Global Marathi TV awards in Dubai
After watching the Marathi film industry spreading its network all over the world, now we find the Marathi television industry also going worldwide with the hosting of the first Marathi Global television awards in Dubai on 16th April 2012. This destination has been selected, taking into account large population of Maharastrians in this country. Mr. Abhijit Patil, managing director of Raja Rani Travels has taken the lead to host this event handing over the responsibility of Art and direction to Mr. Nitin Desai.
The Jury for the event are Sanjev Sabde, Smita Jaykar, Vandana Gupte, Mohan Joshi, Vinay Apte, Ajinkya Deo and Kanchan Adhikari. Ms. Smita Talwalkar is the head of the Advisory committee. On this occasion, artistes and technicians of the small screen will be felicitated.
Mukti’ all set to release on 6th April
Marathi films on Social themes have already invited attention at the national and international level. Films like ‘Deool’, ‘Mee Sindutai Sapkal’, ‘Valu’, ‘Gabhricha Paus’ and ‘Pangira’ have highlighted social issues in rural sector throwing light on exploitation of farmers. Now, the forthcoming Marathi film ‘Mukti’ to be released on 6th April 2012, is a story of a farmer from the draught prone district of Maharashtra..
The film talks about A life, a family, a dream and the aftermaths of a crashed dream. It raises a valid question as to how far can one endure sufferings? The draught prone Maharashtra has seen suicides of thousands of farmers in the recent past. The story of ‘Mukti’ revolves around Bhanudas (Nandu Madhav), a farmer with a dream of owning a well in his farm and flourish his land so that his children lead a happy life. He lives in one such small village called Bagadwadi, in western Maharashtra.
‘Mukti’ produced by Sachin Jankar is written and directed by Machhindra More. The star cast of the film comprises of Nandu Madhav, Tejaswini Pandit, Nagesh Bhosle, Milind Shinde, Satish Sal
‘Uchala Re Uchala’ to release on 13th April
After we witnessed the ‘Masala’ Bus leaving on tour of Maharashtra for promotion of that film; it is now the turn of Producer- director Yashwant Chougule. For his forthcoming film ‘Uchala Re Uchala’ he decorated a brand new Force Tempo Travelers with the posters of his film. This tempo was flagged off near Ravindra Natya Mandir, in the presence of Anand Ingale, Vaibhav Mangale and MNS leader Shirish Parkar. The tempo left for different places in Maharashtra , to promote this film.
‘Uchala Re Uchala’ has a very big team of 28 artistes including Vaibhav Mangale and Anand Ingale. The film directed by Yashwant Chougule and Amol Bhave together on the story of Gajendra Kore, is all set to release all over Maharashtra including Mumbai, on 13th April 2012.
Tukaram’ to reappear on Big Screen
Maharashtra has been blessed by many great saints and one of them was Sant Tukaram. In 1936, well known film maker V. Shantaram in association with Prabhat films made a film on the life of this popular saint and it was well received. The film had also won some awards that time.
Now, Everest Entertainment have produced a new version of ‘Sant Tukaram’ which is directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni. Popular actor Jitendra Joshi plays the title role in this film in the company of other artistes like Radhika Apte, Veena Jamkar, Sharad Ponkshe and Pratiksha Lonkar. Music of this film is provided by Ashok Patki and Avadhoot Gupte together. This period film, is an ambitious project for producer Sanjay Chabria, who has produced some good Marathi films in the past. ‘Tukaram’ is all set to release in May 2012.
Mangesh Desai all set with his Game
Popular Marathi actor Mangesh Desai has entertained the audience till now, playing different characters in TV serials, reality shows, dramas and films. But now, he will be seen in a serious type of role in Mirah entertainment’s new film ‘Khel Mandla’ directed by Viju Mane. Mangesh plays Das-a puppeteer, which is a difficult role, for which he trained himself for two months.
The film has already been applauded by critics during various film festivals, where it was shown, prior to its official release, which takes place on 27th April 2012.
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.