Ishaa Koppikar signed for new Marathi film ‘Maat’
‘Khallas’ fame Ishaa Koppikar will be making her debut as an actress in forthcoming Marathi film ‘Maat’ directed by Manohar Sarvankar. This is also the first film of ‘Sayali Dream Ventures’.
Producer Manali Mangesh Sawant recently invited Isha Koppikar to her office and narrated the script and role to her. After she approved, she was signed as leading lady of this film. Sameer Dharmadhikari plays her husband in this film, which revolves around the challenges faced by a couple in their life.
Screenplay and dialogues of this film are written by Sambhaji Sawant, while lyrics by Sandeep Khare and Music by Salil Kulkarni are other credits. The film also has other popular artistes from Marathi film industry. Nirmal Jani will handle the cinematography of this film.
‘Sarpanch Bhagirath’ launched with Muhurat
Shikumar Laad Productions’ debut film ‘Sarpanch Bhagirath’ was launched with a grand muhurat at Aajiwasan Studios, in presence of dignitaries including Udaydada Laad. Through this film, Ramdas Phutane will make a comeback as a director. The film has music by Lokshahir Sambhaji Bhagat, who makes his debut as a music director.
The film has three songs and is based on the story of Asaram Lomte. The screenplay is written by Vishnu Surya Wagh. Dialogues and direction by Ramdas Phutane, the film’s lead artistes comprise of Upendra Limaye, Veena jamkar, with Dr. Mohan Agashe, and Kishire kadam. The film will begin its shooting from 25th November 2012.
‘Aayna Ka Baayna’ set for release on 30th November
Marathi film viewers will get an opportunity to witness a western dance based film for the first time. Through ‘Aaynaa Ka Bayana’ it will be a tribute to Pop star Michael Jackson. Produced by Manju Paras Porwal, Amar Kakkad and Pushpa kakkad, the film is directed by Sumeet Kakkad.
The film’s star cast comprises of Rakesh Vashishtha, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ganesh Yadav and Sachin Khedekar; but, Rohan Rokade Group and Siddhesh Pai will display their different dance skills through this film. These dancers have already proved their mettle through various dance reality shows on TV. Their selection has been made from among 400 contestents for the audition.
Cinematography by Sanjay Jadhav, choreography by Umesh Jadhav and music by Ajit Sameer are other credits.
Music of ‘Shyamche Vadil’ launched
We had heard about Acharya Atre’s sensible marathi film ‘Shyamchi Aai’ written by sane Guruji, which had thrown light on the emotion filled relationship between mother and son. Even otherwise, mothers have always played an important role in their children’s lives. And the role played by father has never been highlighted through films. In 1921, Charlie Chaplin played one such emotion filled relationship of a father, through his film ‘The Kid’.
Now, writer Ajay Pathak who has written a script on the emotion filled relationship between father and son and has also produced this film with a suitable title ‘Shyamche Vadil- Ek Nave Parva’. The film is directed by R. Viraj, who had earlier directed a Marathi film ‘Teeghi’. On Friday afternoon, the music of this film was released in presence of main stars of the film, comprising of Tushar Dalvi, Sulekha Talwalkar and Chinmay Udgirkar; in the office of Universal Music Company, Bandra.
Director Viraj was kind enough to introduce the Writer Producer Mr. Pathak, who said that he always wanted to present a story about the change in lifestyle of a couple, which results in their regular arguments and fights at home. How such troubled relationship between husband and wife has negative impact on the child, is all that he has tried to emphasize. “Whether such children, who have witnessed the strained relationship of their parents over the years, would really be interested in marriage when they mature or would prefer the live in relationship?” questions Mr.Pathak. Actor Tushar Dalvi said that he was very impressed by the script of this film.
“I wouldn’t like to reveal much about the film’s script; but the climax is more interesting with a strong message to the society. We have made this film for all age groups and music plays an important factor in our film,” concluded Mr. Pathak, before introducing his team of Music directors, who are making their debut through this film. The trio comprising of youngsters Soham-Aditya- Nikhil ; from Thane, who used to perform their own musical shows , are offering variety comprising of Rock and classical together in this film. They seem to have worked very hard on the lyrics of Mandar Cholkar.
There are total five songs in the film and one of them ‘Saare Punha Aathave’ has been rendered by popular singer Hariharan, while other four in Rock format has been rendered by Soham Pathak (one of the Music directors) himself. In the film Shyam(Chinmay Udgirkar) , who plays a 22 year old Rock star. While his father’s title role in played by Tushar Dalvi. Sulekha Talwalkar plays his mother in this film. Other artistes of the film are Reema, Vinay Apte, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Vidyadhar Joshi along with guest stars Smita Talwalkar and Shekhar Navare.
“Our film has been shot at 30 different real locations including indoors at different houses and there was no compromise from the writer producer Mr. Pathak, who was very liberal about the budget of this film and it was a pleasure working with the entire team of talented artistes,” said Director Viraj . Actor Tushar Dalvi said that he was very impressed by the script of this film. The film is due for release shortly.
Zee Marathi to offer new dance Reality show
In the past Zee Marathi have successfully conducted many reality shows to offer a platform to many upcoming artistes. Now, the channel is all set to begin their new reality dance show ‘Idea Dance Maharashtra Dance’. The show begins with its search for talent from different parts of Maharashtra at centres like Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nashik, Kolhapur, Pune, Thane, & Mumbai.
After the auditions at these seven centres for the age group 15-30 years, 18 finalists will be selected for the final show and the winner will be crowned as ‘Dancing Superstar.
Very few Marathi artistes attend Balasaheb’s funeral
Last week, we saw many Bollywood stars right from Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor, Sursh Oberoi, Vivek Oberoi, Jitendra, Rakesh Roshan, Juhi Chawla, Urmila Matondkar, Madhur Bhandarkar and many others like industrialists Rahul Bajaj and Venugopal Dhoot visiting Matoshri, the official residence of Balasaheb Thackeray to inquire about his health. But, not many Marathi artistes were seen visiting Matoshree, at least on television news. Few exceptions were Aadesh Bandekar and Vinay Apte.
It may be recalled that Mr. Thackeray has strongly supported Marathi cinema from time to time. Even in the recent past, Shiv Sena’s Chitrapat Wing along with MNS Film Unit; came in support of Marathi film ‘Bharatiya’ when the film was denied screens to accommodate maximum screens in favour of ‘Ek Tha Tiger’. The Shiv Sena Chitrapat Shakha had also fought for the rights of Marathi film and serial makers, when it came to offering concessions for shootings at Government owned Film City.
When we saw renowned personalities like Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan & Anil Kapoor openly praising about his qualities; not many from the Marathi film industry gave any such spontaneous reactions on Marathi news channels. Few exceptions were Vikram Gokhale and Vandana Gupte, who recalled their memorable moments with the popular leader.Actor Madhav Abhyankar had displayed his photograph with Balasaheb, recalling his recent meeting with him. Otherwise, there was not much response coming from top Marathi artistes.
Did the Marathi news channels ignore Marathi artistes to seek their reactions ; or the Marathi artistes themselves avoided to offer their reaction ? Even during his funeral at Shivaji Park, except for Nana Patekar, Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Mahesh Manjrekar, Shreyas Talpade, Ramesh Bhatkar and Vinay Yedekar , none other Marathi artistes could be noticed.
One could understand the presence of Aadesh Bandekar, as he is one of the secretaries of the Mumbai Unit of Shiv Sena; but many Marathi artistes, who otherwise visited Matoshri to seek his blessings and performed in the productions of his daughter in law; those who always invited his son Udhhav or nephew Raj to launch their films; were not seen to bid adieu to the popular leader, who always fought for the rights of Marathi people. At a time, when all his political opponents were present in large number for his funeral, the absence of leading artistes from Marathi Entertainment field was clearly noticed.
by Team Magzmumbai
Ek Chaal Songatichi’- a special offering from Star Pravah
Star Pravah will present a first of its kind programme initiative for its audience. Under this series, fresh and original content will be brought to the viewers, conceptualized and created by their team. On Sunday 18th November at 7 pm Star Pravah will present ‘Ek Chaal Songatichi’ their first narrative which will explore the limits of political games and rivalry, as it will highlight the dedication of the Police force towards its duty.
It’s a story of two friends who grow to become political rivals and are set to meet each other after years, to discuss the State’s future plans. Star Pravah’s Lakshya famous Unit 8 team gets hint of a conspiracy in this meeting. When ACP Abhay Kirtikar reaches CM’s bungalow he hears a gunshot. Is there a murder plan hidden in the meeting? Who is trying to gain from the CM and Rasal rivalry ? Is a woman also the reason behind the CM & Rasal rivalry?
Starring favourite artists like Sharad Ponkshe, Satish Pulekar, Vidhyadhar Joshi & Madhura Velankar and Lakhya fame Abhay Kirtikar, Saloni Deshmukh & Unit 8 Team; ‘Ek Chaal Songtichi’ is a political thriller.
Music of ‘Chandi’ released with first look
The Music of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Chandi’ was released along with its first look, recently in Mumbai. Many well known personalities from Marathi literature and entertainment field were present on the occasion. Prominent among them were Mr. Shrikant Moghe, Shradhanand Thakur, Jayant Deshpande, Bharat Jadhav, Sameer Dharmadhikari, N. Chandra, Vijay kadam, Vijay Patkar, Harish Patel, Laxmikant Deshmukh,mandar Gupte & Rajan Prabhu.
‘Chandi’ which is based on late P. L. Deshpande’s novel ‘Mhais’ is produced by Dnyaneshwar Govekar and directed by Sameer Naik and Dnyaneshwar Govekar has a star cast comprising of Ramesh Deo, Deepak Shirke, Vaibhav Mangale, Santosh Pawar, Bhalachandra Kadam, Kishori Ambiye, Kishor Nadalskar, Sanjeevani Jadhav and others. Cinematography by Sameer Athlye and music by Praveen Kunvar are the other credits.
Sachin Khedekar, Amruta Khanvilkar are Maharashtra’s favorites
It was a grand show late evening on Friday, at Hotel Hyatt Regency Mumbai, when Zee Talkies presented the most prestigious awards ‘Maharashtracha Favourite Kon’ in various categories of Marathi Cinema. Anchored by actor – film maker Mahesh Manjrekar, the show presented skits, dances and Mimicry items performed by the popular artistes from Marathi stage, television and film industry. The organisers did not forget to pay tributes to late Bollywood film maker Yash Chopra, by presenting dances performed by Ankush Choudhary and Urmila Kanetkar on the romantic songs from his films.
The show began with ‘Fu Bai Fu’ Comedy TV show fame Nilesh Sable, Vaibhav Mangale & Bhahu Kadam performing skits , followed by a dance sequence by Manasi Naik in the company of Bhau kadam for the first time, beginning with ‘Chalao Na nainon Se Baan Re’. Manasi also went on to perform dances on some of the popular South Indian songs, displaying the actual glamour of south through her mini outfits. But, she did not forget to conclude with her favourite ‘Rikshawala’ song. There were mock items presented by Makarand Anaspure, Kranti Redkar and Hemangi kavi Dhumal , while Amruta Khanvilkar, Siddharth Jadhav, Mahesh Manjrekar and the team of young boys from forthcoming dance based film ‘Aaynaa Ka baayna’ performed, amid big applause from audience present on the occasion.
Urmila Dhangar & Avadhoot Gupte were adjudged as favoutrite singers of Maharashtra, while the favourite supporting artiste awards went to Jitendra Joshi(Jhakas) and Savita Malpekar (Kaksparsha). Vaibhav Mangale was awarded for playing best villain in Kaksparsha, while Lux Face of the year award went to Ketaki Mategaonkar. Ankush Choudhary, was declared the Style Icon for the third time this year, indicating that this year, there was no competition for him; having displayed his style outfits through ‘Jhakas’ and ‘No Entry PDA’. The best comedy film was ‘Jhakas’, while the best film’s award went to ‘Kaksparsha’. Mahesh Manjrekar was adjudged the best director, for the same film, in spite of tough competition from ‘Deool’, ‘Tukaram’ , ‘Shala’ and ‘Morya’.
The favourite actor and actress awards went to Sachin Khedekar( Kaksparsha) and Amruta Khanvilkar (Jhakas) and they received their awards from gorgeous Mrunal Kulkarni and evergreen Sunil Barve respectively. Besides the performing celebrity artistes and award winners mentioned above, other guests present were Sachin Pilgaonkar, Mrunal Kulkarni, Sunil Barve, Abhijit Gholap( producer of Deool and Bharatiya) , Ravi Jadhav, Medha Manjrekar, Kanchan Adhikari, Atisha Naik, Supriya Pathare, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sanjay Jadhav, Santosh Juvekar, Vijay Patkar, Deepa Parab, Sonali Kulkarni( Sr), Chandrakant kulkarni, Vidyadhar Joshi, Nagesh Bhosale, Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Manva Naik ( who welcomed the guests), Mr. Nikhil Sane, Business head of Zee Talkies along with other officials and Mr. Amey Khopkar, President of the Maharashtra Navanirman Sena Cine workers association.
This year’s show was a better presentation, compared to last year, with wonderful performances coming from Vaibhav Mangale, Bhau Kadam, Kranti Redkar and others. The absence of senior artistes like Ashok Saraf & Mahesh Kothare was felt. Moreover, there was no special guest from Bollywood this time, as one expected someone from ‘Jab Tak Hain Jaan’ as the film’s promo was played on the TV screens displayed on stage.
Ashutosh Rana celebrates birthday with ‘Yeda’ team
Ashutosh Rana who is making his debut in Marathi through a Psycho thriller ‘Yeda’ was in a jovial mood on Saturday afternoon, as he celebrated his birthday, in presence of his team comprising of Producers Satish More, Sneha Tambe, Girish Salvi, Laxman Salvi, Aditya Sharma, director- Kishore Belekar, co-stars Kishori Shahane Vij, Satish Pulekar, Pradnya Shastri. However, the others artistes of the film Reema Lagoo and Aniket Vishwasrao were not present to share the birthday cake.
While speaking on the occasion, director Kishore Belekar assured a gripping psycho thriller through the script, without any songs; details of which he refused to reveal. “The role of Appa Kulkarni an eccentric and somewhat horrid character played by Ashutosh, which is beyond his previous characters of Shankar Pande and Gokul Pandit,” he said.
Ashutosh himself, spoke very high about the film, praising technical support, besides gripping screenplay and well written dialogues penned by Girish Joshi. “I have enjoyed every moment in this film and I am sure the Marathi audience would appreciate my work. In this film, I have myself dubbed for all my dialogues and worked very hard while pronouncing every word. I will appreciate if any one tries to find fault in my dialogue delivery in Marathi. He however, refused to deliver one dialogue from the film, at the request of the scribes; stating that it will not carry the impact. I want all of you to enjoy every moment of my film in theatre.” he concluded. The film is due for release shortly.