Ashok Patki releases music of ‘Popat’
Music of Satish Rajwade’s forthcoming Marathi film ‘Popat’ was released today morning by renowned music director Ashok Patki at Swatntryaveer Savarkar Auditorium, Shivaji Park. Santoor player Dr.Ulhas Bapat was also present on the occasion. Among others who attended this function were Director Satish Rajwade, Music director Duo Avinash and Vishwajeet, singers Bela Shende and Swapnil Bandodkar.
There are total three songs in the film and it is for the first time that director Satish Rajwade is handling a subject on village backdrop. His previous two films ‘Mumbai Pune Mumbai’ and ‘Premachi Goshta’ were based on city lifestyle. This humour filled film is presented by Mirah Entertainment and will be released on 23rd August 2013. It stars Atul Kulkarni in the lead role in the company of Amey Wagh, Ketan Pawar, Siddharth Menon, Neha Shitole, Anita Date, & Megha Ghadge. Chinmay Kelkar has written the screenplay and dialogues of this film.
New Marathi film ‘Gammat’ completes shooting
Director Milind Kawade known for his previous comedy film ‘Yedyanchi Jatra’ has just completed the shooting of his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Gammat’. According to the director, this film made under the banner of Silver screen Entertainment is based on sweet and sour husband and wife relationship, is a black comedy.
The film’s shooting took place at locations like Madh, Goregaon, Murbad and Dombivali , to offer new locations to the audience. Music of the film is by Nitinkumar Gupta and the strong star cast of the film comprises of Sanjay Narvekar, Jitendra Joshi, Smita Gondkar, Aditi Saragdhar, Vijay Patkar, Aarti Solanki, Atul Todankar, Ananda karekar, Jaywant Wadkar, Deepak Shirke,kamlakar Satpute, Arun kadam and Digambar Naik.
‘Naarbachi Wadi’ first look released
After successful presentation of films like ‘Uladhaal’ and ‘Satarangee Re’ director Aditya Sarpotdar officially released the first look of his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Naarbachi Wadi’ at Famous studios, Mahalaxmi on Friday. The film is set to release on 20th September 2013.
Based on Manoj Mishra’s famous Bangalee play ‘Shajjano Bagan’, this film will be a cinematic version, set on the backdrop of Konkan. Versatile Marathi actor Dilip Prabahvalkar is playing the central character of the film. The other important characters in this film will be played by Manoj Joshi, Nikhil Ratnaparakhi, Kishori Shahane, Ambrish Deshpande, Jyoti Malshe, Shashikant kerkar, Bhau kadam, Kamlakar Satpute & Atul Parchure in guest appearance.
Screenplay, dialogues and lyrics of this film are penned by Guru Thakur, while cinematography by Rahul Jadhav and Music by Mangesh Dhakade are other credits.
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.