‘Taani’ all set to release on 17th May
Actor- Screenwriter turned director Sanjeev Kolte is all set to release his film ‘Taani’ on 17th May 2013. Made under the banner of V. Patke films, the film is produced by Vandana Patke Thakur & Ajay Thakur. The first look of the film was released recently.
The film is based on the life of a cycle rickshaw driver, who works hard to educate his daughter, who is appearing for her 10th exams. The daughter, who is well aware of the hardships put in by her parents, tries to fulfil their dreams.
The story of the film is penned by Gayatri Kolte and director Sanjeev Kolte has taken care of screenplay and dialogues. Arun Nalwade and Ketaki Mategaonkar play the important roles of father and daughter in this film, which is filled with emotions. In the supporting cast, there are artistes like Dr. Vilas Ujavane, Devendra Dodke, Vatsala Polkamwar, Madhu Joshi, Madan Gadkari ,Geeta Kolte and vedika vairgade. Dr. Girish Oak and Ila Bhate will be seen in special appearance in this film. Music of this film is by Praveen Kunvar.
‘Postcard’ to present Postman’s interaction with people
Today, with the advancement of technology in the busy lifestyle, the role of a Postman is not considered very important. But, in the era of 60s a Postman played a very important role in the lives of people. Producer Vinay Ganu and director Gajendra Ahire are presenting such interactions of a Postman with different people and their families, through their latest film ‘Postcard’.
The film stars Girish Kulkarni, Subodh Bhave, Saie Tamhankar, Radhika Apte, Kishore Kadam, Hemangi Kavi, Vaibhav Mangale & Suhita Thatte. Incidentally, director Gajendra Ahire’s film ‘Anumat’ which has won best actor’s award at the national Film awards; is yet to be released, but he has already began shooting of this new film; which will be released around August 2013.
Chintoo 2′ comes with an offering for children this summer
Riding the success wave of the first edition of ‘Chintoo’, city based production house Indian Magic Eye Motion Pictures is bringing the sequel of this film. ‘Chintoo 2 – Khajinyachi Chittarkatha’. The film will hit the cinema halls across the state on April 19th 2013, to entertain children this summer. Incidentally, this film will also be the first children’s film to get a sequel. Chintoo was also the first successful attempt of transforming a mischievous character ‘Chintoo’ from a comic strip to a full length live action film.
The film is directed by Shrirang Godbole, Chairman of Indian Magic Eye Motion Pictures and produced by Abhay Gadgil and Hrishikesh Deshpande. Actress Vibhavari Deshpande plays mother of Chintoo in this film, besides writing the screenplay and story of the film. Satish Alekar, Charuhas Pandit and Prabhakar Wadekar are the creators of comic strip Chintoo .
Last time it was about getting the lost cricket ground back for play. This time Chintoo is going for an adventure camp this season and his miraculous adventuresome journey unfolds through various interesting and entertaining happenings with a message to take back in this sequel. Highlights of the film are the spectacular sets created by internationally acclaimed art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai and various special effects to enhance the overall quality of the film.
Music of the film has been composed by Dr. Salil Kulkarni on the lyrics of Sandeep Khare. VFX (Visual Effects) are created by Anuj Deshpande. Pune lad Shubhankar Atre will once again play the lead character of ‘Chintoo’ in the film. Satish Alekar, Nagesh Bhosale, Subodh Bhave and Vibhavari Deshpande are key members of the star cast of ‘Chintoo 2- Khajinyachi Chittarkatha’.
It’s back to comedy coming Friday
After beginning the new year 2013 with some path breaking films, Marathi films seem to be coming back to their traditional track of comedy. On coming Friday i.e 5th April 2013, two comedy films have lined up for release in Maharashtra.
Makarand Anaspure starrer ‘Dankyvar Danka’ produced by Meghraj Bhosale, Uttamrao Joshi , Subhash Pardeshi and directed by kanchan Nayak, clearly suggests its theme through the title of the film, which also star Sandeep Pathak,Suvarna kale, Ashwini Ekbote,Sayali Marathe and Praveen Tarde.
Vishal Inamdar’s film ‘Sanshaykallol’ also revolves around two young couples, based on a comedy theme; arising out of misunderstandings .The film is doing a lot of promotion on Marathi TV channels. But, it remains to be seen, how many people actually turn up at the theatres.
Besides the four main stars – Ankush Choudhary, Pushkar Jog , Gauri Nigudkar and Mrunmayee Deshpande, the film has a strong supporting cast comprising of Kshiti Jog, Omkar Govardhan, Reema Lagoo, Vijay Patwardhan, Sulekha Talwalkar,Shivraj Deshmukh, Shubhangi Damle, Shripad Joshi, Ashutosh Wadekar & Nikhil Nerurkar. Four more artistes will also be making guest appearance in this film. They are Pooja Sawant, Abhijeet Satam, Rajesh Kolan and Siddharth Chandekar.
Nominations announced for Sanskruti Kala Darpan awards
President of Sanskruti Kala Darpan had a great day on Thursday evening, as it was his birthday and also announcement of nominations for the prestigious Sanskriti kala darpan awards for the thirteenth year in succession. After the birthday boy announced the nominations in different categories, Ms. Archana Nevrekar, Vice president of Sankruti Kala Darpan announced that this year they decided to cut down on unnecessary expenditures. “We have decided to use this saved money amounting to around Rs. 11 lakhs by helping the people in drought affected area of Maharashtra. But, there will be no cut on the prize money to be given to the individual winners and production houses,” she stated.
While answering to the queries raised by media persons, related to distribution of aid; Mr. Pramod Pawar, actor and committee member of Sanskriti Kala Darpan, said that they propose to adopt a village and distribute free seeds to all the farmers living in that village to enable them to take the next crop. Those present on the dais were Pradeep Kabre, Neelakanti Patekar, Smita Jayakar , Anjali Nevrekar, Chandrashekhar Sandwe, Pramod Pawar, Prajakta Kulkarni Dighe, Jayadevi, Sheetal Kardekar & Amruta Rao; who are associated with Sanskruti Kala Darpan committee. Those who joined later were Rekha Sahay, Sharad Ponkshe & Kanchan Adhikari. The actual awards ceremony is likely to be held around 15- 20 April 2013.
The nominations declared in the important categories of three different sections are as follows:
Film’s Section –
Best film: 1) Touring Talkies 2) Dhag 3) B.P. 4) Investment 5) Tukaram
Best Direction: Shivaji Lotan Patil ( Dhag), 2) Gajendra Ahire( Touring talkies) 3) Ratnakar Matkari 4) Ravi Jadhav ( B.P.), 5) Sameet kakkad ( Aayna Ka Bayana )
Best actor: Tushar Dalvi ( Investment),2) Sachin Khedekar ( Aayna Ka Bayana) , 3) Jitendra Joshi ( Tukaram), 4) Chinmay Mandlekar ( Vijay Aso), 5) Ravi kale ( Shoor Aamhi Sardar) .
Best actress: 1)Usha jadhav ( Dhag), 2) Trupti Bhoir( Touring Talkies), 3) Supriya Vinod ( Investment), 4) Radhika Bapat, 5) Pratiksha Lonkar (Mokala Shwaas )
Commercial drama:
Best Play : 1) Proposal , 2) Bechaki 3) Maayleki 4) Eka Kshanat! 5) Vaishali Cottage
Best direction: 1) Kumar Sohani ( maayleki), 2) Mangesh kadam ( Vaishali Cottage), 3) Chinmay Mandlekar( Bechaki) 4) Rajan Tamhane ( Proposal) 5) Sharad Ponkshe( Eka Kshanat) .
Best actor: Prasad Oak ( Bechaki), Sharad Ponkshe( Eka Kshanat) 3) Ashish Pawar ( Khall khatak) 4) Mohan Joshi ( Sukhant) 5) Anshuman Vichare ( Mansa Mansa Hup).
Best actress : Amita khopkar ( Vaishali Cottage), 2) Ashwini Ekbote ( Eka Kshanat), 3) Sukanya kulkarni Mone( Fami;ly Drama), Anupama Takmoghe( Time Please) , 5) Sharmishta Raut Nipankar ( Maayleki)
TV serials :
Best Serial : 1) kalay Tasmay Namha( E TV) 2)Pudhacha Paul ( Star Pravah) 3) Gunda Purush Dev ( ETV) ,Ek Mohor Abol ( ETV), 5) Devyani ( Star Pravah).
Best actor : 1) Sangram Salvi( Devyani) 2) Mohan Joshi( GPD) 3) Suni Barve( EMA) 4) Bal Dhuri ( Bandishala)
Best actress: 1) Tejaswini Pandit ( KTN), 2) Shivani Surve( Devyani), 3) ketaki Chitale ( Ambat Goad), 4) Harshada Khanvikar ( P.P.) , 5) Khushbu Tawde( EMA).
Actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar assaulted during Holi
He went to make an appeal to stop wastage of water used as showers during Holi celebrations at the neighbouring society at Versova, Mumbai; but, was assaulted by the participants, who also abused him. It may be recalled that the Government of Maharashtra and Mumbai Police had appealed to the people of Mumbai, to celebrate dry Holi this year, instead of wasting the precious water, in view of the ongoing drought situation the state. This incident marred the spirit of Holi in the city.
Some of the citizens responded very well, including some office bearers of the societies and clubs; who preferred to have celebrations with dry colours. Even the Governor of Maharashtra and Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar had appealed to Mumbai people not to use water during this year’s Holi. In fact, artistes from the Marathi Film industry were in the forefront to spread the campaign Dry Holi and set the precedent by playing this year’s Holi with Dry colours at their community celebrations at Jogeshwari.
ABP Majha Channel, which had taken the initiative for spreading this message, requested many artistes from Marathi entertainment industry to spread this message through their channel. This appeal did receive a very good response at places like Dadar, Girgaon, Parel, Thane, Mulund, Goregaon and Borivali. Even some of the societies in posh areas like Khar, Bandra,Juhu and Powai, who have formed ALM’s in their areas came forward to observe Dry Holi. But, some of the societies in areas like kandivali and Versova seemed to have ignored this appeal made in public interest. Marathi Movie World, strongly condemns this attack on the senior actor.
ABMNP, Borivali celebrate Jagtik Rangabhoomi Din
On the occasion of World theatre Day(Jagatik Rangabhoomi Din), Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natyaparishad, Borivali Branch organised a classical singing competition at their premises at Prabodhankar Thackeray Auditorium on Wednesday evening. 33 singers coming from far off places like Vashi, Thane, kalian & Dombivali took part in the preliminary round; which went on throughout the evening. The eight short listed singers, were then given an opportunity to participate in the final round in the Mini auditorium, late in the evening.
Mr. Suhas Kamat organised the show, under the auspices of Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad, Borivali Branch. Mr. Pradeep kabre , president of Borivali Branch of ABMNP, was personally present along with other newly elected office bearers. Mr. Mohan Marathe, Aparna Aparajit and Dnyanesh Pendharkar played the role of Judges, to declare the winners.
The consolation prizes were given to Saurabh Vakhare and Seema Tade, while the first three winners were as follows: 1) Gautami Chiplunkar 2) Suren Pandit and 3) Swapnil Paranjape.
ABMNP, Borivali celebrate Jagtik Rangabhoomi Din
On the occasion of World theatre Day(Jagatik Rangabhoomi Din), Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natyaparishad, Borivali Branch organised a classical singing competition at their premises at Prabodhankar Thackeray Auditorium on Wednesday evening. 33 singers coming from far off places like Vashi, Thane, kalian & Dombivali took part in the preliminary round; which went on throughout the evening. The eight short listed singers, were then given an opportunity to participate in the final round in the Mini auditorium, late in the evening.
Mr. Suhas Kamat organised the show, under the auspices of Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad, Borivali Branch. Mr. Pradeep kabre , president of Borivali Branch of ABMNP, was personally present along with other newly elected office bearers. Mr. Mohan Marathe, Aparna Aparajit and Dnyanesh Pendharkar played the role of Judges, to declare the winners.
The consolation prizes were given to Saurabh Vakhare and Seema Tade, while the first three winners were as follows: 1) Gautami Chiplunkar 2) Suren Pandit and 3) Swapnil Paranjape.
Marathi Movie World (MMW) Declare Nominations for 2013 Awards
Last year we had a grand award function to promote Marathi Movies, Entertainment & artistes. It was also our first year of award function. This year, we have also added few more categories in Film section.We are sure that, this initiative will definitely encourage the film makers, artistes and makers of TV serials and Dramas. MMW awards are decided on viewer’s choice, which is the most transparent winner selecting process. We are appealing to all our viewers to visit the link for casting their valuable vote in different categories of Movie, Serial, Play, and Actor Actress. Nominations have been given, based on the popularity of the plays, serials, films and artistes among our viewers during the year 2012.
*The films nominated for voting purpose, have been on the basis of their release in the theatres during the year 2012.
Awards will be declared on popular vote. The Winners will be announced after voting on MMW site.
This year, Newly added categories as below:
• Best Marketed Film of the Year 2012
• Best Promo of the film
• Best Publicity Design (posters)
• Fresh Face of the year (male)
• Fresh Face of the year (female)
Ram Kondilkar does a hat trick.
For the past ten years, he has been offering PR services to Marathi films. When in 2002, he launched his service with the name of ‘Ram Publicity’, Ram Kondilkar used to work during the day time and study at night hours, to complete his education. His hard work has rewarded him today, in the form of a hat trick.
First, it began with film ‘Jogwa’, which bagged six national awards, followed by ‘Deool’, which also went on to win Golden Lotus award for best film at the national level and now we find, ‘Dhag’ bagging the best Actress (Usha Jadhav), best direction (Shivaji Lotan Patil) awards at the national awards announced recently. Jury’s special mention also went to child artiste Hansraj Jagtap of this film. Incidentally, Ram attended PR job of all these three films, besides one more film ‘Samhita’, which also bagged two awards i.e. best music and best playback singer; at the national awards.
We are all aware of the importance of work undertaken by a PRO for a film, as it involves a lot of dedication and leg work, besides having complete knowledge about the film and its artistes. Ram has always been quick enough to respond to the call from any media person, wanting to know the details of the film or the artistes performing in it. In fact, he has played the role of a perfect PRO, giving equal importance to all. He has always been polite and cheerful. It is this special skill in him, has taken him to a stature, so as to reckon him among the top PRO’s of Marathi films. Marathi Movie world wishes him on this rare achievement.