Now, watch Nandita Dhuri in ‘Pashbandh’
Well known stage actress Nandita Dhuri has already proved her ability as an actress on big screen through Paresh Mokashi’s film ‘Elizabeth Ekadashi’. Now, she will be seen in the central role in writer director Anadram’s forthcoming film ‘Pashbandh’, which is all set to release shortly.
‘Pashbandh’ is based on a true story of an ordinary woman from Dhule , who overcame all the hurdles, to live her life. According to Nandita, it is a challenging role and could give her best, only because the director had full confidence in her ability. At present , the film will participate at different film festivals.
Sulochana Didi felicitated by Kedar Shinde & team
Filmmaker Kedar Shinde and his team of ‘Aga Bai Arechha-2′ had an occasion to celebrate Woman’s day , when the first look of their film was unveiled on Monday evening. Producer Narendra Firodia from Ahmednagar and his family took this opportunity to felicitate the grand old lady of Marathi and Hindi Cinema- Sulochana Didi.
The veteran actress who walked towards the dais, was escorted by actor Sachin Pilgaonkar, who willingly came forward to offer his helping hand. Among the 40 women from Maharashtra , who were also felicitated were many well known names in Marathi entertainment industry and other fields, including Rohini Hattangadi and lead actress of the film Sonali Kulkarni. Earlier, Sonali Kulkarni showed a fine gesture, by spending some time with the veteran actress and exchanging pleasantries.
Present on the occasion were MNS chief Raj Thackeray, Kiran Shantaram, Vijay Patkar, Purushottam Berde and other invitees. Many artistes from Marathi film and television industry, were present in large number, to grace the occasion.
Discussion on ‘Woman in socialistic reality and cinema’
8th March is celebrated throughout the globe as International Women’s Day and to mark the occasion variety of programmes take place e.g. Bike rallies, Half Marathons, talk shows etc. Varsha Tawde, better half of Honourable State Minister Vinod Tawde, through her Bharatiya Stree Shakti organisation, organised a panel discussion on ‘Woman in socialistic reality and cinema’, through a film festival ‘O Womaniya’ which screened international, national and regional films, at Sathye college auditorium in Mumbai.
National award winning film/drama director, Chandrakant Kulkarni , Pallavi Joshi, a national award winning actress , Abhiram Bhadkamkar, director, actor and writer , Samruddhi Porey, national award winner film maker, were the panellist , whereas Rajni Velankar, a well known name in acting field, conducted the function. The discussion started on a controversial documentary ‘India’s Daughter’ on Nirbhaya, with a question on film’s impact on crimes and rapes in society.
Chandrakant Kulkarni denied any such impact and said at length ‘All my body of work has been women-centric in some way or the other. If films are responsible for atrocities in society, then why the image of police depicted in films is contrary to that?’ Though Samruddhi Porey admitted that fractionally it may be true, but posed a counter question, how come good things are not picked up from films?’
On aggressive views of Ragini Chandratre, President BSS, writer Abhiram Bhadkamkar countered saying ‘no one wants labelling on these issue’ and stated that females in films are still searching for an identity. “Because, films raised issues of women, women started realising about their own issues. Rapes existed even before films were made.” he continued . Pallavi Joshi, who joined the panel a little late ,realistically stated, “Earlier villain/vamps in films showed us a mirror as to what was wrong in our society. But in today’s scenario no one knows who the villain is; and we are witnessing circus in the name of cinema. A lot of film makers are interested in women-centric subjects but lack of viewers’ patronage discourages them. We as a audience should support these ventures as we support other commercial films” she was talking in depth. In fact both Joshi and Kulkarni, with their light hearted comments, kept the audience in good spirit.
‘Prem at First Sight’ to release on 3rd April
‘Prem’ which means ‘Love’ has been never ending topic of feature films. Over the years, many film makers have attempted to present different forms of love on big screen and they have succeeded in doing so. Now, producer-director Uday Salkar from Goa, is offering his perception about ‘Love’ trough his new film ‘Prem at First Sight’. Earlier he had made a film ‘Ek Aas Antarichi’ on the backdrop of Goa. Even in this second Marathi film, most of the artistes are from Goa, but this time, he has opted for ‘Shree Partner’ fame Shweta Pagar to play the leading lady of the film. Ace Photographer turned actor Sumaydh Gaikwad, whom we saw in parallel lead role in psycho thriller ‘Akalpit’, will be making his debut as a leading hero through this film.
Santosh Mainkar, who was associate director in the film ‘Shree Partner’ , is the Creative director of this film. Swapnil Manval, at the young age of 24, will also make his debut as Cinematographer, through this film. Lyrics by Anant Tari and music by Mukesh Ghaval are the other credits of the film. The film is all set to release on 3rd April, all over Goa and Maharashtra.
Sharad & Chinmay dominate Marathi stage
Don’t ask how some of our Marathi stage actors manage two plays at a time. Two of our leading Marathi actors are at present managing two Marathi plays each; that too in the lead role. Sharad Ponkshe is already in great form with his new play ‘Tya Tighanchi Goshta’. At the same time, he is also staging his favourite play ‘Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy!’. If you find him doing one play today, the next day, you find him in another play.
The same is the case with Writer-actor Chinmay Mandlekar. His latest play ‘Samudra’ has picked up well, with regular shows now. At the same time, we find him doing his favourite play ‘Mr. & Mrs’ In fact, he is managing two different plays on the same day; i.e. one at 4.0 pm and the other at 8.30 pm. at other venue. Isn’t that something worth appreciating ?
Muhurat of ‘Shyamchi Shala’ with a song recording
Known for their story oriented subjects, Marathi films have been offering entertainment with a substance. Many thought-provoking Marathi movies with some entertainment value in it, have appreciated by all film lovers. One such forthcoming Marathi Film ‘Shyamchi Shala’ falls into the above category, as the makers claims it to be an entertaining, yet a film with social message.
The muhurat of ‘Shyamchi Shala’ was held recently, with a song recording, at Lata Mangeshkar recording studio at Andheri, Mumbai. The songs of this film are written by Eknath Pawar and Akshay Shinde and music is composed by Shrirang Aaras. The song during muhurat was recorded in the voices of Sanjeevani Bhelande and Shripad Mallya. ‘Shyamchi Shala’ is being directed by Prakash Jadhav , who has graduated himself from editing to direction. Along with the director, also present on the occasion were co-producer Nandu Malvankar and the entire music team. Vijay Patkar and few other celebrities from the industry were also present . The movie is produced by Sainath Chitra and the responsibility of story-screenplay-dialogues has been handled by Paresh Borate. Arun Nalavade and Vijay Patkar will be seen in important major roles in the film.
‘Shyamchi Shala’ is expected to go on floors very soon.
Holi celebrated by Marathi film artistes
Artistes of the film ‘What About Savarkar’ celebrated Holi in a different way. The team of artistes Avinash Narkar, Atul Todankar, Ganesh Mayekar & Sara Sravan first assembled at one place and then cleaned the area around and then burned the waste, to give it an eco friendly look. They also vowed to eradicate the wrong practices in the society and offered themselves for the development of the nation. Inspired by the ideology of late Veer Savarkar, this film will be released on 17th April 2015.
The artistes of forthcoming film ‘Murder Mestri’ were also nowhere behind, as far the Holi celebrations were concerned. The artistes along with their technical crew, had a colourful holi, on the sets of their film.Senior artistes Dilip Prabhavalkar and Vandana Gupte also joined them. ‘Murder Mestri’ is Nadiadwala Gen Next productions‘ film directed by Rahul jadhav. It is a suspense filled murder mystery, which stars Dilip Prabhavalkar, Vandana Gupte, Hrishikesh Joshi, Vikas Kadam, Sanjay Khapre,Kamlakar Satpute, Devendra Bhagat, Kranti Redkar & Manasi Naik. This film will be released in June 2015.
‘Chaitra Chahool’ 2015 Awards announced
‘Chaitra Chahool’ will be celebrating its 10th year this year. The group has always been preserving Marathi culture and encouraging all those who are spreading the importance of this language, through different ways. This platform has been created to bring all lovers of Marathi, under one roof. There is a purpose to celebrate this occasion every year, by honouring all those, who have succeeded in promoting Marathi, through their talent. During the past nine years,the group has honoured well known personalities like Sulbha Deshpande, Guru Parvati Kumar, Raja mayekar, Madhukar Toradmal, Prof. Shankar Vaidya, Sulochana Chavan, Pratap kargoppikar, Arun Hornekar, Sanjana Kapoor, Ganpat Mhasge, Chandrakant Kale, Mukta Barve,Pradeep Mulye, and Prasad Oak.
This year Chaitra Chahool 2015 will felicitate writer Madhuri Purandae with Dhyaas award and noted actor and director of Marathi stage Mr. Vijay kenkre,with Rangakarmi award. The awards will be presented to them at Chaitra Chahool’s special programme, to be held at 5 pm on Saturday 21st March 2015 at Yashwant Natya Mandir, Matunga, Mumbai.
Four directors give clap for Film’s Muhurat
What may be called a big news in Marathi film industry, four reputed directors of Marathi films came together, to give clap for the muhurat of their friend’s film. It so happened that muhurat of Ajay-Atul and Girish Kulkarni ‘s film ‘Jaudya Na Balasaheb’ was to be held in Kenjal village near Wai. Among the special invitees, were the four directors, namely Umesh Kulkarni, Satish Manvar, Nikhil Mahajan & Gajendra Ahire. And, they played the chief guests to give the clap for the muhurat shot of the film.
Writer and actor Girish Kulkarni is making his debut as a director through this film and all these well wishers had travelled all the way to Wai, to wish him success. The film is produced by Ajay Atul, along with Girish Kulkarni and Poonam Shende, who are also sharing the burden of production. Needless to mention that the film has Ajay Atul’s music. Prominent artistes from Marathi film industry are part of the team. Present on the occasion were Mohan Joshi, Reema Lagoo, Sai Tamhankar, Poorva Pawar, Kishore Chougule, Shrikant Yadav,Prashant Pethe and others.
‘Manatlya Unhat’ all set to release
Dreams are something which each one of us have seen and we love to live in our dream world. All of us struggle to make our dreams into reality . For accomplishing our dreams, we get the support of our parents, in-spite of our failure to achieve our dreams . Our parents, who couldn’t achieve their own dreams, try to fulfil their children’s dreams by giving them a higher and costly education in present. In spite of rising inflation they strive hard. Do the children, who are running around to fulfil their dreams, do even give a thought, as to what their parents have dreamt for them? Have their parents realized their dreams? This is the subject handled in forthcoming film ‘Manatlya Unhat’, produced by Anand Sagar Productions & Vijayshree Patil and directed by Pandurang Jadhav.
The film stars three National Award winners Kishor Kadam, Mitali Jagtap and child star Hansraj Jagtap. In addition to them Kailash Waghmare of the critically acclaimed play ‘Shivaji Underground in Bhimnagar Mohalla’ is also part of this film. The other cast includes Sameer Dharmadhikari, Nagesh Bhosle, Ruchita Jadhav, Chhaya Kadam and child actors Manthan Patil and Oveshikha Patil. The screenplay is by Vidyasagar Adhyapak and Pandurang Jadhav and dialogues by Vidyasagar Adhyapak. The DOP is Nagraj Divakar and editing is by Nilesh Navnath Gawand . The lyrics are by Vishwaraj Joshi, and music is by Rahul Mishra. The playback singers are by famous singers Adarsh Shinde and Ranjana Jadhav Mane and the background music is by Ashwin Shrinivasan.