Grace- the Poet, is no more
Popularly known as Grace, renowned poet and writer Manik Godghate paased away today at Pune’s Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital. For the past few months, he was fighting his battle against cancer. Grace was recently conferred with the Sahitya Academy Award for his famous collection ‘Varyane Halte Raan’. Though it came late, it was at least received by him in the hospital.
In the past, Poet Grace had received State award in 1968 for his collection ‘Sandhyakalchya Kavita’ ( Evening poems). He was also honoured with other prestigious awards like ‘Poet Keshavsut award, Dinanath Mangeshkar award, G.A. Sanman, Nagbhushan and Vidarbha Sanmaan etc. We, at Marathi Movie World pay sincere tributes to his departed soul.
‘Teen Bayka Fajiti Aika’ Music released
Raju Parsekar, the Director of films like ‘Eena Meena Deeka’, ‘Durga Mhantyat Mala’ & ‘Tata Birla Ani Laila’ is back again. This time, he comes with another comedy ‘Teen Baika Fajiti Aika’ with Makarand Anaspure in the lead against three starlets Kranti Redkar, Nisha Parulekar and Tejashree Khele. On Wednesday evening, the music of this film was released at Hotel Kohinoor, Prabhadevi in presence of stars of this film, the director, cinematographer, the music company people and many others. Absence of Kranti Redkar was felt but her place was taken by popular item girl of Marathi films Manasi Naik. In fact, Manasi was the star of the day, as her full dance on the popular song ‘Vaat Baghtoy Rikshawala’ was screened on the occasion, besides other song promos of the film.
Speaking on the occasion , Mr. Makarand Anaspure and director Raju Parsekar said that it was a fun filled film, to offer total entertainment to the Marathi audience. The three girls- Nisha, Manasi and Tejashree appealed to the media to respond positively to this film, based on total entertainment. It is for the first time that two music companies are involved in the music rights of this film, as the original song ‘Vaat Baghtoy Rikshawala’ rendered by Reshma Sonavne belongs to the audio album of Krunal Music. Mr. Jayesh Vira of Krunal Music, who agreed for the picturisation of a dance on this song, said that he has a big collection of such songs and appealed to all the film makers, to make use of them. Mr. Nanubhai of Video Palace was also present.
In the absence of Kranti Redkar, Tejashree Khele was surrounded by the representatives of electronic media, as the show anchor Smita Gavankar introduced her as Nashik chi Mulgi , south chya 40 films chi heroine’. After the function, when Mr. Raju Parsekar was asked whether this film was a remake of any south film; he denied it and said that it was an original film on the story of Rajan Agrawal, with the screenplay written by Arwind Jagtap and Deepak Yadav. Many popular singers like Tyagraj Khadilkar, Anand Shinde, Vaishali Samant, Reshma Sonavne and Eknath Mali have rendered their voices on the music of Praveen Kunwar. Cinematography by Wahab and choreography by Umesh Jadhav are other credits. The film is due for release on 23rd March 2012.
• Singing competition part of ‘Aamhi Chamakte Taare’
We are all familiar with the popularity of singing competitions in TV reality shows, especially those of children. We have also seen Mahaguru Sachin Pilgaonkar encouraging such participants from time to time. But, now we will witness one such show in forthcoming Marathi film ‘Aamhi Chamakte Taare’ where Sachin Pilgaonkar will make special appearance in the climax scene of such singing show in this film.
The shooting of this sequence was held recently on the sets of ‘Aamhi Chamakte Taare’ where Sachin Pilgaonkar played the role of Mahaguru, encouraging the child artiste of the film Indrajeet More, who plays an important role in this film. Produced by Deepak S Choudhari ( ‘Shwaas’ fame) and directed by Prakash Jadhav, the film is nearing completion with a different subject to appeal the children. The other lead stars of the film are Bharat Jadhav, Nisha Parulekar, Yogesh Mahajan, Nirmala Kotnis, Reema Lagoo, Anand Abhyankar, Manasi Madhikar, Sanjay Desai and Satish Pulekar. Music of this film is composed by Shrirang Aras.
‘Masala Tour’ proceeds to Vidarbha
Makers of Marathi film ‘Masala’ feel that Vidarbha region is always neglected by Marathi movie stars. So, they have planned a tour to Vidarbha by a specially decorated tourist bus, to promote their film and to interact with the people from that region of Maharashtra. Prior to their departure, film maker Mahesh Manjrekar wished them all luck by breaking a coconut in front of the tourist bus. This ceremony was held at Ravindra Natya Mandir, Prabhadevi, after which, the bust took the route via Sea Link to visit places like Nagpur, Amravati, Akola and Yavatmal.
Present on the occasion were Mr. Umesh Kulkarni- Creative Producer of this film, Director Sandesh Kulkarni, Script writer and actor- Girish Kulkarni, Amruta Subhash, Mr. Vishal Choradia and other artistes of the film. The film also stars Dilip Prabhavalkar, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shashank Shende, Suhas Joshi, Prashant Pethe and Dr. Shreeram Lagoo in a special role. National award winner Cinematographer H. M. Ramachandra is doing the cinematography of this film and the music is composed by Anand Modak. In the second phase, ‘Masala Tour’ will take up the route of Solapur, Latur, Nanded and Parabhani sector.
Marathi film ‘Deool’ bags National awards
Marathi film ‘Deool’ and its dialogue writer and hero Girish Kulkarni have bagged the awards for the best film, best actor and best dialogues in the 59th National film awards announced today. It is not only the biggest day for Marathi films, as few more awards were also bagged by film ‘Balgandharva’ for best singer- Anand Bhate, Best costume- Neeta Lulla and Best make-up Vikram Gaekwad. The best screenplay award went to Avinash Deshpande for Marathi film ‘Shala’. Marathi film ‘Shala’ also received the award for best Marathi film.
The best actress award was won by Vidya Balan, for her performance in the film ‘Dirty Picture’. But, looking at these main awards, people like Abhijit Gholap (Producer of ‘Deool’) , actor – writer Girish Kulkarni, singer Anand Bhate, screenplay writer Avinash Deshpande and make up artiste Vikram Gaekwad, have brought pride for the Marathi film industry winning these national awards. Marathi Movie World wishes all of them a grand success in their career.
Sanskruti Kala Darpan declare nominations for 2012 awards
For the past 12 years Sanskuti Kala Darpan has been felicitating personalities from Marathi stage and film industry, by declaring various awards for them. This year they have spread their wings further by organizing a Marathi Drama and film festival at the beginning of this year. The winners will be declared during the ‘Sankruti Kala Darpan Gaurav Rajani Awards’ on 24th March 2012.
The announcement to this effect was made by the organizers, on Sunday 4th March, at Hotel Kohinoor Continental, Mumbai, in presence of many prominent personalities from Marathi entertainment industry and special invitees. Speaking about this years award ceremony, which will be held in a big way, The president Mr. Chandrashekhar Sandwe and Working President ms. Archana Nevrekar said that this year, they have decided to include even Television serial producers and artistes for their awards. In the Drama and film category, they have decided offer cash prizes. In the film category the first three prizes will be Rs. 2 lakh, Rs.1.5 lakh and 1 lakh respectively; while in the Drama category the first three prizes will be Rs. 1.5 lakh, Rs.1 lakh and Rs. 75,000/- respectively.
This year to finalize the nominations for the Professional plays, the judges were Mr. Pradeep Kabre, Anuradha Rajadhyaksha, Amruta Rao, Sheetal Kardekar and Ranjit Masurekar. For Experimental plays category, the role of judges was played by Ashok Kulkarni, Pratibha Amrute, and Vasudha Sahasrabuddhe. In the film’s category, Mr. Ajay Phansekar, A. Radhaswamy, Saumitra Pote, Santosh Bhingarde and Kanchan Adhikari, short listed the films while in the Television section Ms. Rekha Sahay played the role of a judge. The detailed list of nominations will be separately displayed on our site.
In the Experimental plays category, ‘Ajintha’, ‘Lakh lakh Chanderi’ and ‘Sangeet Kone Eke Kaali’ have been nominated, while in the Professional plays category, ‘Bharat Bhagyavidhata’, ‘ Mee Revati Deshpande, ‘Keshava Madhava’ ,’Lagnabambaal’ and ‘Sukhanshi Bhandato Aamhi’ have been short listed. In the Film’s section, ‘Deool’, ‘Khel Mandala’, ‘Shala’, ‘Gajar’ and ‘Balgandharva’ are nominated while in the TV serials section, the following serials have been nominated , ‘Swapnanchya Palikadle’, ‘Suvasini’ and ‘Tujavin Sakhya Re’. There are various other awards to be also declared in these three sections. Marathi Movie World are online partners of this event.
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.
Mrunal Kulkarni launches her film in a big way
The charming actress turned director Mrunal Kulkarni launched her new Marathi film ‘Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asata’ in a big way at Bhaidas hall, Vile Parle, in presence of Bollywood stars and celebrities. Hema Malini was the star attraction along with Kiran Shantaram, Pankaj Dheer, Nitish Bharadwaj, Pallavi Joshi, BJP Mumbai President Vinod Tawade, Director Prakash Bhende, former actress Uma Bhende, Smita Gavankar, Screenplay writer Manisha Korde and many others.
The film is based on Mrunal’s own story; but, the screenplay and dialogues of this film are penned by Manisha Korde, who is already a big name in Bollywood. Mrunal herself is directing this film, besides acting along with well known artistes like Pallavi Joshi, Sachin Khedekar, Vikram Gokhale, Sunil Barve & Suhas Joshi.
While speaking on the occasion about her film, Mrunal Kulkarni said that the film defines love in a different way, which will be well accepted by not only today’s young generation but the seniors too. “My script is the hero of this film and I am sure you will accept it after watching this film. We are planning to complete this film as quickly as possible , with the shooting schedule that begins shortly,” she added.
‘Matter’ is all set for release on 2nd March
There are many children today, who are deprived of the love and affection of parents. Some of them find place in remand homes. But, what happens to such children, we all know. Not all of them are fortunate to find the right change in their life. Many of them are spotted by anti social elements and they turn criminals.
The forthcoming marathi film ‘Matter’ produced by Poonam Shende and directed by Satish Motling, talks about four such friends Pakya, Babbya, Raja and Rony. Three of them are sent to remand home during their young age, as they are implicated in a murder. How they fall into the trap of underworld people and how they are forced to work for them, is all that the film tries to show. The film has also tried to present their emotions, through this action packed film.
Starring Santosh Juvekar, Jitendra Joshi, Rajesh Shrigarpure, Sushant Shelar, the film also has a big team comprising of Sameer Dharmadhikari, Usha Nadkarni, Surekha Kudchi, Megha Dhade, Minal Ghorpade, Yogini Chouk, Javed Haider, Anita Vishwasrao, Digvijay Rohidas, Ashok Kulkarni, Mahesh Kokate, Narayan Jadhav, and Deepak Vetkar. The film also presents Politician Jitendra Awahad in a special role. Story and Screenplay by Atmaram Dharne, Cinematography and direction by Satish Motling, sound by Sandeep Raul, Art by Prashant Rane, the film has music by Abhijit Kavthalkar, who has offered total 11 songs in this film. Matter is due for release on 2nd March 2012.
Bharat Pawar to present his ‘Marathi Celebrity Calendar’
Who says that there is no glamour in Marathi entertainment ? Today, our Marathi film industry also has stars wearing fashion designed clothes and displaying glamorous looks.
This is what young photographer Bharat Pawar has tried to show through his ‘Celebrity Calendar. Having no background of this art, Bhaarat trained himself in this field to establish himself among the top commercial photographers of today.
This dynamic photographer initially trained himself as assistant to wellknown photographers like Atul Sidhye and Bunty Prashant. On 20th December 2012, Bhaarat’s unique ‘celebrity calendar’ will be released by Music director duo- Ajay- Atul in Mumbai. This calendar has collection of 24 photographs of celebrities with a particular concept for each one of them. Speaking about his concept, Bhaarat says, “In this collection, you will find each celebrity dressed up in costume, in which you have not seen them till now.”
Bhaarat has already worked with many popular artistes like . Amol Palekar, Ramesh Dev, Ashok Saraf, Mahesh Majrekar and Bharat Jadhav and is presently working with young artistes like Amurta Kanvilkar, Sonalee, Siddharth Jadhav, Ajay Atul, Aniket Vishwarao, & Subodh Bhave. He has also done publicity shoot of films like ‘Arjun’, ‘Jhakaas’, ‘Mast Chalalye Aamcha’, ‘Dhusar’, ‘Ladigodi’ and ‘Onduty 24 tass’.
This calendar will cover celebrities from marathi film industry like: Bharat Jadhav, Ankush Chaudhari, Subodh Bhave, Upendra Limaye, Suddharth Jadhav, Sachit Patil, Adinath Kothare, Aniket Vishwasrao, Santosh Juvekar, Siddharth Chandekar, Mrunal Kulkarni, VIbhawari Deshpande, Mukta Barve, Amruta Subhash, Amruta Khanvilkar, Sonali Kulkarni, Tejaswini Pandit, Priya Bapat, Sai Tamhankar, Urmila Kanetkar, Prachiti Mhatre & Kranti Redkar.