New Marathi films with sensible topics releasing today
What Bollywood couldn’t offer for the children during this summer vacation, our marathi films are doing it. Film maker Shrirang Godbole’s new film ‘Chintoo’ is supposed to be an entertaining film for children and their parents, as it revolves around a central character of a child – Chintoo, a naughty boy from an upper middle class family. This eight year old is shown extremely popular in his group with Pappu as his best friend and Mini, Raju, Baglya, Neha and the toddler Sonu all together forming the unbeatable ‘Wanarwede Warriors’
Chintoo and his gang have big plans for their much awaited summer vacation. They decide to beat their rivals Vinchoo biters by making Wanarwede Warriors strong enough even to win the world cup. They practice hard and also convert the barren piece of land in the society into their very own ‘Wanarwede stadium.’ The match starts as planned.
How they face the opposition and what they do, is all that the film has tried to show through its interesting screenplay, as claimed by the film maker. The film also has a cartoon strip created by Charuhas Pandit and Prabhakar Wadekar. Directed by Shrirang Gobole, with story ,screenplay and dialogues by Shrirang Godbole and Vibhavari Deshpande; the film’s star cast comprises of Shubhankar Atre as Chintoo, along with Suhani Dadhphale, Animesh Padhye, Ved Ravade, Nishant Bhavsar, Rumani Khare,
Arjun Jog, Vibhawari Deshpande( Chintoo’s mother),Subodh Bhave( Chintoo’s father), Shriram Pendse, Satish Alekar, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Bharti Aacharekar, Vijay Nikam,Alok Rajwade, Nagesh Bhosale, Om Bhutkar, Vijay Patwardhan, Prashant Tapasvi, Mrinmayee Godbole, Pankaj Gangan, Sanjay Lonkar, Pournima Ganu Manohar, Sadhana Sarpotdar, Mridul Patwardhan, Sunil Abhyankar, Snehal Tarde, Suraj Satav, Soniya Khare, Ajay Apte, Chitra Khare & Amit Patwardhan.
Director of Photography- Sanjay Jadhav, Lyrics- Sandeep Khare & Music by Dr. Saleel Kulkarni.are the other credits.
Omkar Karve, Nitin ParegaonkarAnother film ‘Swapna Tujhe Ni Majhe'( STNM) seems to be inspired by the work of social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, as it deals with the topic of upliftment of village and the living conditions of people living in rural sector who become victims of drought. The film produced by Sachin Bhalinge and directed by Ashok Kambli, presents a story of two friends studying together in an Agricultural college, have their own dreams to change their village conditions, as per their plans.
While Vishwas is from a poor family, Vidyadhar belongs to a a rich family. The dream of Vishwas remains incomplete, due to his sudden demise. So, Vidyadhar arrives in his village, to fulfill his friend’s dream. The film has tried to present the situation, how Vidyadhar comes across the problems and how he faces it.
At a time, when today’s children are attracted towards traditional courses for their career, STNM, shows the way to the youth and encourages them to take up education in agricultural sector, for the real development of our country. Highlight of the film is the music, which is provided by young pair comprising of Siddharth Mahadevan ( Son of Shankar Mahadevan) and his nephew Saumil Shringarpure; who are making their debut as music directors, through this film.
No Entry- Pudhe Dhoka Aahe’ launched with Mahurat in Goa
The Bollywood Film ‘No Entry’ which turned out to be a Box office hit, for its comedy content, is now being remade in Marathi titled, ‘Pudhe Dhoka Aahey’. The film is an Underground Films Pvt. Ltd. presentation, directed by Milind Arun Kavde. It is produced by Premnath Rajagopalan and Nikhil Saini.
The Mahurat of this Marathi version took place on 16th May, 2012 at Kala Academy, Campal, Panaji at 10 am at the hands of Manohar Parrikar, Chief Minister, Govt. of Goa in the presence of Milind Naik, Power Minister, Government of Goa and Vishnu Wagh, Chairman Kala Academy and MLA St. Andre.
The star cast includes well-known actors from Marathi Cinema , like Bharat Jadhav, Kranti Redkar, Ankush Choudhary, Saie Tamhankar, Aniket Vishwasrao, Manava Naik, Sai Lokur and Paddy (Pandharinath Kamble). The film will be entirely shot in picturesque locales in and around Goa.
Stars Kranti Redkar, Sai Lokur, Bharat Jadhav and Aniket Vishwasrao gave an energy-packed Mahurat shot. Others, who were present on the occasion were Narayan (Nanabab) Bandekar of NRB Group, Shashank Mahatme (Caculo Mall), Govind Shirodkar, Shripad Shetye, Dnyanesh Moghe, Dawn Mortimer, Rajendra Usapkar, Durguesh Angle and others.
The event was well-attended by others from the social circuit and local press representatives.
Saheb’ to release on 25th May
n Maharashtra, the political leaders are addressed as Saheb. But, the forthcoming Marathi film ‘Saheb’ presents a different kind of sahib, who is neither a selfish politician nor a cunning Government servant. He is a protagonist, in the form of Robinhood, who helps the poor who are victims of this corruption in Government and injustice in this society.
Produced by advocate Vandana Santosh Jadhav , the film is written and directed by Vilas Kamble. Music by Baba- Vilas and camera by Gopal De are the other credits. The film’s star cast comprises of Amol kolhe, Mohan Joshi, Ramesh Bhatkar, Aniket Kelkar, Sanjay Mohite, Prajakta kelkar, Suchit Jadhav, Sonal Awahad and others.
Global Marathi TV Awards trophy launched by Big ‘B’
Marathi Television channels are going global, with the variety of programmes offered. To encourage the Marathi Television industry and their artistes, the first Marathi Global Television awards will be presented on 18th May, in Dubai. The Trophy for these awards was recently launched by Big ‘B’ Amitabh Bachchan.
Almost all the electronic channels connected with Marathi programmes and Marathi news are associated with these awards ceremony . There will be about 27 awards in different categories. Ms. Rohini Hattangadi will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement award.
This programme will be telecast on different channels like Zee Marathi, Star Pravah, E TV, Saam Marathi, Mi Marathi and DD simultaneously on 3rd June 2012
Global Marathi TV Awards trophy launched by Big ‘B’
Marathi Television channels are going global, with the variety of programmes offered. To encourage the Marathi Television industry and their artistes, the first Marathi Global Television awards will be presented on 18th May, in Dubai. The Trophy for these awards was recently launched by Big ‘B’ Amitabh Bachchan.
Almost all the electronic channels connected with Marathi programmes and Marathi news are associated with these awards ceremony . There will be about 27 awards in different categories. Ms. Rohini Hattangadi will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement award.
This programme will be telecast on different channels like Zee Marathi, Star Pravah, E TV, Saam Marathi, Mi Marathi and DD simultaneously on 3rd June 2012
‘Ajintha’ still facing the ire of Banjara community
Film making is a very sensitive issue, especially when you are showing something related to the history. If you deviate from the reality, you are bound to land into controversy.
Nitin Chandrakant Desai’s so called dream project ‘Ajintha’, which is based on the discovery of the famous Ajanta caves in Aurangabad, had landed into controversy. The reason being that the Banjara community objected to the film’s release, for deviating from certain facts.
The Censor Board members, who viewed the film yesterday, have given green signal to its official release today. But, the people belonging to Banjara Community have moved to the court and it is understood that the Mumbai High Court will give its decision Friday.
New dance Show ‘Sujalam Sufalam Bharat’.
No matter, which part of the world he lives, every Indian is proud to be an Indian, for the diversified culture and bonding witnessed in this unique country. Keeping this in mind, The Academy of Indian Art and Culture, will be presenting a stage show ‘Sujalam Sufalam Bharat’, which will depict the culture of India through song and dance related to 28 different states of this country.
The inaugural stage shows of this programme will be held at Ravindra Natya Mandir, Prabhadevi, Mumbai between 14th and 16th May 2012, daily at 7 pm, followed by a show in thane at Dr. Kashinath Ghanekar Natyagriha on 17thMay. Produced by Jaywant Golatkar and Swapnil Kote, this programme which is directed and choreographed by Devendra Shelar, will be presented by Mr. Kiran Shantaram. Mr. Pramod Pawar has written the script of this show, with Production management by Purushottam Berde. A team 60 artistes will present 28 different dance forms from different parts of India.
Music released for new film ‘Baburao La Pakada’
hether it is Music release function or any other function related to Marathi films, it is always delayed by more than an hour. On Saturday evening at 7.30 pm, the Music release of forthcoming film ‘Baburao La Pakada’ was scheduled at Hotel Kings International, Juhu. But, this new venue which was perhaps convenient to the Producers, turned out to be overcrowded with no place to sit for the invitees. Moreover, there was delay by 90 minutes to start the function, which was presided over by director of this film, Mr. Aashish Ubale.
At the beginning of the function, he made it clear that none of the actors from this multi-starrer film, would be present for the function. He declared that he wished to invite all those behind music of the film, since it was the music release of the film. Accordingly, a special guest from American Consulate, was asked to release the Music CD, in the presence of Producers Tanmay Sengupta , Ashish Kumar Kshirsagar and co producer Milan Tari. Bollywood Music director duo- Durga and Natraj, who have composed music for this film, spoke in Marathi stating that it was their privilege to serve the Marathi film industry.
Director Aashish Ubale thanked all the unit members on this occasion and presented the promo of this film besides screening four out of the five songs from this film, which have been shot in Bangkok. He specifically mentioned that one of the producers and one Music director were Bengalees , associated with a Marathi film, for the first time. The film is due for release on 25th May 2012 and stars a big team of artistes comprising of Sanjay Narvekar, Bahrat Jadhav, Makarand Anaspure, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Nisha Parulekar, Saie Tamhankar, Siya Patil, Meena kanwar, Amruta Deshmukh, Abhijit Chavan and Ashwinkumar Kshirsagar.
Harshdeep Kaur to make her debut in Marathi
Known for some of her famous songs in Bollywood films like ‘Rang De Basanti’, ‘Band Bajaa Baraat’, ‘Desi Boyz’, Hrashdeep Kaur, the winner of two reality shows on TV, will now be making her debut as a singer in Marathi. Harshdeep has recorded a duet along with Sa Re Ga Ma fame Rohit Raut, who is also making his debut as a singer, in the forthcoming Marathi film ‘Mr. Na Na Nakose’.
Made under the banner of Prapti Films, the lyrics of this song has been b penned by Tanveer Gazi and Pankaj- Pushkar have provided the music for this film. Directed by Sanjay- Mohammed, the film stars Bharat Jadhav in title role along with Kishori Shahane, Adinath Kothare, Tanvi Parab, Ashish Gade, Viju Khote, Bharat Dabholkar, Kedar Shinde, Sunil Pal, Nakul Ghanekar and Nisha Parulekar.
Awishkar’s New Creative Venture
Awishkar, is the leading Theatre Group in Mumbai, has been consistently working towards Progressive, Innovative & Pragmatic Theatre. ‘Awishkar’ is launching yet another Innovative creativity in Theatre arts.
This is based on Paintings of world famous Painter Shri Sudhir Patawardhan. “Sudhir Patawardhan’s Paintings and Theatre” will be their first step towards the Creative Process of this Venture. Accordingly, Awishkar has organized one day workshop by Shri, Sudhir Patawardhan. This workshop will be held on Saturday the 12th May from 4.00pm onwards at Awishkar Sanskrutik Kendra New Mahim Municipal School, Mahim West.
Those theatre lovers and Artists, who are interested in this Venture, should enroll themselves personally or contact Mr. Arun Kakade or Ravi Sawant on Mobile no.9869250654 or 9820045867.