‘Bedardi’ launched with a song recording
Marathi film directors are a little bit lucky than their counterparts in national language film directors, as they get to explore diversifying subjects. Their films are also backed by sensitive producers, who are not afraid to handle hard-hitting, content-driven subjects. Fortunately, these producers are not much bothered about the commercial aspect. This could be one of the reasons, which attracts non-marathi directors to marathi film industry.
One such producer Suresh Bhagat, who is responsible for offering Marathi films like Gharkul Punha Hasave, Char Divas Sasuche and a hit hindi film like Biwi Ho To Aisi, , is coming up with a new Marathi movie ‘Bedardi’ . Muhurat of this film was done with a song recording. Music director Pravin Kunwar recorded the first song, in the voice of Jasraj Joshi, out of the four songs, written by Sanjali Rode for this film. Bedardi is being directed by a first-timer in marathi films, Sahil Seth. The film is about a complex father-son relationship and is claimed to be a lively entertainer, filled with song and dance, music, emotions etc.
Omkar Kulkarni (last seen in Balgandharva as V. Shantaram) is in the lead and Arun Nalavade and Jayant Savarkar will be seen in prominent roles. Bedardi’s story is by producer himself, while screenplay and dialogues are by Manish Kulkarni. The film is expected to go on the floors as soon as the remaining cast is finalised.
Now, Marathi film on ‘Khavale Maha Ganapati’
Limca Book of Records have already taken note of Khavale Maha Ganapati, as the oldest Ganapati idol in our country, having history of 314 years. Situated in Taramumbari village in Devgad Taluka, the village is known for natural beauty with a beautiful seashore.
Now, a Marathi film has been made on this Ganapati idol, suitably titled ‘Vighnaharta Maha Ganapati’. Produced by Suryakant Khavle and directed by Rajesh Chavan. The film stars Sameer Dharmadhikari, Priya Marathe, Alka Kubal Athalye, Tej Rane, Vijay Chavan, Sharad Ponkshe, Bharat Ganeshpure & Ashalata Wabgaonkar. Music by Chaitanya Adkar & cinematography by Sameer Athalye are other credits.
10th year of ‘Chaitra Chahool’ event
Every year ‘Chaitra Chahool’ event is held, offering entertainment in a different way.Every year, they felicitate two prominent personalities from Marathi literature and entertainment. This year’s beneficiaries were Mr. Vijay kenkre, who was conferred with the Rangkarmi award at the hands of veteran music director Ashok Patki. The ‘Dhyas Sanmaan’ was conferred upon well known writer Madhavi Purandare; who however donated the entire amount , towards charity.
The programme began with the song ‘Jai Jai Maharashtra Majha ..’, paying sincere tributes to late Shahir sable, who passed away recently. There was variety offered through songs ,dances and music, besides a programme ‘Karanopanishade’ based on late Baba Amte’s literature, offered by Sonali Kulkarni, Sachin Khedekar and Anjali Marathe. Spruha Joshi played the show anchor, while Vinod Pawar proposed vote of thanks. The programme was sponsored by NKGSB & LIC together.
Get ready to witness ‘Love & much more’ coming Friday
There cannot be an end to films based on Love Stories. Coming Friday, there are three such releases, which are based on ‘Love’. Now, ‘Love’ has been defined by many filmmakers till date, in their own way. Prakash Kunte wants to offer his creation, linked with a cup of coffee, suitably using the title of his film ‘Coffee Aani Barach Kahi’. At the same time, creative director Santosh Mainkar has set Goa , as the backdrop for his love story, ‘Prem at First Sight’. But, Dr.Mrunalini Patil through her film ‘Kay Raav Tumhi’ has other plans , which revolves around three senior citizens young at heart, trying to win the heart of a young girl.
Actually, all these films have different subjects. While ‘Prem at First Sight’ will be targeting the audience from Goa as well as Maharashtra, ‘Coffee Aani Barach Kahi’ is perhaps banking on major cities of Maharashtra. However, ‘Kay Raav Tumhi’ is likely to offer comedy generated through this ‘Shaukeen’ style of love story.
‘Prem at First Sight’ has a team of youngsters including Sumaydh Gaikwad, Shweta Pagar, Suchet Gavai, Sameeksha Desai and others, ‘Coffee Aani Barach Kahi’ has Prarthana Behere, Vaibhav Tatvawadi, Bhooshan Pradhan and Neha Mahajan in the lead. ‘Kay Raav Tumhi’ has an interesting team of young and old, comprising of Ravindra Mahajani, Satish Pulekar , Yatin karyekar ,glamorous Niyati Joshi, along with Pankaj Dhome and Bollywood actress Shital Singh. Now, it will be interesting to watch , which love story attracts maximum response.
World Theatre Day, let us salute all those great personalities, who contributed to this field.
Since 1961, March 27th is being celebrated as a World Theatre Day. Every year a message, is delivered across five continents, by a prominent international theatre personality. This year, it was by Krzysztof Warlikowski from Polland.
During the olden days, in our country there existed Sanskrit theatre. Hundreds of such plays were written, during ancient times. But, when we started getting ruled by outsiders, the theatre took a backseat. However, during the freedom struggle, our very own village theatre came in handy, to deliver the messages of our freedom fighters to the masses. Marathi theatre too did its bit during this period.
Today, Marathi theatre is considered as one of topmost theatres, in the country, as it has always handled social issues strongly; without compromising on entertainment values. Personalities like, Dinanath Mangeshkar, Bal Gandarva, Prabhakar Panshikar, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Pu La Deshpande, Vikram Gokhale, Satish Dubhashi, Nilu Phule, Ashok Saraf, Dilip Prabhavalkar, among so many others, come to our mind. And, their contribution to marathi theatre, is considered extensively high. Marathi dramas, like Sangeet Manapaman, Ekach Pyala, Ghashiram Kotwal, Ti Phularani, are a few among plenty others, which have entertained marathi theatre viewers.
Today, majority of marathi audience do support Marathi dramas in a big way, in spite of the invasion of television, rising ticket prices etc. Also majority of the artistes are using theatre, as a training ground ; before moving to television serials and films.
On World Theatre Day, let us salute all those great personalities, who contributed to this field.
‘Kay Raav Tumhi’ to release on 3rd April
One can fall in love at any age. In 1982, we have seen this happen with three senior citizens in popular Hindi comedy ‘Shaukeen’. Perhaps, inspired by this film, Dr.Mrunalini Patil is now ready with her Marathi film ‘Kay Raav Tumhi’, which is now all set to release on 3rd April 2015.
To play the roles of three important characters veteran actors like Ravindra Mahajani, Satish Pulekar & Yatin karyekar are coming together for the first time. When these three friends meet after many years, there is lot of fun in the process. The film also stars glamorous Niyati Joshi, along with Pankaj Dhome and Bollywood actress Shital Singh. Now, it remains to be seen, whether this ‘Shaukeen’ formula works in Marathi ? Over to 3rd April.
Biopic on the life of Gopinath Munde launched
In the recent past there has been a surge of biopics on the lives of great political or social leaders. Movies on lives of Yashwantrao Chavan, Dr. Prakash Baba Amte, Lokmanya Tilak, etc have seen the light of the day in recent times. Then ‘Balkadu‘ was based on the philosophy of Balasaheb Thackarey. Latest to join the list is a new film ‘Sangharsha Yatra’. This film is on the life and times of late political leader Gopinath Munde. Produced by Sandeep Ghuge, Suryakant Baji, Mukund Kulkarni, and Sanjay Singh Suryavanshi under the banner Om Siddhivinayak Motion Pictures the film is being presented by BJP Chitrapat Union.
Gopinath Munde had a humble beginning and started off as a youth leader under the guidance of Pramod Mahajan. He then went on to become Dy-Chief Minister of the state and then a Union Cabinet Minister. He died untimely, in an accident. The film Sanghasha Yatra was launched amidst heavy political heavyweights. Chief Minister Devendra Fadanvis launched the film with lighting of the lamp on this occasion. He also gave the ‘clap’ to announce the film.
While speaking on the occasion, he said, “We see heroes in reel life but Gopinath Munde was a Real hero. His life is like a fiction with interesting events. Myself, on behalf of my cabinet and BJP local unit promise any help required during the making of this film.” Mr. Prakash Mehta, Raj Purohit, Raosaheb Danve Patil, Ram Shinde, all BJP political leaders were present on dais alongside Mr. Devedra Fadanvis.
Sharad Kelkar’s name was announced to play the role of Gopinath Munde. “I have been doing a lot of research, watching videos, reading, talking to people close to him, as a preparation for this role , as the film is a biopic,” he stated. At the fag-end of the function Tejaswini Pandit arrived, who was tight-lipped about the role she will be playing in this film. All she said was “I am playing a vital role in the movie.”
Sangharsha Yatra is still in scripting stage and will go on floors within a month or two and the makers want to release this film by year-end.
Pushkar Jog thinks differently for ‘Jabardast-2’
Right from the days, since he was a child artiste, Pushkar has been thinking differently, while implementing his ideas. In fact, he is a creative person, with ample talent. When he made his first Marathi film ‘Jabardast’ , which was directed by reputed director Mahesh Kothare, he also gave scope to other actors. At present, his film ‘Sasucha Swayamwar’ is all set to release next month. But, the way, Pushkar has been promoting this film, as a presenter, it has already created a buzz.
Since he is now ready with this film, Pushkar his planning his own next production, which will be a sequel to his super hit film ‘Jabardast’. For this film, Pushkar has planned its promotion, well in advance. This film will go on the floors from June 2015. But, for that, he has planned to shoot the title song of this film in ‘Ladakh’. Then, he plans to shoot other songs of this film one by one, at foreign locations; so that he gets ready to release his first song officially, through an event.
Music will play the most important part in this film, since the success formula of most of the Marathi films is its music. Other details about this new film, i.e. director, music director and the cast of the film will be announced soon. So, get ready for many more interesting news about ‘Jabardast-2′ . Pushkar plans to release this film in May 2016. And, this speaks a lot about his perfect planning.
Go ahead, Pushkar. Now, you know the success formula.
‘Court’ brings pride to Marathi film industry
Marathi film maker Chaitanya Tamhane is the happiest person in the world. After bagging 17 awards at various international film festivals, his Film ‘Court’ has now been declared as the best film at the national award. So, the Golden Lotus award has been won by a Marathi film once again, bringing pride to Marathi film industry.
Ravi Jadhav’s short film ‘Mitra’ has also bagged the Best Short film award among the National awards won by other Marathi films like ‘Elizabeth Ekadashi’, bagging the best children’s film award and Bhausaheb Karhade’s film ‘Khwada’ bagging two technical awards in Special Jury & Best audiography respectively.
The full list of all National awards is below:
Feature Films
Best Feature Film: Court (Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati & English)
Best Hindi Film: Queen
Best Marathi Film: Killa
Best Odiya Film: Aadim Vichar
Best Punjabi Film: Punjab 1984
Best Tamil Film: Kuttram Kadithal
Best Telugu Film: Chandamama Kathalu
Best Rabha Film: Orong
Best Haryanvi Film: Pagdi The Honour
Best Music Direction:
a) Songs – Haider (Hindi)
b) Background Score – Nineteen Eighty Three (Malayalam)
Best Choreography: Bismil for Haider
Special Mention : Ain (Malayalam)
Nachom – IA Kumpasar (Konkani)
Killa (Marathi)
Bhoothnath Returns (Hindi)
Best Educational Film: Komal & Behind the Glass Wall
Best Exploration/Adventure: Film Life Force – India’s Western Ghats
Best Investigative Film: Phum Shang
Best Animation Film: Sound of Joy
Best Short Fiction Film: Mitraa
Best Film Critic: Tanul Thakur
Best Writing on Cinema : Silent Cinema: (1895-1930)- Pasupuleti
Purnachandra Rao
Best Writing on Cinema : G. Dhananjayan for Pride of Tamil Cinema
(Special Mention)
Best Costume Designer: Dolly Ahluwalia for Haider
Best Female Playback Singer Uttara Unnikrishanan for Saivam (Tamil) for song
Azhagu
Best Male Playback Singer Sukhwinder Singh for song Bismil from Haider
Best Actress Queen (Hindi) Kangana Ranaut
Best Supporting Actress: Baljinder Kaur for Pagdi The Honour (Haryanavi)
Best Supporting Actor: Bobby Simhaa for Jigarthanda (Tamil)
Best Actor: Vijay for Nanu Avanalla Avalu (Kannada)
Best Direction: Srijit Mukherji for Chotushkone (Bengali)
Best Film On Environment Conservation/ Preservation: Ottaal (Malayalam)
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: Mary Kom
Indira Gandhi Award For Best Debut Film Of A Director: Asha Jaoar Majhe
(Bengali)
New Marathi film Court’s first look revealed
We always have an impression about ‘Court’ of justice in India, as we have witnessed all those court scenes in films. In fact, we believe that in all courts there’s typical cross examination as depicted in films. But, in reality the scene in courts, especially lower courts, are contrary to the above notion. The shabby rooms with poor lighting, scattered files with yellowish papers wrapped in red ribbons, might be the outlook and atmosphere.
An upcoming marathi film ‘Court’ produced under the banner Zoo films by producer Vivek Gomber, released its first look recently. This film has been talk of the town at international film festival circuit and has bagged 17 awards so far and still more are expected to add to the tally. Court is the first film in India to have won so many awards , on director’s debut. It’s a record.
The event began with the screening of ‘awards’ the film received and then the trailer was revealed. Writer-Director Chaitanya Tamhane said ‘There are no ‘stars’ in the film. Almost 70 % of the performers are non-actors, who have never acted before. Others are new to cinema medium. Producer and director, are both debuting with this film. Looking at these factors, we were discouraged by many, to make this film and the finance we were expecting never came. But we were determined and went ahead. And frankly it’s like a lottery that we received through these many awards’.
Vivek Gomber, producer, said that as he had done a play with Chaiyanya, he was confident of his talent and went ahead to produce this film alone, due to conviction. Veera Sathidar who plays revolutionary folk singer spoke passionately about the director and opined that he had the idea that this film was going to be something special. Geetanjali Kulkarni, who also compared the event and plays an important role in the movie, thanked her NSD training and theatre experience, which had helped her, during the making. Sambhaji Bhagat, music composer, stated in a recorded message that this was a Common man’s film and will be liked by all.
‘Court’ will release on 17th April 2015