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.
All you wanted to know about award winning film ‘Dhag’.
Not all the films become the topic of discussion among the film lovers, before its theatre release. Latest Marathi film ‘Dhag’ prior to its official release, not only received critical acclaims at few International film festivals held during past few months; but, has also bagged prestigious awards, including the Natinal award for Best actress( Usha Jadhav) , best director(Shivaji Lotan Patil), and special Jury mention for child actor Hansraj Jagtap. Incidentally, the film has bagged 6 awards at the Ma Ta Sanman, including the best Marathi film award.
‘Dhag’ is a path breaking Marathi film, which revolves around a 13 year old boy Krishna, living in a village with his father Shripati( who runs a crematorium),mother Yashoda, a housewife, old Grandmother and a younger sister. Krishna is not interested to continue the family tradition of managing a crematorium and hence studies at a village school. He does a part time job at a juice centre, besides studying in school. But, the remarks from his teacher about his family’s profession, forces him to drop out of the school.
The family is solely dependent on the money earned during the last rites performed and hence, when there are no deaths in village, Shripati has to find some work at his friend- Mangya’s workshop. But, his dues are pending as his friend’s wife is also ill and bed ridden. One day, Shripati dies of snake bite and the whole family is shattered. Mangya takes care of the family; but, Krishna and his mother are hesitant to accept his help Krishna’s grandmother also warns her daughter in law about Mangya’s intentions of being generous. Krishna listens to their discussion and he realizes that without joining the same old traditional job, he can not help his family. So, he steps into his father’s shoes; and also continues attending school for a better future.
The film is very realistic and thought provoking. Marathi Movie World spoke to the producer and director to congratulate them and to know more about making of this film. Producer Vishal Pandit Gavare was more than happy to talk about making of this film. “When I heard the story of this from Shivaji Lotan Patil, I was very happy, as the kind of subject I always wanted to make a film, was there in this story. So, we decided to go ahead with selection of artistes. Since in this film the story revolves around a teenager, we took auditions in Mumbai. Finally, we were very much impressed with this boy from Beed, who had some local acting background at his native town. This is his debut film.” he said.
Mr. Shivaji Lotan Patil, was all praise for the producer, who he felt understood what he wanted to make. “It was my luck that I found the right person in him. Thereafter we worked on screenplay with the help of Nitin Dixit and managed to present what exactly I wanted. Today, I am glad that the film has been receiving compliments from well known personalities besides winning awards, before its official release. I am also glad that the boy has performed exceptionally well, besides good performances from other artistes.” said Mr. Patil.
Having already spoken to the award winning actress of this film and having carried her exclusive interview, we just congratulated her, as we had anticipated her to win many awards for her outstanding performance. But, we could not resist the temptation of speaking to the teenager Hansraj, who has played the central role of Krishna in this film. It was his last day of the school, when we first called him over phone. But, the hard working boy from Beed, told us that he was thankful to the director, assistant director and all the artistes for encouraging him. Hansraj has won the Ma Ta Sanman for Best child actor and has also received Sp. Jury mention at the National awards.
Now, the film is expected to be released in theatres in May 2013, according to the producer of this film. So, don’t miss it. Even children should watch this film, to understand the living conditions of the poor, living in villages.
Grand Music launch of ‘Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asata’
Actress turned director Mrinal Kulkarni proved that she was not only a successful actress but also a good host. On Wednesday late evening, she was the happiest person to find the capacity packed Grand Imperial Banquets at Andheri, with the presence of entire cast and crew of her film, besides media persons and special invitees; to wish her on the occasion of music release and first look of her forthcoming Marathi film ‘Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asata’. Mrinal paid personal attention to each and every invitee, with her cheerful face.
With such a lengthy title of the film, there was a lot of curiosity to know the theme of this film. So, Mrinal herself being the story writer of this film, besides acting and directing it, made it very clear that it was a work of fiction. “I just wanted to elaborate on the close relationship between love and marriage, in the context of three different generations,” she said.
Her speech during this function was filled with humour citing relevant examples to define love , clearly proved that she was a grand daughter of the greatest author G. N. Dandekar. Mrinal performed the muhurat of this multi-starrer film during last March and was able to complete it within an year, which also indicated that she was a good administrator. Realising the importance of the occasion, she gave due credit to Music director Milind Ingale, his young son Surel Ingale, who had composed one song and also the lyricist Saumitra (Kishor Kadam). Before the release of Music CD, which has total three songs from this film, she also requested the singers Ravindra Sathe, Bela Shende and Milind Ingale to give live performance by singing the two songs before the audience.
Finally, she offered a surprise, while revealing the first look of the film, which showed the title song rendered in the voices of all stars of the film – Sachin Khedekar, Sunil Barve, Pallavi Joshi , Neha Joshi, herself and other child artistes. Maharashtra Cultural Minister Mr. Sanjay Devtale was the chief guest of the function and released the music CD. Other dignitaries from Marathi film industry who were present in large number, were Film maker Prakash Bhende and his actress- wife Uma Bhende, Co-producers of the film Pravin & Kaushal Thakkar, Aniket Vishwasrao, Pallavi Subhash, film maker kanchan Adhikari, Vijay Kondke, Tushar Dalvi, Bollywood actor Pankaj Dheer, Sanskruti Kala Darpan President- Chandrashekhar Sandve , Shrabani Deodhar and others.
The film is due for release on 19th April 2013 and has a big star cast comprising of Sachin Khedekar, Mrinal Kulkarni, Pallavi Joshi, Sunil Barve, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Smita Talwalkar, Suhas Joshi, Neha Joshi, Siddharth Chandekar, Rasika Vaze and others. Amlendu Chaudhary is the cinematographer of this film, while the technical director is Ankur Kakatkar. The dialogues of this film are written by Manisha Korde and editing by Shankh Rajadhyaksha. The film is produced by Sachin Parekar and co-produced by Kaushal Pravin Thakkar.