Shreyas & Jitendra to celebrate birthdays together
27th January happens to be the birthday of both Shreyas Talpade and Jitendra Joshi.Every year, they celebrate their birthday separately. But, this being special for both of them, they have decided to celebrate together. For the past one year, both Shreyas and Jitendra have been working together for the film ‘Baji’, which is now all set to release on 6th February 2015.
Both Shreyas and Jitendra have made a big group of friends, during the making of ‘Baji’. Many of them are from the production team and some of them are common friends in Marathi film industry. film. Holding the birthday event together, will also help in the promotion of ‘Baji’ and therefore it is a good decision. Shreyas is playing a Superhero for the first time in Marathi, while Jitendra is playing the main villain of ‘Baji’. Hence, it will be interesting to see the hero and villain celebrating their birthday together, off screen. Besides the cast and crew members of ‘Baji’, many celebrities from Marathi and Hindi film industry are expected to attend this event. As per reliable sources, even some of the media persons are invited for this party.
Elegant Music launch of Adventure filled ‘Biker’s Adda’
Biking has become a new adventure sports among youngsters today. Watching the rising popularity of Biking among youngsters in Maharashtra, producers Maruti Lokhande, Vijay Haria are making an action filled film ‘Biker’s Adda’ under their banner Shree Navakar. The film is written and directed by Rajesh Latkar. Recently, the first look and music release of this film was held in a grand way at a Mumbai hotel, where Central Minister Mr. Shripad Naik was present as the chief guest. Among other special invitees were Politician Amar Singh, actress Jaya Prada, Bollywood music director Anand Raj Anand, Kumar Mangat & others. While speaking on the occasion, Mr. Amar Singh compared Santosh Juvekar with Salman Khan , while he praised Prarthana, calling her a combination of Katarina and Deepika.
During this elegant function, hero of the film Santosh Juvekar made his entry riding a Super Bike. The highlights of the function were, performances given by lead pair Santosh Juvekar and Prarthana Behere, a song ‘Valla vallah’ from the film rendered by Shalmalee Kholgade on the music of film’s music directors and other dance performances by junior artistes in the film. The first look of the film was also shown on this occasion. The film’s story revolves around four young friends and their passion for biking. The other artistes in the film are Shrikant Moghe, Shrikant Wattamvar, Rahul Dongre, Hrishikesh Mandke, Aniruddha Harip, Devendra Bhagat, Aditya Giri& Nikhil Rajeshirke.Cinematography by Shakeel Khan & editing by Mansoor Khan are the other credits of the film. The film will be released on 10 th April 2015.
Amol Bhosale’s slow but sure progress
Every artiste has to struggle in his life, to find recognition. This Friday release ‘Ghumsat’ also presents one such actor, who has no godfather in this film industry. Amol Bhosale a talented actor from Pune, is playing the central character of Pandhari from a Varkari family, who plays the traditional musical instrument ‘Pakhwaj’. Amol had to take training for 3 months from an expert, to play this instrument with perfection. Even otherwise, he has worked very hard to establish his identity as an actor.
Having done modeling and performed in few TV serials, Amol finds his role in ‘Ghumsat‘ as the most challenging one. He stars along with other artistes like Surekha Kudchi, Priyanka Bhide, Pradeep Kothmire, Mohini Kulkarni & Shripad Amle. The film is produced & directed by Rajesh Nimkar. He is also playing an equally important role in his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Rang Aboli‘ where he plays a youth suffering from schizophrenic youth. Even for this role, Amol visited many jails in the state to study the body language of such people.
Amol also has an ambitious project in hand, in the form of a television serial ‘Chakradhar Swami’, where he is playing the title role. All in all, it is a ‘slow but sure’progress for this talented actor. But, year 2015 seems to be lucky for him, as his film ‘Ghumsat‘ is received good response at various film festivals.
Girish Kulkarni and Ajay-Atul come together for a new offering
Ajay Atul are known for their brilliant music in films like ‘Jatra‘, ‘Jogwa’, ‘Natarang’, ‘Agneepath’, ‘Singham’, ‘Agneepath’ and the recently release’ PK’. Now, this ace musician duo will soon be seen in a new avatar of producers of new Marathi film’ Jaudya Na Balasaheb’ . Further, National Award winning actor and writer Girish Kulkarni, who enthralled the audience with his roles in films like ‘Deool‘, ‘Valu‘ and ‘Pune 52′ , is all set to make his direction debut, through this film.
With other established names from the industry including Poonam Shende of Saarthi Entertainment and the team of Girish Kulkarni, Umesh Kulkarni and Vinay Ganu also joining as co producers of this film, there are big expectations from this film. Girish Kulkarni, who incidentally is the director of this film, is also the writer and lead actor of the film. Producers Ajay-Atul have also composed the songs for the film .
‘Jaudya Na Balasaheb‘ will be a comedy film and lies much outside the genres of Girish’s earlier ventures. The film also stars veterans like Reema Lagoo, Mohan Joshi as well as Sai Tamhankar, Manava Naik, Bhau Kadam, H N Ramchandran, Vibhawari Deshpande and Shrikant Yadav among others. The lyrics are by by Vaibhav Joshi , while Nitin Vaidya is the executive producer of the film.
The shooting of the film is expected to start in February-March . The press conference of this film saw actors Mohan Joshi, Reema Lagoo, Sai Tamhankar, Bhau Kadam, Manava Naik, H N Ramchandran, Vibhawari Deshpande and Shrikant Yadav in attendance. Also present were Umesh and Girish Kulkanri, Ajay-Atul, Poonam Shende and Vinay Ganu.
‘Balkadu’,’Chandrakor’ & ‘Ghumsat’ to release together
With previous Marathi films like ‘Lokmanya’ and now latest released ‘Classmates‘ already occupying major cinema halls in Maharashtra and doing good business, it remains to be seen, how the cinema theatres are going to accommodate coming Friday releases. Luckily, for the past two weeks, no Hindi films with big stars were released. But, Akshay Kumar’s much talked about film ‘Baby’ is also all set to release on 23rd January 2015, leaving limited screens for ‘Balkadu‘ and ‘Chandrakor‘. Unfortunately, the third Marathi film ‘Ghusmat’ could not find theatres in Mumbai. It is releasing in Pune.
‘Chandrakor’ directed by Rajesh Balkrishna Jadhav is a love story, presenting music, songs and traditional Maharashtrian dances. With no big stars, unfortunately the film has to compete with a much hyped film like ‘Balkadu’, which a tribute to late Balasaheb Thackeray, and is expected to pull the crowds. And, if the magic of Balasaheb with the tagline of the film ‘Mee Parat yetoy’ ( I am coming back), really works, it will surely have effect on the earnings of‘Classmates’ which is picking up at present, drawing good response, especially from youngsters.
But, such internal competition, has always been there among Marathi films, with their growing business. Even otherwise, Marathi films made on the lives of well known people, have always achieved better success. But, you never know, even a film like ‘Chandrakor’ may also draw good crowds. By the way, the third film ‘Ghusmat‘, starring Amol Bhosale in the lead and Produced & directed by Rajesh Nimkar has already been appreciated at various film festivals, prior to its release. So, let us wait and see the results by this week end. Because, nobody has been able to predict the mood of Marathi film audience.
‘Viti Dandu’ wins maximum ‘Screen’ annual awards
Every beginning of the year Bollywood witnesses its first appreciation, in the form of ‘Screen’ awards. This year too, was not different. Only difference was, the kind of films, neo-arty-commercial movies, making the mark by bagging many awards. Since this award function, happens in the capital of Bollywood, Marathi movies also get special attention. And,Fandry, Ek Hazarachi Note, Viti Dandu, Dr. Prakash Baba Amte, Rama Madhav,Tapaal were vying with one another.
So, in this year’s Life OK Screen awards, Viti Dandu was the ultimate winner in four categories, Best Film (Leena Devre, Ajay Devgn), Best Actor (Dilip Prabhavalkar), Best Child Artist (Nishant Bhavsar) & Special Jury Award for Cinematography (Shailesh Awasthi). Incidentally, Viti Dandu was also awarded The Most Awaited Film Award by MarathiMovieWorld.Com. In other awards category, Laxman Utekar was declared Best Director for Tapaal and the Best Actress award was bagged by Usha Naik for Ek Hazarachi Note.
We at MMW, sincerely feel that other popular Bollywood awards organisers should also include Marathi Films category, considering the father of Indian cinema being Dadasaheb Phalke. If ‘Filmfare’ awards are given to South Indian films and now films from Eastern part of India, why can’t they think separate awards for Marathi films? Even otherwise, Marathi films are going worldwide, through various international film festivals, besides winning the prestigious national awards.
First look of ‘Razzakar’ released in presence of artistes
The First look of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Razzakar’ was released in Mumbai in the midst of principle cast and crew. ‘Razzakar‘s story, screenplay, dialogues are by captain of the ship, director Raj Durge.
“I have grown up listening about Razakar group from my grandfather and father, who is a freedom fighter, and has seen and been part of Hyderabad Mukti Sangram (Hyderabad Liberation Movement). This is a true story and when I approached Satish (Producer, Satish Pillangwad) he liked it and instantly agreed to make a film.” Said, Raj Durge while speaking about his film. He further added ‘Siddharth Jadhav has done a remarkable job and so has Zakir Hussain , Not the tabla player , but a Bollywood baddie , and Jyoti Subhash, the veteran actress; and yes, Amruta Subhash her daughter.’
Siddharth Jadhav admitted to be ignorant about this part of history. “I play a protagonist’s journey from a commoner to a freedom fighter, and though the subject seems to be serious, we have made it entertaining too”. he said . Zakir Hussain, a theatre person and a Bollywood actor, doing his first marathi film, expressed that language is no barrier, in any art form. “I have been doing Telugu films too and say my dialogues in their language. So, if required, I would have certainly spoken in marathi. But luckily for me, none of my dialogues are in Marathi, in this film,” he said.
‘Razzakar’ is being produced under the banner of Karrm Movies and slated for release on 27th of February, 2015.
‘Yes I Can’ launched with muhurat
Sangita Rao, who has directed Hindi and Marathi TV serials, will now be making her debut as the director of new Marathi film ‘Yes I Can’. The film was launched with muhurat shot on Neena Kulkarni, Rajesh Shringarpure and child artiste Mihir Soni , in presence of chief guest Mahesh Kothare, in Mumbai recently. The film is being made under the banner of Jigvi Productions. Present on the occasion were Adinath Kothare, Urmila Kanetkar Kothare, Harshada Khanvilkar and Yogesh Lakhani of Bright Advertising.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Mahesh Kothare praised the work of Sangita Rao and hoped that she would do justice to the script of the film, written by Amita Shah. He also wished the entire team. The film is based on the father-son relationship, inspiring the viewers to build self confidence, to move ahead in life. The film stars Rajesh Shringarpure, Mrunal Thakur, Mihir Soni,Neena Kulkarni & Paresh Ganatra in important roles. Music by Akshay Khot, Screenplay by Abhijit Gadgil and Sangita Rao, dialogues by Abhijit Gadgil, Cinematography by Naren Gedia are other credits.
‘Bugadi Mazi Sandali Ga’ music released with 9 songs
After a very long time, we witnessed an eye catching poster of a Marathi film, with leading lady of the film shown in a Laavni pose, that too at the entrance of the hall, where the music of the film was to be released. And, the film’s name is ‘Bugadi Mazi Sandali Ga'; which will be released all over Maharashtra on 20th February 2015. The music launch ceremony was a sweet and simple affair, sans any celebrity for ribbon cutting. Producer, doing a PR job on the occasion, maintained that they desisted calling any celebrity, because they felt the media, press, attendees are celebrities.
‘Bugadi Mazi Sandali Ga’ is a musical, in true sense, as it has three quarter of a dozen songs in it. Out of these 9 songs 6 are laavnis, as the film glorifies laavnis and its performers, because the makers thought that this traditional dance form has been getting a raw deal.‘Bugadi Mazi Sandali Ga’ has 4 music directors, viz. Pravin Kunwar, Babru Bhosle, Sachin-Dipesh, 4 lyricists viz. Baba Chavan, Rajesh Bamugade, Sanjali Rode, Mansingh Pawar, 7 singers, viz. Bela Shende (has five songs in her kitty), Bharati Madhavi, Sanjali Rode, Jasraj Joshi, Urmila Dhangar, Sanchita Morajkar& Vivek Naik. A few songs were screened for the benefit of the attendees. The item song choreographed by Deepali Vichare and performed by Megha Ghadge and Prachi Cheulkar stands out, with fabulous synchronisation of dance moves by the lead as well as background dancers.
Speaking on the occasion, the director of the movie, Mansingh Pawar, who is responsible for story, screenplay, dialogues, lyrics also, said ‘This pre-release function is like ‘sakharpuda’ (ring ceremony) as the ‘lagna'(wedding/marriage) will happen on 20th February. Everyone worked as a team and the result is splendid music.’
The producer, Shhyam Singhania, too lauded the efforts of cast and crew and added, ‘I am a non-interfering producer. We being investment bankers, the experience in discipline, helped to finish the shoot on schedule, with only a day extra due to water logging.’
‘Bugadi Mazi Sandali Ga’ is presented by Von Ryan Entertainment and produced under the banner Ticket Films, has a cast comprising, Manasi Moghe,Kashyap Parulekar, Mohan Joshi, Ramesh Bhatkar, Deepa Chafekar, Ila Bhate.
‘Mitwaa’ music launch draws good response
On a chilly January evening at an open air venue in Mumbai a romantic film Mitwaa‘s music was unveiled. The event was flooded with good response celebrities from Marathi films and Hindi- television. Marathi superstar and film’s leading man Swwapnil Joshi conducted the event with ease and flair .
The event first saw the launch of a 2015 calendar featuring, Lux 9X Jhakaas contest winners. An already released trailer of the film was screened for the benefit of guests. Mitwaa‘s two out of five songs composed by four music directors, are already making waves and the remaining three songs were presented and screened. One duet is composed by AmitRaj which is written by Ashwini Shende and sung by Swapnil Bandodkar and Bela Shende. The other one is written by Mangesh Kangne for composer Pankaj Padgan and sung by Hamsika Iyer. Third one is composed by Nilesh Moharir and sung by Jaanvee Prabhu Arora and Swapnil Bandodkar on lyrics of Ashwini Shende. Remaining Two song are composed by famous Bollywood music director trio, Shankar Ehsaan Loy. Both the songs are penned by Mandar Cholkar and one is sung by Shankar Mahadevan with Jaanvee Prabhu Arora, while another by Siddharth Mahadevan.The three new songs were launched by Shankar, Ehsaan & Loy, one by one, while Shanker Mahadevan sang the title track of the movie garnering good hand from the audience and went on to sing further along with Jaanvee Prabhu Arora. The complete cast with technical team assembled on the podium and after the digital launch, producers (Meenakshi Sagar, Amrit Sagar, Aakash Chopra, Shekhar Jyoti, Nanubhai) and director Swapna Waghmare Joshi unveiled the hard copy of the music.
The big group of celebrities who graced the occasion were Sachin, Mahesh Manjrekar, Abhijit Panse, ABMCM president Vijay Patkar, Ankush Chaudhary, Sai Tamhankar, Sanjay Jadhav, Urmila with hubby Aadinath Kothare, Sachit Patil, Sachin Khedekar, Sunil Barve, Siddharth Chandekar, Manava Naik, Priya Bapat Kamat, Chandrakant Kulkarni, Shrabani Deodhar with daughter Sai Deodhar Anand and grand daughter, Jitendra Thackre with wife, Siddharth Jadhav with wife and his cute daughter, and many Hindi television celebrities including Avika ‘Balika Badhu’ Gor.
Mitwaa , produced by Sagar Pictures, co-produced by PSJ Entertainment and presented by Video Palace and is slated for release this year, on Valentine day’s eve, i.e. 13th February 2015.