Karuna’ launched in Kolhapur
Dr. Mohnish Babre has turned a producer of a Marathi film. His first Marathi film ‘Karuna’ was launched recently at Kolhapur. prior to this Dr. Babre had launched audio cassettes of Sufi music besides some devotional songs. With this new film, Dr. Babre will be offering a family social. The film will be directed by Vishal Chavan, who makes his debut as a director.
The film stars Nisha Parulekar playing the central character of Karuna. the other artistes of the film are Vijay Chavan, Dipjyoti Naik, Varad Chavan, Pranali Londhe, Prashant Neman and Yug. The film will be completed before the end of December and released immediately thereafter.
‘Dilya Ghari Tu Sukhi Raha’ launched with Premiere
Education of the girl child is very important in today’s time. But, the kind of attention the girl child gets as a daughter is not the same with a daughter-in-law in the family. Based on this issue, Zee Marathi’s new serial ‘Dilya Ghari Tu Sukhi Raha’ offers entertainment with a message.
A grand premiere of this new Marathi serial was held in the presence of huge audience at Sahakar Nagar, Wadala. The inaugural episode was witnessed by the audience gathered on this occasion in the presence of all the artistes from this serial besides other celebrities who were present there. Abhijit Khandekar played the host of the programme. This serial, which is now aired on Zee Marathi will be telecast from Monday to Saturday at 7 pm.
‘Dilya Ghari Tu Sukhi raha’ introduces a new face Bhakti Deshpande, who plays the central character of Vrunda.
Bollywood film ‘Laadlaa’ to be made in Marathi.
The latest news is that popular Bollywood film of 1994 ‘Laadlaa’ produced by Nitin Manmohan, will now be made in Marathi under the same banner. With few changes here and there, director Rajiv Patil has finalized Mugdha Godse to play the role of Sridevi in this Marathi film.
The suitable artistes to play the roles of Anil Kapoor and Raveena Tandon are being finalized. Arwind Jagtap will write the screenplay and dialogues of this film to suit the taste of Marathi audience.
Star Pravah to Present ‘Dhinka Chika’
Star Pravah channel is all set to present a new comedy series “Dhinka Chika – Comedycha Navin Formula” with Usha Nadkarni and Manoj Joshi as the judges of this show. This comedy show begins from November 28th, every Monday and Tuesday from 9.30 pm to 10.30 pm. It replaces their musical reality show, ‘Aata Hovun Jau Dya’.
‘Dhinka Chika’ is expected to provide its viewers pure entertainment and humor. It promises to take comedy to a whole new level and promises the audiences a new experience. The show will see 8 pairs competing against each other through unique comedy acts and gags. It will see some of the biggest names in the Marathi industry like Bharti Achrekar, Prasad Oak, Vandana Gupte and Tushar Dalvi. While Usha Nadkarni marks her debut as a reality show judge on TV screens, Manoj Joshi makes his grand comeback into Marathi Television.
Popular Marathi actress Kranti Redkar will be seen spicing up the show in the capacity of the host.
New Serial ‘Suvasini’ on Star Pravah
On 14th November 2011, Star Pravah launched their period serial ‘Suvasini’ which is a story of an innocent young girl who questions the circumstances created by her social & cultural surroundings rather than meekly accepting those. ‘Suvasini’ presented by Vistacore replaces ‘Tujh Vin Sakhya Re’ and will be aired at 9.00 pm, from Monday to Saturday.
Savi is an energetic young girl, whose world centers around her family. With dreams and aspirations, Savi like any other girl of her age is curious and inquisitive about life. Though Savi’s story is set in pre-independence era, every girl in today’s time as well goes through these questions, as she goes through different phases of being a daughter, a wife, a mother etc.
‘Suvasini’ presented by Vistacore is produced by Smita Talwalkar’s Asmita Chitra Productions which marks her grand comeback to the world of Television. The show introduces Aishwarya Tupe as Savi and Aniruddha Deodhar as Vijay. The rest of the star cast includes some of the most popular Marathi Television actors like Vidyadhar Joshi as Neelkanth, Anuradha Rajadhkshya as Rama and Tushar Dalvi as Narayan.
Grand Premiere of ‘Paulwaat’
Count the celebrities during the premiere show of a Marathi film, and it becomes easier to judge the credibility of that film maker. Film maker Aditya Ingale was the happiest person to witness this memorable moment. For the premiere of his new film ‘Paulwaat’ most of the well known personalities from Marathi film industry were present, to wish him luck. Besides the lead pair comprising of Subodh Bhave and Madhura Velankar- Satam, who took active interest to look after the invitees, there were other artistes of the film like Jyoti Chandekar, (who plays an important role in the film), Anand Ingale Kishore Kadam and others.
Presence of Ramesh Deo and his wife Seema Deo surprised everyone, but the attendance by popular stars like Mukta Barve, Sai Ranade – Sane, Aniket Vishwasrao with Pallavi Subhash, Astaad kale, Kedar Shinde, Abhijeet Satam, Sanjay Jadhav, Santosh Juvekar, Pradeep Velankar, Sukanya Mone, Shipa Navalkar with her family and above all N. Chandra with his family besides a big team of producers. This clearly indicated that there was appreciation for the film maker and the artistes coming from all corners.
‘Paulwaat’ which is all set to release on Friday 18th November 2011has Subodh Bhave and Madhura Velankar-Satam in the lead with Jyoti Chandekar, Kishore kadam and Hrishikesh Joshi in important roles. Directed by Aditya Ingale and Music by Narendra Bhide are other main credits.
‘Swarajya’ offers new angry young man to Marathi Cinema
The burning issues of Marathi Manoos have been exploited by two rival political parties in Maharastra. But, the Marathi films also have been doing their bit to raise these issues through better scripts. In the recent past, we saw ‘Mi Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy’ followed by ‘Arjun’ encouraging the Marathi Manoos in Maharashtra to rise against injustice.
Now, director duo Vishal- Vihar have carried forward this success formula through their suitably titled film ‘Swarajya’ with a tagline… ‘Marathi Paul Padate Pudhe’. Though the theme of the film is the same as previous two films, ‘Swarajya’ goes further to encourage the educated youth to move with Unity as strength. The film does have a melodrama to expose SRA related manipulations, corruption by political leaders through hard hitting dialogues which is USP of this film.
All this was possible only because of a good star cast led by the angry young man Rajesh Shrungarpure, who with his graceful personality and rich voice, almost rocks in this film. Supported by well presented screenplay, the film is sure to inspire otherwise tolerant people from Maharashtra.
Star Pravanh to Premiere ‘Agadbam’
To entertain you on coming Sunday evening at 7 pm i.e. 13th November, Star Pravah will present premiere of recently released film ‘Agadbam’. The film is is a comedy with the story revolving around an obese girl Najuka (Trupti Bhoir) whose father has fixed her marriage to his friend’s son, Raiba (Makarand Anaspure).
Surprisingly, Raiba who sees Najuka only after the marriage rituals, refuses to accept her. She longs for his love but at the same time manages to win the heart of her mother- in- law (Usha Nadkarni). Trupti Bhoir’s RK Entertainment provides family entertainment through this film.
Jury And Nominees for BIG Marathi Awards
Reliance Broadcast Network’s business verticals BIG Live (Intellectual Property) & 92.7 BIG FM, (India’s No. 1 radio network) come together with Star Pravah, to announce the elite jury panel and the key nomination categories for the BIG Marathi Rising Star Awards. These awards offer a platform and recognition to the rising stars of tomorrow from the Maharashtra.
This BIG Marathi Rising Star Awards encompasses every genre of entertainment from theatre, television, sports, dance, music and cinema. The extravagant and prestigious award ceremony will be beamed to Indian audiences on India’s premium Marathi channel, Star Pravah.
The distinguished panel of jury includes prominent names from Marathi entertainment, like Actor & Director Vinay Apte, Actress Kanchan Adhikari & Actress Savita Prabhune. These eminent members will short list the nominations for the various categories.
The nominees for popular categories for BIG Marathi Rising Star Awards are:-
Movies:
Actor – Male – Chinmay Mandlekar, Adinath Kothare, Amol Kolhe, Sachit Patil
Actor – Female – Vaidehai Parshurami, Tejaswini Pandit, Urmila Kanetkar
Television :
Actor – Male (Fiction) – Kashyap Parulekar, Chinmay Udgirkar, Gaurav Ghatanekar
Actor – Female (Fiction) – Neha Gadre, Gauri Nalawade, Jui Gadkari
Actor – Male (Non-Fiction) – Prasad Oak, Siddharth Jadhav
Actor – Female (Non-Fiction) – Gauri Nigudkar, Neha Pendse
Theatre:
Actor – Male – Sangram Samel, Vikas Patil, Sameer Khandekar
Actor – Female – Spruha Joshi, Manva Naik, Pallavi Patil, Yogini Chowk
Zee Talkies’ favourite Kon awards
Zee Talkies’ popular awards – ‘Lux Maharashtracha Favorite Kon2011′ took place on late night on Sunday 6th November at Grand Hyatt Hotel, Andheri. As usual the function was delayed by almost 90 minutes, when favorite Zee Talkies anchor Mahesh Manjrekar finally commenced the function by pulling the legs of few personalities from Marathi film and television field. It was the turn of Santosh Juvekar, Anand Ingale, Bhalachandra Kadam, Vaibhav Mangale, Pushkar Shrotri, Swanand Kirkire to listen to his gimmicks for no reason; till Sachin Khedekar joined him in the later half to break the monotony.
While there were some routine skits based on Political situation presented by Makarand Anaspure and company in their regular style. Even the songs presented by the artistes like Subodh Bhave, Vaibhav Mangale and others did not go well with the occasion, till Kranti Redkar and Sanjay Khapre brought some form of entertainment through their unusual skit. The award presentation ceremonies kept happening at every break of variety entertainment item. And one such item was presented by Smita Tambe on the song of Ooh la la…. From ‘The Dirty Picture’.
Smita was fortunate to perform this number in front of Bollywood star Vidya Balan, who was present in the capacity of special guest. Vidya later called up Smita and appreciated her performance. She presented the the awards for Best Style Icon and Lux celebrity Diva to Aniket Vishwasrao and Kranti Redkar respectively. But, it was Aniket, who showed a fine gesture by sharing this award by inviting the other nominees Santosh Juvekar and Jitendra Joshi on stage.
While Bela Shende bagged the award for favorite female playback singer for the film ‘Balgandharva’, it was Suresh wadkar, who was declared the favorite male playback singer for the film ‘Mee Sindhutai Sapkal’. The best song award also went to ‘Mee Sindhutai Sapkal’. Sachin Khedekar was declared the favorite villain for the film ‘Fakta Ladh Mhana'; but there was no favourite for negative role among the females. There was however favorite supporting female actress in the form of Vishakha Subhedar, while Siddharth Jadhav was declared as favorite supporting male actor.
The dance performances of some of the artistes like Amruta Khanvilkar, Neha Pendse and others had lined up, but it was almost turning midnight and hence mmw could not cover the remaining main awards for Favorite Actor’s category, where Sachin Khedekar (Taryanche Bait), Subodh Bhave (Balgandharva) and Swapnil Joshi (Mumbai Pune Mumbai) were nominated, while Tejaswini Pandit (Mee Sindhutai Sapkal), Madhura Velankar (Haapus) and Mukta Barve (Mumbai Pune Mumbai) were nominated for Favorite actress section.
All in all the Zee Talkies- Lux Maharashtracha Favourite Kon 2011 wasn’t that impressive, like it was previous year. Delaying the schedule almost by two hours and extending the event beyond 12 midnight was certainly taxing.