It’s Comedy v/s a love story, this friday
This Friday, two Marathi films have released together. Though ‘Bol Baby Bol’ set on the backdrop of a comedy, has some big names like Aruna Irani, Aniket Vishwasrao, Makarand Anaspure Neha Pendse & Siyaa Patil; ‘Goshta Tichya Premachi’ which is a different kind of love story, has Bhooshan Pradhan and newcomer Vaishali Chandorkar in the lead, with Priya Berde, Vijay Patkar, Prema Kiran, Upendra Date,Aniket Kelkar and others.
Arun Irani, who is making her comeback into films, through ‘Bol Baby Bol’, feels that Marathi films have found new viewers, who enjoy films, offering good subject. Writer-Producer-director Narendra Aatmaram Thakur, who has presented ‘Tichya Premachi Goshta’ believes in passing a message to the society, to accept marriage of young widows. In short, both the films claim to invite the attention of the Marathi film lovers. Let us wait for the results, this weekend.
Sad demise of Veteran actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Well known Bollywood and Marathi film actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar passed away early morning today, due to heart failure. He was 64 . Mr. Amrapurkar was being treated at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital at Andheri, for lung ailment for the past several days. Few days ago. There were rumors flowing on social net working sites; but his family sources confirmed that his condition was stable but not out of danger.
Having performed in about 200+ Hindi and Marathi films since 80s till last year, Mr. Amrapurkar was basically a stage actor. Mr. Govind Nihlani, gave him his first major break, as Rama Shetty a villain; through his film ‘Ardha Satya’. He was highly impressed by the actor’s performance in a Marathi play. Mr. Amrapurkar bagged the Filmfare award for negative role portrayed by him in this film. He also went on to bag another filmfare award for his performance in Mahesh Bhatt’s film ‘Sadak’.
Mr. Amrapurkar was last seen in Marathi film, ‘Hou De Jarasa Ushir’, which also sent its entry privately for Oscars. In this film, he had played an important role of a central character.
Ajay Devgn presents ‘Viti Dandu’ in style
Husband of an extremely talented Bollywood actress Kajol, whose mother tongue is Marathi, as she is a daughter of a very famous yesteryear’s actress Tanuja; who, in turn is the daughter of vintage actress Shobhana Samarth, ( that’s more than enough marathi connection) for popular and successful Bollywood actor, Ajay Devgn. Now, he is furthering his Marathi connection by presenting a new Marathi movie, ‘Vitti Dandu’, which is being produced by Leena Deore.
“I have worked with Vikas Kadam and know him for years. When he narrated this story to me, I just loved it and immediately decided to be part of this film. We could easily have played safe by producing a rom-com, action or a comedy film. But, I genuinely wanted to be part of this content driven film.” reiterated Ajay Devgn, while talking to media at a press conference of Viti Dandu.
Vikas Kadam, who has written the story as well as screenplay of the film said “More than two years have been invested by all of us, as the time span of this film is pre to post independence. Also this being a period film, location hunting, casting, pre and post production, shooting etc. was an intricate process.” When asked about too many children’s films hitting theatres around this time, the director of the movie, Ganesh Kadam opined, “Though one of the major characters is a small child, all other artists have an equal footage in the film.” Producer Leena Deore said that it’s her first production and that her banner Rajradha movies is extremely elated to be associated with Ajay Devgn Films. The makers thanked media for the suggestion, to be part of Goa film festival as they did not give a thought to this aspect earlier.
Vitti Dandu is co-produced by Praveen Patil. Dialogues are by Abhiram Bhadkamkar, and lyrics are written by Shrirang Godbole, Manvel Gaikwad, Aashay Parab, Hrishikesh Paranjape. Shankar Mahadevan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Meghna Mishra, Udesh Umap, Pandharinath (Paddy) Kamble etc have lent their voices to the music of Santosh Mulekar. Cast includes Dilip Prabhavalkar, Yatin Karyekar, Ashok Samarth, Ravindra Mankani, Nishant Bhavsar, Vikas Kadam, Shubhankar Atre, Radhika Deore, Mrunal Thakur, Uday Deshmukh, Gauhar Khan.
The film is set to release on 21st November’14 all over Maharashtra.
‘Classmates’ delay their reunion
Director Aditya Ajay Sarpotdar is already in news for making a remake of the hit 2006 Malyalam film with the same name. He has eight youngsters comprising of already popular Marathi stars and two newcomers. Recently Aditya and producers of this film Mr. Suresh Pai and Nanubhai of Video Palace had organised their reunion, after completing the film; only to present them before the media. But, at least four of them kept the media persons and guests waiting, as they arrived two hours behind scheduled time, for this reunion. The last to arrive was Sai Tamhankar; and it was only after her arrival, the function began. Isn’t that something strange! What happened thereafter, was noise, music and masti!
Anyway, the film’s release has been postponed to 16th January 2015. So, now the producers have ample time to promote their film, in a phased manner. In this function, they released only one song, a foot tapping number; and the rest of the songs will be released one by one. Perhaps, a new way of promotion. But, they should look for better venues, next time.
The movie presents all talented actors like Ankush Choudhary Sai Tamhankar, Sonalee Kulkarni, Sushant Shelar, Sachit Patil, Siddharth Chandekar, Suyash Tilak, Pallavi Patil along with versatile artistes Sanjay Mone, Kishori Shahane and Ramesh Deo, who are also playing key roles in this film.
The movie completely revolves around college, friendship, love, promises and more. There will certainly be several surprise elements hidden, which will be slowly unconfined, towards the movie release on January 16, 2015. The film is directed by Aditya Ajay Sarpotdar, produced by Suresh Pai, screenplay by Kshitij Patwardhan and Sameer Vidwans, dialogues by Kshitij Patwardhan while director of photography by K.K.Manoj, edited by Imran-Faisal, music is manned by Amitraj, Avinash-Vishwajeet, Troy-Arif and Pankaj Padghan on the beautiful lyrics of Kshitij Patwardhan, Guru Thaakur, Manndar Cholkar and Vishwajeet Joshi, art director Manohar Jadhav, costume designer Manali Jagtap and action director Manohar Verma.
It’s ‘Chintamani’ v/s ‘Aashiyana’ on this Friday
Two Marathi films are releasing this Friday. They are Bharat Jadhav – Amruta Subhash starrer ‘Chintamani’ and ‘Aashiyana’ with three new Marathi actresses making their debut. ‘Chintamani’ is all about common man, who is married but cannot fulfil the needs of his family. The film is directed by debutant film director Sangeeta Balachandran. The film has tried to show, how an advertisement, changes the life of this common man, but also invites problems.
While, Director Ajit Devle’s film ‘Aashiyana’ talks about the life of three young girls from different sections of the society and their journey, which lands them into the same profession. The three new girls performing in this film are Nehaa Patil, Sai Kalyankar & Krutika Gaikwad; while those in the supporting cast are Yatin karyekar, Sanjivani Jadhav, Anil Gavas & Prafulla Samant. Director Ajit Devle has also written the story, screenplay dialogues with Sagar Wankhede, while Music is by Prabhakar Naravade.
These two films have different subjects. So, it remains to be seen, which film invites more attention, this Friday.
‘Elizabeth Ekadashi’ – Children’s film for all age groups
An uncommon and unusual name certainly raises curiosity about the film. Essel Vision Productions Ltd and Mayasabha are presenting a new movie, supposed to be a children’s film for all age group, ‘Elizabeth Ekadashi’. This film is directed by‘Harishchancrachi Factory’ fame director, Paresh Mokashi, who is returning back after five years.
While talking to the media he stressed that this movie is entirely different from his previous film. Though there is going to be comparison, but this new movie’s story happens in Pandharpur and is about people of Pandharpur. Three main characters are children , who were picked in Pandharpur itself. Entire film is shot at Pandharpur and some portions are shot actually at Pandharpur Vaari.
All of them, Dnyanesh, Mukta, Ganya, are mischievous and Dyanesh is extra fond of Elizabeth, an unusual bicycle, creation of his father. Shrirang Mahajan, Saili Bhandarkavthekar, and Pushkar Lonarkar, child artists of this film, were present on the occasion and small town innocence was dripping from them.
Madhugandha Kulkarni, better half of director Paresh Mokashi, has written the story. She hails from Pandharpur and once when she was reciting couple of incidents of her childhood in Pandharpur to Paresh, he liked them and said that this can be a film subject and the story was born. Producer Nittin Keni opined that the secret to release strategy is an integration of promotion, strategy and content. He further added that they saw creative as well as commercial merit in this film. Film’s music is by late Shri Anand Modak. The event was compared in style by Spruha Joshi who kept the atmosphere lively.
‘Ranga Patanga’ presents Makarand in a different look
Makarand Anaspure has attempted variety of roles, but his speciality has always been comedy. This time, you will find him in a different look. Makarand is playing the role of Jumman, a poor farmer from Vidarbha region. Produced by well known Cinematographer Amol Gole and directed by Prasad Namjoshi, the film was already screened at the recently concluded Mumbai International Film festival in the India Gold section.
Apart from Makarand Anaspure, the film stars Nandita Dhuri, Gouri Konge, Bharat Ganeshpure, Suhas Palshikar, Abhay Mahajan & Hardik Joshi. Editing by Sagar Vanjari, Sound designing by Anmol Bhave and music by Kaushal Inamdar are other credits of the film.
Ashok Samarth to present Bharud in ‘Viti Dandu’
Bharud is a folk art form, next to Laavni, in Maharashtra, especially in rural areas. In this form, the ‘Bharudi’ (compare) presents, with humorous narration, a story which is enjoyable as well as educative. Many saints, social workers, have with the help of Bharud, successfully made positive changes in the lives of common people. A special mention may be made about our freedom fighters, who educated the people to revolt against the Britishers.
One such effort is being made in an upcoming Marathi movie ‘Viti Dandu‘, produced by Leena Devre under the banner of Rajradha Movies, presented by Ajay Devgn films and directed by Ganesh Kadam. Famous for his roles in Hindi films like ‘Ek Chaalis ki Last Local‘, ‘Singham, actor Ashok Samarth will be presenting ‘Bharud’ in this film, dressed up as a lady. He is believed to be happy to get this opportunity to be associated with this folk art form and is of the opinion that today’s younger generation is unaware of this folk form, who will get enlightened about it, through this film ‘Viti Dandu‘.
‘Pyaar Vali Love Story’ all set for Diwali release
Sanjay Jadhav has returned back, with his much awaited musical film ‘Pyaar Vali Love Story‘. The film is all set to release on October 24, 2014. The successful team ofDuniyadari will be seen once again in ‘Pyaar Vali Love Story’ (PVLS), but with a fresh look. Swapnil Joshi and Sai Tamhankar will play the lead roles, whereas Urmila Kanetkar-Kothare and Nagesh Bhosale will play an independent key roles in the film. The new faces in the team will be well known actors Upendra Limaye, Sameer Dharmadhikari and Chinmay Mandlekar. The story of this film is not focused on any individual but reflects the situation of the society as a whole. Now, it remains to be seen, whether this power packed team, will create magic on the big screen ?
Recently, the first look of this film was released at a function in Mumbai, in presence of main artistes of this film. On this occasion Director Sanjay Jadhav said, “We have witnessed huge response to songs of ‘Pyaar Vali Love Story‘ (PVLS), since its Music launch and certainly the audience loves it more, on every passing day. My entire team has given their best and I would want to break my own records of Duniyadari. Hope this movie becomes the bible of love and friendship.”
Story and direction of this film is by Sanjay Jadhav. Produced by Rekha Jayant Joshi, Inder Raj Kapoor and Deepak Pandurang Rane, the Screenplay is by Arvind Jagtap, Dialogues by Ashish Pathare, while Director of Photography (DOP) is Prasad Bhende. Writers Tapan Bhatt and Ashish Pathatre, Art Director Satish Chipkar, Editor Apurva Motiwal and Ashish Mahtre, Action Director Kaushal Moses, Choreographer Umesh Jadhav, Costume by Harshada Khanvilkar and Make-up Subhash Shinde are the other credits.
‘Black Board’ to show fight of common man against corrupt education system
Today our educational institutions are making big profits, exploiting the parents, who are eager to offer best education to their children. High donations, exorbitant fees has become a common scene at all private schools and colleges. Ruturaj Motion Pictures’ new Marathi film ‘Blackboard’ produced by Sandeep Rao and directed by Dinesh Devlekar will throw light on this timely issue.
The film stars popular child actress of Marathi television, Mrunmayi Supal in an important role.The other artistes of this film are Arun Nalawade, Madhavi Juvekar along with Rajesh Bhosale, Sunil Holkar & Sayali Deodhar. Lyrics & Music by Sandip Patil and cameraman Javed Ahtisham are other credits.