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.
Now, female Gabbar Singh in ‘Touring Talkies’
Actress Trupti Bhoir who made her debut through Marathi films through ‘Tujhya Majhya Sansarala Aani Kaay Hava’ followed by her success in films like ‘Agadbam’ and ‘Hello Jai Hind'; will now be seen in a different role- that of Chandi, a female in Gabbar Singh style in forthcoming Marathi film Touring Talkies’ made under the banner of Yograj Films.
Mr. Gajendra Ahire, who has written the script of this film, will also be directing this film. Anil Pemgirikar, who had done the make up for ‘Agadbam’ has been engaged for this film too. The other star cast of the film comprises of Kishore Kadam, Subodh Bhave, Nehha Pendse, Suhas Palshikar, Milind Shinde, Vaibhav Mangale and Chinmay Sant.
Abhijit Gholap felicitates ‘Deool’ team
Abhijit Gholap, producer of ‘Deool’ had an occasion to celebrate. His film had won National award on debut. The Software professional turned producer had already committed that he would produce three Marathi films. Now, after winning the national award for ‘Deool’, he is busy finalizing casting for his next film, which is also based on village backdrop. So far, he has decided on two actors, namely Ashok Saraf and Subodh Bhave. The remaining cast will be finalized soon.
But, Friday evening at Hotel Sun N Sand, was for his team of ‘Deool’. Right from leading artistes of the film to the technicians, all were present excluding Nana Patekar. They were all felicitated one by one with a memento at the hands of Maharashtra Cultural Minister Mr. Sanjay Deotale, who was the chief guest on this occasion. Initially, Mr. Abhijit Gholap invited two stalwarts of the film Umesh Kulkarni and Girish Kulkarni. Speaking about his involvement in this film, Girish became emotional and narrated his past experience with theatre. He thanked all his old colleagues, for all that he had achieved today. Mr. Sanjay Deotale appreciated the success of this film at the national level .
Mr. Naseeruddin Shah, in his short but sweet speech praised the entire cast of the film and thanked Mr. Abhijit Gholap for producing such a wonderful film. Many prominent personalities from Marathi film industry were present, including the grand old lady of films- Sulochana Didi. Mr. Gholap personally went towards her seat to felicitate her. Among other celebrities, presence of Ashutosh Gowarikar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Renuka Shahane with hubby- Ashutosh, Neena Kulkarni, Bharati Achrekar, Sonali Kulkarni with Nachiket, Jyoti Subhash, Amruta Subhash, Megha Dhade, Smita Tambe, Usha Nadkarni, Sandeep Kulkarni was something special. They were all felicitated by Mr. Gholap.
In short, it was a grand function and for Abhijit Gholap, it was grand day, as rightly mentioned by the director it was a day to celebrate Sachin Tendulkar’s century of centuries. Spruha Joshi anchored the show.
4th NIFF 2012 begins from 23rd March
e city of Nashik has special significance. The very first Indian film was visualised and produced here by Dadasaheb Phalke that acted as the trigger for the genesis of the Indian film industry – a giant in the global entertainment map today.
The 4th Nashik International Film festival( NIFF) begins with an Opening Event on 23rd March at CINEMAX Foyer & Screens, City Centre Mall, Nashik.
There will be NIFF Master Workshop by Audrius Stonys. This is a workshop cum documentary film making competition, mentored by the acclaimed European film maker from Lithuania. After an application and selection process, 4 teams of 5 young film makers will ideate, shoot & edit a documentary each, not exceeding 5 minutes within the festival’s duration of 4 days to be screened at the closing ceremony on the 25th day of March.
There will be following events during the festival between 23rd- 25th March.
• Continent Focus: Screenings of European Film Academy’s award winning Package of 15 films
• Region Focus: Screening of Poetic Documentaries from the Baltic Region of Europe
• Competitive Films: Screening of films in competition for the awards, with a cumulative duration of over 20 hours
• 6 Master Classes on different topics with Mr. Shyam Benegal(Adapting to Changing Audiences), Mr. Audrius Stonys (Poetic Documentaries), Mr. Prahlad Kakkar (Marketing),Ms. Sophy Sivaraman (Funding a film), Mr. V.G Samant (Animation Films) & a senior Member of the Cine Still Photographers Association (Art of Stills)
• 2 Open House sessions for the delegates & others on topics of general interest
• A wine & cheese festival, concurrent to the film Festival over 3 days, to foster creative relationships and bring in an element of fun.
• Fun tours to the Nashik Vineyards every day, with a ‘Wine Appreciation’ workshop.
• Retrospective on Dev Anand.
Ram Kondilkar honoured with best Publicist award
Marathi Chitrapat Parivaar, a Governing body of Pune Journalists recently honoured Ram Kondilkar with the best Film Publicist award for his excellent publicity work for the Marathi film ‘Superstar’. Incidentally, Ram has also done the publicity of National award winning film ‘Deool’. In the recent past, he was also associated with some prominent award winning films like ‘Taryanche Bait’ , ‘Jogwa’, ‘Vihir’, ‘Valu’, ‘Saat Chya Aat Gharaat’, ‘Sawarkhed Ek Gaon’, ‘Pandhra’, ‘Gabhricha Paus’, ‘Sanai Choughude’, ‘Not Only Mrs. Raut’ and many other popular films.
The award was presented to him in Pune, at the National Film Archieves Auditorium by Script writer Sanjay Pawar. After receiving the award, Mr. Kondilkar attributed his success to his journalist friends, for their support. “It is because of their love and cordial relationship, I am able to carry out this work,” he said. Even otherwise, Ram has been very popular among Mumbai scribes, for the kind of personal attention he gives to each one of them. He is selective about the films and pays more attention on each and every aspect of the film, in its publicity; which in turn benefits the producer to reach out to maximum people.
New serial ‘Devyani’ on Star Pravah from 19th March
From 19th March onwards at 8.30 pm on Star Pravah, get ready to witness the journey of a young girl Devyani and her tryst with life post marriage. It is said that marriages are made in heaven which we solemnize during our existence; however there is a stark difference between dreams and reality!
STAR Pravah, brings alive this thought, through its newest fiction ‘Devyani’. The show will replace ‘Bandh Reshmanche’. ‘Devyani’ is the story of a young college going girl whose life witnesses a sea change, as she enters the wedlock with her obsessive and uncouth lover Sangram Vikhe Patil. While Devyani is a simple girl, who believes in her father’s principles, Sangram is a complete opposite; who never follows rules in his life and is his own master. The show changes course when Sangram falls head over heels with Devyani and is hell bent on winning her while Devyani’s marriage has been arranged with Dr Namit. What happens next forms the premise of the show.
The show introduces Shivani Surve and Sangram in lead roles, while the versatile Nagesh Bhonsale makes his come back to Marathi GEC space. Nagesh Bhonsale will be seen playing the head of Vikhe Patil family, father of Sangram. The show is produced by Anuj Saxena’s Maverick Productions in association with Swapna Waghmare Joshi and Sanjay Memane. After a successful stint in the South, Anuj Saxena now enters the Marathi GEC Space with Devyani.