Will the drama theatres screen Marathi films?
In spite of successful commercial hits Marathi cinema is still facing problems. The reality is that a majority of the Marathi films are facing the issue of availability of screens, and not getting proper time slot for screening. Though the multiplexes, under the guidelines from authorities, allow Marathi films to be screened, steep ticket prices and odd show timings deter Marathi viewers to watch films there. Efforts are being made by many well wishers of Marathi cinema to sort out the problems faced by an average Marathi film producer.
Now, One of the leading actors of Marathi film industry, Makarand Anaspure has come up with an idea to benefit the parties concerned. He has reportedly, approached the State Government and the Municipal Corporation with a proposal, to utilise the free time-slots of drama theatres for marathi film screenings. This way, both, the drama theatre owners and film producers, will be benefitted financially, which in turn can cut down the ticket price drastically, as not every marathi cine-goer can afford the multiplex ticket prices.
The positive response from the authorities, will certainly benefit Marathi film industry.
‘Bugadi Mazi Sandali Ga’ Release Postponed
Miss India 2013 Manasi Moghe will have to wait for some more time to watch herself on a big screen in theatres. Her debut film ‘Bugadi Mazi Sandali Ga’ is not releasing on 20th Feb. ’15 as announced earlier. The film was ready for release, with promotional activities in full swing, but it is learnt that the makers are rescheduling the release date of BMSG.
The makers did have an advantage, as they have Miss India Manasi Moghe in their project. She too was putting in real hard work, in the form of live performances of laavni and getting appreciation from all quarters. It is given to understand that the real reason for the sudden postponement of release date is that, BMSG has received invitation to participate in a few film festivals.
The makers will announce the fresh release date for BMSG very soon . This seems a good decision, considering invites from film festival for a maiden venture and of course, the schools and colleges are gearing up for the ensuing exam fever, this time around.
Rahul Roy unveils the music of ‘Just Gammat’
Today, Modern day life has become a lot more stressful .It requires a stress-buster to cool the nerves. This is where, Humour in our films, play a pivotal role, to cure stress. One such stress-buster Marathi movie coming our way, is ‘Just Gammat’, presented by Sharadkumar Shrivastava and produced under the banner Silver Screen Entertainment by Seema Shrivastava. The music of the film was released recently, at Mumbai.
RJ Mayuresh Shirke, who anchored the event with ease, welcomed the guests and introduced director, Milind Arun Kavade and the musical team. Nitin Kumar Gupta, who is debuting as a music composer with this Marathi movie. Deepak Angevar, who has written the title song, appears twice in the movie ; has been rendered by Avadhoot Gupte , in two different styles. Mandar Cholkar has penned an item song using all liquor names. Heena Panchal, who has done an item number on ‘Bewda’ song was also called on stage. N K Gupta showcased the ‘virtual 3D girl’ (an animated version of an item girl, done @Russia) which they plan to upload sometime next month, just before the release .
Original ‘Aashiqui’ guy, Rahul Roy was the chief guest and unveiled the music of a ‘Just Gammat’. “I stay at Shivaji Park and am in touch with lots of Marathi film makers. In fact we want to rope in these talented people to Bollywood, but the trend seems to be the opposite. Lots of non-Marathi film-makers are getting attracted to Marathi films.” he said and continued “I was in the process of making a Marathi film, but unfortunately my director (Rajiv Patil) died untimely “.
The lead actor Sanjay Narvekar arrived late due to a stage play in distant suburbs of Mumbai. He narrated, how in an intoxicated state, two friends plan to kill each other each other’s wives and after getting sober the next morning; what ‘Gammat’ happens, is the one-line of the film story and he expressed the film to be a commercial success.
Arun Kadam, Vijay Patkar, Jaywant Wadkar and Smita Gondkar, who was looking stunning in a black mini, represented the cast. Apart from these actors, Aditi Sarangdhar, Jitendra Joshi, Atul Todankar, Sanjay Kulkarni, Aarti Solanki, Deepak Shirke are also part of the film.
‘Partu’ is Hollywood’s first Marathi film
Marathi films are going worldwide. Now, we find even Hollywood film makers taking interest in producing a Marathi film. East West Company which has produced many Hollywood films, including award winning films like ‘Kundalini’ & ‘ Together Forever’, have now made a Marathi film ‘Paratu’ which is directed by NRI Nitin Adsul, who has settled in USA for a long time.
Recently, Nitin completed the shooting of this film in Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The film stars well known artistes from Marathi and Hindi film industry. They are, Kishore Kadam, Smita Tambe, Saurabh Gokhale, Gayatri Deshmukh, Anshuman Vichare, Navnee Parihar, Raja Bundela ,Ravi Bharatiya and child artiste Yash Pande.
The film’s story, which is unique and set on the backdrop of 1968 to 1985 period; is written by Clerk Mack Milliam, Nitin Adsul, & Daryl Cocks. The dialogues in Marathi are penned by Mayur Deval, DOP is Sanjay Khanjode and music is by Shashank Powar. The theme song in this film is by Shankar Mahadevan.
New Marathi films open campaign on Valentine’s day
Many forthcoming Marathi films have opened their campaign on the occasion of Valentine’s day. Prominent among them are love story based films ‘Time Pass 2′ directed by Ravi Jadhav and ‘Agabai Arrechha 2′ directed by Kedar Shinde. Incidentally, both the films are sequels to their respective originals, with the same name.
Though ‘Time pass-2′ will have the same lead pair, ‘Agabai Arrechha-2′ produced by Bela Shende and Narendra Firodia will be without Sanjay Narvekar. On the new poster of ‘Time Pass 2′ we notice the famous dialogue of the hero, being used as tagline, in the sequel, while the ‘Agabai Arrechha 2′ teaser released on social networking site, shows Sonali Kulkarni playing the lead character, introducing the teenagers and narrating the meaning of love, at that age.
‘Time Pass 2′ will be released on 1st May 2015; but, the release date of ‘Agabai Arrechha 2′ is also likely to be this year.
‘Jogwa’ cinematographer turns director with ‘Ganvesh’
‘Jogwa’, a milestone Marathi movie, directed by late Rajiv Patil which won five national film awards including best film, was appreciated by critics and audience equally and was also acclaimed internationally. It dealt with discrimination, sexual oppression, superstition, archaic traditions, hypocrisy, exploitation of oppressed section of our society. The rustic beauty of rural India was beautifully captured through his lenses by cinematographer Atul Jagdale.
Now, Atul Jagdale is getting ready to shoot a film on rural background in the form of a new Marathi movie ‘Ganvesh’. He has locked a script written by Tejas Ghadge. Mr Ghadge has also penned the screenplay and dialogues of the said film.
The story of this film is about a man working at a bricks making factory. His son gets selected to deliver a speech in his school on an Independence Day, 15th August. But, it is on a condition of wearing an Uniform while doing so. To acquire Uniform, what this down trodden family goes through, is the one liner of the film. Apart from cinematography, Mr Jagdale is directing ‘Ganvesh’ and also is producing it under the banner Vijayate Entertainment. The ‘Jogwa’ connection continues. Three principal cast members, Mukta Barve, Kishore Kadam, Smita Tambe, of ‘Jogwa’, will also be part of ‘Ganvesh’. It will be interesting to see, whether this ‘Jogwa’ connection will work this time round.
Chaitanya’s ‘Court’ finds International distributor
In all our films with different languages, a court is shown in a typical standard way. But, in reality no two courts in India look similar. Chaitanya Tamhane, after a lot of research about premises, procedure, etc. wrote a realistic, understated script based on judicial system of lower courts in the country. He then converted it into a thought provoking movie, ‘Court’ . The dialogues of ‘Court’ are in Marathi but Gujarati, Hindi, English language has also been used, to make it quadro-linguistic film. This film has been doing rounds of National and International Film Festivals and has won laurels, bagging numbers of awards, including Best Film and Best Director awards. Now, the good news is that an internationally renowned film distribution company, Zeitgeist films – an American independent film distribution company based in New York, is going to distribute this film locally and on foreign soils.
Kranti Redkar reveals the first look of ‘Kaakan’
An established and successful actress, a passionate dancer, a witty anchor, Kranti Redkar, who has now forayed into movie direction, presented the first look of her marathi film ‘Kaakan‘ in Mumbai. “Never wear a long dress, if you are required to do a lot of running around, during the first event of your film; because, it makes you stumble, resulting in a fall,” said Kranti Redkar, while arriving on the dais with this witty comment. She looked ravishing in a flowing dress.
Also announcing the release date of her movie with a motion poster, Kranti reminisced “I always wanted to foray into film direction and after watching my dear friend Manava (Naik)’s short film, I decided to take up direction, five years ago. I was to make Kaakan into a short film, but when I approached my Brother-in-law, Mr Bannerjee , he and his team , who are into Ad-film business, prompted me to make a full fledged movie.”
On this occasion, a title track of the film was launched and one of the singers of the duet, Neha Rajpal sang on a track, for the benefit of the attendees. Swapnil Bandodkar and music director Ajay Sinha too, took the dais a to thank Kranti, for letting them to be part of Kaakan. digital poster by Sachin Gurav (winner of Best Poster Designer of a film award of marathimovieworld.com ), was also unveiled, on the occasion.
The lead pair of Kaakan, Jitendra Joshi and Urmila Kanetkar-Kothare shared effervescent tit-bits of shooting days, pulling each other’s legs. Ashok Shinde (who hasn’t charged a penny for his performance in Kaakan) and child artistes Ashutosh Gaikwad, Aakash Bannerjee , who are part of the cast, also praised Kranti’s efforts. Hridaya Bannerjee of Mangorange Productions (she also happens to be Kranti’s sister) appreciated Kranti’s die hard spiritedness and dedication towards her craft. Mahesh Kothare with spouse, Manava Naik, Abhijit Panse, Aadinath Kothare, Phulwa Khamkar were present, among other celebrities, to support Kranti. Late afternoon Sanjay Jadhav and Sai Tamhankar also arrived, to wish Kranti good luck.
New Marathi film inspired by Savarkar’s ideology
The historical figures seem to fascinating and getting popular with film makers. Now in the queue seems to be Veer Savarkar. ‘What About Savarkar’ is a new marathi movie, which seems to have been inspired by ideology of Veer Savarkar. We have already seen a biopic on ‘Savarkar’ few years ago. But now, we will see a story about a youth, who sets out a rebellious journey, against a corrupt and arrogant politician. This movie will be the first Marathi film, to have been shot at the famous Golden Temple, Amritsar.
The producer duo of Rohit Shetty, Atul Parab and a director duo of Rupesh Katare, Nitin Gawde recently released the first look of this movie. The DOP of the film is AKN Sebastian and music is composed by Avdhoot Gupte, Abhishek Shinde. Popular Marathi Artistes like Avinash Narkar, Shrikant Bhide, Atul Todankar and Sara Shravan are part of the principal cast.
New Marathi film inspired by Savarkar’s ideology
The historical figures seem to fascinating and getting popular with film makers. Now in the queue seems to be Veer Savarkar. ‘What About Savarkar’ is a new marathi movie, which seems to have been inspired by ideology of Veer Savarkar. We have already seen a biopic on ‘Savarkar’ few years ago. But now, we will see a story about a youth, who sets out a rebellious journey, against a corrupt and arrogant politician. This movie will be the first Marathi film, to have been shot at the famous Golden Temple, Amritsar.
The producer duo of Rohit Shetty, Atul Parab and a director duo of Rupesh Katare, Nitin Gawde recently released the first look of this movie. The DOP of the film is AKN Sebastian and music is composed by Avdhoot Gupte, Abhishek Shinde. Popular Marathi Artistes like Avinash Narkar, Shrikant Bhide, Atul Todankar and Sara Shravan are part of the principal cast.