Marathi Movie stars add flavour to ‘Mahakhadhya Jatra’
All roads led to Shiv Samartha Ground, Thane on 3oth and 31st January 2010, as popular Marathi movie and TV serial stars showed their physical presence at the ‘Mahakhadhyay Jatra’ organized by Mee Marathi channel’s popular Kitchen recipe programme ‘Lajjatdar’. When MMW representative paid a visit to this event on 31st evening, he witnessed a variety of recipes offered by over 60 food stalls at the venue. The presence of popular marathi stars only added special flavour to this biggest ever food fair in this growing township of Maharashtra.
There were exhibits of variety of farm fresh fruits and vegetables but the mouth watering recipes offered in veg and non-veg invited the attention of food loving people. There were entertainment programmes and sports events on the spot, to entertain the visitors. What surprised everyone when popular stage/TV and film actor Vinay Apte was spotted selling the coupons at the cash counter with keen interest. It was really a fine gesture on his part to promote such an event. Atul Parchure was busy interviewing the special guests selected by the hosts. He too was comfortable. But, the star attraction of the event was Sai Ranade, popular TV artiste, who also plays celebrity host for the popular ‘Lajjatdar’ kitchen recipe show on Mee Marathi channel. Sai , was in-charge of presenting the variety entertainment programme and she did her job very well.
The event was a big success, especially with the presence of many other popular stars from Marathi entertainment industry. The event concluded with announcement of prizes to the best recipes.
Shakti Kapoor makes his debut in Marathi film
Popular bollywood villain & comedian Shakti Kapoor is all set to make his Marathi debut through a Marathi film ‘Bayko Jhali Gayab’, playing a pivotal role of a terrorist .
Shakti plays a dreaded terrorist Masood Khan who wants to destroy Mumbai in a 26/11 like situation . Popular theatre and TV actor Vijay Patwardhan also makes his debut in a leading role opposite veteran star Varsha Usgaonkar in the main role. Shakti Kapoor confesses that he is a true ‘Mumbaikar’ as he is the son-in-law of reputed Kolhapure family and thanks Mumbai for giving him name and fame.
Shakti has admitted that he can’t speak fluently in Marathi but his children speak only in Marathi. Shakti has spoken a few Marathi dialogues in the film but in the film he has most of his dialogues in Hindi.
The film is produced by veteran producer Vijay L Shinde under the banner Om Chintamani Films and promises a good action packed comedy thriller. The film is directed by duo Gyan Narsinghani and Kisan Bengale.
The music of this film is by Ashok Waingankar and lyrics by Dr. Srikant Narule. The supporting cast comprises of Vijay Chavan, Kishori Ambiye, Chetan Dalvi, with stars Bharat Jadhav and Surekha Kudchi in a guest appearance.
Raj Thackray launches Sanskruti Kaladarpan website
Sanskruti Kaladarpan who have been felicitating renowned persons and institutions for their excellence in the field of education, entertainment and media in marathi language for the past ten years; launched their website www.sanskrutikaladarpan.com . In a simple ceremony, the site was launched today by Maharashtra Navanirmaan Sena chief, Mr. Raj Thackray at his residence in Dadar. While speaking on the occasion, Mr. Chandrashekhar Sandwe, President of Sanskruti Kaladarpan, briefed about the work done by his organisation.
This year Sanskruti Kaladarpan have made arrangements for participants to download the entry forms through this site. After, the nominations in different categories are announced by the jury, the veiwers will be allowed to vote online to decide the popular awards.
Marathimovieworld.com are behind designing and developing part of the website of Sanskrtuti Kala Darpan Awards 2010. In fact, Marathimovieworld.com are official web partner for the event. They are also taking care of their promotion. It may be mentioned that Marathimovieworld is the one and only website devoted to Marathi Movie, Music, Theatre & the Television Industry; providing a global platform to the same. Marathimovieworld.com strives hard to achieve global identity through its innovative ideas and strenuous efforts, for the betterment of the community and to enable them to face the fast changing world of Technology.
IBN Lokmat raises voice over the death of RTI activist
Marathi News channels have been doing a commendable job to fight injustice in the society, by raising many issues inviting the attention of people and the Government. The gruesome murder during broad daylight of an RTI activist and social worker-Satish Shetty , who worked for public interest; had sent shock waves among people. But, it was only due to exposing the poor investigation by the Police and expressing possibility of a political hand behind the murder, the IBN- Lokmat channel brought so many things to the notice of general public. With the pressure mounting on Police and Government, now even the opposition party leader has demanded CBI investigation into the case. Today, it is only the media, which can come to the rescue of common man, when the law and order situations worsens in the state.
To support the debate over this issue, the channel not only invited the views of eminent social activist Anna Hazare and the RTI commissioner Mr. Gandhi live but also invited to their studio a young RTI activist from Mumbai Mr. Awasthi , who was involved in exposing the developer and minister nexus over misuse of World bank aid. The youngster disclosed that for seeking RTI support, he was falsely implicated in a bogus case and was sent to Police lock up, where he was threatened by the goons of a Developer. Indeed, Land mafia have raised their ugly head, with the support of few politicians and Policemen. It was a fine gesture on the part of IBN-Lokmat Editor Nikhil Wagle, to present the story of this young activist and openly offering him all support from his media house in future. We need many more such programmes and exposures to combat such heinous acts.
‘Harischandrachi Factory’ all set for a Grand release
Exactly 98 years ago Dhundiraj Phalke alias Dadasaheb Phalke laid down the foundation of Indian film industry by producing a film titled ‘Raja Harischandra’ . Today, we see a marathi film with the name of ‘Harischandrachi Factory’ recalling those memorable moments in the life of this legendary character of Indian film industry. Mr. Paresh Mokashi who ventured into making this film ‘Harischandrachi Factory’ has already received a big honour, when this film was selected as India’s entry for Oscars. Though this film hasn’t been short listed for nomination, it has certainly raised a lot of curiosity among the film lovers, as making of this film itself is a biggest tribute to the person who started film making business in India.
‘Harischandrachi Factory’ is now all set for a grand release in India on the 29th January 2010, with UTV Motion Pictures having taken the responsibility for its release as co-producers. The film is a fascinating show of how Mr. Dadasaheb Phalke in the year 1913, successfully produced this first feature film of India, The story of this film begins right from the moment when Dadasaheb made up his mind to make a full length feature film.
The film also shows certain important sequences where Dadasaheb goes to England to do some post production work for his film. There are scenes, where he is welcomed by big production houses there, with arequest to make films for them, after watching his work. But, Dadasaheb returns to India, as he has a mission in his life, i.e. to set up a film industry for the Indian people.
‘Harischandrachi factory’ presents a ‘made for each other’- Phalke couple, played by Nandu Madhav and Vibhavari Despande, who have done their best to play their respective roles filled with hardships . The entire film has been shot on the backdrop of pre-independence days, showing the old chawl in Girgaon and a bungalow in Dadar, where Mr. Phalke lived.
The film becomes more impressive with perfect designing of costumes in accordance with the century old lifestyle created by team of Mrudul Patwardhan, Mahesh Sherla and Geeta Godbole. Other credits go to wonderful Art work by Nitin Desai, make up by Geeta Godbole, Sound by Pramod Purandare, editing by Amit Pawar and music arranged by Narendra Bhide. Certainly, ‘Harischandrachi Factory’ is a biggest tribute to a person who was the pioneer of today’s multi-crore film industry in India.
‘Shubham Karoti’ soon on Zee Marathi
After the success of ‘Kunku’ & ‘Anubandh’, Zee Marathi channel is now coming up with more family social titled ‘Shubham karoti’. This is a tale of a joint family headed by 75 year old Keshav Mahajan. The three generations of the family happily living together suddenly receive a setback, due to ego problems and there are three separate kitchens in the house.
However, Keshav Mahajan, who is a disturbed with this situation, finds support coming from his sensible grand daughter Kimaya, to reunite the family. Both of them plan together certain things, which ultimately brings the entire family together.
Priya Bapat( ‘Adhuri Ek Kahani’ fame) plays the important character of Kimaya, while arun Nalawade plays the grandpa. The serial begins on Zee Marathi from 1st February 2010 and will be shown at 9pm daily from Monday to Saturday. ‘Shubham Karoti’ is produced by Preshit Joshi and Sangeet Kulkarni and directed by Sangeet Kulkarni. With screenplay by Jyotisagar, the other artistes of this serial are : Rajan Bhise, Anand Abhyankar , Kushal Badrike, Atul Parchure, Radhika Harshe, Sujata Joshi, Omkar Karve, Advait Dadarkar & Vidya karanjikar.
Remembering Ram Ganesh Gadkari
What a person could achieve in his short life span of 35 years ? Ram Ganesh Gadkari is the best example. Born on 24th May 1885, in Navasari district in Gujarat, he lost his father at an early age. Somehow managing to complete his schooling, he moved to Pune’s Fergusson College; where after the first year of his college, he took up teaching to support himself and also pursue his literary interests.
Ram Ganesh Gadkari took up extra interest in Sanskrit playwrights Kalidas & Bahubali, besides studying Marathi and English literature. Gadkari wrote 8 plays , 4 of which were incomplete due to his untimely death. But, his play ‘Ekach Pyala’ was a hit on stage. His other works on stage comprise of ‘Prema Sangam’, ‘Punya Prabhav’ and ‘Bhav bandhan’. His collection of poems and humourous articles were also popular. One of his scripted story was used in a marathi film ‘Thakicha Lagna’( 1935). His name is still remembered among marathi theatre lovers with the famous drama theatre in Thane named in his memory. MMW pays tributes to this prolific writer on the occasion of his death anniversary.
Mi Marathi’s Lajjatdar recipes now in Thane
Maharashtra is known for variety of kitchen recipes from different regions. No wonder there are programmes on kitchen recipes on every Marathi TV channel. Mee Marathi channel offers one such programme titled ‘Lajjatdar’ which is popular among not only housewives but also other family members.
To popularize their programme further, Mee Marathi channel has organized a Food fair of delicious kitchen recipes in Thane at Shiv Samartha Ground on 30th and 31st January 2010. This food fair called ‘Mahakhadya Jatra’ will receive participation from celebrities from Marathi entertainment field like Bharat Jadhav, Makarand Anaspure, Sonali Kulkarni, Ankush Choudhary, Amruta Khanvilkar, Santosh Juvekar, Ajinkya Deo, Neelam Shirke, Pankaj Vishnu and others.
Mahakhadya Jatra will be open between 5pm and 10 pm on 30th January and between 11 am and 10 pm on 31st January 2010. Sharvari Lohakare & Sai Ranade will play programme host of the show while Deepa Avachat and Dr. Subhash Avachat will be the judges to decide the best recipes. According to the organizers, there are lots of prizes to be won and the fair will offer on the spot entertainment programmes.
Upendra & his film ‘Jogwa’ rock at national awards
Marathi film ‘Jogwa’ has been adjudged as the best social film in the 56th National awards announced for the year 2008. In all, ‘Jogwa’ has won five national wards, with the other two for the best actor (male) won by Upendra Limaye and best music for this film by Ajay -Atul. It’s a great pride for Marathi film industry, as ‘Jogwa’ has been applauded at the national level. ‘Harischandrachi factory’ has also won the best Marathi film award.
Marathi Movie world had highly praised this film, rating it with 4 stars in the review and acknowledging the performances of Upendra Limaye and Mukta Barve in particular, for their stunning performances . Even Ajay- Atul’s music was rated as the best. Now, with these awards, Marathi film industry has proved that they are nowhere behind any other film industry in this country and have also offered the best talent.
Upendra has already made it big in Bollywood, on the basis of his previous performances in the marathi films like ‘Bangarwadi’, ‘Kairee’ and ‘Savarkhed Ek Gaon’. Now, he deserves better roles even in Bollywood. Even Ajay-Atul have a bright future ahead.
MMW wishes the team of ‘Jogwa’ hearty congratulations!
Bes Social Film: Jogwa
Best Music Director: Ajay Atul
Best Actor: Upendra Limaye
Best Singer (Male): Hariharan
Best Singer (Female): Shreya Ghoshal
Bedhund Marathi : A new Marathi Music show
Young Marathi Composer & Lyricist Ajay Naik comes up with a Music show of new generation Marathi songs. He will be presenting hit music songs from album “Manarang” and “Yari Tujhi” along with some other hit music songs of today’s leading Marathi music composers.
Renowned Singers Madhura Datar & Prashant Naseri (Saregama Fame) are supported by Parashar Joshi (Indian Idol Fame) and Revati Kulkarni.
The show has a bindhaas flavor of all peppy Marathi songs and is expected to be an instant hit with the audience.
This is the Inaugural show and the Ticket Rates are Rs. 150/100/75 respectively !