‘Har Har Mahadev’ getting ready with negative cutting
Producer Sharad Shelar and director Subhash Phadke’s film ‘Har Har Mahadev’ is complete and the negative cutting of this film was done by writer-collector Vishwas Patil. The film is the story about a young man who takes an initiative to reform a village. The film’s message is to stop people from committing suicide and face life with confidence.
The film stars Sanjay Narvekar in the lead role along with Arun Nalavde, Rekha Kamath, Amita Khopkar, and introducing new lead pair of Gauri Sukhthankahar and Raahil. The music is by Uday-Abhijit and cinematography by Vishwanath. The film is set for an early release.
‘Kashyala Udyachi Baat’ – filled with mystery
Replacing the popular serial ‘Agnihotra’ will be another mystery filled serial on Star Pravah at prime time. Based on the backdrop of ‘challenges in Astrology’, the story of the serial revolves around two women with the same fate lines on their hand. Presented by Vivel, ‘Kashyala Udychi Baat’ revolves around a character of Revathi, a typical Maharashtrian girl pursuing a course in Astronomy. She stumbles upon a shocking truth that her fate lines match exactly with another woman, who is 25 years elder to her.
Known for handling such mystery filled scripts, Satish Rajwade will be directing this serial using his skills of twists and turns in the screenplay. Bhakti Desai plays Revathi while Siddharth Chandekar( ‘Agnihotra’ fame) will be her co-star in the company of big wigs like Mohan Joshi, Avinash Narkar, Sharad Ponkshe, ashwini ekbote, Sagar Talashikar, Rani Gunaji and Majushree Godse.
So, from 3rd May at 9 pm between Monday to Friday get ready to watch this mystery filled serial.
Now, get ready to see ‘Tendulkar Out’ on screen
The popularity of cricket is rising day by day and the name Tendulkar is like a God in cricket. We have already seen the reactions of people, when Tendulkar is declared out. But, what will be the reaction of people, if they come to know that there is Marathi film titled ‘Tendulkar Out’ ? This film which is suitably titled, is progressing fast with quick shooting schedules. Shot on the backdrop of India –Pakistan cricket match, the film is being made by Anaya Mhaiskar under the banner of Sudha Productions and is directed by Swapnil Jaykar.
According to the makers of the film, it is a suspense filled film, based on the script of Yogesh Vinayak. The films cinematography is captured by Amalendu Choudhary while Mahesh Salgaonkar is doing the art direction. Rajesh Rao will be editing this film, which has music by Amar Mohile. The film stars Sayaji Shinde, Neelam Shirke, Atul Parchure, Aniket Vishwasrao, Santosh Juvekar, Vijay Maurya and Sai Tamhankar in important roles
At 75, Mohan Tondwalkar gets due recognition
01 May 10 | © MMW News
The seventy fifth birthday celebrations of eminent producer of Marathi plays -Mohan Tondwalkar, was held at the Shivaji Mandir on Friday.
Tondwalkar is the founder of the iconic drama troupe Kala Vaibhav which is responsible for producing hit plays like ‘Jaswandi’, ‘Purush’, ‘Gela Madhav Kunakade’, ‘Nati Goti’, ‘Premasathi Vattel te’, etc. He has gifted the Marathi entertainment industry great talents like Nana Patekar, Neena Kulkarni, Vikram Gokhale, Reema Lagoo, Dr.Vijaya Mehta and many others.
Present on the occasion were chief guest – eminent astrologer Jayant Salgaonkar, Dr.Ravi Bapat, actors- Prabhakar Panshikar, Nana Patekar, playwrights- Gangaram Gawankar & Arun Ghadigaonkar,.
Mr. Tondwalkar and his wife were presented with Shawls and bouquets by various luminaries including Uday Gharat of Maharashtra Natya Mandal, Reema Lagoo, and other staff members of Kala Vaibhav. A plaque was presented to him by Nana Patekar on behalf of the Mohan Tondwalkar Pratishtahan.
A book written on Tondwalkar called ‘Mohansheth’ was released by the veteran actor Prabhakar Panshikar. Among those who spoke on the occasion were Prabhakar Panshikar, Dr. Ravi Bapat and Dr. Vijaya Mehta. They all recollected the old memories and praised his work.
Finally, it was Nana Patekar who took on the stage in his inimitable style and narrated his experiences with Mohansheth (as he addressed him right from his early days as an actor) when it was difficult to make ends meet. He stated that he saw a real mentor in Tondwalkar. Eminent actor Leeladhar Kambli was the programme host. The programme concluded with the special show of Kala Vaibhav’s latest play ‘Shambhu Raje’ starring Dr.Amol Kolhe.
Mohan Wagh’s departure has left a big vacuum
Popular Marathi Drama producer and veteran Photographer Mohan Wagh is no more. His departure from this world has certainly left a big vacuum in Marathi Drama industry. For the past forty years he devoted himself towards stage productions and through his Theatre Company ‘Chandralekha’ he offered 78 plays offering hundreds of newcomers a scope to become actors.
Being a creative person from his college days, Mr. Wagh began his career as a Photo-Journalist with Indian Express Group. All those celebrities whose images were captured by Mr. Mohan Wagh appreciated his talent. His popularity soon spread to the Hindi film industry and his services were hired by popular film magazine to click the photographs of their award winners every year. Mr. Wagh who had no interest earlier in the marathi stage, was forcibly pulled in as co-producer by his friends, only because he had good contacts with the artistes, being a photographer. But soon, being a self driven person, he started his own company ‘Chandralekha’ with the blessings of Vasant Kanitkar. In all his plays, using his creativity, he paid more attention on realistic scripts and a perfection in set designs.
Mr. Wagh was the father-in-law of MNS chief Raj Thackeray. He was also a very good friend of Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray. Many dignitaries from different fields were present during his funeral. It was very unfortunate that the recently concluded Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, totally forgot about his contribution to Marathi literature and did not even have the courtesy to pay tributes to him. Marathimovieworld pays sincere tributes to him by calling him a great ‘Natyamahrashi’ .
Remembering Usha Kiran
Usha Kiran passed away ten years ago, but the roles played by her are still fresh in our memory. She was the most versatile actress in Marathi, Gujarathi and Hindi film industry. In her acting career spanning over four decades, she acted in 300 films. She was the recipient of Maharashtra Government’s award for best actress for her role in popular Marathi film ‘Kanyadaan’. Some of her other award winning films were ‘Shikleli Bayako’& ‘Gariba Gharchi Lek’.
Even in Hindi films, she had performed opposite most of the top actors of her time in lead roles. Later, she continued to perform character roles till the time she was seriously ill. MMW pays sincere tributes to ‘unforgettable Ushaji ‘ on the occasion of her 10th death anniversary.
Three new Marathi films getting ready for release
True-vision Teleflms and producers Sameer Gupte and Mahendra Waghmare production’s ‘Batti Gul Powerful’ is a hilarious comedy with comedy star Makarand Anaspure in the lead. The film deals with the serious problem of ‘load-shedding’ in a lighthearted way. Kisha(Makarand Anaspure) is a failed technical student, who runs an appliance repair shop in his village. One day he chances upon a machine which is very powerful and has the ability to detect if a person is speaking the truth or otherwise.
Kishya uses the machine to hoodwink the innocent villagers into believing that he can solve any humanitarian problems and from thereon he solves the problem of a colossal nature facing the country. The film also stars dancing star Jyoti Joshi, Bhushan Kadu, Prakash Dhotre, Sheetal Shukl, etc. The film is directed by Mahesh Deshpande and the story-screenplay-dialogues are by Dr.Anand Deshpande.
The music is by Rohit Nagbhide on the lyrics of Dr.Yashwant Patil and songs are sung by Vaishali Samant, Anand Shinde and others. The film releases soon, all over Maharashtra.
Another film ‘Ek Shodh’(The Search), which is also due for release in February, all over Maharashtra, is a Suspense Thriller. In fact, Detective suspense thrillers are a rarity in Marathi films. But now debutant director Drona Lendhre and producer Arvind Lendhre’s suspense film ‘Ek Shodh(The Search) are offering this so called thriller.
The film is about a grieving widow of a rich man, who dies mysteriously. This widow, who is also his second wife, hires a detective, to solve the mystery behind her husband’s death. Various characters then loom on the scene, making the mystery more deeper and darker; finally, leading to a shocking revelation in the climax of the film. The film stars Milind Gunaji, Pradeep Patwardhan, Kishore Nandlaskar, Ravi Patwardhan,Deepa Chaphekar, Dr. Vilas Kulkarni, and Anita Chatwal.
The music is by Dr.Vilas Kulkarni and lyrics by Chandrakant Jadhav. The songs are sung by Vaishali Samant, Sudesh Bhosle, and Devaki Pandit.. Krishna Shelar is the executive producer.
Another multi-starer film ‘Ek 7 Free’,which was launched few months ago, has completed its shooting and is at dubbing stage. Produced by Suhas Naik and directed by Sanjay Krishnaji Jadhav, this film is a fantasy and will be released soon. The big star-cast of the film comprises of Sanjay Narvekar,Nirmiti Sawant, Resham Tipnis, Deepali Sayyed, Vijay Chavan, Pushkar Shrotri, Rajashri Landge, Usha jadhav, Kishori Ambiye and Madhavi Juvekar.
Based on the story written by diector himself, the cinematography of the film is done by Girish Udale, while Music is provided by Shashank Powar.
Music Launce of Three New Marathi albums
Mangesh Borgaonkar turns Rock Star with new album
Four years ago, when he was only 16, he became a champion at the SaReGaMa competition on TV. Today, Mangesh Borgaonkar having completed his teen age, is ready with his own music album ‘ Deewana Jhalo Tujha’. The CD of this music album was released on 9th February 2010 at Shivaji Mandir , Dadar at the hands of renowned photographer Gautam Rajdhyaksha. Also present on the occasion to greet Mangesh were popular actor Bharat Jadhav and veteran music director Ashok Patki.
This new music album containing six Marathi songs and 2 Hindi songs on the rocking music of Ashok Patki is marketed by Universal Music Group. On this occasion, few songs from the video CD were shown to the audience on projection system. Mangesh himself rendered few popular songs from his SaReGaMa programme and from his CD, much to the delight of the audience who responded spontaneously. Mr. Madan Gupte and Rajan Prabhu from Universal Group were also felicitated on the occasion besides other guests like Music director Ashok Patki, Mr. Prabhulkar, who directed the video and all the lyricists who penned the songs. Deepti played the programme host.
‘Arpan’ an offering from Bela to Dr. Shende
Fountain music recently released their new music album ‘Arpan’ at the hands of popular film-stage-TV star Prashant Damle . ‘Arpan’ is a collection of Devotional songs rendered by Bela Shende and composed by Dr. Shende. The occasion being 6oth birthday celebrations of Dr. Shende, who was felicitated by Sakal editor Sureshchandra Padhye. Mr. kantibhai Oswal of Fountain Music was also present on the occasion.
‘Music launch of ‘Kartavya’ and ‘Ranga Ringa’
While the music of Vakratund Movie Creations and Producer Kishor Desai’s ‘Kartavya’ was released at the hands of political and film celebrity Sangeeta Sachin Ahir at the Ravindra Natya Mandir, that of ‘Ringa Ringa’ was released in Kohinoor Hotel at the hands of popular actor- director Sachin Pilgaonkar recently.
At both the functions, artistes and crew members of the film were present. Music of ‘Kartavya’ is by Nandu Honap while that of ‘Ringa Ringa’ is by popular duo Ajay-Atul. Both the films are due for release shortly.
New collection of poems ‘Kavyaprabha’ released
Vidharbha region has offered many renowned poets in the past. Now, with the release of fresh collection of poems by Prabha Nipane, has added one more name to the list of creative people who have communicated very strongly with the people through their hard hitting lyrics. ‘Kavyaprabha’ is the title of collection of poems penned by Prabha Nipane, which was released at Acharya Atre Rangmandir, kalyan; in presence of celebrities and other guests. Prof. Visubhau Bapat, who was the chief guest and released the collection; specially mentioned about the sincerity of the poet in highlighting the social issues through her poems.
Prabha Nipane has touched upon the sensitive issues in society, like the plight of a farmer, the difficulties children face in their studies and even about the situation arising after 26/11 type of terrorist attack. During this ceremony, well- known singers Mandar Soman and Swarda Soman presented her poems before the audience. Actress Vandana Vaknis presented the show on the concept of Dhanashri Nanivadekar and Samir Limaye. Popular TV and film artistes Neelam Shirke and Rutuja Deshmukh were present besides other dignitaries.
‘Zenda’ team leads Anti Piracy Tirade !
Avdhoot Gupte’s controversial film ‘Zenda’ finally made it to the theatres and received a good response from the viewers. But, the pirated Dvd’s and Vcd’s hit the streets within one week of film’s release and this prompted Mr. Gupte to take cudgels against these pirates and with the support of the entire Marathi industry, he staged an agitation at the Bharatmata cinema on Wednesday at 1.30 pm.
Popular Stars like Bharat Jadhav, Prasad Oak, Santosh Juvekar, Chinmay Mandlekar, Aniket Vishwasrao, Sushant Shelar, and directors like Kanchan Adhikari, Rajeev Patil, and other dignitaries like singer-music director Ajit Parab and producer distributor Nanubai Jaisingani were present.
The president of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Maha Mandal Ajay Sarpotdar speaking on the occasion said, “Though the Marathi cinema is having a good run recently, the revenues are hit heavily by piracy and it should be curbed by everyone and the makers of ‘Zhenda’ should be commended for taking the lead against piracy.” He thanked everyone for being physically present.
Mr. Gupte, while speaking on his anti-piracy stance said, “Though there are laws against piracy, they are not implemented even after registering proper complaints and we lose lakhs of rupees due to this piracy”.
Duplicate VCD’S an d DVD’S were burnt on the occasion and a stuffed statue of pirates were also burnt