‘3.56 Killari’ is based on earthquake tragedy
Twenty two years ago the deadly earthquake tragedy hit Killari village in Marathwada region, at 3.56 am. And within two minutes many homes were destroyed, killing thousands of people. The after effects of this earthquake, are still heard today. New Marathi film ‘3.56 Killari’ is set on the backdrop of the after effects.
Recently, a press conference of this film was held, when producer Girish Sathe, director Deepak Bhagwat ,costume designer Chaitrali Dongre and child artiste Gauri Ingavale ( the central character of this film) were present. In this film, Sai Tamhankar and Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff are playing important roles. Along with them are other artistes like Shrikant Moghe & Anurag Sharma in prominent roles.
This film which has been made under the banner of DGS entertainment, will be released in 125 theatres across Maharashtra on 21st August 2015.
‘Veer Daudale Saatach’ play to be staged commercially
Love for Marathi plays hasn’t diminished at all, over the years. This has been possible, because of the patronage of established actors and audience equally. Many well known Marathi artistes, started their acting career with experimental plays. This can happen only in Marathi entertainment industry.
Talking about Marathi experimental theatre, a new play in this category, will hit the drama theatres very soon. ‘Veer Daudale Saatach‘ will be a play, directed by Pralhad Kudtarkar, who bagged best director (experimental) trophy, alongside best play, at a recent television awards function. Pralhad Kudtarkar, was an assistant director for a popular Aadesh Bandekar show ‘Home Minister’. He has to his credits Marathi serials, ‘Aambat Goad’, ‘Bhagyalaxmi’, ‘Aabhas Ha’,’ Lakshya’, ‘Ka Re Durava’ as a writer. But , his love for theatre, prompted him to stage Veer Daudle Saatch.
The play is about a Marathi school , deciding to be part of state inter-school dramatic competition and hand over the responsibility to school’s history teacher, who in turn decides to imbibe history through a drama and selects a historical play . Ironically, seven students who happen to be disinterested in history, get selected to act in it. And, what happens next, is all that the play is about.
Veer Daudale Saatach is produced under the banner Rudra Theatre by Sarika Naik and Pallavi Bhojne. Set to be designed by Ajay Pujare and light design will be by Amogh Phadke while background music is to be provided by Samihan. Omkar Bhojne, Ajay Kambli, Abhishek Gaonkar, Sanjay Jamkhandi, Bhagyashri Paane, Santosh Sarode, Priyanka Hande, Ketan Salvi, and Snehal Shidam will be the artistes of this play, to be on staged from 21st August 2015 onwards.
Director Vijay Patkar gets ready with his film ‘Mohor’
‘VG Enterprises’ Chandrakant Pandharinath Pawar & Sangita Gautam Satdive have produced their maiden Marathi film ‘Mohar‘. Renowned actor- director Vijay Patkar has directed this Marathi Film, story of which is written by Rekha Surendra Jagtap , with Screenplay, Dialogue & Lyrics penned by Deepak Bhagwat. Rahul Satdive is the Associated director of this film .
Lead stars of this film are, Sayaji Shinde, Prasad Oak, Aditi Sarangdhar , along with Vijay Kadam, Hemalata Bane, Pritam Patil & Pandurang Phadatare. Two child artistes Prajakta Jagtap & Chaitany Ghadage are also making their acting debut through this film.
‘Mohar‘ will have one Lavani, performed by Manasi Naik, which is choreographed by Deepali Vichare. DOP is Raja Phadatare & Music composition is by Milind More. The songs are sung by talented Belaa Shende, Prasannjit Kosambi, Kavita Nikam, Chang & Sakshi. This film is getting ready for release soon.
Sad demise of legend Bhalchandra Pendharkar
The great Legend of Marathi theatre Bhalchandra Pendharkar is no more. He passed away today morning at a private hospital in Mumbai. Bhalchandra Vyankatesh alias Anna Pendharkar was being treated for sometime in the hospital, due to some health problem. But, he could not respond to the treatment due to old age. He was 94. His body was kept at Yashwant Natya Mandir, Matunga, for the last public viewing, to enable his admirers to pay tributes.
Anna , who was a singer ,actor, producer, was born on 25th November 1921 . He looked after LalitKalaDarsh’ theatre Group formed by late Keshavrao Bhosale, like his own child. He had taken charge of this group at the age of 17. Today, this group has completed 107 years. The group had presented many popular plays, including revival of old plays. Many prominent personalities like Lata Mangeshkar, Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, Chandrakant Gokhale and many others,
Bhalchandra Pendharkar had won many prestigious awards, including Sangeet Natak kala Academy(2004) and the Maharashtra State Lifetime award in 2008. MarathiMovieworld.com pays sincere tributes to his departed soul and offer deep condolence to his family members.
मराठी चित्रपट महामंडळाच्या सदस्यांसाठी इंडस हेल्थप्लसचा उपक्रम
अखिल भारतीय मराठी चित्रपट महामंडळाच्या सदस्यांसाठी इंडस हेल्थप्लस प्रतिबंधात्मक आरोग्य सेवा कंपनीने नुकतेच एक अनोखे शिबीर आयोजित केले होते, या शिबिराचे उद्घाटन मुंबईच्या मा. महापौर स्नेहल आंबेकर यांच्या हस्ते करण्यात आले.
या आरोग्य शिबिरात सिरम बिलिरुबिन, सिरिम क्रीएटीनाईन, ग्लायकोसायलेटेक, हिमोग्लोबिन, संपूर्ण कोलेस्ट्रोल, एमआय, पल्मनरी फंक्शन, आहार तज्ञ अशा विविध चाचण्यांचा समावेश करण्यात आला होता.
सिनेसृष्टीतील अनेक अभिनेते, अभिनेत्री, कॅमेरामन, दिग्दर्शक, निर्माते आणि स्पॉट बॉईज अशा एकूण १२० जणांनी या शिबिरात आपली आरोग्य तपासणी करून घेतली. अखिल भारतीय मराठी चित्रपट महामंडळाचे अध्यक्ष विजय पाटकर, तसेच संचालक मंडळ इंडस हेल्थ प्लसचे जॉईन्ट मॅनेजिंग डायरेक्टर पर्णल देखणे , गव्हनींग कौन्सिलमंदार नाईकवडी व या उपक्रमाचे समन्वयक लिड मिडियाचे विनोद सातव, प्रमुख पाहुणे पु. ल. देशपांडे प्रकल्प संचालक मा. आशुतोष घोरपडे हे देखील उपस्थित होते.
प्रमुख पाहुणे आशुतोष घाटपांडे यांनीदेखील या अनोख्या उपक्रमाचे कौतुक केले. व अशा विषयांवर काम करण्याची इच्छा व्यक्त केली. महामंडळाचे अध्यक्ष विजय पाटकर यांनी देखील आपल्या भावना व्यक्त केल्या.
Aarya Ambekar to make her debut in acting
Aarya Ambekar is a popular singer in Marathi. After being the finalist in the Zee Marathi’s music reality show ‘Sa Re Ga Ma..’ in 20018, the little champ has now grown to become a beautiful young girl.
Incidentally, as a singer, Arya has rendered her voice, in some of the recent Marathi films like ‘Rama Madhav’, ‘BalGandharva’ and ‘Goshta Tichya Premachi’. We are also hearing her voice in the title song of ongoing popular serial ‘Dil Dosti Duniyadari’.
Aarya is now all set to make her debut in acting, almost on the lines of another singer Ketaki Mategaonkar. Arya has been selected to play lead role in forthcoming Marathi film ‘Rangila Re’, shooting of which will begin soon, after finalizing other artistes. Produced by Amit Dhupe, the film will be directed by Parag Bhavsar. ‘Taani’ fame producer Ajay Thakur is the creative head of this film. Music of this film will be provided by Pravin Kunvar.
In the recent past, Arya has been receiving offers from many Marathi film makers; but, she was looking for a good role and script. In ‘Rangeela Re’ she has found the role of her choice.
‘Slambook’ to present one more adolescent love story
It is very common in film industry, when a particular genre film attains success, fiscally; a lot of copy-cats follow the same theme. A few years ago, a Ravi Jadhav directed marathi movie ‘Time Pass’, which dealt with adolescent love birds, fared astoundingly well at booking office. Now, a new upcoming Marathi movie ‘Slambook’ also deals with adolescent love. Trailer of the film, which was launched recently, in Mumbai, also gives an impression of copy-paste of TP. Even the lead pair is coincidentally a lookalike of ‘Time Pass’.
But, the director of the film, Ruturaj Dhalgade, has categorically denied it . According to him, it’s a story of adolescent lovers, which goes beyond all such previous film on teenage love . It deals with the time span between coin-box telephone and cell-phone and shows how the internet craziness adversely affects today’s youth.
With first look, music of this film was also released. ‘Slambook’ music is composed by seven composers, viz. Shubhankar, Vishal, Rasik, Sidhaan, Sagar, Prashat and Jagdish and playback is by Sonia Mundhe, Shubhankar, Rasik Metangale, Hrishikesh Ranade. Versatile super singer Vaishali Samant has also lent her voice for ‘Morya’ song, which is picturised on Shruti Marathe.
Dilip Prabhavalkar and Kushal Badrike, who are a part of the cast were present at the function. ‘Slambook’ is produced by Dhalgade, Ruturaj Dhalgade and co-produced by Chhaya Mhatre, Rohit Mhatre and the cast comprises of Dilip Prabhavalkar, Usha Nadkarni, Mangesh Desai, Madhavi Soman, Kushal Badrike, Supriya Pathare, Abhijit Chavan, Yogesh Shirsat, Shruti Marathe and a new lead pair Shantanu Ranade and Ritika Shrotri.
The film will be released on 21st August 2015.
Hemant Dhome is back to script writing with ‘Poshter Girl’
Known for his wonderful timing for comedy, Hemant Dhome has succeeded in inviting the attention of audience, while performing on stage and also in front of the camera. But, not many people are aware of his identity as a scriptwriter. Hemant has already written script of films like ‘Satrangi Re’(2012) and ‘Kshanbhar Vishranti’ (2010), in the past. But, he had maintained a low profile as a writer.
Now, Hemant is back to script writing after a gap of 3 years, with new Marathi film ‘Poshter Girl’, which was launched recently, with muhurat . Luckily for Hemant, he has found the support of a big names like Pushpank Gawde & Hadi Ali Abraar , who were behind the production of ‘hit Marathi film ‘Poshter Boyz’. In fact, Hemant was so impressed by the film ‘Poshter Boyz’ that he wrote the script of a new script and suitably titled it as ‘Poshter Girl’. He then discussed about it with his wife Kshitee and later with friend Pushpank and Hadi Ali Abraar, who liked it.
Later, they engaged Poshter Boyz director, Sameer Patil for this project. But, the best thing to happen to this project was that Viacom18, who were till now into distribution and marketing of films, have themselves decided to produce this Marathi film for the first time. And, that’s a big news for Hemant Dhome. Amitraj is the music director of this film.
MarathiMovieWorld spoke to Hemant, to know more about this film. According to Hemant, through this film, he wanted to pay respect to women. “In this film ‘Poshter Girl’ Sonalee Kulkarni plays the central character and the story of this film revolves around her. I don’t want to disclose much about this rural based film; but, I can only say that behind this successful woman in this film, there are many men. I am myself playing one of the characters in this film, along with Aniket Vishwasrao, Jitendra Joshi, Hrishikesh Joshi, Siddharth Menon, Sandeep Pathak, Akshay Tanksale and others.” he said.
Finally, ‘Highway’ to declare open on 28th August
At present, the Mumbai-Pune expressway is under repairs, due to heavy landslide, as a result of which, commuters are facing hardships, due to heavy traffic jams. But, one failed to understand, what was the technical problem in the opening of Marathi film ‘Highway – Ek Selfie Aarpar’ on 24th July 2015. Its opening was postponed . But now finally, this ‘Highway’ will be declared open on 28th August 2015; perhaps, before the Mumbai Pune Expressway will be fully operational.
One is compelled to believe, the real reason for postponement could have been Salman Khan starrer ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ which was released during Eid on 17th July 2015 and was expected to do good business. But makers of Highway gave a reason of ‘technical glitch’ for postponement of release. Now producer Vinay Ganu has categorically announced that their problems have been addressed successfully and their movie will release on 28th August 2015, positively.
Highway is produced under the banners Aarbhat Kalakruti and Karpus Films and is directed by ‘Deool’ fame Umesh Kulkarni. Writer-Actor Girish Kulkarni is playing prominent role and has been ably supported by Renuka Shahane, Mukta Barve, Sunil Barve, Huma Qureshi, Tisca Chopra, Satish Alekar, Kishor Kadam, Chhaya Kadam, Nagraj Manjule, Nandkishore Choughule, Vidhyadhar Joshi and others.
‘Tu Hi Re’ music launch had a fragrance of a talcum powder
The occasion was music release of the forthcoming Marathi film ‘Tu Hi Re’ directed by Sanjay Jadhav. Time was 7.30 pm on Monday 3rd August and the location was ‘The Club’, Andheri. But, for the next one hour the invitees and media persons were only made to watch continuously, the A.V. of the first look and a specially made advertisement, where the leading lady of the film Saie Tamhankar was seen sprinkling the popular Talcum powder brand. With the repeated run of the ad, it gave a feeling , as if the fragrance of the talcum powder, had spread across the hall.
With the chief guest Sachin Pilgaonkar arriving late, the function was delayed; but, thanks to the brilliant anchoring by Pushkar Shrotri , who made the tired audience happy, with his timely pranks, on the film and people involved in it, especially those connected with the music of this film. After all, it was their day. But, the music was played so loud that it gave a feeling of a disco. Those who gave live performance, by singing the songs from this film, were Adarsh Shinde, Bela Shende, Urmila Dhangar,Vaishali Samant & Sayali Pankaj.
After Pushkar Shrotri interacted with all the three music directors Amitraj, Pankaj Padghan , Shashank Powar and lyricist Guru Thakur, he invited director Sanjay Jadhav and lead artistes of the film Swapnil Joshi, Tejaswini Pandit, Saie Tamhankar & Sushant Shelar one by one, to narrate their individual experiences about the film. But, it was Tejaswini Pandit, who is playing a glam girl in this film, invited all the attention. She looked gorgeous, in her decent pink costume, perhaps, specially designed for the occasion. The music CD of the film was then released at the hands of Sachin Pilgaonkar, who surprisingly did not give any speech. The CD contains five songs. The hosts also announced a Dreamflower Girl contest, till the release of film.And, the winner will get a chance, in the next film of Sanjay Jadhav.
Among those dignitaries present on the occasion were Producers of this film Mrudula Padval Oza,Shital Manere, Ashish Wagh, Utpal Acharya,Sanjay Ghodawat, Hindustan Unilever Executive Nandan Sundaram , besides other celebrity guests, like Nishikant kamat, Gajendra Ahire, Swapna Waghmare, Mrinal Kulkarni, Subodh Bhave, Girija Oak, Priya Bapat, Bavesh Janavlekar – Deputy Business Head at Zee Talkies and the artistes of TV serial ‘Duniyadari’. ‘Tu Hi Re’ is all set to release on 4th September 2015. So, the countdown has begun.