Now, ‘Home Minister’ offers Paithani at your doorstep
Home Minister’ the popular contest of Zee Marathi for housewives, that has visited more than 8000 homes, will offer the home viewers a unique chance to win a ‘Paithani’ sitting at home. Over the years, the ‘Paithani’ has been synonymous with Home Minister and winning the ‘Paithani’ was considered a symbol of great pride and honour. Zee Marathi through a unique ‘on air contest’ is now offering the viewers of Home Minister, a chance to win an authentic silk Paithani. The contest has been aptly branded as ‘Home Ministerchi Home Delivery’.
The contest is a 4 week ‘on air contest’, where a question related to the day’s prime time shows is asked during ‘Home Minister’ programme . The contest went on air from 29th July’13 and will have 24 ‘Paithani’ sarees up for grabs, during the tenure of the contest. All that the viewer’s need to do is give a missed call to participate in the contest. The answer along with the winner will be declared in the following day’s episode. The contest aims at building the affinity of the viewers towards the show, which was recently listed in the “Greatest Shows on the Earth” series by RDF Television from Britain.
Incidentally, ‘Home Minister’ is also the longest running game show and is hosted by Aadesh Bandekar, who is fondly called as ‘Maharashtrache Bhauji’ a sobriquet earned through this series ‘Home Minister’.
The show will soon be entering its 10th year and ‘Home Ministerchi Home Delivery’ is just one of the ways to gratify the viewers, who have been loyal to the show over the years. The show is aired from Monday to Saturday at 6.30 PM on Zee Marathi
Music & first look of ‘Sarpanch Bhagirath’ launched.
Ramdas Phutane was the happiest person on Tuesday afternoon. Incidentally, he is making a comeback as a director after twenty years, through his new Marathi film ‘Sarpanch Bhagirath’. Muhurat and First look of this film was launched in a big way at ITC Grand Maratha Hotel, Lalbaug, Mumbai, in presence of Bollywood star Reitesh Deshmukh.also present on the occasion were Udaydada Lad, Shreyas Talpade,Upendra Limaye, Kishore kadam,Veena Jamkar, Dr.Mohan Agashe, Jaywant Wadkar, Shivkumar Lad, Music directors- Sambhaji Bhagat, Vishnu Surya Wagh,Asaram Lomte, & Universal group’s Mandar Gupte with Rajan Prabhu.
Produced by Shivkumar Lad, the film has six songs suited to the social subject based on reservation policy. The film’s music was released well in advance to take the advantage of festival time, background music by Rahul Ranade, cinematography by Chandrakant Dhakade and editing by Sarvesh Parab are other credits.
The film stars Upendra Limaye, Veena Jamkar, Dr.Mohan Agashe, Swarangi Marathe, Savita Malpekar, Jaimala Inamdar, Vijay Joshi, Vasant Avsarikar, Uday Lagu, Shriram Ranade,Jaiwant Wadkar,Meera Umap, Anand Panse, Prakash Dhotre, Suhasini Deshpande and child artistes Shruti and Tanvi Thorat.
Vikram Bhatt to present Marathi film ‘Ek Dusare Ke Liye’
Bollywood film maker Vikram Bhatt has entered Marathi film industry, presenting his first Marathi film ‘Ek Dusare Ke Liye’, a love story involving three popular Marathi artistes, Amruta Khanvilkar, Aniket Vishwasrao and Abhijit Khandkekar. Muhurat of this film took place at Dagduseth Halwai Mandir, Pune.
Official announcement of the film took place in a Pune hotel later. This film is being produced by Anju Bishnoi under the banner of ASA productions and directed by Ashwinikumar Patil on the script of Balak Palak fame Amber Hadap. Cinematography by Mahesh Aane, music by Gaurav Degaonkar are the other credits. The film’s shooting will take place at Pune and Alibaug.
Two Marathi dramas to take Cinematic form this Friday
“‘Popat’ is my first outing with the rural backdrop”- Satish Rajwade
Known for his successful sensible Marathi films like ‘Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai’ & ‘Premachi Goshta’, film maker Satish Rajwade is now all set to release his latest film ‘Popat’ starring Atul Kulkarni, Amey Wagh, Siddharth Menon and Ketan Pawar along with Anita Date, Neha Shitole and Megha Ghadge. To be presented by Mirah Entertainment, the film will be officially released all over Maharashtra on 23rd august 2013.
The first look of this film was shown to the media persons on Tuesday afternoon, clearly indicating that it was an entertaining film. Director Satish Rajwade calls it “an incredible, inspiring, creative and highly entertaining work and can’t find enough words to describe it. “Till Date I have been labelled as a very urban storyteller with city centric subjects. POPAT is my first outing with the rural backdrop and rural dialect. POPAT is targeted towards a wider audience which will keep both the urban and interior Maharashtra interested,” says Rajwade. According to him, POPAT comes purely as creative decision since the subject demanded that kind of innocence and vulnerability.
The screenplay and dialogues of this film are by Chinmay Kelkar and the story by Satish Rajwade. Bhaskar Samala is the director of photography with the music score by Avinash-Vishwajeet. The choreographer is Phulwa Khamkar, editing by Rajesh Rao and make-up by Santosh Gayake. Pallavi Rajwade has designed the costumes and the singers involved are Swapnil Bandodkar, Bela Shende, Prasanajeet and Maithilee Panes Joshi. Umesh Shinde is the executive producer.
Abhinay and Mrunal all set for their film debut
There are very few chocolate heroes in Marathi films and to add to that list is another name – Abhinay Sawant, son of popular veteran actress Nirmiti Sawant. Abhinay is all set to make his film debut through Kedar Shinde’s forthcoming film ‘Shrimant Damodarpant’, which is a multi-starrer Marathi film, due for release on 26th July.
Abhinay, who is well versed with dance, besides learning acting, will be co-starring with talented TV actress Mrunal Dusanis, who is also making her film debut through this film. Let’s wait and see, whether Abhinay joins the group of existing young chocolate heroes like Swapnil Joshi, Adinath Kothare, Aniket Vishwasrao and others.
Partho Sengupta to make high quality Marathi film ‘Arunoday’
Marathi films are having a good time. More and more well known production houses from Hindi are coming forward to produce Marathi films. But now, well known director Partho Sengupta who shot into fame with his internationally acclaimed film ‘Hava Aane Do’, is now making a international standard Marathi film with two leading non Marathi artistes. One of them is Adil Hussain whom we saw in films like ‘Life of Pi’, ‘English Vinglish’ and latest released film ‘Lootera’ and the other is national award winning actress Tanishtha Chatterjee. Veteran actress Ashala Wabgaonkar will also be seen in special role in this film.
Highlight of this film is that the camera is handled by Joe Mark Ferier from France and the music is composed by Erric Aabecasis from Algeria. Dialogues of the film are written by Yogesh Vinayak Joshi. The film’s shooting shooting is now over and the post production work will take place in France. The film is produced by Rakesh Mehra with the support of 156 investors, who have raised 72 Thousand Dollars to make this film.
‘Duniyadari’ scores over bollywood films
The magic of ‘Duniyadari’ seems to have worked on audience; as this multi-starrer Marathi film has pulled full house in Mumbai. At PVR Goregaon, Oberoi Mall, Saturday 4.30 pm show was house full, with Sunday show also showing full house. Many people who had come to see this film at the theatre had to return home disappointed.
In comparison, the two Hindi films ‘D-day’ and ‘Ramaiya Vastavaiya’ released along with ‘Duniyadari’ were waiting for the audience to turn up for their shows in multiplexes. Isn’t that a clear indication that there is audience for Marathi cinema, provided the selection of artistes is perfect and the film maker understanding what the Marathi audience is looking for. Sanjay Jadhav must be the happiest person today, getting his birthday gift, two days later.
by Team Magzmumbai
Nana Patekar is all praise for Rajeev Patil’s ’72 Miles’
The occasion was the launch of Photo Biography of upcoming Marathi film ’72 Miles Ek Pravas’ on Wednesday evening, but no such copy of the same was distributed to the media persons. The hosts, however showed the first look of this film in presence of chief guest Nana Patekar, who was all praise for the film, having seen it at a special preview. He not only appreciated the efforts of the director Rajeev Patil but also praised Smita Tambe and child artiste Chinmay Sant, who has an important role to play in this film. One thing is certain that Smita has bagged a lifetime role in this film, which is evident from the first look.
Child actor Chinmay had earlier done two films ‘Taryanche Bait’ & ‘Jana Gana Mana’. With this film, he is all set to make hat trick of three successive films with prominent roles. Mr. Ramdasji Bhatkal of Popular Prakashan, who have published this photo biography, was also present on the occasion. He narrated about his association with the original story writer of this film ’72 Miles’. Mr. Rajeev Patil said that he was so impressed by the story that he decided to make a film, after meeting his friend, who had acquired the rights to make a film on this story. “after I gave my nod to direct this film, my friend contacted Ashwini Yardi, co-producer of this film; who along with Akshay Kumar agreed to produce this film,” he said.
’72 Miles Ek Pravas’ which will be distributed by Viacom 18, will be released all over Maharashtra on 9th August 2013. Mr. Rajesh Mujumdar, Director, Commercial & Syndication Viacom 18, was also present on the occasion. While speaking to Marathi Movie World, after the function, he said that their company was getting ready to present another Marathi film ‘Gangubai Non Matrik’ after the release of ’72 Miles’ . Mr. Sachin Yardi, Ashwini Yardi and Script writer Mr. Sanjay Patil were also present on the occasion besides the cast and crew of the film.
Chinmay to play Vasantrao Naik in Marathi Biopic ‘Mahanayak’
Known for his angry young man image in Marathi, Chinmay Mandlekar will now play a totally different character of former chief Minister of Maharashtra, Vansantrao Naik, whose birth centenary is being celebrated in Maharashtra this year. Made under the banner of Late Venutai Birkad Films International, this is the second film of the producers, who had earlier offered an award winning film ‘Debu’ on the life of Sant Gadge Maharaj.
On Saturday evening, the producers of this film Shatrughna Birkad and Baliram Rathod made official announcement of this film, at Kohinoor Hotel, Prabhadevi, in presence of hero of this film Chinmay Mandlekar, director of the film Nilesh Raosaheb Jalamkar, veteran actor Ravi Patvardhan, actor Bharat Ganeshpure, Ms. Meenakshi Jaiswal and Grandson of late Vasanrao Naik – Mr. Indraneil Manohar Naik.
Regular shooting of this film begins shortly and the makers intend to complete this film by end of December, this year. Mr. Tukaramji Birkad is the advisor of this film, with music and background music to be composed by Mandar Khare. Cinematography by Chandrakant Meher and art by Girish Kolapkar are other credits. To make Chinmay resemble Vasantrao Naik the makers have engaged famous make up artist Pradeep Premgirikar, who had done the prosthetic make up for Amitabh Bachchan in ‘Paa’.
While speaking on the occasion, Chinmay expressed his happiness, for getting selected to play the role of this ex chief Minister of Maharashtra, who was known for his 11 year successful rule, which changed the picture of Maharashtra with hybrid agricultural production. “It’s a big honour to play the role of a great leader of Maharashtra. I just kept looking at his photograph to find similarity with me and only thing I could notice were his eyebrows. But, when Mr. Pradeep Premgirikar did my make up to present my first look, I was simply amazed, with his work,” he concluded.