Rang Majha Vegala’ – New family serial
Balaji Telefilms have spread their network to Saam TV. Their new serial ‘ Rang majha Vegala’ which is a family social , will begin from 2nd April 2012 on Saam TV at 8 pm. The serial is an out of the box tale of a young woman Gargi and her journey full of struggle.
Directed by Raju Sawant based on the concept of Ektaa kapoor, the story of this serial is penned by Ashish Ubale and the screenplay is written by Ashish along with Komulika Bhattacharya. Dialogues by Ashwini Shende, camera by Alinder Singh and music by Ashok Patki are the other credits. The Serial’s star cast comprises of Tanvi Palav and Shashank Ketkar along with Shilpa Navalkar, Sharvani Pillay, Anand kale, Nandini Vaidya, Lala Deshmukh, Shrikant Gandhe, Vasudha Deshpande, Arun Bhadsavle, Falguni Thakkar, Abhilasha Patil, Mrunmayee Phadke and Yogita Dandekar.
Marathi stars light up ‘Chaitrachahool’ Evening
The presence of well known Marathi stars lighted up the ‘Chaitrachahool’ evening, with their presences and performances. Besides felicitating two women personalities namely Sanjana Kapoor and Mukta Barve with ‘Dhyas Puraskar’, for their contribution to Theatre art, the organizers had also hosted some entertainment programme on the occasion to celebrate this year’s Women’s special event, at Ravindra Ratya mandir, Prabhadevi.
While, actress Sukanya Kulkarni presented a skit from popular Marathi play ‘Tee Phulrani’, Mukta Barve presented her few scenes from her popular play ‘Kabaddi Kabaddi’. Pratiksha Lonkar, Rekha Bade and Chimayee Sumeet read out some extracts from Marathi plays ‘Dhyani Mani’, ‘Purush’ and ‘Baby’ respectively. Madhavi Juvekar, Sampada Joglekar, Spruha Joshi, Madhavi Soman, Purva Pawar, Leena Bhagwat, Neela Sohani, Shruti Bhide and Shruti Nigade were part of other presentations. Ms. Sulbha Deshpande and Dr. Auna Dhere, who presented the awards, spoke on the occasion. Sachin Mote directed the event, that involved many prominent personalities like Sheetal Talpade, Ajit Dandekar, Vinod Pawar, Kishori Kukade, Gopi Kukade and Mahendra Pawar in the successful hosting of this event.
• Ashutosh Rana to play title role in a Marathi film
We have seen many Bollywood actors making guest appearances in Marathi films. But, now Ashutosh Rana, the popular actor of Hindi films and television will make his debut in Marathi films through Maitra Entertainment’s new film ‘Yeda Appa’ directed by Pandurang Belekar. So far, the identity of Ashutosh to Marathi entertainment industry has been as husband of Renuka Shahane Rana; but now, he will be recognized as the lead actor of Marathi films, after completing of this film, which begins the shooting at Alibaug soon.
In this film, Ashutosh will be playing the title role of a murderer, who is handicapped besides being lunatic. Other artistes in the cast of the film comprise of Reema Lagoo, Kishori Shahane, Satish Pulekar and Aniket Vishwasrao. Story, screenplay, editing and direction by Pandurang Belekar, dialogues by Girish Salvi and Camera by Raees Ansari are the other credits.
SKD awards receive mixed response
The 12th Sanskriti kala Darpan Awards were presented on Saturday 24th March 2012 at the MMRDA Grounds, Bandra kurla Complex in a big way; but the poor turn out of recipients to collect their awards, left a bad taste to the show. The show had the presence of not only two big politicians from the Centre, namely the Energy Minister Mr. Sushilkumar Shinde and Tourism Minister Mr. Subhodkant Sahay, but also some Bollywood personalities like Waheeda Rehman, Poonam Dhillon,Kiran Kumar Rati Agnihotri and others. The Grand old lady of Cinema Ms. Sulochana didi, was felicitated by Waheeda Rehman. Another veteran actress Sulbha Deshpande received the prestigious Gaurav Puraskar 2012 from the chief guests Mr. Sushilkumar Shinde and Subodhkant Sahay.
The attendance of top stars from Marathi film industry was very poor and that disappointed many invitees, who had gathered at this huge venue to have a glimpse of their favourite stars. Only few of them like Bharat Jadhav, Makarand
Sanskruti Kala Darpan Awards
Anaspure, Mahesh Kothare, Neha Pendse, Madhura Velankar, Mohan Joshi, Aniket Vishwasrao, Anand Ingale, Kanchan Adhikari, Smita Jaykar and few others were present on this occasion. Pushkar Shrotri and Kedar Shinde played the show anchors but there was a lot of confusion created for them, due to lack of coordination between the back stage management and script providers. They were not even informed about the absence of the guests who were supposed to give away the awards. Some of the presenters like Mr. Vijay Patkar were called twice to give away the awards. Sometimes there were three people called on the stage and only one could be present. This resulted confusion between the anchors . On one particular occasion, Pushkar Shrotri, literally apologized and also suggested one of the representative of the awardees to sit somewhere close to the dais, to avoid wastage of time.
The recipients of the awards whose names were called to receive the awards were made to seat at far away places in the enclosure, from where it took at least 3 to 4 minutes for them to walk towards the dais. This resulted in a lot of time wastage, due to which the organizers had to literally wind up the show in the last phase, without announcing the nominees; to meet the deadline of the loud speaker. But, by that time 50% of the audience had already left the venue. Hope the organizers, who are doing a good job for the past 11 years, would take precautions next time.
In the Film’s category, ‘Balgandharva’ bagged a maximum of 5 awards in different categories, while ‘Deool’ bagged four awards. But, the actual beneficiaries were absent. On their behalf the PR person of the film ‘Balgandharva’ found her way through an obstacle race, every time to receive the awards on behalf of the people connected with this film. For different category awards won by film ‘Deool’, the daughter of the Producer, received the same. Now, to say something about the entertainment programme, the dance item presented by Aniket Vishwasrao was good but the fashion show was a waste of time. The fusion was just okay but the rest of the programmes were not really entertaining.
This year, there were cash prizes given to the 3 Best films and Dramas. In the film’s category, ‘Shala’ received the cash award of Rs.2 lakhs, followed by Rs.1.5 lakhs by ‘Khel Mandala’and Rs.1 Lakh by ‘Deool’. In the Drama section, ‘Sukhanshi Bhandato Aamhi’ bagged the 1st prize of Rs.1.5 lakhs, followed by Rs.1 lakh by ‘Keshava Madhava’ and Rs.75,000/- by Mee Revati Deshpande’. In the Television channels category, Star Majha bagged the best news channel award, while Amit Bhandari received the Best Male Anchor’s award. The award in the female category went to Jayanti bamne of Zee 24 taas. IBN Lokmat’s ‘The Great Bhet’ programme presented by Nikhil Wagle, bagged the best Talk show award. But, he was not present.
The best actor’s award in film category was shared between Mangesh Desai and Subodh Bhave. While Murnal Kulkarni was declared as the best actress. In the professional Drama category too, the best actor award was shared between Mr. Mohan Joshi and Chinmay Mandlekar, while the best actress award went to Madhura Velankar. In the experimental plays category, Akshar Kothari and Shravni Pillay bagged the best actor and actress award respectively.
In the TV serials section, ‘Suvasini’ was declared as the best serial, while Gauri Nalawade and Pankaj Vishnu received the best actress and best actor awards. The best faces of the year awards went to Adinath Kothari, Neha Pendse; while the most impressive actor and actress from film and drama respectively went to Milind Gavli and Pooja Pawar.
New Serial ‘Janmagath’ on a social issue
‘Janmagath’ a new serial based on social conflicts between two families, will begin on Saam TV at 7.30 pm from today 26th March 2012. Made under the banner of Sumukhesh productions’ launched by Bharat Gaekwad (Lakshya fame) and Abhijit Gadgil together, the serial presents a team of best marathi artistes like Shailesh Datar, Smita Jaykar on one side and Prasad Pandit, Bharati Patil on the other side. The story of this serial deals with the clash between two families after the marriage of a girl (Dhanashree Kargaonkar) to a boy (Amit Bhanushali) from Sarpotdar family with political background. The girls father is a priest who performs the last rites at the funerals.
According to Bharat Gaekwad, who is making his debut as a co-producer through this serial, ‘Janmagath’ will not only present this clash between the two families in a different way, but will also generate interest every episode, with new happenings. “We are working on our own script and have engaged all versatile actors in the supporting roles. The lead girl’s role is played by Pune girl- Dhanashree, while Amit Bhanushali plays the young boy. We are all excited to see the reaction of the audience, as the first episode will be telecast today at 7.30 pm on Saam TV,” said Mr. Bharat.
No Entry- Pudhe Dhoka Aahe
Do you find any similarity between Anil Kapoor and Bharat Jadhav, Salman Khan and Ankush Chaudhary, Fardeen Khan and Aniket Vishwasrao, Lara Dutta and Kranti Redkar, Isha Deol and Sai Lokur, Celina Jaitley and Manva Naik, Bipasha Basu and Sai Tamhankar ? Well, they are all closely connected to characters like Kishan, Prem, Shekhar, Kajol, Pooja, Sanjana and Bobby. The latest news is that, Marathi film lovers will soon see the remake of ‘No Entry’ in the form of new forthcoming Marathi film ‘No Entry- Pudhe Dhoka Aahe’, where the abovementioned Marathi stars will play the roles of their Bollywood counterparts.
‘No Entry’, the 2005 hit Bollywood film, which was loosely based on original Tamil film ‘Charlie Chaplin’, is now being made in Marathi, under the banner of Underground Films Pvt.Ltd and directed by Milind Kavde (‘Yedyanchi Jatra’ fame). The shooting of this film begins from May in Goa and Mumbai. Now, it all remains to be seen, how the Marathi audience would accept this remake?
‘Mahima Omkaracha’ released in presence of Marathi stars
he release of music based DVD on ‘Mahima Omkaracha’ was held at Hotel Kohinoor, Prabhadevi recently. Many prominent personalities from Marathi film and music industry comprising of Makarand Anaspure, Sharad Ponkshe, Ketki Thatte, Sanjay Khapre, Ashwini Ekbote besides Dr. Jayant Karandikar & Geeta Karandikar were present. Mr. Sachin Parekar through his Amol Productions will be presenting this DVD produced by Shrikant Ranade. Based on the music of Shrikant Ranade, the concept is directed by Vinay Girkar.
Dr. Jayant Karandikar who developed this Omkar Sound Therapy is being spread by his disciples Mr. and Ms. Ranade, through this DVD. Mr. Anaspure emphasized the importance of this therapy to get rid of many viral infections; while Mr. Sharad Ponkse assured that he would visit Dr. Karandikar to more about this therapy, as and when he will be free.
‘Chirgut’ promises hard hitting subject
JRD Entertainment’s new Marathi film ‘Chirgut’ is all set to release all over Maharashtra on 30th March 2012. On Tuesday 20th March, Producer Rajashri Jagtap and director Pradeep Ghosnikar (‘Foreignchi Patlin’ fame) had arranged a Press conference to release the music of this film. On this occasion, some clippings of the film were also shown. Well known Film maker and director N.Chandra was the chief guest and released the Music CD of the film, which has four songs on the music of Kanakraj.
The film has a hard hitting subject with the protagonist hero -Namdev Bhandare fighting against injustice in the system, played by National award winning actor Upendra Limaye. Two other important characters namely that of a social activists and NGO representatives are played by Chinmay Mandlekar and Siya Patil. Impressed by the philosophy of Namdev, Janhavi joins his movement.
Speaking on the occasion, the director of the film said that the film was shot in the slums of Turbhe near Navi Mumbai, where there is a big population of neglected class of the society. “The hero of the film, has been brought up by one such person, who belongs to Eunuch community. He is socio politically literate and takes up the issue on behalf of the entire slum area where he lives, when it’s their exploitation, in the name of slum rehabilitation. My film is a hard hitting comment against the system,” he said.
Mr. N. Chandra, after releasing the Music CD of this film, said that he had seen the film, which had a powerful subject. I have seen Namdev Dhasal and his movement during his young days and the hero of this film is almost his image,” he stated. Siya Patil, who plays the leading lady of this film, said that she was highly impressed by the script. “When I knew that there were two great artistes like Upendra Limaye and Chinmay Mandlekar performing in this film, I immediately said ‘yes’ to this offer.”
The film’s cinematography has been done by Page 3 fame Madhu Rao. Story by Dilip Jagtap, screenplay and dialogues by Sanjay Pawar, lyrics by Guru Thakur, Dilip Jagtap and music by Kanakraj are the other credits. The film has already won two awards in different categories in Zee Gaurav and Ma ta Sanmaan.
Sanjana & Mukta to be felicitated at ‘Chaitrachahul’
Gudhi Padwa is an occasion to celebrate new year in Maharashtra. Ad Fizz, an entertainment company in Mumbai has been celebrating the occasion for the past seven years with different themes. This year’s theme will be ‘ladies special’. This year, two prominent ladies namely – Sanjana Kapoor, who has contributed a lot to keep the movement of theatre alive at Prithvi for the past 23 years and Mukta Barve, who has entertained Maharashtrian audience through her performances on stage, TV and films for the past 8 to 10 years; will be felicitated.
While Sanjana will be felicitated at the hands of Sulbha Deshpande, Mukta will receive her honours from Dr. Aruna Dhere. The entire programme to he held at Ravidra Natya Mandir at 4.30 pm on the auspicious Gudhi Padwa day, will be presented by all women from Marathi entertainment industry. Prominent among them will be Madhavi Juvekar, Sukanya Kulkarni, Priya Bapat, Leena Bhagwat, Pratiksha Lonkar, Chinmayee Sumeet Raghavan, Spruha Joshi, Madhavi Soman, Sampada Joglekar, Rekha Bade, Neela sohani and Shruti Bhave.
‘Masala’ Music CD launched in a Grand way
After the success of ‘Deool’ the pair of Girish Kulkarni and Umseh Kulkarni are in news. Now, their next film is with Praveen Masalewale. Suitably titled ‘Masala’, the film’s music CD was launched at Hotel Kohinoor, Prabhadevi, in presence of Music director of the film- Anand Modak, singer Ajay Gogavle, Avadhoot Gupte, Bela Shende, Creative Producer Umesh Kulkarni, Writer-actor Girish Kulkarni, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Amruta Subhash, Jyoti Subhash and Mr. Vishal Choradia, Managing director of Praveen Masale.
The situation based songs well suited to the screenplay have been penned by lyricist and director- Sunil Sukhtankar. The lead stars of the film are Girish Kulkarni & Amruta Subhash alongwith Dr. Shreeram Lagoo, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Jyoti Subhash, Shrikant Yadav, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shashank Shende, Praveen Tarde, Neha Shitole, Gargi Phule, Nandkishore Chougule, Sneha Majgaonkar, Suhas Joshi, Prashant Pethe, Prashant Tapasvi, Om Bhutkar, Mandar paralikar, Omi Kulkarni and Deepak Damle.