‘Time Pass’ fame Prathamesh Parab will have one more release coming Friday, with the name of ‘Urfi’ which is a debut film of Mitali Mayekar , who has already invited the attention of the audience, through her performance in the songs of this film, already shown on music channels. This film is directed by Vikram Pradhan, also stars Upendra Limaye, Kavita Lad & Milind Pathak.
Now, with this big competition to be noticed on coming Friday, among these five films, it remains to be seen, which film draws good crowds at theatre windows.
कलर्स मराठीवर ‘गणपती बाप्पा मोरया’ प्रेक्षकांच्या भेटीला
लहानापासून मोठ्यांपर्यंत, अगदी सगळ्यांचे लाडके दैवत असलेल्या गणपती बाप्पांची गाथा पौराणिक मालिकेच्या रूपाने सादर होत असून, या मालिकेचा शुभारंभ उद्यापासून (२४ नोव्हेंबर) होत आहे .‘जय मल्हार’ च्या यशा नंतर महेश कोठारे ह्यांच्या, कोठारे विजन द्वारा निर्मित ‘गणपती बाप्पा मोरया’ ही मालिका सोमवार ते शनिवार रात्री ८.३० वाजता ‘कलर्स मराठी‘ ह्या वाहिनीवर प्रसारित होणार आहे.
‘गणपती बाप्पा मोरया’ ही मालिका पार्वती – गणेश या मातापुत्राच्या ममतेच्या अलौकिक नात्याचे विविध पदरही उलगडणार आहे. या मालिकेत बाप्पांच्या प्रचलित आणि सर्वश्रुत असलेल्या गोष्टींसोबत काही अपरिचित कथाही बघायला मिळतील. या मंगलमय गणेशकथांसह शिवपार्वती आणि इतर देवदेवतांचे दिव्य दर्शन, तसेच डोळे दिपवून टाकणारे शिवालय, नयनरम्य नंदनवन ही पावित्र्याची प्रतीके सर्व महाराष्ट्राला मंत्रमुग्ध करतील. असा विश्वास या मालिकेचा निर्माता आणि क्रिएटिव दिग्दर्शक आदिनाथ कोठारे ह्याने दर्शिवला.
एकंदरीतच उत्तम अभिनय, अभ्यासपूर्ण कथा आणि उच्च तंत्राद्यानाच्या सहाय्याने मांडलेल्या अश्या पौराणिक कथा नक्कीच प्रेक्षेकांमध्ये लोकप्रिय होतात. गणपती बाप्पांची हि नव्या स्वरूपातील तेजोमय गाथा, इतर पौराणिक मालीकेंच्या तुलनेत हि नवी मालिका प्रेक्षेकांना किती पसंतीची पडते ते लवकरच कळेल.
‘Bandh Nylonche’ first poster unveiled
Mobile phones, internet and social media has made today’s new generation techno savvy. And, their addiction to these electronic gadgets, is separating them from their parents and their love and affection. Forthcoming Marathi film ‘Bandh Nylonche’ has taken up this issue, throwing light on this rising problem, noticed in many houses. This film, directed by Jatin Wagle, is based on the one act play with the same name, written by Ambar Hadap and Ganesh Pandit. So, it will be interesting to see the cinematic version of this subject, on big screen.
The film presents an interesting theme showing how the technological advancement during next ten years has an effect on the person addicted to mobile phone and social media. Produced by Sunil Nair, the film stars many talented and versatile artistes like Mahesh Manjrekar, Medha Manjrekar, Sunil Barve, Subodh Bhave, Sanjay Narvekar,Shruti Marathe and Pranjal Parab. Music of this film is by Amitraj, while the DOP is Shirish Desai. The first poster of this film has just been released and the film will release all over Maharashtra on 29th January 2015.