‘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.
Manva Naik reveals first look of her film ‘PorBazar’
Well, Marathi Actress & Anchor Manava Naik is all set to present herself in a new role. Her new directorial venture ‘Por Bazar’ was revealed with first look and poster launch in Mumbai, recently. After perusing her film making course from New York in 2011, Manva made her first feature film “DOPHERI”, which won Best Film award at Nashik Film Festival. She also received an award for The Best Director at Sangli Film Festival and the Best Emerging Filmmaker award at Kashish Queer Film Festival, Mumbai, in 2013.
Now, her film ‘Por Bazar’ made under the banner Strawberry Films, introduce 5 new faces, namely- Satya Manjrekar, Dharmaj Joshi, Anurag Worlikar, Sakheel Parchure & Swarangi Marathe . During the event, Swarangi Marathe was introduced by Sai Tamhankar, Anurag Worlikar was introduced by Ankush Chaudhari , Satya Manjrekar by his father Mahesh Manjrekar (Renowned Director & Actor), Sakeel Parchure by her father Atul Parchure (Renowned Actor) & Dharmaj Joshi by his father Manoj Joshi (Renowned Actor). The Unveiling of the Poster was done by Mr.Madhukar Pichad (NCP President) in presence of other star cast of the film.
Por Bazaar is the story of five youngsters, namely Ajay, Manjiri, Samar, Vishal and Raghini, who often bunk lectures and go to cinema halls, parks and other places for time pass. On one such occasion when they are hanging out, they encounter a weird house and few people in it. The movie then shows the adventure of these inquisitive 5, who get intrigued by this house, the people there and eventually enter the house to reveal a truth.
Produced by Ashwini Ranjit Darekar, the film’s screenplay and dialogues are written by Parag Kulkarni. DOP is by Dhanajay Kulkarni, choreography by Umesh Jadhav, Sonia Parchure and music by Shailendra Barve. The other important artistes of the film are Ankush Chaudhari, Sai Tamhankar, Chitra Nawathe, Swanand Kirkire, Prajakta Dighe, Kamlakar Nadkarni, Shantanu Gangavne & Vikas Patil.
Marathi film to be made in Tamil, before its release
Generally we hear about the remakes of Tamil films in Hindi or other regional languages. But, now it will happen the other way. Marathi film ‘Mukkam Post Dhanori’ which is in news before its official release, has received an offer from a tamil film maker for its remake in Tamil. It so happened that Mr. Sanjiv Rao from Bangalore was on a business visit to Pune. When he visited the studio of Kedar Athavale, he happened to watch the clippings of ‘Mukkam Post Dhanori’. which was being processed there.
The visitor was so impressed by the story and production techniques in this film that he met producer – director Sudarshan Varale & Mahesh Rajmane and expressed his desire to remake this film in Tamil. Obviously, they agreed for the same. The work on Tamil version of this film begins at the end of the year, while the Marathi film will be released on 26th June 2014.
‘Daptar’, ‘Dhadas’ & ‘Tujhi Majhi Love Story’ for Friday release
Everybody talks about the burden of books a school student has to carry on his shoulders, besides the pressure of studies and the stress suffered due to high expectations from the parents and teachers. Now, writer director Pundalik Dhumal has given cinematic form to these issues and has showed the solution through his latest film ‘Daptar – The School Bag’ which will be released on Friday June 20th. The highlight of this film is that popular Bollywood actor Tom Alter will be making his debut in Marathi, with an important role through this film.
‘Daptar’ also stars child artistes Yash Shah and Tanvi Kamat along with Dr. Anjana Shah , Dr. Abhay kamat with others. Music by ‘Taptapadi’ fame Rohit Nagbhide and cinematography by Tapan Vyas are other credits.
Another film comes from a group of young artistes and technicians; who have shown their guts in making this Marathi film aptly titled ‘Dhadas’, which will also be released on Friday. Directed by Pramod Shivram Sawant under the banner of Sai Siddhi Movies, the film presents a story of three collegians, who have planned their career; but a happening of an event changes their life. Starring Rohit Dalvi, Vishal Khair, Praveen Shigan, Julisha Raut & Priya Mawa, the film also stars Sanjay Mone and Atul Todankar.
Third film to be released on the same day is ‘Tujhi Majhi Love Story’ (TMLS) starring Gaurav Ghatnekar and Shruti Marathe. Clearly indicating through its title , this film is a love story, directed by ‘Picnic’ fame Rushikesh More. It is a story of a 23 year old Indraneel from Mumbai, with his interests in painting and photography and Aditi a sensible matured youngster from Goa, who happens to be Indraneel’s elder sister’s friend. With the music by Bapi Tutul, the four songs of this film have already popularised on social networking sites.
So, let us wait and see, which film is able to invite the audience to the theatres, on friday.
‘Yashwanti’ – the historical mountain lizard will come alive on Marathi screen
Inspired by the animated character featured in movies like ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Life of a Pie’ producers Dadasaheb Shinde and Nikhil Bhagat are now making a Marathi film ‘Yashwanti’. For the past three years both of them were working on the creation of this animated character of the mountain lizard, which has a big relevance to Maharashtra’s history. On Saturday evening, they announced the launch of their film, with the release of film’s specially designed poster and disclosing the animated character, which will be part of the film’s story, happening in the modern time.
Actually, in history of Maharashtra, ‘Yashwanti’ has a special significance during Shivaji’s time, when a steep cliff leading to the fort was scaled by Tanaji and his team with the help of this domesticated mountain lizard colloquially known as a ‘ghorpad’ in Marathi.
The film is to be directed by Jalinder Kumbhar and the screenplay and dialogues are being written by Sanjay Pawar. Actually, the film’s poster was to be unveiled by film maker Mahesh Manjrekar, who was the guest of honour; but, since he could not reach in time, the film’s artistes did that job. Mr. Manjrekar, who later arrived, felicitated all the unit members of the film, who were present on the occasion, for this press conference.
Very confident about their film’s story, both Dadasaheb and Nikhil felt that it was the first experiment to be tried in Marathi on the lines of Hollywood. “There are many films, with animated characters linked with the live characters in the film; but the film should have a good script, to keep the audience engaged.” said Dadasaheb Shinde. Director Jalinder Kumbhar said that he was all excited to work on such a subject, while screenplay and dialogue writer Sanjay Pawar said that it was a challenge for him, to work on such an unusual script.
Suparna Shyam, who is making her debut in Marathi films, was dressed up in black western outfit, for this occasion. She has been paired with Amey Wagh, who is also making his debut as a hero; as he has only performed character roles in Marathi films before. Pooja Pawar Salunkhe, is now making a comeback to Marathi films, after a long gap. She too plays an important role in this film, along with another talented actress Pari Telang ( ‘Lakshya’ serial fame) . All of them were present on this occasion, along with Shubhangi Latkar and other unit members, finalised so far. The other artistes of the film are Kishore Kadam, Rahul Solapurkar, Vidyadhar Joshi, Sagar Talashikar & Mangesh kadam.
Sandeep Patil will be the cinematographer of this film, while Sidharth Tatoskar will be the art director. Executive producer Praveen Wankhede, editing by Asish Mhatre and music by Avinash Vishwajeet are the other credits. The actual shooting of this film will begin soon.