‘Bokad’ all set for release on 6th April
Praveen Raja Karle’s film ‘Bokad’ which is set on the backdrop of a village and centered around a Goat belonging to a village Sarpanch, is now all set for release all over Maharashtra on 6th April 2012. So far we have witnessed the importance of various animals in Marathi films like the Dog, Ox and a Monkey; now it’s the turn of a Goat. ‘Bokad’ is co-produced by veteran cameraman Manu Sawant, who has also done cinematography of this film.
However, the highlight of the film is that it has 20 songs on the music of Avadhoot Gupte and every song unfolds the mystery behind the story of this film. With Hema Deo and Anil Deo as the other co-producers, this musical comedy film has popular artistes from Marathi industry like Sayaji Shinde, Kishore Kadam, Vinay Apte, Priya Berde, Sharad Ponkshe, Uday Sabnis, Jaywant Wadkar, Sanjay Belose, Megha Dhade, Ganesh Khedekar, Shubhangi Sawant, Manasi Marathe along with 20 college students, who are making their debut through this film. The film’s story is written by Rahul salvi and screenplay and dialogues are by Bhalchandra Kubal.
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.
Samrruddhi Porey to make a film on Dr. Amte
Advocate Samrruddhi Porey, who made a national award winning Marathi film ‘Mala Aai Vhaychay’ on her debut, is now all set to make her next film on the life of Dr. Prakash Amte, renowned social worker in Maharashtra.
Ms. Porey, who has seen the work of Dr. Prakash Amte and his wife Manda closely in the jungles of Hemalkasa, is inspired to make a film on the life of this couple. She wants to make a world class film, so that the work done by the couple, be known to people across the globe. The film’s screenplay is being written in three languages, i.e. Marathi, Hindi and English, which clearly indicates that it is going to be a big project.
The part of the film will also be shot in USA with the help of Mr. Ashish Chougule, President of BMM. The cast of the film will be finalized shortly.
Siya & Upendra play protagonists in ‘Chirgut’
We have seen Siya Patil in different roles in Marathi films. And now, she plays yet another challenging role of a social activist in forthcoming Marathi film ‘Chirgut’, which is due for release on 30th March 2012. Representing an NGO, she supports her co star Upendra Limaye, who fights against injustice on the most neglected class of the society. Chinmay Mandlekar also has an important role in this realistic film, which has been shot in the slums of Turbhe, Navi Mumbai.
Both Upendra and Siya are all excited to see the response to their film, since both of them have worked very hard during the shooting of this film, which is directed by Pradeep Ghosnikar. Story of this film is written by Dilip Jagtap and screenplay and dialogues are by Sanjay Pawar. Music by Kanak Raj, lyrics by Guru Thakur & Dilip Jagtap, camera by Madhu Rao are the other credits. The film also stars Madhav Abhyankar, Dr. Sharad Bhutadia, Nitin Bhajan, Ajit Bhajan, Sanjay Kulkarni, Yayati Rajwade, ,Sanjay Sugavkar, Pramod Shinde& Nayan Jadhav.
Meghana Naidu makes her debut in Marathi films
Bollywood and South film star Meghana Naidu made her debut in Marathi films through Gajendra Bandivadekar’s forthcoming Marathi film ‘Karun Tak Golmaal’, which stars Aniket Vishwasrao and newcomer Girija Joshi in the lead roles. Meghna performed on an item song ‘Shaila Mee Shaila’, which will score over Munni and Sheela numbers, according to the maker of this film.
The song penned by Rajesh Wamgude is rendered by Sudesh Bhosale and Poornima on the music of Nirmalkumar and choreography of Umesh Jadhav. Two more songs of this film have already been picturised at beautiful locations of Konkan, according to the producer Suvarna Bandivadekar. The other star cast of the film comprises of Mohan Joshi, Ashok Samarth,Uma Sardeshmukh, Dhananjay Mandrekar, Viju Khote, Vidyadhar Joshi, Jayant Wadkar, Arwind Dhanu and Sunil Shinde.
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.