Candle March all set to release on 28th November
Chanakya Creations have completed the shooting and post production work of their forthcoming Marathi film ‘Candle March’ and the film is now all set to release on 28th November 2014. The story of this film is set on the back drop of injustice on women. The film is based on true story revolving around four female protagonists, who are sexually harassed. There are chain of events, which connects all the four protagonists to fight against the system and injustice. The story is majorly inspired from the known incidences of sex scandals in India.
The film’s star cast comprises of Tejaswini Pandit, Smita Tambe, Manava Naik and Sayali Sahastrbudhye along with Ashish Pathade. The negative role, which depicts the grey shade of our society, is enacted by Nilesh Diwekar. The film is produced by Anjali Gawde and Nilesh Gawde directed by debutant Sachin Dev. Cinematography is by Raja Satankar, while music is given by Amitraj.
Arun Irani returns to Marathi with ‘Bol Baby Bol’
Popular Bollywood actress Aruna Irani had performed in few Marathi films 20 years ago. Now, she is returning back to Marathi through forthcoming Marathi film ‘Bol Baby Bol’ in which she is playing an important character of Durgadevi. The film is produced by Arun Irani’s brother Balraj Irani and directed by late Vinay Laad.
The other artistes of this comedy film are Makarand Anaspure, Aniket Vishwasrao, Neha Pendse, Siya Patil, Vijay Chavan, Archana Gawde, Suresh Sawant and others. Prominent singers from Marathi film industry have rendered their voices for songs in this film, on the music of Nishikant Sadafule. The film is all set to release on 6th November 2014.
Madhu Mangesh Karnik to write dialogues for ‘Shaali’
Padmashri Madhu Mangesh Karnik , famous for his literary works in Marathi literature, was the chief guest at the Muhurat of a new Marathi film ‘Shalee’, which is being produced by Jaysingh Satam under the banner of ‘Kanak Entertainment‘. The story of the film has been adapted from late Shankar Patil’s novel ‘Sharee’ by Atul Samant who is responsible for direction and screenplay too. Reportedly speaking on the occasion, Mr Karnik said “Many great writers like H N Apte, Aachrya Atre, Shanta Shelke, G D Madgulkar, Vyankatesh Madgulkar, P Savlaram, Vijay Tendulkar have contributed for the marathi films in the past. When approached, I liked the story. So I decided to write dialogues for this film ‘Shalee’.”
Director Atul Satam has been associated with amateur, experimental as well as professional Marathi theatre for a long time, also dabbling with direction of short films and documentaries. The story of ‘Shalee’ has a backdrop of natural beauty of Konkan region and almost 90% of the film is going to be shot there. The film’s story takes place in the 70-80s period depicting behavioural patterns of people of the region which is said to have tough exterior but soft and loving hearts. The regional festivals, customs, traditions and folk culture will be displayed with authenticity in the film, claims the maker.
The Muhurat took place in the presence of complete team of the film at Suresh Wadkar’s Aajivasan studio by recording a song composed by music director Vijay Narayan Gavavde, written by Guru Thakur and voice rendered by Bela Shende
Zee Marathi in-house Tv awards 2014 presented in style
Every family has moments of success, which calls for celebrations. Every member of the family gets into festive mood of merry and enjoyment. Likewise Zee Marathi family was no exception while celebrating Zee Marathi TV awards 2014, in a packed auditorium of Bhaidas Hall at Vile Parle. This in-house awards ceremony, was to celebrate relationships of their own people, their own family.
Each year Zee Marathi holds an awards show, that celebrates and honours in-house talent with gaiety and great festivity. Bundle of celebrities of Marathi film and television fraternity, attended in abundance. Zee Marathi’s popular stars coupled with cast and crew were also part of this show. The show was compared by Sumit Raghavan, who was later joined by Priyadarshan Jadhav, kept audience interested in the proceedings, with their rehearsed comedy and impromptu one-liners. Chalta Hava Yeu Dhya team kept the funny bone tickling with comedy skits. But, the one which won the hearts of the attendees, was a splendid, captivating performance by a sister duo, M S Lavanya and M S Subbulaxmi, on saxophone. They being first female saxophone players in India, which got standing ovation.
Senior, not so young, popular artists from TV serials were given an opportunity to show their dancing skills, which received loud cheering and good round of applause. All lead pairs from current serials on Zee Marathi, presented dance numbers on Hindi film chart busters ; and a cute moment was when at the end of their performance, all pairs had a impromptu jig in aisles of the auditorium which added a festive aura to the entire celebrations.
Promos and trailers of films, Dr. Prakash Baba Aamte, Elizabeth Ekadashi, Pyar Wali Love Story, were screened. At the fag end of the show, evergreen Sachin Pilgaonkar unveiled new Theme song of Zee. Along with awards for artistic excellence, technical excellence awards and a few Special awards were presented. Some of the awardees being – Lalit Prabhakar, Nilesh Sable & Tejashree Pradhan.
Chintamani’ first look out
Talented Marathi artistes Bharat Jadhav and Amruta Subhash are coming together for the first time in a forthcoming Marathi film, made by Sangita Balachandran. The first look of this film was released recently, in presence of artistes and crew members of the film. The film is all set to release on 31st October 2014.
The film’s story is about a common man living in a Mumbai chawl, who cannot fulfil the needs of his family. But, one particular day an advertisement in a newspaper brings sudden change in his life. Along with Bharat and Amruta, the other artistes performing in the film are Milind Shinde, Uday Tikekar, Hemangi Rao, Kamalesh Sawant, Jairaj Nair, Kishor Pradhan , Shobha Pradhan, Madhav Devchakke & Monika Dabde.
Story by Deepak Anant Bhave, screenplay dialogues by Kiran Kulkarni & Pallavi karkera, music by Sanjeev Kohli and camera by Suresh Suvarna are other credits of this film.
Marathi Film Industry finds a new face in Mrinmai Kolwalkar
Every year, there are at least about 7 to 8 newcomers, entering Marathi film industry. Most of them are fresh faces. This year itself, we have noticed two beauty queens joining Marathi films, besides others from the field of modelling. Now, Mrinmai Kolwalkar who has advertised for brands like L’oreal, Garden series and Dinesh suitings; is making her debut in Marathi through Alok Srivastav’s forthcoming film ‘Miss Match‘ to be directed by Girish Vasaikar. Bhooshan Pradhan is playing lead role opposite her in this film, which will be released sometime in November, this year.
As suggested by the title of the film, it is a story of love, where the lead girl of this film, seeks two years time from her father, to find suitable match for her marriage. So, Mrunmai has good scope in her debut film. Script of this film is penned by Nitin Dixit, while prominent singers like Asha Bhosale, Bela Shende, Hariharan, Sonu Nigam, Avadhoot Gupte have rendered songs in this film on the music of Manas.
The film’s other artistes are, Bhau kadam, Uday Tikekar & Jaywant Bhalekar.
Phuntroo’ will be a sci- fi love story
Young and talented Ketaki Mategaonkar seems to be lucky mascot for director Sujay Dahake. They have worked together earlier in ‘Shaala‘ which won the Silver Lotus award at 59th National Film Awards in the ‘Best Feature Film in Marathi’ category. The film got accolades all over India and abroad for its content. However, Sujay’s second film ‘Aajoba‘ was not well appreciated by the audience, in spite of having Urmila Matondkar in the lead and she doing her first Marathi movie.
Now, Producers of ‘Taani‘ (which fetched two major Maharashtra State Awards), Vandana Thakur and Ajay Thakur under the banner of V Patke films are coming out with a new Marathi film ‘Phuntroo‘. Claimed to be the first of its kind, on Marathi screen, it’s a love story with a backdrop of science fiction, to be directed by Sujay Dahake. The makers have signed Ketaki Mategaonkar in the lead, who is thoroughly exited to do something thrilling, while rest of the cast is yet to be finalised.
Much awaited ‘Avatarachi Gostha’ to release soon
Since our childhood we have been hearing stories of incarnation of God, from elderly people in the family. What would happen if the child starts behaving, as if he is manifestation of God ? Producer Sachin Salunkhe has used this theme in his forthcoming film ‘Avatarachi Goshta’ , which is directed by Nitin Dixit on his own script.
The film presents Mihiresh Joshi and Yash Kulkarni as debutant child artistes through this film. The other important artistes of the film are Adinath Kothare, Sulabha Deshpande, Sunil Abhyankar, Leena Bhagwat, and Rashmi Khedekar.
‘Avatarachi Goshta’ has already been honoured with Best Film, Best Dialogues and Best Direction Awards at the 51st Maharashtra State Marathi Film Awards 2014. At the Zee Gaurav 2014 the film received the honours for Best Film, Best Story, Best Dialogue and also the Best Supporting Actress. Even at Sahyadri Cine Awards 2014, the film received the Best Film, Best Story and Best Child Artists’ award.
The film is also doing good promotion on social networking site by creating a buzz through comic stripes, which has invited the attention of many viewers. The film is now ready for release.
Technically, ‘Ishq wala Love’ is the best Marathi film, done so far’ – Renu Desai
In the recent times, lots of Non-Maharashtrian names are appearing in the credits of the Marathi films as producers. It’s a welcome trend, as Marathi movie audience are witnessing bigger, brighter movies at theatres.
One such producer, born to Gujarati parents, brought up in cultural capital of Maharashtra, Pune, a former model and a big star of Telugu movies who has produced a successful Marathi movie ‘Mangalashtak Once More‘ and now she is producing another movie ‘Ishq wala Love‘, in which she is debuting as a director. She is Renu Desai.
While talking to Marathi Movie World (MMW) she candidly said “I make cinema for the love of cinema and not for money. Since this is my debut film as a director, I have ensured that the best technical team is available, without any compromises, on the production front. The top 4 pillars are handled by some of the best professionals in the film industry. Art direction is by Kshamata. We are using Auro 3D sound 11.1 (normally its 5.1). Yash Raj film’s editor is handling editing. And not to forget legendary Binod Pradhan, an ace cinematographer, who has impeccably captured the beauty of Mauritius (where major part of the film is shot) like no one else. Technically, my film is the best Marathi film done so far.”
MMW asked, whether there were too many love stories doing rounds in the recent times, Renu said, “Ishq wala Love was to be released in July this year, but got delayed due to technical reasons. And I think it’s just coincidence that all these films are coming around the same time.’ This movie has a twin brother as it is being dubbed in Telugu.” Since lots of Telugu fans and well wishers wanted to watch movie directed by her, decision of dubbing in Telugu was taken at the last minute. Incidentally, her 10 year old son too is making his film debut through this movie, with an important, though small, role.
Artists of this movie, Aadinath Kothare, Sulagna Panigrahi, Bhargavi Chirmule were also interacting with media in a jovial manner. Aadinath said that he looks fabulous in this movie, only because of the cinematographer Binod Pradan’s magical camera work. Sulagna was laughing when saying, “My co-actors used to be sort of tensed, for the fear whether I would say my dialogues properly or not. But they have been very supportive.” Bhargavi confessed that, she to be filmed by Binod Pradhan enticed her to do Sulgna’s sister’s role.
Renu Desai has 3 films lined up, 1 Marathi to be directed by her,1hindi to be produced and directed, and 1 Telugu to be produced by her. But, let us first wait for the release of ‘Ishq wala Love‘.
Tapaal’ will be delivered to audience on 26th Sept
Having made its impact at various international film festivals, finally Marathi film ‘Tapaal‘ will be delivered to the audience on 26th September 2014. Well known cinematographer of bollywood films like ‘English Vinglish‘, ‘Boss‘ and ‘Blue‘, is all set to make his debut as a director, through this film, besides doing the cinematography and writing dialogues.
It may be recalled that ‘Tapaal‘ was premiered at South Korea’s Busan Int. Film Festival, where it received a good response. the film also won best actress award for Veena Jamkar at the South African film festival, for Indian films. Recently, at the Maharashtra State Awards child actor of this film Rohit Utekar and lyricist Prakash Holkar won awards. And, hence the film has raised a lot of curiosity, about its subject.
‘Tapaal’ stars Nandu Madhav, Rohit Utekar, Veena Jamkar, Urmila Matondkar, Jaywant Wadkar,Ganga Gogavle and Milind Gunaji in special appearance. The unique story of this film is written by Mangesh Hadavale.