Bharat Jadhav gets ready with Kombada song for ‘Shikhar’
After the success of the ‘Kombadi palali….song , actor Bharat Jadhav is now all set to popularize another song, which is based on the wordings ‘Bang Detoy Kombada…’. recently Bharat took part for this song picturisation along with actress Kiran Sharad for the forthcoming film ‘Shikhar’ produced and directed by V. Ameeta.
The lyrics of this song has been penned by V. Ameeta, who has also written the script of this film, while the music is composed by Jagdish Shastri and Sanjayraj Gaurinandan. Vaishali Samant has rendered her voice for this song. Incidentally, ‘Chak De India’ fame Vidya Malavade will be making her debut through this film. The other star cast of the film comprises of Pushkar Jog, Ashwini Ekbote, Manoj Joshi, Pramod Pawar, Sunil Tawade, Shubhangi Latkar, Prakash Bhagwat and Mausami Tondwalkar.
‘Aik’ premiere witnesses full house at PVR, Mumbai
Producer Pradeep Garg and director Pratik Kadam had hosted the premiere of their much awaited Marathi horror film ‘Aik’ at PVR,Lower Parel, in presence of artistes of the film and special invitees. The biggest Cinema hall was packed to capacity, on this occasion. Lead actor Swapnil Jadhav, who is making his debut through this film was present along with lead actress Aditi Saragdhar, Prasad Oak, Prashant Neman and the other artistes and crew members of the film. However, Chimay Mandlekar , who is playing a special guest appearance in this film, could not be spotted around.
All those invitees, looked excited, as the film had raised their expectations, being a horror film in Marathi, based on a reality game show. Swapnil Jadhav while speaking to Marathi Movie world, expressed his satisfaction over the online promotion, being carried out by Honeybee Media, the parent company of Marathi Movie World .com. Swapnil is basically an IT professional in real life. His love for acting has brought him into this film. “ This film is my debut. If people like my performance, I shall take acting seriously, in near future,” he said.
Now, a film on Popular Marathi novel ‘Uchalya’
Laxman Gaekwad’s novel ‘Uchalya’ had become so popular in late eighties, that it was translated later in many Indian languages. The novel based on a particular community of people neglected by society, who wandered on, without any shelter, had invited the attention of people around the world.
Now, producer Aman Kakkad and Pushpa Kakkad are making a Marathi film on this subject. Recently, muhurat shot of this film was shot on National award winner child actor Vivek Chabukswar by director Sameet Kakkad. The clap for this scene was given by actor Sachin Khedekar, while cinematographer Sanjay Jadhav captured the moment in the camera.
The film will try to tell how the poor neglected class of people are arrested and punished for the small thefts carried out by them due to starvation and non availability of shelter. And on the other hand the so called while collar people involved in financial scams and cheating cases get away with the crimes committed by them. Accordingly, the film will try to send a strong message to the society. The regular shooting of the film will begin soon after all the artistes are finalized.
Mhaiskar- MIFTA 2012 in Singapore
The Marathi International Film & theatre awards (MIFTA) 2012 will be held in Singapore this year during the period 4th – 7th October 2012. This is the third year of the awards, under the banner of Mhaiskar – MIFTA 2012, which will have travel sponsorship from Kesari Travels. Mr. Mahesh Manjrekar, organizer of MIFTA and Ms. Veena Patil of Kesari travels made an official announcement of this event in a press conference in Mumbai.
Every year, before the main awards function the organizers conduct a curtain raiser event. This year the event will be held at Kashinath Ghanekar auditorium, Thane, between 2nd and 9th September 2012. There will be 10 dramas staged and 10 films screened during the period, which can be viewed by film and drama lovers at reduced rates. On the final day of this event, the nominations for the MIFTA awards will be announced.
Incidentally, Mahesh Manjrekar’s film ‘Kaksparsha’ has received a good response in Singapore. So, expectations for the success of MIFTA have raised high hopes. MIFTA has invited applications from filmmakers and Drama producers online, from 16th July onwards on their website www.miftaawards.com.
Amol Palekar begins his new Marathi humour filled film
The biggest news of the week is the announcement of the new film by Amol Palekar. This new marathi multi- starrer film titled ‘We are on….Houn Jaoo Dhya’ was launched officially with its initial shooting schedule in Pune in the company of top well known artistes from Marathi film industry.
Surprisingly, the film is filled with humour, to be attempted for the first time by the passionate film maker. The film is based on the script of Sandhya Gokhale, who will also be the producer of the film with her new banner ‘Anan Nirmiti’. Ms. Sandhya, who had a doubt whether her script would be accepted by the film lovers, expressed her happiness during the launch of the film, when all the artistes of the film, were ‘all praise’ for this well written script. It seems, she has worked very hard on the script for the past few years, before finalizing it.
The biggest team of popular talented stars in this film comprise of Ashok Saraf, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Ramesh Bhatkar, Manoj Joshi, Pushkar Shrotri, Upendra Limaye, Anand Ingale, Satish Pulekar, Vijay kenkre, Satish Alekar, Ajit kelkar, Shreeram Pendse, Sunil Godbole, Gautam Joglekar, Sameer Chougule, Sandeep Pathak, Nivedita Saraf, Vandana Gupte, Shilpa Navalkar, Suhasini Paranjape and Aatisha Naik.
Cinematography by Amol Gole, Editing by Ashwin ramachandran and sound recording by Anita Kushwah are the other credits of the film.
‘Hridaynath’ music released by Jackie Shroff
H2H Entertainment’s new Marathi films ‘Hridaynath’ released its music at the hands of popular actor Jackie Shroff, who is playing lead in this film; in presence of Aditya Pancholi , Chinmay Sumeet, Swarang Marathe, Ameya Hunaswadkar, Music Director Santosh Mulekar, Director Amar Gupte, and Producer Nitesh Waghdhare. Mr. Narendra Singh MD, Filmy Box, Mr. Rohan Rane Programming Head, 9x Jhakaas, was also present. They are 4 melodious tracks in the film, sung by Shankar Mahadevan, Adnan Sami, Sunidhi Chauhan & Hamsika Iyer.
Speaking on the occasion Producer Mr. Nitesh Waghdhare said that he was overwhelmed by the entire team support, as his production house had just ventured into Marathi cinema.. The viewers can also catch the making of the movie along with songs exclusively on 9x Jhakaas.
Nana & Mrinal to play Dr Prakash and Mandakini Amte
A biopic on the life of Dr. Prakash Baba Amte and his wife Dr. Mandakini Amte has been announced. The film was officially launched on Wednesday at Swatantraveer Sawarkar auditorium, Shivaji Park, when Producer and director Ms. Samruddhi Porey ( ‘Mala Aai Vhaychay’ fame) officially introduced the lead pair of the film Nana Patekar and Mrinal Kulkarni.
Today, the entire country is aware of the social work undertaken by the couple in the remote tribal area in Gadchiroli district. Dr. Praksah Amte has already received the prestigious Global Megassasy award and there is postal stamp printed in appreciation of his work in Monaco. It was only after that the Government of India thought about his work and conferred him with Padmashree award.
The film is based on the work undertaken by the couple towards the welfare of tribal for the past 40 years at Hemalkasa village in Gadchiroli district. The film will be shot at actual location from next month. Well known cinematographer Mahesh Limaye will handle the photography of this film.
Chitrabhooshan award for Sachin Pilgaonkar & Uma Bhende
Veteran Marathi film personalities Sachin Pilgaonkar and Uma Bhende will be conferred with the prestigious ‘Chitrabhooshan’ award next month in Pune. The awards were announced by Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal. Sachin who has completed 50 years in Marathi films, ever since his debut as a child artiste in the film ‘Ha Majha Marg Ekala’ deserved the award for his contribution. While, for Uma Bhende, who acted in about 100 films and produced few Marathi films, the felicitation is better late than never.
It may be recalled that Marathi Movie World only few months ago had interviewed Uma Bhende, wherein we had raised this issue about the actress not being considered for any prestigious life time awards, when her juniors received the same before her. Uma Bhende was last seen in ‘Aai Thor Tujhe Upkaar’, which was released in 2001, which was her own home production. Her film ‘Madhuchandra’ with Dr. Kashinath Ghanekar was a hit and is still fresh in the memory of many marathi film lovers. Besides performing, Uma Bhende has given scope to many newcomers through her own productions in late 80s and 90s.
Akhil Bharatiya Chitrapat Mahamandal will also felicitate 13 technical artistes from Marathi films, who have done a commendable job behind the screen. They will receive the Rangakarmi awards.
Marathi films should establish their own identity
The successful run of the films like ‘Kaksparsh’ and ‘Tukaram’ clearly indicates what type of films the Marathi audience and others prefer to watch. There have been enough of comedy films in Marathi. Moreover, many of them have been a copy of Bollywood films or based on the same old themes tried before in Marathi during 80s and 90s. Why can’t Marathi film makers try out something different, to pose a challenge to Bollywood ? The Regional films in south have established their own identity. In Marathi cinema, the above mentioned two films have proved it, not bothering about their release time; whether it coincided with big banner Hindi film or not.
Marathi films like ‘Deool’, ‘Jogwa’, ‘Babu Band Bajaa’, ‘Mala Aai Vhaychay’, ‘Harishchandrachi Factory’, ‘Balgandharva’, ‘Shikshnachya Aaichha Gho’, ‘Lalbaug Parel’, tried something realistic; while some action films in the recent past like ‘Arjun’, ‘Mi Shivajiraje Bhosale Bolto’, ‘Fakta Ladh Mhana’ and few others, proved that Marathi films are nowhere behind Bollywood, even in technical matters.
Marathi film industry has the biggest advantage of having many talented stage artistes. They fit into any type of roles in films, as for them, performance is very important, rather than flexing their muscles. But, unfortunately, many talented artistes have wasted their caliber, performing in traditional comedy films made by all such film makers, for whom getting the subsidy from the Government has only been the motive. Many such films have come and disappeared in a week’s time. It is only when they are shown by some TV channels, people come to know about their release. By the way, why there was no Marathi film released last week and during this week, only film officially released i.e. ‘Saheb’ has found just one theatre in Mumbai that too in western suburbs, one in Thane and one in Navi Mumbai ?
Some film makers, taking into account the likes of young Marathi generation, who are net savvy and hardly read marathi newspapers; tried to make films of their interests, like music, romantic, etc; but even that didn’t work, to invite the young audience to the theatres. Best examples are recent films like ‘Satrangi Re’, ‘Jai Jai Maharashtra Majha’ and ‘Mumbai Pune Mumbai’, which did not draw the response from the target audience, as expected.
If Marathi film industry really needs to make progress with quality films, it’s high time that the Government of Maharashtra come forward with new incentive schemes, instead of the present subsidy scheme; to all those film makers, who succeed in inviting international audience and winning national awards. Let others do remake of Marathi films in their languages, instead of Marathi films attempting remakes of commercial Bollywood films. Today, we find some Bollywood film makers or Real estate people entering Marathi films as producers, because the Government offers subsidy. This is preventing the genuine talented film makers to come forward as producers.
We have many young talented film makers today, who are assisting reputed directors. If they are encouraged to make a film on a universal topic, let them get the assistance from the Government. A good script and delivering a message to the society in a realistic manner, is the need of the hour. It’s hard to believe that we are short of good script writers.
New Marathi film ‘Aik’ promises spine chilling horror
Traditional Marathi films are based either on comedy or social subjects. Till now, very few film makers in Marathi have attempted suspense filled horror films. But, now come 13th July and get set to witness a new Marathi film ‘Aik’, which promises action filled horror from beginning till end. Produced by Pradeep Garg, the film is being produced under the banners of Matrubhoomi Prductions and Cutting Chai productions jointly, and is directed by Prateek Kadam.
Based on an organized plot with unidentified images, the film revolves around a family comprising of the hero Rishi, his wife Aditi and their little son Vivan. Rishi, who works for a Channel, gets ready to organize an unusual game show along with his Boss Sandy. But, this show which is meant for participants, turns out to be a nightmare in his personal life. Curious Script of this film is written by Janmajay Patil and Swapnil Jadhav and the music is composed by Rajesh Sawant. Well known singers like Swapnil Bandodkar, Nehha Rajpal, Sumitra Iyer, Rajesh Sawant and Shruti Sawant have rendered their voices for the situation based songs in the film.
The film has an interesting star cast comprising of talented artistes like Swapnil Jadhav, Aditi Sarangdhar, Prasad Oak, Chinmay Mandlekar, Suhas Palshikar, Shekhar Phadke, Bhooshan Ghadi, Prashant Neman, Hrishikesh Gujar, Mausami Hadkar, Poonam Jadhav, Shilpa Kamble with child artistes Swarangi Karandikar and Tanish Sonavne.