Kumar Sohoni Drama Fest in Thane between 25-31st March
Marathi theatre is considered one of the best in our country. It has always had the backing of solid literature with diversifying subjects , offering variety. The writers and directors never shunned away from social responsibility, while entertaining. Very importantly, they have been receiving the backing of able producers and not to forget the audience and their wholehearted support. Majority of actors, who after beginning with marathi theatre, later switched over to films and television. But, their affinity towards theatre never diminished. They made their comeback to theatre, whenever possible. Ashok Saraf, Laxmikant Berde, Prashant Damle, Bharat Jadhav to name a few.
Kumar Sohoni, director of many successful thought-provoking marathi plays, has given viewers quite a few rationalist plays to think upon, and is respected for it. Starting 25th March till 31st March 2015, Swatantryaveer Savarkar Centre, Thane have organised a drama festival of Kumar Sohoni plays , which will be held at Rangayatan, Thane. It’s a feast for devoted drama loving people.
The festival opens on 25th March with an award winning play Dehabhaan, which earned plenty of awards at state drama competition a decade back. Written by Abhiram Bhadkamkar, the play has Rajan Bhise, Reshma Ramchandra, Pradip Patwardhan, Atul Aaglawe, and Ila Bhate as performers.
Other plays to be staged at this venue are
26th March : Sukhanshi Bhandato Amhi (Chinmay Mandalekar, Dr. Girish Oak)
27th March : Kahani Mein Twist written by Suresh Jairam (Dr. Girish Oak, Prajakta Datar, Saurabh Gokhale)
28th March : JanmaRahasya written by Dr. Anand Nadkarni (Ila Bhate, Amita Khopkar)
30th March : Mi Revati Deshpande written by Shekhar Patil (Mohan Joshi, Ramesh Bhatkar)
31st March : Tya Tighanchi Goshta written by Dr. Anand Nadkarni ( Sharad Ponkshe, Ashwini Ekbote, Dhyanada Panse, Jayant Ghate, Suchet Gavai)
‘Runh’ music launched in presence of celebrities
Miss India Universe Manasi Moghe is not part of new Marathi film ‘Runh’; but, she was invited as chief guest, along with her debut Marathi film co-star Kashyap Parulekar, to launch the music of this film. Produced by Mukund Mhatre and Eknathi Bhopi for Shree Samarth International Films, this distinctive film is directed by Vishal Gaikwad.
Present on the occasion were lead actress of the Narayani Shastri, Rajeshwari Sachdev , who is making guest appearance and music directors Sangeet and Siddharth Haldipur , who are making their debut through this film. Two of their songs were played on the occasion. The film’s lyrics are penned by Guru Thakur and Dr. Ganesh ChandanSheve, while popular singers from Bollywood, Shaan along with Divya Kumar, Keshab Barua , Nandini Sarkar & others have rendered their voices for the songs.
Sad demise of Lokshahir Sable
Krishnarao Ganpatrao Sable, popularly known as LokShahir Sable passed away today evening at his Sewri residence in Mumbai. He was 94. He is survived by his wife, Son Devdatt, daughters and grandchildren. Mr. Sable was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, but was active with his daily routine like singing his favourite songs, whenever he remembered them and taking rounds in the corridor of his house. Born in Wai, in Satara District, Lokshahir Sable was a social activist and took part in India’s freedom movement, besides taking active part in Maharashtra, Goa and Hyderabad freedom movement too. Known for his Marathi folk art, he had written his first ‘Powada’ in 1947. He presented his first folk play on stage in 1960 and since then composed many popular folk songs like ‘Jejurichya Khanderaya’ ,’Vinchu Chavala’ and the Maharashtra song ‘Jai Jai Maharashtra Majha…’
Shahir Sable was conferred with Padmashri by Government of India in 1998. Zee Talkies also conferred him with Lifetime award during their first Comedy awards last year. With his sad demise, has left a big vacuum in the field of Maharashtra’s folk art. MMW offers sincere tributes to his departed soul and convey deep condolences to his family members.
New lead pair of ‘Time Pass’ revealed
‘Time Pass’ is considered amongst the top-line grossers of last year, in Marathi Film world. The odd pairing of, Prathamesh Parab as Dagdu and Ketaki Mategaonkar as Prajakta, was an instant hit with the audience through this film about teenage romance. Towards the end of this film, the director had cleverly hinted about the sequel. Director Ravi Jadhav has kept the promise and is now ready with the sequel, ‘Time Pass 2′. One must appreciate his confidence in the content of the original that he could think of a sequel, before the film was released, as suggested categorically in end-credits.
As Ravi Jadhav has advertising background and expertise, he used it intelligently to create a lot of suspense and curiosity about his latest product, ‘Time Pass 2′ and was successful as a lot of guesswork was going on, as to who will be the next Dagdu and Prajakta. He finally, through social networking site, released a teaser and ended the speculations. The new Dagdu is Priyadarshan Jadhav and new Prajakta is Priya Bapat.
The new pair is equally odd, as the original lead pair and now there’s talk about the on-screen chemistry of Priyadarshan and Priya in the sequel. Time Pass 2 has the backing of EsselVision and will hit the screens on the Maharashtra Day this year.
Music director Amar Mohile turns producer with ‘A Final’
He entered the film industry as a musician, when he was just 13 years old. Today, Amar Mohile is a known name in Bollywood, when it comes to judging good background music. Till now, he has composed background music for Super hit films like ‘Chennai Express’, ‘Shootout at Wadala’, ‘Singham Returns’, ‘Sarkar’, ‘Ek Hasina Thee’ and others.
Now, Amar is producing a musical Marathi film ‘A Final’ under his Amar Mohile Productions. ‘Arjun’ fame writer – director F.M. Iliyas will be directing this film, besides writing the story. Iliyas has also written the screenplay of this film with Ibrahim Afghan, who will write the dialogues. Music and background music of this film, will be obviously handled by Amar Mohile. And, Harpreet Mohile will handle the production responsibilities. The film story revolves around a girl who is blind but is an expert violinist.
At present, auditions are going on to select the actress to play this most challenging central character. She could be a newcomer, who is capable to shoulder the responsibility of playing this role, or could even be a well known actress.
Coffee with love from 3rd April
In the upcoming line of romantic films, which are believed to be appealing to the younger generation, comes yet another romantic Marathi film ‘Coffee Ani Barach Kahi’. The filmmaker’s target audience is obviously youth, who enjoy the romantics stories with twists and turns with enthusiasm .
White Swan Productions , Ravi Jadhav Films in association with Everest Entertainment are connected with this film. Recently, they released the film’s music and first look with much fanfare, in the presence of a few popular Marathi film industry names and obviously, the entire cast and crew. ‘Coffee Ani Barach Kahi’s music is composed by Aditya Bedekar on lyrics of Yogesh Damle.
The film’s cast is Prarthana Behere, Vaibhav Tatwawadi, Bhooshan Pradhan, Neha Mahajan, Ila Bhate, Avinash Narkar among others. ‘Coffee Ani Barach Kahi’ is directed by Prakash Kunte. So, get ready to taste this Coffee with love from 3rd April 2015.
५४ व्या हौशी मराठी राज्य नाट्य स्पर्धेत ‘न हि वैरेन वैरानि’ या नाटकाला प्रथम पुरस्कार
५४ व्या महाराष्ट्र राज्य अंतिम हौशी मराठी राज्य नाट्य स्पर्धेची अंतिम फेरी १६ फेब्रुवारी ते १३ मार्च या कालावधीत आद्य क्रांतिवीर वासुदेव बळवंत फडके नाट्यगृह, पनवेल येथे पार पडली. नाशिकच्या ‘लोकहितवादी मंडळ’ या संस्थेस ‘न हि वैरेन वैरानि’ या नाटकासाठी प्रथम पारितोषिक जाहीर झाल्याची घोषणा सांस्कृतिक कार्य संचालनालयाच्या प्रसिद्धीपत्रकाद्वारे करण्यात आली .
स्पर्धेसाठी परीक्षक म्हणून सर्वश्री प्रेमानंद गज्वी, सुरेश मगरकर, संजीव वढावकर, अजय टिल्लू, मंगेश बनसोड यांनी काम पाहिले. सर्व पुरस्कार विजेत्यांचे सांस्कृतिक कार्य मंत्री श्री. विनोद तावडे यांनी अभिनंदन केले आहे.
५४ व्या महाराष्ट्र राज्य अंतिम हौशी मराठी राज्य नाट्य स्पर्धेत ‘लोकहितवादी मंडळ’ या संस्थेस ‘न हि वैरेन वैरानि’ या नाटकासाठी प्रथम पारितोषिक जाहीर झाल्याची घोषणा सांस्कृतिक कार्य संचालनालयाने प्रसिद्धीपत्रकाद्वारे केली आहे.
सांस्कृतिक कार्य संचालनालयातर्फे आयोजित या स्पर्धेच्या अंतिम फेरीचे अन्य निकाल पुढीलप्रमाणे-
द्वितीय पारितोषिक : ‘विठाबाई’ (अंकुर मानव समाज उत्थान केंद्र, नागपूर)
तृतीय पारितोषिक : ‘परवाना’ (ध्यास, पुणे)
दिग्दर्शन :
प्रथम पारितोषिक : मुकुंद कुलकर्णी (नाटक- न हि वैरेन वैरानि)
द्वितीय पारितोषिक : संजय जीवने (नाटक-विठाबाई)
तृतीय पारितोषिक: श्रीकांत भिडे (नाटक-परवाना)
नेपथ्य :
प्रथम पारितोषिक : किरण समेळ (नाटक- न हि वैरेन वैरानि)
द्वितीय पारितोषिक:सुखदा मराठे (नाटक-गुरु)
तृतीय पारितोषिक : विजय कोळवणकर (नाटक-हार्दिक आमंत्रण)
प्रकाश योजना :
प्रथम पारितोषिक : विजय रावळ (नाटक- न हि वैरेन वैरानि)
द्वितीय पारितोषिक: भूषण देसाई (नाटक-मस्तानी)
तृतीय पारितोषिक: श्रीकांत भिडे (नाटक-परवाना)
रंगभूषा :
प्रथम पारितोषिक: प्रशांत कुलकर्णी (नाटक-एक चादर मैलीसी)
द्वितीय पारितोषिक: माणिक कानडे (नाटक- न हि वैरेन वैरानि)
तृतीय पारितोषिक: विजय ढेरे (नाटक-क्राईम अॅन्ड पनिशमेंट)
संगीत दिग्दर्शन :
प्रथम पारितोषिक: निषाद कुलकर्णी / प्रसाद भालेराव (नाटक- न हि वैरेन वैरानि)
द्वितीय पारितोषिक : आकाश करवंदे (नाटक-परवाना)
तृतीय पारितोषिक:सोनाली बोहरपी-जावळे (नाटक-विठाबाई)
उत्कृष्ट अभिनय :
पुरुष कलाकार :- हेमंत देशपांडे (नाटक- न हि वैरेन वैरानि), दीपक अमोणकर (नाटक-महाप्रस्थान), ओमकार तिरोडकर (नाटक-ती), गजानन नार्वेकर (नाटक-गुरु), आदित्य खेबुडकर (नाटक-क्राईम अॅन्ड पनीशमेंट), अमोल देशमुख (नाटक-इस्कॅलॅवो), शंभू पाटील (नाटक-अपुर्णांक), राज साने (नाटक-एक चादर मैलीसी), निखील भोर (नाटक- न हि वैरेन वैरानि), रोशन श्रीवास्तव (नाटक-विठाबाई)
स्त्री कलाकार :- सांची जीवने (नाटक-विठाबाई), श्रुति अत्रे (नाटक-परवाना), पुजा वेदविख्यात (नाटक- न हि वैरेन वैरानि), वंदना जीवने (नाटक-विठाबाई), मेघा पाथरे (नाटक-हार्दिक आमंत्रण), शिवानी घाटगे (नाटक-एक चादर मौलीसी), रसिया पडळकर (नाटक-क्राईम अॅन्ड पनीशमेंट), नुतन धवने (नाटक-ध्यानी मनी), वैशाली जाधव (नाटक-प्यादी), प्रज्ञा चवंडे (नाटक-प्यादी)
Universal releases ‘Teechi Yaad Aali’ music album
Singer Mangesh Chavan in association with Universal Music Co. released his latest audio music album ‘Teechi Yaad Aali’ targeted at young generation recently. This album was released at the hands of well known singer Sridhar Phadke, who was the chief guest at the function. Some dance performances on the songs of this album were also presented on the occasion. Among those present for the function were Lokshahir Shantaram Chavan, Mr. Mandar Gupte & Mr. Rajan Prabhu of Universal Co. besides other dignitaries from music industry.
Prior to this album, Mangesh Chavan had released music albums like ‘Majhya Savalya Vithhala’, ‘Vakratund’, ‘Tu Pari Swapnatali’ & ‘Gavran Pakharu’. And, all these albums had received very good response. Along with Mangesh Chavan , Vaishali Made and Aanandi Joshi have rendered their voices for the songs composed by group of music directors like Amit Bhavar, Sudesh Gaikwad, Sudesh-Nitin, Stefan Samson and Sanjay Marathe.
Tejaswini & her mother Jyoti bag awards together
Actress Tejaswini Pandit and her actress mother Jyoti Chandekar together have bagged the Zee gaurav awards, for best actress and best supporting actress respectively, for the same film ‘Ticha Umbartha‘, directed by Pradeep Ghonsikar. The film produced by veteran action director turned producer Ravi Dewan, had already bagged five nominations at this award function. And, they have won these two awards. However, in the film Jyoti Chandekar plays Tejaswini’s mother in law.
The film had already received good appreciation at recently concluded Pune International film festival and had won two awards at Sangli International .Film Festival. The film also stars Chinmay Mandlekar along with Suyash Tilak, Harsha Khandeparkar, Tulika Nikam, Bharat cinematography by Yogesh Jani and music by Shreyas-Preet are the other credits of the film.
‘Court’ visits 20 film festivals to bag 17 awards
Marathi films have always been hailed for its content. With a Variety of thought-provoking subjects handled by directors, the films have been receiving a lot of praise and accolades at different film festivals.
One such film which is produced by Vivek Gombhar under the banner Zoo Entertainment Pvt Ltd, is, ‘Court’ . Obviously this film, as the title suggests, tries to throw light on the smaller courts in India in a realistic way, keeping the narration interesting. The film is written by Chaitanya Tamhane, who is also making his is debut as a director with this film. The film has already made waves at 20 national and international film festivals. MAMI at Mumbai , Venice International film festival , Tomorrow Int. film festival at Moscow to name a few, it bagged 17 awards, in different categories including Best film and Best director. ‘Court’ will be released for general audience on 17th April 2015.