Fun filled Song for ‘Vitti Dandu’ picturised on children
Many traditional Indian sports have taken a back seat, after popularisation of games like Cricket, Football and Tennis among the new generation. But, still we find the films glimpse of some of the Indian sports in Marathi films of the recent past. Forthcoming Marathi film ‘Vitti Dandu’ is set on the backdrop of this original Indian sport, incorporating lot of fun and excitement. Recently, producer Leena Devre, director Ganesh Kadam and choreographer Deepali Vichare picturised a funny song “Khelu Chala Viti dandu….Govinda Govinda…” on child artiste Nishant Bhavsar and other children.
Penned by Shrirang Godbole, the song is rendered by Meghana Mishra on the music of Santosh Mulekar. Actor and writer Vikas Kadam has written the story and screenplay of this film, with the dialogues written by Abhiram Bhadkamkar. Besides the child artiste Nishant Bhavsar Mr. Dilip Prabhavalkar plays an important role of a grandfather in this film. The other artistes of the film are Ravindra Mankani, Yatin karyekar, Ashok Samarth,Vikas Kadam, Mrunal Thakur, Gauhar Khan, Shubhankar Atre, Radhika Devare and others.
Editing by Jayant Jathar & cinematography by Shailesh Awasthi are the other credits.
Sad demise of Kuldeep Pawar
Well known Marathi veteran actor Kudeep Pawar is no more. He passed away at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, today evening, where he was being treated for sometime. Originally from Kolhapur, Kuldeep Pawar had performed as a hero in many hit films of 80s , which comprised of ‘Jhaatyache Jaale’, ‘Darodekhor’, ‘Bin Kamacha Navra’ , ‘Shapit’, ‘Are Sansar Sansar’, ‘Sarja’, ‘Gosht Dhamal Namyachi’ , ‘Ekapeksha Ek’, ‘Vajir’ and ‘Shrinath’, ‘Mhaskobacha Changabhala’ and later performed character roles in many films in 90s and till recently. He was last seen in an important role in the film ‘Sat-na-Gat’.
Kuldeep Pawar also acted in the lead role in famous Marathi detective serial ‘Paramveer’ in 1990, followed by his performance in Hindi serial ‘Tu Tu Main Main’. He had also performed on stage and his performances in ‘Ashrunchi Jhali Phule’ and ‘Pati Majhe Uchapati’ were appreciated by many drama lovers. He also performed in few Hindi films like ‘Doodh Ka Karz’ and ‘Jeet’ .
MarathiMovieWorld.com pays sincere tributes to his departed soul.
Marathi stars attend Diamond Jubilee show of ‘Akhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se’
Launched last year, ‘Akhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se’ Musical programme presented by Nandu Kadam of Sonal Productions has been inviting attention of many music lovers. With a group of 54 people, the show presents all 32 blind singers and musicians on stage to display their enormous talent. Based on the songs of 50s 60s 70s and 80s era, the show is directed by Mangesh Kadam and brilliantly anchored by young popular stage – TV actor Sachin Suresh.
Yesterday evening, the show celebrated their Diamond Jubilee, by inviting some celebrities from Marathi film and television industry. Popular Marathi actor Pushkar Shrotri who was the guest of honour, initially wished the presenter and veteran actor Mr. Ashok Muley and wished the team of ‘Akhiyon Ke Jharokon Se’ all the best. He also appealed to the audience to spread across a word about the wonderful presentation of this talented group. Renowned Marathi actress Amruta Subhash, released a audio CD ‘Sai Ki Pukar’ presented by Sonal Productions and also recited a poem in honour of the singers in the music group. The audio CD has 10 songs in the voices of Neha Rajpal and other blind singers from this group. Music is by Bipin Vartak and the Music arranger is Harshad Jadhav.
Among others who graced the occasion were Sunil Barve and his wife, Sanjay Mone, Shilpa Tulaskar, Megha Ghadge and others. Actress Megha Ghadge seemed to be totally engrossed in this show. She was noticed applauding all the singers, for their performance, including the act of Mimicry artist Buddhaghosh Kasare, who could not control her laughter. While speaking to Marathi Movie World, during the break, Megha said that she was repenting as to why she had not seen this programme before. “When I came here today, I didn’t have more expectations; but, they all have not only entertained me; but also made me think how happy they are in the company of music. Indeed, this programme very inspiring!” she said. Sunil Barve, Sanjay Mone and Shilpa Tulaskar expressed their gratitude to the director of the show Mangesh kadam for presenting this unusual musical show.
The show is being presented by the team of Nandu Kadam, Mangesh Kadam and Ashok Muley, without any sponsor. After watching this programme, it is earnestly felt that the sponsors should come with a helping hand and more and more people should watch this show, to boost the morale of these talented blind singers and musicians.
G. R. Kamat & Shrikant Moghe conferred with Zee Jeevan Gaurav 2014
The popular Zee Gaurav awards 2014, presented by Sunsilk, for Marathi films and Dramas were distributed yesterday late in the evening at MMRDA Grounds at Bandra Kurla Complex. Two renowned personalities are honoured every year during this yearly award function and this year’s beneficiaries were Mr. G. R. Kamat, well known screenplay writer of Marathi and Bollywood films, since 1948; and renowned Marathi actor Shrikant Moghe, who has completed 50 years of acting in Marathi films. While Mr. G. R .Kamat could not come personally, he was greeted at his residence by well known Marathi director Rajdutt. But, his wife Rekha Kamat received the award and citation on his behalf. Shrikant Moghe, had come from Pune to receive his award, in spite of losing his brother few days ago.
Known for his valuable contribution to Marathi and Hindi films, Mr. G. R. Kamat has written screenplay for many hit films like ‘Pedgaonche Shahane’, ‘Lakachi Goshta’ ( In Marathi) had also written the screenplay of ‘Bombai ka Babu’, ‘Kala Pani’,’Mera gaon Mera Desh’, ‘Mera Sayaa’, ‘Pukar’, ‘Do Raste’, ‘Do Chor’, ‘Main Tulsi tere Aangan Ki’, ‘Basera’, ‘Manchali’ ‘Kacche Dhage’ and others in Hindi. Mr. Shrikant Moghe, veteran Marathi actor who began his theatre with late P. L. Deshpande, was praised for his performances in hit Marathi plays ‘Varyavarchi Varaat’, ‘Lekure Udand Jhali’, ‘Garudjhep’, ‘Mritunjay’ , ‘Alexander’ and many Marathi films including ‘Prapanch’ ‘Daiva Janile kuni’, ‘Donhi Gharcha pahuna’ ‘Shevatcha Malusara’ ,’Aamhi Jato Aamchya Gava’ and others. Rekha kamat while receiving the award on behalf of her husband, thanked Zee Gaurav for remembering her husband’s valuable contribution. She said that it was a tribute to his Gurus and the audience who loved his films. Mr. Shrikant Moghe, dedicated this award to his dear brother Sudhir Moghe, who passed away few days ago.
Beginning the event an hour behind the schedule, the Sa Re Ga Ma participants of the Zee Marathi Music reality show, presented a welcome song and then began the awards presentation with technical awards section. Ankush Choudhary and Sai Tamhankar anchored the Zee Gaurav show for the first time, instead of the regular Zee Gaurav anchor Pushkar Shrotri, who was spotted in the audience section. This time, there were no political leaders, except for Abhijit Panse, who was nominated and won two awards, for his film ‘Rege’.
The very first parody presented by well known comedians from Marathi film and television was based on the current political scenario in the country; which was very well presented to generate spontaneous laughter among the audience. It was a well written script, which clearly highlighted the attitude of some of the politicians, always in news. Another batch of artistes performed a skit on few senior citizens gossiping about beautiful girls, at a garden. Umesh kamat and Priya kamat presented a dance based on love, while popular Bollywood singer Tochi Raina presented few songs in the company of group dancers. The huge set nicely decorated for the purpose, was only used well, by the dancers, who performed on Raina’s songs.
In the experimental Marathi plays section , ‘Lejhim Khelnari Pora’, ‘Price tag’, ‘Hijara’ and ‘Tu Aani Mee’ bagged 3, 2, 2 & 2 awards respectively, in different categories; while in professional plays category, ‘The Death of a Conqueror’, ‘Get Well Soon’ & ‘Mr Aani Mrs’ shared the honours; but in the best actor and best actress category Mohan Joshi and Reema Lagoo proved their supremacy. Mohan Joshi , who bagged this award for third consecutive year, declared that he should not be considered for nomination from next year onwards, as he was satisfied with the awards received by him so far.
In the Marathi Film’s section, there were many surprises; but ‘Duniyadari’ managed to bag 4 popular/ technical and two special awards. ‘Avatarachi Goshta’ bagged four awards, while ‘Rege’ bagged 3 popular/technical awards. ‘Fandry’ received 2 awards in the categories expected. But, ‘Astu’ bagged two awards i.e. Best actor – Dr. Mohan Agashe and Best actress Iravati Harshey, in popular categories, giving a surprise to everyone present there. The film was nominated in four sections. ‘Dr. Prakash Amte’ film received the most awaited film award, while ‘Duniyadari’ received the Special Popularity award. But, the best Marathi film award went to ‘Avatarachi Goshta’. ‘A Rainy day’ bagged two technical awards. Shalmali Kholgade received the special award in the ‘Marathi Paul Padate Pudhe’ Section, this year, for her progress in Bollywood.
Many prominent personalities from the Marathi television were present on the occasion, including the team of ‘Honar Sunn Mi Hya Gharchi’ and ‘Eka Lagnachi Teesari Goshta’. Dr.Jabbar Patel, Arun kakade, Kamlakar Sontakke, Rajdutt, Mahesh Kothare, Avadhoot Gupte, Kedar Shinde,Ravi Jadhav, Sanjay Jadhav were some of the prominent personalities noticed at the event. Among other popular artistes, Siddharth Jadhav Aadesh Bandekar, Arun Tikekar ( Babaji) Mrunal Kulkarni, Adinath,Urmila Kanetkar Kothare, Kranti Redkar, Meena Naik, Manasi Naik, Hemangi kavi Dhumal and the team members of popular detective serial ‘Asmita’ were also noticed. Ramesh Bhatkar, Vaibhav Mangale, Sanjay Mone, Sunil Tawde, Anand Ingale, Suhas Parajape, Kushal Badrike, Bhau kadam, Supriya Pathare, Hrishikesh Joshi, Sagar karande, Bharat ganeshpure, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Priya Marathe and many other stage artistes, were among the performers.
Sumeet Raghavan to make his film debut through ‘Sandook’
Sumeet Raghavan, who is an established actor on Marathi stage, has also been doing well on Hindi television. He is now all set to make his debut in Marathi films, through Atul kale directed new Marathi film ‘Sandook’.
The film is set on the backdrop of 1940’s era and will be an action filled comedy film. The other two renowned actors who have been signed along with Sumeet are Sharad Ponkshe and Arun Nalawade.Sumeet, who is a childhood friend of Director Atul Kale, agreed to do this film, because of the script, which impressed him.
Vishu Gaikwad, who had earlier made a film ‘Yedyanchi Jatra’ is producing this film. Cinematography by Ajit Reddy, Art direction by Mahesh Kudalkar, Lyrics by Guru Thakur and music by Ajit samir are other credits.
‘Ek Hazarachi Note’ first look released
Producer director Shrihari Sathe who is making his debut as a director, released the first look of his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Ek hazarachi Note’ today afternoon, in Mumbai. This is the debut film of Shrihari as a director, who as a producer has produced two full length English films in USA. These films titled ‘Parvartigo’ and ‘It felt like Love’ were shown at various International film festivals.
‘Ek Hazarachi Note’ which is set on the backdrop of a village comprising of poor people, stars renowned Marathi artistes like Usha Naik, Sandeep Phatak, Shrikant Yadav, Pooja Nayak, & Devendra Gaikwad. The film’s story is written by Shrikant Bojewar, while the cinematography is by Ming Kai Luing ( From USA) and sound design by Thorston Mining from Germany.
‘Fandry’ and ‘Duniyadari’ to fight for Zee Gaurav awards
Besides fighting for ‘Best Film award’ in Zee Gaurav Puraskar, scheduled for 20th March 2014, two popular films of recent past ‘Fandry’ and ‘Duniyadari’ will also be fighting together in the categories like best direction & best supporting actress category. While ‘Fandry’ received separate nominations in the best editing, best cinematography, best child actor, best supporting actor, besides the three nominations mentioned above, ‘Duniyadari’ has received nominations in 11 categories separately, other than the three mentioned above.
Surprisingly, ‘Time Pass’ which was hit film of the recent past, after ‘Duniyadari’ hasn’t received many nominations, compared to these two films, except for the three nominations received in Best Singer ( male), Best music and best dialogues. However, there are surprise inclusion of films like ‘Avtarachi Goshta’, ‘Rege’, and ‘Astu’ in the best film category, to compete with ‘Duniyadari’ and ‘Fandry’. Incidentally, ‘Rege’, ‘Astu’ and ‘Avatarachi Goshta’ have also found nominations in few other categories too.
In the Marathi drama section of professional group, ‘The Death of a Conqueror’ , ‘Mr.& Mrs.’, ‘Thodasa magic Thodasa Logic’, ‘Ekada Pahava Na Karun’, & ‘Get Well Soon’ will fight for best Professional Drama category; while ‘Tu aani Mee’, ‘Price Tag’, ‘Lejhim Khelnari Pora’, ‘Cross Road’, & ‘Eka Gurkhyache Mahakavya’, will fight in the best experimental play category.
This time in the Zee Gaurav Awards committee the Jury comprising of Kanchan Nayak, Writer Girish Joshi, and Amar Mohile looked after the film section, while Ravindra Divekar, Vijay kenkre and Pradeep Rane were in charge of the professional dramas and the team comprising of Dr. Bandivadekar, Sanjay Mone and Vivek Lagoo were the Jury for Experimental plays selection.
Renowned Marathi poet & lyricist Sudhir Moghe is no more
Renowned Marathi Poet, lyricist and music director Sudhir Moghe is no more. He passed away due to brain haemorrhage at Dinanaath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune, sometime back. His body will be kept at his Karve Road residence for sometime. According to reliable sources, he will be cremated at Vaikunth, Pune, today evening itself. Many prominent personalities from Marathi entertainment industry have expressed grief, on his death.
Known for some of his popular albums like ‘Adnyat TeerthaYatra’ ‘Bhannat Raan Vara’ ‘Mastit Bhetashil Kevha Majhiya’ ‘Majhe Man Tujhe Jhale’ ‘Ranguni Rangat Sarya’. Sudhir Moghe had penned lyrics for about 50 Marathi films, including some popular films like ;Aatmavishwas’, ‘Ek Daav Bhootacha’, ‘Kalat Nakalat’, ‘Janaki’, ‘Choukat Raja’. The most popular songs penned by him ‘Gomu Sangatine Majhya Tu…; and ‘Ratris Khel Chale..’, ‘Phite Andharache Jaale..’ are still fresh in the memory of music lovers in Maharashtra. Sudhir Moghe had also composed music for popular period TV serial ‘Swami’. Having won several state awards including the Dinanath Mangeshkar award for his contribution to music field, he was highly respected personality. MarathiMovieWorld.com prays for his soul to rest in peace.
‘Campus Katta’ music launched at Pune’s Shanivarwada
The city of Pune, which is known for its importance in historical events in the past. And, ‘Shaniwarvada’ is one such place, which reminds all of us of its history. Producers Gadve family and director Sanjeev Kolte had an occasion to celebrate at this venue recently. The music of their forthcoming film ‘Campus Katta’ was launched here, in presence of President of dagdusheth Halwai Trust Mr. Ashokrao Godse and popular actor-producer-director Prashant Damle, who were invited as special guests. Also present on the occasion were music director Praveen Kunwar, Avadhoot Gupte, Swapnil Bandodkar, Bela Shende,Kirti Shilledar, Anandi Joshi, Santosh Juvekar, Sheetal Dabholkar, Rahul Dongre and others.
Few compositions from this film were presented by the singers, supported by Santosh Juvekar and Avadhoot Gupte, who joined them. The film stars Vikram Gokhale, Arun nalawade, Kishori Shahane, Swati Chitnis, Santosh Juvekar, Sheetal Dabholkar, Namrata Gaikwad and newcomer Rahul Dongre. Make up by Nitin Dandekar, choreography by Prashant Naik and still photography by Pritish Upasani are other credits.
Atul Kulkarni takes Pune-Goa drive for ‘Happy Journey’
As an actor Atul Kulkarni is known for his perfection and he puts in a lot of hard work to get into the skin of his role in every film. There is a method to his madness and a dedicated effort to excel in his craft. It is evident once again for a new role for a new film titled ‘Happy Journey’.
Happy Journey is produced by Everest Entertainment and is currently under production. The film is being shot in various locales of Pune, Goa, Velhe and Mangaon. A special vehicle (a house on wheels) has been created for this new film. It’s a Tempo Traveller which has been modified in to a CARAVAN by Imran who is an assistant with the master craftsman and car designer Dilip Chhabria.
Atul was not adept in driving this vehicle, and it so happens that in the film Atul has to drive the vehicle in quite a number of scenes. Precision being his forte, Atul immediately focused on learning to drive this vehicle. After getting trained, he drove the vehicle from Pune to Goa taking pit stops along the way, only to achieve a comfort level. It’s a rare quality one finds in today’s breed of actors to put in so much of effort to prepare for a role. By the time the director was ready to shoot the driving sequences in Goa, Atul had mastered driving this vehicle which was a delight for the crew as it became much easier to shoot the sequences with Atul along with his co-stars Priya Bapat and Pallavi Subhash.
Happy Journey produced by Everest Entertainment is scheduled to release in September 2014, and one is waiting to watch this delightful film which boasts of a crackling start cast.