‘Vrundavan’ progressing fast, towards completion
There was a time when marathi film producers used to shoot at studios in Kolhapur and old houses in Konkan, due to financial constraint. But after the success of a few marathi films at the box office, there’s a change in the attitude of the producers, who have become liberal in selecting good locations. Also a lot of non-marathi producers have started investing in the projects, giving a rich-look to marathi cinema. This is evident, as an upcoming marathi movie ‘Vrundavan’ recently hired an expensive location, usually patronised by top hindi film makers, i.e. Aayush Resort, to shoot a few important climax scenes.
Produced under the banner Realistic Film Company, by producers Raj Prem, Sandeep Sharma and Sunil Khandpur, ‘Vrundavan’ is being directed by a debutant director TLV Prasad. The makers claim the movie to be a complete entertainer, which has all the ‘masala’ of love, song, dance, emotion, comedy, action etc. Also, the cast of the film boasts of veteran stalwarts like Mahesh Manjrekar, Ashok Saraf, Mohan Joshi, Sharad Ponkshe, Uday Tikekar & Bharat Ganeshpure. Hindi television star Rakesh Bapat is making his Marathi film debut as a lead hero with ‘Vrundavan’ and is ably supported by Pooja Sawant and Vaidehi Parsurami.
Bollywood’s famous choreographer, Ganesh Acharya, is hired to set dances and Amit Raj is composing the music. There’s is a talk about one of the hindi film’s popular faces, doing an ‘item’ song for the movie.
Bharat Jadhav to compete with four Marathi films
Not very long ago, he was the king of Marathi films, with all his traditional comedy films inviting the attention of Marathi film lovers for almost 15 years. Bharat is still noticed in Marathi films; but, more with character or guest roles. His last film ‘Aga Bai Arechya2′ in which he played one of the ‘would be’ husbands of Sonali Kulkarni was released only last week.
This week, we find four big banner Marathi films being released. But, Bharat is not part of any one of them. On the contrary, he will be competing with all these four films, with his much talked about Hindi film ‘P Se PM Tak’, which is also releasing simultaneously, coming Friday. This hindi film , directed by Kundan Shah (‘Jane Bhi Do yaro’ fame) has Bharat playing a prominent role of a politician. Moreover, the film has a backdrop of Satara district place, in Maharashtra.
So, it remains to be seen, whether Bharat will be able to pull his fans towards him, to watch this Hindi film, instead of any one of the four Marathi films, releasing together.
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Four Marathi films have lined up for release this Friday
Come Friday and we will notice the release of four Marathi films together, creating a competition among themselves. They are ‘Siddhant’, ‘Prime Time’, ‘A Paying Ghost’ and ‘Dhurandhar Bhatawdekar’. Barring ‘Siddhant’, which seems to be sensible film based on the principles of Mathematics creating light comedy, the other three seem to be traditional entertainers.
‘Siddhant’ which is produced by three well known film makers, namely Nilesh Navalakha, Vivek Kajaria & Amit ahirrao, is directed by Vivek Wagh and is a story of a wonderful relationship between Grandfather and his grandson. Vikram Gokhale who plays the central character of a grandfather, is likely to steal the show.
‘Prime Time’ which is produced by Himanshu Kesari Patil and directed by Pramod kashyap, is a story of Vaishali Apte, played by Sulekha Talwalkar and her craze about small screen. How she takes her family on an adventure filled journey, is all that the film is about. ‘Dhurandhar Bhatwadekar’ deals with the interaction of these personalities with situations and events. It is a typical entertaining film, with a simple concept, based on the differences between diverse personalities of people. With the presence of characters representing different age groups, it may turn out to be a family entertainer. A lot is expected from Veterans Mohan Joshi and Dr.Mohan Agashe .
‘A Paying Ghost’, as the title suggest, is a tale of a big family of ghosts living in the house of a young man called Mama, played by Umesh Kamat. How this family of ghosts interfere in the life of this Mama and his beloved Mami, played by Spruha Joshi, is what the screenplay of this film is about. Now, it is for the Marathi theatre audience to decide, what is their choice during coming week end.
Shooting of ‘Bedardi’ begins in Mumbai
Relationships are an integral part of human life and the emotions involved therein, makes it more satisfying. Almost all the filmmakers deal with various types of emotions, highlighting a particular relationship. Now, a father-son relationship in the modern world, will be seen in an upcoming marathi film ‘Bedardi’. Producer Suresh Bhagat, who introduced bollywood superstar Salman Khan through his film ‘Biwi Ho To Aisi’, also has couple of marathi films viz. ‘Gharkul Punha Hasave’ and ‘Char Divas Sasuche’ to his credit. Also the story is written by himself.
Produced under the banner Crystal films, ‘Bedardi’ is a marathi debut film for director Sahil Seth. He is of the opinion that, though this subject has been handled many times before in films, his film is different, because of its modern backdrop and other interlinked relationships . Omkar Kulkarni, who was last seen in Balgandharva as V Shantaram, and Arun Nalavade are playing son and father in the film.
Newcomer Pooja Narang plays female lead, who portrays a character of a foreign returned young lady , compelled to settle in a small town, while Rajesh Kamle and child artist Rugved Pujare will be seen in important roles. Screenplay and dialogues are written by Manish Kulkarni. Pravin Kunwar and Manish Vyas are handling Music and Cinematography departments respectively.
Nominations for Prabhat Puraskar announced
Nominations for the Prabhat Puraskar to be conferred to the winners in 27 categories of Marathi films, have been announced. ‘Happy Journey’, ‘Khwada’, ‘ Nagrik’ & ‘Salaam’ find nominations in the best film category, while Bhaurao Karhade( Khwada), Jayprad Desai ( Nagarik), Kiran Yadnyopavit( Salam), Sachin Kundalkar ( Happy Journey) & Srihari Sathe(Ek Hazarachi Note) have been nominated in Best Director’s category.
In the best actor’s category , the nominees are Alok Rajwade( Rama Madhav) , Atul Kulkarni (Happy Journey) , Riteish Deshmukh (Lai Bhari) , Sachin Khedekar (Nagrik) and Subodh Bhave (Lokmanya) , while in best actress category Devika Daftardar (Nagrik) , Pooja Nayak (Agneepankh), Priya Bapat (Happy Journey), Tejaswini Pandit (Candle March) & Usha Naik (Ek Hazarachi Note) find their nominations.
There seems to be good competition for actress in Best Debut category, with names like Mrinmayee Kolwalkar( Miss Match) , Pallavi Patil (Classmates) , Sanskruti Balgude (Sangato Aika) , Sanskruti Kher (Swami Public Ltd.) & Sayali Sahasrabuddhe (Candle March) finding their names in the list, while the competition for the actor in Best Debut is only among three artistes, namely Kashyap Parulekar(Taptapadi) , Bhauraosaheb Shinde (Khwada) & Rohit Mugullu( Agneepankh) .
New Marathi film ‘Blackboard’ to release soon
Ruturaj Motion Pictures Marathi movie ‘Blackboard’ is all set to release next month. Comprising of all popular television artistes playing lead roles in this film, it is written & directed by Dinesh Deolekar. The film’s star cast comprises of Arun Nalawade, Madhavi Juvekar, Sayali Deodhar ( Chitra of ongoing serial ‘Julun Yeti Reshimgathi’) , the film also introduces popular TV Child Artist Mrunmayee Supal .
‘Blackboard’ is all about the dreams, stress, hardship & struggle of parents, while offering education to their children. Every parent wants his child to be highly educated , so as to live a peaceful, successful and a secured life in future. But, unfortunately, today our educational institutes trap these parents .
The film ‘Blackboard’ highlights the marketing of education and how the parents try to fight against it. The music of the film is by Sandip Patil, while Javed Ahtasham has done the cinematography of the film. Produced by Sandeep M Rao & Jagdish Rao, the film is all set to release soon
Muhurat of ‘Vitthala Shappath’ with song recording
In recent times television has been handling mythology based subjects, with some success through viewer’s support. Even otherwise, Lord Khandoba and Lord Vitthal have always found lot of importance in the scripts of few Marathi films.
Now, Guru Darshan films is coming up with a new marathi film ‘Vitthala Shapath’. The name of film sounds mythological, but the makers insist that the story is far from that. It’s a story about a strong devotee of Vitthal and his fight with society in general. The film does not indulge in special effects as in mythological films, but makers claim that the story is based on logic and science.
‘Vitthala Shappath’ is written and directed by Chandrakant Pawar and he has joined hands with Bhanudas Panmand, for screenplay and with Kaustubh Savarkar for dialogues while music is composed by Chinar-Mahesh. Kruttika Gaikwad, Mangesh Desai, Anuradha Rajadhyaksha, Ketan Pawar, Anshuman Vichare, Uday Sabnis, Vidhyadhar Joshi and Sanjay Khapre will be seen in important roles in the film.
Vitthala Shapath has been launched with a song recording, sung by Swapnil Bandodkar and Anandi Joshi in Mumbai, in the presence of producers Vinayak Kank, Praful Ajmera, Sukesh Sawardekar, John Nadar and co-producers Kutubuddin Dahiwala, Vakoji Patil and Moiz Bhabrawala.
‘तू माझा सांगती’ मध्ये एका नवीन अध्यायाची सुरुवात
कलर्स मराठी ह्या वाहिनीवरील ‘तू माझा सांगाती’ या मालिकेत आत्तापर्यंत तुकोबांच्या घरातील, संसारातील विविध घटना आणि प्रसंगांचा वेध घेण्यात आला होता. मात्र विठ्ठलभक्तीत रममाण झालेले तुकोबा संतपदाला कसे पोहचणार आहेत, हे आता ‘तू माझा सांगाती’ मध्ये पाहता येणार आहे.
संतश्रेष्ठ तुकाराम हे केवळ वारकरी संप्रदायाचंच नाही, तर संपूर्ण महाराष्ट्राचं श्रद्धास्थान. ‘तू माझा सांगाती’ च्या रूपाने संत तुकारामांची जीवनगाथा प्रथमच मराठीत छोट्या पडद्यावर आणणारे; मालिकेचे निर्माते – दिग्दर्शक संगीत कुलकर्णी यांनी या मालिकेच्या निर्मिती मूल्यात कुठलीही तडजोड केली नसल्याचे सांगितले. तुकारामांची भूमिका साकारणाऱ्या चिन्मय मांडलेकरने तुकाराम म्हणून प्रेक्षकांच्या मनात घर केले आहे . सर्वांकडून त्याच्या अभिनयाचे कौतुक केले जात आहे. आपण आजवर तुकोबांचे निस्सीम विठ्ठल प्रेम अनुभवले, पण आता त्यांच्या अपार भक्तीचे दर्शन सबंध महाराष्ट्राला होणार आहे. कलर्स मराठी ह्या वाहिनीवर, सोमवार ते शनिवार संध्याकाळी ७.३० वा. ह्या मालिकेचे प्रसारण करण्यात येते.
‘Dot Com Mom’ launched with muhurat
The social networking media is nowadays the best source of communication between foreign based children and their parents living in India. Now, Bhoomi entertainment presents ‘Dot Com Mom’ a Marathi film on emotional relationship between a mother and her son. Dr.Meena Nerurkar, who has written the story of this film, will also be acting and directing it.
Recently, muhurat of this film was held in presence of special invitees, followed by the initial shooting schedule at Palghar. According to the makers of this film, 20% of the film’s shooting will be held in Palghar, followed by remaining 80%, which will be held in USA. Incidentally, this is the first Indo American Film, as claimed by the makers.
Veteran music director Ashok Patki will provide music to this film, while the DOP is Vinayak Radhakrishna. The star cast of the film comprise of Vikram Gokhale, Dr.Meena Nerurkar, Sai Gundewar, Vijay Chavan, Prashant Tapasvi, Deepti Lele, Asha Shelar, Ram Kolhatkar, , Abhay Dabhade, Ravindra Khare, Manasi Karandikar & Deven Gabale.
‘सिलसिला अमिताभ का’ ने केला विक्रम
‘बिग बी’ म्हणजेच सर्वांचे आवडते महानायक अमिताभ बच्चन ह्यांच्या चाहत्यांसाठी खास पर्वणी असलेला ‘सिलसिला अमिताभ का’ हा कार्यक्रम नुकताच पुण्यात आयोजित करण्यात आला होता. कार्यक्रमाचे उद्घाटन बाल कलाकार पार्थ भालेराव ह्याच्या हस्ते झाले.
पुण्यातील बालगंधर्व रंगमंदिर येथे, सकाळी ६ ते रात्री १२ अशा १८ तासात १५१ गाण्यांचे सादरीकरण ह्या कार्यक्रमात करण्यात आले. ‘ऑटीझम’ या दुर्मिळ आजाराच्या जागरुकतेसाठी हा विशेष सामाजिक उपक्रमाचे आयोजन संदीप पाटील ह्यांनी केले होते. कार्यक्रमाचे सादरीकरण सुरु असताना लाईव्ह पेंटिंग काढण्यात आली होती ; त्यास १५,५१५ रुपये किमत मिळाली . ती संपूर्ण रक्कम ऑटिझमच्या मुलांसाठी काम करणाऱ्या ‘प्रसन्न ऑटिझम’ शाळेला देण्यात आली.
सदर कार्यक्रमा दरम्यान आमदार गिरीश बापट यांनी सदिच्छा भेट दिली. ह्याच बरोबर अनेक मान्यवर आणि सेलीब्रीटीजने देखील आपली हजेरी लावली ; त्यात अभिनेत्री दिपाली सय्यद ह्यांच्या आपल्या नृत्याचे विशेष सादरीकरण केले. सुमारे ४० पेक्षा अधिक गायक, वादक आणि कलाकार सहभागी असलेल्या, १५ तासात १५१ गाण्यांचे सादरीकरणाच्या ह्या कार्यक्रमाची नोंद ‘लिम्का बुक ऑफ रेकॉर्ड’मध्ये करण्यात येणार आहे.