New Marathi drama ‘See you again’ launched
Marathi dramas are witnessing good turn out at the theatres now days. New sensational subjects are inviting the attention of the drama lovers. After entering Marathi film industry, Producer Sachin Parekar is now also entering stage production. Recetly, he launched his new drama ‘See you again’ at Rangsharad, Mumbai, in presence of artistes and unit members.
Based on the husband and wife relationship, the play written by actor Nikhil Ratnaparakhi impressed Mr. Sachin Parekar so much that he asked his friend Nikhil to direct it himself besides playing the leads role opposite Kadambari Kadam. The play begins with their first in July 2012.
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‘Majha Sanman Puraskar’ on 22nd June 2012
This will be the third year, when Star Majha, which is now ABP Majha, will be felicitating the distinguished personalities from different fields like social, sports, music, literary, industry, entertainment and fashion etc. They will receive the prestigious ‘Majha Sanman Puraskar’ on 22nd June 2012, in presence of distinguished guests and celebrities.
Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar will be the chief guest on the occasion, who will present the awards in ten categories. In the year 2010, it was Nana Patekar who presented the awards, while last year, Aamir Khan stole the show, when he attempted to speak in Marathi in his speech as a chief guest. Mr. Rajiv Khandekar, chief editor , ABP Majha has expressed his gratitude to all those Marathi people who have made Maharashtra proud with their achievements in their respective fields.
Nashib Navyache’ Reality show to offer Gold
Saam TV’s new Marathi serial ‘Nashib Navyache’ is a reality show based on General Knowledge combined with entertainment for viewers. This show will be presented between Thursday to Saturday at 9 pm. This so called unique show is a concept of Dr. Shri Balaji Tambe and directed by Sachin Goswami.
At the end of the week, the host will present a car to one family and the winner will receive 1.25 kgs of Gold. For this show, the participants comprising of families have been selected from different parts of Maharashtra. Actor- turned producer, Mr. Ajinkya Deo said that he was confident about the success of this show, which is anchored by Sunil Barve.
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Times Group to tie up with Marathi Movie World.
“The Times Group’ have approached Honeybee Media, for worldwide rights to use, reproduce, display, translate and archive content pertaining to Entertainment from Marathi Cinema which includes movie reviews, interviews, news, gossips, photographs articles and videos (the “Content”) from the website www.marathimovieworld.com, on The Times Group – websites www.indiatimes.com . www.timesofindia.com
The agreement is in the process, but Honeybee media have suggested that The Times Group shall display five to six lines of the articles from Marathimovieworld.com on
its website and shall direct the reader/users to the full story available on the
www.marathimovieworld.com by providing a link back to the Marathimovieworld website.
“This would help Marathi Movie world to retain its originality,” said Mr. Jitendtra More, CEO of Honeybee Media.
Abhilasha Chellam makes her debut in Marathi film
Upcoming Singer Abhilasha Chellam, who with her melodious voice invited all attention on marathi and Hindi TV programmes ‘Sa Re ga ma’ is now making her debut through a forthcoming Marathi film ‘Dombari’. In this film, Abhilasha will be singing a duet with popular Marathi singer Anand Shinde.
In spite of being a South Indian, Abhilasha put her heart and soul into Marathi songs and has succeeded in achieving this success of turning a playback singer for Marathi film. She has thanked the makers of ‘Dombari’ for giving her an opportunity to sing for their film. The film is being produced by Bapusaheb Karande and Prakash Orpe and directed by Sunil Waikar.
Sargam’ bags best play ABMNP award
The Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad awards have been disclosed. Marathi play ‘Sargam’ has been adjudged as the Best play, while the best comedy play award goes to ‘Karun Gelo Gaav’. While Amruta Subhash has been declared best actress, Suhas Palshikar finds his name in the Best actor’s category.
Among some of the other important awards, Abhiram Bhadkamkar has been honoured as the best dramatist and Amol Bhate receives the Balgandharva award. The Rangadevta award goes to Subodh Bhave this time. This year’s beneficiaries for the Lifetime achievement award are Suhas Joshi and Satish Alekar.
‘Khalti Doka Varti Paay’ inviting attention at international fests
Besides the world famous Cannes festival, another festival called the Artisan Festival International (AFI), World Cinema, takes place at the Festival de Cannes during the same period. This year it will witness a Marathi film, which is expected to invite all the attention. So, after ‘Baboo Band Bajaa’, ‘Deool’ and ‘Shala’, can we expect one more marathi film to create waves.
The film, ‘Khalti Doka Varti Paay’ (Upside Down), is made by film maker Ajay Singh, who is also making his debut in Marathi. In the past, he has worked as assistant director in films like ‘Aamir’, ‘Quick Gun Murugan’ and ‘Anolkhee Hey Ghar Majhe’. Produced by Amitabh Bhattacharya and Junaid Memon for Nomad Films, the film goes on to show the journey of a little village boy, whose only wish is to watch a circus in a big city. As he undertakes that journey, he gets lost. When reunited with his uncle; he poses as if he has seen the circus and narrates his experience in the city to his friends from the village.
‘KDVP’ is a film with universal theme and the makers are focusing their attention on international market, besides Marathi audience. The director who has lived in places like Mumbai and Pune, is well versed with Maharashtrian culture and has done his mass communications from Pune, with considerable experience in marathi films, he worked during his projects. The producers of this film have received invitation from 11 film festivals in the competition category.
Shiv Sena & MNS to the rescue of Marathi TV producers
Both the units of Shiv Sena and MNS associated with the welfare of Marathi film and TV productions lodged strong protests at the Dadasahen Phalke Chitranagari, Mumbai. It may be recalled that the Marathi TV serial producers, were eligible for concessions from the Maharashtra Government for shooting and erecting sets at the Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari, Off. Goregaon (East) , Mumbai. But, the concession has been withdrawn recently, giving a big shock to the Marathi serial producers, who are otherwise suffering from want of space for shooting.
On one side, the Cultural Ministry has been promoting Marathi films, by offering subsidy and on the other side, they are making it difficult for the Marathi TV serial producers, to produce quality serials. At present, the ongoing popular serial ‘Uncha Majha Zoka’, which has its set erected, will suffer the maximum, due to the concession being withdrawn. This will only deprive the small producers from producing their serials. According to some Marathi TV serial producers, The higher rent, will only encourage big banners from Hindi to get the control of Marathi TV productions.
Now, with the intervention of Shiv Sena and MNS Film units entering the fray, it will force the Cultural department of the State Government to take prompt action, otherwise the two units have threatened to bring all the shootings to a halt at this Chitranagari, if the issue is not resolved by the concerned authorities within next 48 hours.
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Shot at beautiful locations of Alibaug, Kishore Pandurang Belekar’s new film ‘Yeda Appa’ has completed the entire shooting schedule. Presenting the story of a mentally retarded person, the film has many interesting plots to cover the acts of his eccentric and murderous attitude.
Ashutosh Rana, who is making his debut in Marathi through this film, is playing trhe central character, along with Reema Lagoo, Kishori Shahane, Satish Pulekar, Aniket Vishwasrao, & others. Besides direction, Mr. Belekar has also written the story and screenplay of this film. Dialogues are penned by Girish Salvi. With cinematography by Raees Ansari, the film is due for release soon.
New Marathi films with sensible topics releasing today
What Bollywood couldn’t offer for the children during this summer vacation, our marathi films are doing it. Film maker Shrirang Godbole’s new film ‘Chintoo’ is supposed to be an entertaining film for children and their parents, as it revolves around a central character of a child – Chintoo, a naughty boy from an upper middle class family. This eight year old is shown extremely popular in his group with Pappu as his best friend and Mini, Raju, Baglya, Neha and the toddler Sonu all together forming the unbeatable ‘Wanarwede Warriors’
Chintoo and his gang have big plans for their much awaited summer vacation. They decide to beat their rivals Vinchoo biters by making Wanarwede Warriors strong enough even to win the world cup. They practice hard and also convert the barren piece of land in the society into their very own ‘Wanarwede stadium.’ The match starts as planned.
How they face the opposition and what they do, is all that the film has tried to show through its interesting screenplay, as claimed by the film maker. The film also has a cartoon strip created by Charuhas Pandit and Prabhakar Wadekar. Directed by Shrirang Gobole, with story ,screenplay and dialogues by Shrirang Godbole and Vibhavari Deshpande; the film’s star cast comprises of Shubhankar Atre as Chintoo, along with Suhani Dadhphale, Animesh Padhye, Ved Ravade, Nishant Bhavsar, Rumani Khare,
Arjun Jog, Vibhawari Deshpande( Chintoo’s mother),Subodh Bhave( Chintoo’s father), Shriram Pendse, Satish Alekar, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Bharti Aacharekar, Vijay Nikam,Alok Rajwade, Nagesh Bhosale, Om Bhutkar, Vijay Patwardhan, Prashant Tapasvi, Mrinmayee Godbole, Pankaj Gangan, Sanjay Lonkar, Pournima Ganu Manohar, Sadhana Sarpotdar, Mridul Patwardhan, Sunil Abhyankar, Snehal Tarde, Suraj Satav, Soniya Khare, Ajay Apte, Chitra Khare & Amit Patwardhan.
Director of Photography- Sanjay Jadhav, Lyrics- Sandeep Khare & Music by Dr. Saleel Kulkarni.are the other credits.
Omkar Karve, Nitin ParegaonkarAnother film ‘Swapna Tujhe Ni Majhe'( STNM) seems to be inspired by the work of social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, as it deals with the topic of upliftment of village and the living conditions of people living in rural sector who become victims of drought. The film produced by Sachin Bhalinge and directed by Ashok Kambli, presents a story of two friends studying together in an Agricultural college, have their own dreams to change their village conditions, as per their plans.
While Vishwas is from a poor family, Vidyadhar belongs to a a rich family. The dream of Vishwas remains incomplete, due to his sudden demise. So, Vidyadhar arrives in his village, to fulfill his friend’s dream. The film has tried to present the situation, how Vidyadhar comes across the problems and how he faces it.
At a time, when today’s children are attracted towards traditional courses for their career, STNM, shows the way to the youth and encourages them to take up education in agricultural sector, for the real development of our country. Highlight of the film is the music, which is provided by young pair comprising of Siddharth Mahadevan ( Son of Shankar Mahadevan) and his nephew Saumil Shringarpure; who are making their debut as music directors, through this film.