‘Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero’ biopic of an iconoclast
When a few idealistic and dedicated people come together to make a movie on an iconoclast, the canvas becomes extremely larger than life. National award winning actors, Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni, and National award winning director Samruddhi Porey have assembled together to make a biopic on the life of, Magsaysay Award winner, Dr. Prakash Baba Aamte, who has presented India & the world an example of sheer courage, strength, and selfless service.
Dr. Prakash Aamte, son of legendary Dr. Baba Aamte, graduated from Nagpur Government College as a Bachelorette in Medicine, instead of accepting an obvious life of comfort and affluence, decided to dedicate his life for betterment of Tribals of ‘Hemalkasa’. His wife Dr. Mandakini, joined his hands for the cause from day one of their marriage without an iota of guilt to give up the life of comfort and luxury. Both together heralded on a journey of selfless service to the downtrodden in backward and remote part of Central India, ‘Hemalkasa’, a Naxalites prone area in ‘Gadchiroli’ district, sidelined from the mainstream and modern amenities, where the tribals used to live in inhuman conditions. They both faced umpteen number of challenges like Naxalites threat, Government apathy, fiscal difficulties, but the grit and determination always kept them going. Dr. Prakash Aamte even returned prestigious civilian award ‘Padmashree’ to the government due to its insensitive attitude.
On 11th sept’14 team of a movie ‘Dr. Prakash Baba Aamte‘ met media people to reveal the real journey of a real hero, Dr. Prakash Aamte. Sampada Joglekar Kulkarni was the intermediator, cleverly managed the show. Nana Patekar who portrays Dr Prakash Aamte in the movie was talking very passionately. He has been associated with Aamte family for the last 40 years (Dr Baba Aamte used to call him his third son, other two real ones being Dr Vikas & Dr Prakash) and even wanted to be the part of this movement. He said, straight from the heart,’No amount of words can gauge and determine the selfless ongoing life journey of Dr Prakash Aamte. It’s a proud moment for all us Indians that a foreign country ‘MONACO’ has paid tribute to his work by issuing a Postage Stamp in his name’.
The real hero Dr Prakash along with his wife Dr Mandakini was present shared his thoughts, ’till some years back there was no electricity, and major problem was difficulty in diagnosing because we did not understand there language nor they ours.’ Director of this movie Advocate Samruddhi Porey is of the opinion that younger generation should watch this film wherein they can derive inspiration. She said ‘It’s an experience to learn from these devoted people. I am blessed to be associated with this movie’. Sonali Kulkarni who plays Dr Mandakini in this movie said that the whole experience of working in this movie has changed her psyche from within. Dr. Mohan Agashe will be seen as Dr. Baba Aamte in this film.
Director of photography Mahesh Ane ( Swades fame) has captivated the mood of the subject to perfection. Guru Thakur’s lyrics are set in musical notes by talented music composer Rahul Ranade. Presented by Essel vision and produced by Samruddhi Cineworld and Golden Globe, ‘Dr. Prakash Baba Aamte‘, which received a great response as the Closing Film at the London Indian Film Festival, and also being part of all major film festivals, is ready for release on 10th of October’14
Gajendra’s next movie to salute the spirit of womanhood
National Award winning director, Gajendra Ahire is known for his superior work in Marathi cinema. His next directorial venture is a story close to his heart – the life journey of a self made illiterate woman entrepreneur, who went on to become a multi millionaire.
Today, Marathi cinema is handling different subjects. And, there is certainly place for a large canvas biographical film. So, Idea Hub Productions is bringing together an award-winning crew, who will bring this story to life for the first time on cinema!
A notable cast of award winning actors will be part of this narrative. An official announcement of the name and star cast will be made soon. The film will be a classic example of how strength, determination, belief, hard work and faith can change one’s destiny. A woman well ahead of her time, it is time for her to be recognised in Maharashtra, India and across continents. The film will be released to a global audience.
‘Arunoday’- Sunrise finds entry at Busan Film Festival
Partho Sen Gupta’s Marathi film ‘Arunoday -Sunrise‘ has found its official entry at the forthcoming ‘Busan International film Festival’, scheduled to begin from 2nd October 2014. ‘Arunoday – Sunrise‘ will be the only Indian film , selected among the 12 best films in the New currents section, of this festival.
The other eleven films are from countries like Japan, South Korea, China, Iran, Philippines, Bangladesh and other countries. This festival is the largest market for films from Asian countries for onward transmission to the world. And, for India and Marathi films, it is a moment of pride.
The film is set on the backdrop of Mumbai, with Police officer Joshi shown in search of his missing daughter for 10 long years. NDS actor Adil Hussain plays the lead role in this film, in the company of Tanishtha Chatterjee, Ashalata Wabgavkar, Isha Amlani ,Chinmay kambli & Gulnaz Ansari. The world premiere of this film will be held during the festival.
‘Rakhandaar’ music released with trailer
After producing Hindi film like ‘Kagaar‘ and directing a Marathi film like ‘Manthan -Ek Amrut Pyala‘, director Dr. Mrunalinni Patil is now ready with her next Marathi film ‘Rakhandaar‘.
Recently, she released the music of this film at the hands of veteran actor Ramesh Deo. On this occasion, the trailer of this film was also released. All the main artistes and unit members were present on the occasion.
Rakhandaar’s story revolves around a simple boy. His simplicity always creates trouble for him. However, every time he is saved by a supernatural powers testing his character and strength.
The film stars Ajinkya Deo along with Jitendra Joshi, Anuja Sathe, Satish Pulekar, Ravindra Mahajani, Hansraj Jagtap & Anup Choudhary. Written by Anand More, the film’s cinematography is by Jahangir Choudhary & music by Samir Fatarphekar. The film is due for release on 26th September.
‘Ishq Wala Love’ first look is out
On 2nd Sept ’14, was birthday of Telugu superstar ‘Pawanji Kalyan’, guru and husband of Renu Desai, director of new Marathi film ‘Ishq wala Love‘( IWL) . So, trailer of this film was launched on social networking site, on this occasion.
Renu Desai, producer of a successful movie ‘Mangalashtak Once More‘ before this film, said “Having successfully edited and acted in movies since the age of 20, I wanted to do something different, hence decided to take the mantle of direction. I always wanted to do a love story, but not a plain vanilla one. It had to connect with the youth and also deal with contemporary issues. If you want your movie to be hit, then it’s music should be super hit. There will be a visual treat, because director of photography is none other than legendary Binod Pradhan.” The film is shot across India and picturesque Mauritius.
IWL’s story line deals with a message that you don’t realise what you had until you lose it and what you were missing, until it arrives. It also deals with debate of Relationship v/s Career, in today’s modern world. A 27year old boy, who is passionate about his music, works in a corporate law firm. A 26 years old girl, A very happy go lucky girl, yet having very practical approach, works as an auditor, in a bank. They fall in love at first sight, thinking they are soul mates. Later, when the boy wants a traditional marriage, the girl refuses; saying, ‘marriage will kill love’.
‘Ishq Wala Love‘ is presented by Shree Aadya Films and produced by Akira Films, starring Aadinath Kothare, Sulagna Panigrahi, Suchitra Bandekar, Leena Bhagwat, Bhargavi Chirmule, Sukanya Mone, Satish Pulekar, among others. Soulful and foot tapping music score is by army of music composers, viz. S J Surya, Avinash -Vishwajeet, Sagar-Madhur. Lyrics are by Guru Thakur, Shrirang Godbole, Sandeep Khare, Sangeeta Barve and Tanishk Nabar. Singers are, Mohit Chauhan, Swapnil Bandodkar, Mangesh Borgaonkar, Hrishikesh Ranade, Abhijit Sawant, Vishwajit Joshi, Prashant Patil, Vaishali Samant, Bela Shende, Anandi Joshi, Maithilee Joshi, Kirti Killedar, Neha Rajpal and Ketaki Mategaonkar.
‘Ishq Wala Love‘s Story, screenplay, dialogues, costumes and of course direction is by Renu Desai and the movie is slated for a 10th October’14 release.
Femina Miss India Universe to debut in Marathi movie
It’s ironical that those film personalities, whose mother tongue is Marathi, are reluctant to be associated with Marathi cinema even after finding laurels in national language films. Contrary to this, South Indian regional film actors/actresses who found success in Hindi film industry made it a point to find time specifically, to be part of their regional cinema. Hopefully Marathi cinema may see the change in the attitude of their so called ‘own’ people and garner their support for the betterment of ‘regional’ Marathi cinema.
It’s a refreshing change to see that a ‘Marathi mulgi’ after clinching the title of Miss India Universe 2013, is making a debut in a Marathi movie, ‘Bugadi Majhi Sandli Ga‘, ( BMSG) in spite of few offers from national language films, which were dangling in front of her. She is Manasi Moghe. This ‘beauty with brains’ girl, featured in top 10 finalists of Miss Universe contest, and also bagged Miss Diva 2013 title in the same competition. While talking to the press, she said that she is proud to be a Maharashtrian and is glad that she is entering movie world with a Marathi film because she can hone her acting talent in a film, which is rooted to soil. Also, she liked the strong and powerful subject based on Marathi folklore.
‘Bugadu Mazi Sandli Ga’ is being directed by noted director Mansingh Pawar. In fact the Producer Shyam Singhania confessed that one of the reasons he is associated with this film, is Mansingh Pawar. Mr Singhania is also of the opinion that since he is rooted to the soil of Maharashtra, he preferred producing a Marathi film than any other language film. BMSG is being presented by Von Ryans Entertainment, under the banner Ticket Films. Story Screenplay and Dialogues are by Mansingh Pawar and multiple music directors, Pravin Kumar; Babru Bhosle; Sachin-Dipesh, are looking after the compositions. Along with debutant Manasi Moghe, Mohan Joshi, Deepa Chaphekar, Ramesh Bhatkar, Ila Bhate are also starring in ‘Bugadi Mazi Sandli Ga’.
‘Duniyadari’ is about Dil, Dosti n Prestine Love story
Once addicted, you can’t restrict three things. i.e. Dil, Dosti n Duniyadari. Forthcoming Marathi film “Duniyadari” is an Eastman Color Love Story, which promises to sprinkle the colors of friendship n love from 19th July , across Maharashtra. It’s a much talked about film in Marathi Entertainment Industry.
Suitably tagged as an Eastman Color Love Story, ‘Duniyadari’ is set on the backdrop of 70’s and has relevance to youth of current generation. The film is inspired by a beautiful phase put across by eminent Marathi novelist late Shri Suhas Shirvalkar.
After the completion of the film shooting, Producer & Director Sanjay Jadhav came out with a fantastic concept of making 11 artists from Marathi Film Industry sing a song for this film. The catchy lyrics… Zindagi Zindagi… Doston Ki Duniyadari Mein Haseen Meri Zindagi…happened to be so good, that immediately Sanjay Jadhav came out with the novel idea of getting this friendship song sung by as many artist singers as he could. Above all they sang without any remuneration as they had strong liking to the feel of the song & enjoyed singing it.
Highlight of this film is that it is for the first time that a title song has been sung by 11 leading artists namely: Sachin Pilgaonkar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Sumit Raghavan, Sunil Barve, Prasad Oak, Kedar shinde, Pandharinath Kambli, Siddhartha Jadhav, Vaibhav Mangle, Ankush Chaudhari and Swapnil Joshi, who have rendered their voice for recording this song of ‘Duniyadari’.
The music for this song ‘Zindagi Zindagi’… song has been composed by ‘SAY band’ and lyrics penned by Sachin Pathak alias ‘Yo’ of the same SAY band. A perfect blend of Marathi and Hindi words have been mixed well in the lyrical composition of this song. The music will be released by Nanubhai Jaisi of “Video Palace”. The film’s star cast comprises of Ankush Chaudhari, Swapnil Joshi, Sai Tamhankar, Jitendra Joshi, Urmila Kanetkar, Richa Pariyalli, Varsha Usgaonkar, Uday Tikekar, Sushant Shelar & Uday Sabnis. It’s a dream project of Sanjay Jadhav under banner Dreaming Twenty Four Seven and is presented by ZEE Talkies n Video Palace,with distribution by ESSEL VISION PVT LTD.
Sachin & Satish come together in ‘Sangto Aika’
Landmarc Films’ maiden venture ‘Sangto Aika’ has brought two popular personalities of Marathi Film industry i.e. actor-film maker Sachin Pilgaonkar and well known director Satish Rajwade together for the first time. The film will be released on 2nd October 2014 all over Maharashtra.
The Star cast of this film is led by the evergreen Sachin Pilgaonkar, Bhau Kadam, Vaibhav Mangle, Jagannath Nivangune, Milind Shinde, Pooja Sawant, Madhav Abhyankar, Sanskruti Balgude and veteran Marathi actor Vijay Chavan. Story & Screenplay is by Parag Kulkarni, Dialogues by Sanjay Pawar with Suhas Gujrathi as the Director of Photography. Art Direction is by Nikhil Kovale and Music by Avinash -Vishwajeet.
The film is directed by distinguished director Satish Rajwade, who has given many back-to-back successful films like ‘Premachi Goshta’, ‘Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai’ among others. According to Satish Rajwade , ‘Sanngto Aika’ will offer wholesome entertainment, with solid content with a very good storyline. ” I have always maintained that entertainment is a responsibility and Sanngto Aika falls in the league I have always upheld and tried to deliver. Directing Sachinji was an honour and the experience was very enriching.” he said.
Producer Ms. Vidhi Kasliwal, has been associated with the film industry for several years. Having worked under Mr. Sooraj R. Barjatya, India’s leading Film Director & Producer at Rajshri Productions (P) Ltd., on several films in varied posts. Ms. Kasliwal has worked as an associate director on the well-known movies – ‘Vivah’, and ‘Ek Vivaah… aisa bhi’, earlier. She has also written and directed a youth based film ‘Isi Life mein…!’ in 2010.
Sulachana Didi is all praise for Citylight Marathi Film Fest
The grand old lady of Marathi Cinema- Sulochana Didi was present at the closing ceremony of week long Marathi film festival hosted by Citylight Cinema, Mumbai. On this occasion, she also unveiled the poster of the much awaited Marathi film ‘Rege’, in presence of the artistes of this film and director by Abhijit Panse. Sulochana Didi thanked Thakur family members for taking such an initiative of hosting Marathi film festival in a big way, at a time when Marathi films are facing the problem of availability of sufficient theatres.
Mr. Abhijit Panse, who also spoke on the occasion, thanked the film’s distributor Ravi Jadhav and other artistes. Mr. Mahesh Manjrekar who is performing in this film, was also all praise for this festival . Besides Sulochana Didi, some other dignitaries who were also felicitated by Sai Thakur of Citylight Cinema, on the concluding day of the festival were : Mr. Sushil Jadhav, Vinayak Jadhav & Ravi Parkar of Lokmanya Multipurpose Society, Mr.Ravi Jadhav, Mr.Abhijit Panse, Anant Jog, Pushkar Shrotri,Santosh Juvekar, Nilesh Divekar & Viju Mane.
Santosh Phutane, Kamlakar Tanawade bag technical State awards
The first round of Maharastra State Film awards have been declared. Among them are winners of the technical awards. Santosh Phutane finds his name for best art direction in the film ‘Maat’, while Avinash – Arun adjudged as best cinematographer for the film ‘Vees Manjhe Vees’. The best editing award will go to Deepak Virkut and Vilas Ranade for the film ‘Ranabhoomi’, while best sound design award will go to Resul Pookutty & Amrut Datta. The Best Costume designing award will go to Premita Jadhav and Harshada Khanvilkar , while best publicity design award goes to Shree Venkateshwara Films for the film 1909. Rohit Uttekar & Tejashree Walawalkar share the best child artiste award for their performances in the films ‘Tapal’ and ‘Maat’ respectively.
There are 15 films shortlisted for nominations to final round. They are : ‘Avtarachi Goshta’, ‘Jaijaykar’, ‘Pitruroon’, ‘Yashwantrao Chavan…’ ‘Kapuskondyachi Goshta’, ‘Rangakarmi’, ‘Maat’ , ‘Astu’, ‘Thoda Tujha Thoda Majha’, ‘ Dr.Prakash Baba Amte’, ’72 Miles’, ‘Duniyadari’, ‘Aajcha Diwas Majha’, ‘Tapal’, & ‘Waghi’. In the best actor’s category there are following nominees for the final round. They are Dilip Prabhavalkar, Ashok Lokhande & Sachin Khedekar while those in the final round of nominations in the best actress category are : Smita tambe, Iravati harshe & Mrunal Kulkarni.