“Now, you will witness ‘4 Idiots'”
Marathi films are also paying attention on entertainment, taking support of the new concept and production values. The new Marathi comedy film ‘4 Idiots‘ containing all the required ‘Masala‘ to entertain Marathi film lovers, has completed 805 of its shooting, with the remaining 20% to be shot soon at the Ramoji Film city, Hyderabad. Debutant Milind Arun Kavde a Documentary & Ad film maker is the Director of the film which is being produce by Anant Walilkar under the banner Mayuresh Entertainment.
Bharat Jadhav, the Superstar of Marathi film industry is the hero of this film, which presents the story of four middle class friends. Other stars of this Marathi film are Siddhartha Jadhav, Guru Anand, Swapnil Joshi . The other Attraction of film is the famous pair of Popular comedy shows -Vaibhav Mangle & Vishakha Subhedar. Other supporting artistes are Ajay Jadhav, Ganesh Mayekar, Ananda Karekar and Arti Solanki.
Music Director Mayuresh Pai has recorded One Song of the film rendered by Vaishali Sawant and Avdhoot Gupte. Prasad Kulkarni, Ajay Jigaran and Jitendra Joshi have penned the songs. Director Milind Arun Kavade is planning to Release the film in January, 2011.
‘Hridayache Naate’ launched with song recording
The Muhurat of ‘Hridayache Naate‘, a marathi film; was recently held at Aajivasan Studio, Juhu with sound recording of film in the presence of actor Bharat Jadhav. The first schedule of film will be completed in Goa. Produced by Mohammad Kasam & Sajid Sayyad. & being Directed by director Rajendra Rathod, the Executive producer of this film is Salim Khan Khultabadkar.
Story, Screenplay and dialogues and Music are by Kartikey Tiwari. Songs are sung by Angha Funse. Cinematography by Manju Nath & Irfaan Sheik. Devendra Tawade is the Art Director. Choreography by Shailesh Kohli. Sound by Suresh Kachave & Action by Prem Sharma.
Star cast of the film comprises of popular marathi actor Bharat Jadhav in the lead role along with Pandarinath Kamble (Paddy), Rupali Bhosle, Sanjay Khapre, Swapnil Joshi, Kamlakar Saatpute & Taslim Khan.
‘Nirmalya’ is receiving good response
During the recent MAMI international film festival, one Marathi film that invited the attention of many enthusiastic viewers was ‘Nirmalya’, which was shown in Indian frame section. Based on wellknown writer Madhu Mangesh Karnik’s novel ‘Devki‘, written 50 years ago, this period film has been produced by Sushma Kaul. The film’s script and direction is by Shekhar Sartandel.
The film’s cast comprises of Prasad Oak, Priyavanda Sawant, Sukhada Yash, Uday Sabnis, Abhay Khadapkar, Nandkumar Patil, Raghunath Kadam and others. Though ‘Nirmalya’ is a tale of a Devdasi, it also presents a love story in a different manner. After its sceening in few more international film festivals, the film will be released in Maharashtra.
“Aushutosh Gowarikar releases music of ‘Sumbaran’ “
Gajendra Ahire’s new film ‘Sumbaran …Soneri Divsanchya Athavani‘ had its music release on 1st November 2010 at MIG Club, Bandra, at the hands of Popular film maker Ashutosh Gowarikar. Prior to release of Music CD, music director Rahul Ranade requested singers Shaan and Jhanvi (the payback singers of this film) to perform on stage and both of them obliged. In all four songs were played with other singers like Ajit Parab and N. Umap also following them. The guests also had the first look of the film, when few scenes from the film were shown.
While releasing the CD, the chief guest recalled the good old days of his friendship with Rahul Ranade way back in 1984, when both of them had worked on a film ‘Holi‘. Ashutosh also praised Gajendra Ahire for selecting the topics of his film which always has a connect with village life. Rahul Ranade became more than emotional in his speech mentioning how during his comeback in 2008, few film makers including Gajendra Ahire helped him with their timely offers. He thanked all his friends and well wishers and also his aunt Ms. Sai Paranjape, who was present at the function.
Others present on the occasion were Sagarika from Sagarika Music and artistes of the film like Mukta Barve, Siddharth Jadhav, Saie Tamhankar, Ashwini Kalsekar,Ravindra Mankani, Ravi Kale and others. Makarand Anaspure, who is part of the film was not present. Nitish Bharadwaj who was also among special invitees, preferred to stay away from the stage. The film is due for release on 19th November 2010.But, prior to that it has been selected for Indian Panorama at three international film festivals.
‘Zee Talkies-Lux’ Maharashtracha favourite Kon
To decide the winners in various categories based on the popularity among people, Zee Talkies has been giving away awards to all those associated with Marathi entertainment field. This year, for the year 2010, the awards in the name of ‘Zee Lux Sandal Maharashtracha Favourite Kon?’ were given away to those selected by viewers through voting. Like previous year, this year too Mahesh Manjrekar played the host for the gala evening function held at Mumbai’s Hotel Hyatt Regency at Andheri(E).
Beginning the function by paying tributes to late Debu Deohar, Ajay Sarpotdar, Amit Pawar and Prabhakar Pendharkar, the host tried to explain in a humourous way, as to why he was considered as a favourite host for these awards. Giving a hint about the entertainment programme that followed, he mentioned that the subject of the evening was ‘argument’. In came Makarand Anaspure to argue as to why his film with the title like ‘Hand Pump’ was suitable. “When a name like ‘Vihir’ is accepted, why not a ‘Hand Pump’ used beside the Vihir, is not found suitable,” he questioned.
Makarand has a terrific sense of humour and with that gifted talent, he entertained the selected invitees with his skit for some more time. In between the variety programmes and awards presentation in different categories, witty Mahesh Manjrekar kept on pulling the legs of different people from the industry with his timely jokes. He repeatedly made an announcement calling it a breaking news, only to declare that he heard about a new film of Prasad Oak being released shortly. Obviously, hinting at the soaring number of Marathi films the actor has signed in the recent past. Without naming anyone, he said, “Those who claimed about re-introducing Marathi cinema to the people, found empty theatres for their films.” The clever audience new very well, whom he was hinting at, but took it lightly. The prolific film maker, however appealed to all Marathi people to go and watch Marathi films in the theatre; as the industry had made tremendous progress in all areas.
The indoor hall of Hotel Grand Hyatt was filled with the presence of many artistes from Marathi film industry and prominent among them were Ashok Saraf, Sachin Pilgaonkar( with his wife Supriya), Mahesh Kothare with his son Adinath, Siddharth Jadhav, Saie Tamhankar, Kranti Redkar, Girija Oak, Amrita Khanwilkar, Sonali Kukarni Sr as well as Jr; Sanjay Narvekar, Mrunal Kulkarni, Avadhoot Gupte, Bela Shende, Guru Thakur, Ajay-Atul, Sayaji Shinde and many others who were nominated for awards in different categories. But, those who were surprisingly absent were Sachin Khedekar, Atul Kulkarni & Bharat Jadhav inspite of being nominated.
While Siddharth Jadhav and the so called teenager’s trio( by Mahesh Manjrekar) comprising of Kranti Redkar, Amruta Khanwilkar & Sonalee Kulkarni (Jr)entertained with their classic dance performances, others like Swapnil Bandodkar & Rahul Deshpande mesmerized the audience with their classical jugalbandi. Upcoming ActressSmita Tambe proved her dancing talents while mimicry artiste Nilesh Sable received a big applause for perfectly imitating some of the popular personalities. Highlight of the function was the dance performance by the veteran trio comprising of Ashok Saraf, Mahesh Kothare and Sachin Pilgaonkar together. And, they really did a good job, as they were promoting their forthcoming film ‘Idea Chi Kalpana’.
Most of the Viewer’s choice awards went as per expectations( not being disclosed by MMW for obvious reason) but the so called Na-khare awards, announced by Mahesh Manjrekar to create humour on the lines of Filmfare’s Na-real awards left a bad taste. Looking at the traditional Marathi culture, it was certainly not proper to humiliate some of the talented artistes for trying out something different. Sayaji Shinde, who has made a record of doing 300 South films, was presented with a Lungi. Actresses like Amruta, Kranti and Resham were presented with Maherchi Saadi, while bald actor Vaibhav Mangle was presented with a comb and hair oil. It was okay to present a watch to Sonalee Kulkarni(Jr) for her large number dance performances on the song ‘Vaajale ki 12’, but it was improper to announce this category award to a reputed actor like Sandeep Kulkarni for his dance performance in ‘Gaiir’, which was considered as an awkward act. Sandeep was conspicuously absent for the function.
The overall function of little more than three hours offered variety entertainment. Needless to say that it will be telecast in few days time. By the way, Zee Talkies is now into its fourth year and henceforth be known as ‘Aapla Talkies Zee Talkies’.
Watch Zee Marathi Awards on 31st Oct.
Just like every year, this year too, Zee Marathi Awards – a viewer’s choice television awards 2010 will be telecast on 31st October 2010 at 7.30 pm on Zee Marathi channel. This year, the event had much more than the usual award function, with many unique and exclusive features. Zee Marathi Awards 2010 took place recently at Saint Andrews Auditorium, Bandra. Sunil Barve, an experienced actor from Marathi Entertainment, was the host for the night.
The Awards were mainly dominated by 2 Popular Serials of Zee Marathi wiz, ‘Majhiya Priyala Preet Kalena‘ and ‘Kunku‘. ‘Majhiya …’ won awards like Best Actor, Best Family , Best Onscreen Pair while ‘Kunku’ won the Best Actress and most popular – Best Serial award.
Besides the awards, there were many added attractions in the form of variety entertainment during the show. Don’t miss your date with Zee Marathi on 31st evening.
One day match begins with Vacation
Marathi films are now days attempting new experiments to catch the attention of the audience. One such experiment has been tried through a new Marathi film titled ‘Dho Dho Paavsatli One day Match’ ( D2PODM). Produced under the banner of Cutting Chai Productions, this film is presented by Vinayak Karanjkar and directed by young Nitin Kamble. Abhijeet Sawant is the co-producer of the film. DDPODM is being released on 29th October 2010 in Mumbai, Pune and Nashik .
Two strangers from different age group and segment of the society come across each other on one deadly night when it’s raining heavily. They share their experiences on the backdrop of one day match commentary going on the radio. Suhas Palshikar and Shekhar Phadke play the two central characters in this film. Other important artistes in the cast are Vijay Chavan, Priyanka Yadav, Ravindra Berde, Dr. Vilas Ujavane, Shubahngi Latkar, kamlesh Sawant, Madhavi Juvekar, Pradeep Patwardhan and others.
Film’s story, screenplay dialogues and lyrics are penned by Swapnil and Janmejay, while music is composed by Rajesh Sawant. Cinematography by Aniket K and art direction by Anil Vaath are other credits.
Another experiment has been tried by Neha Prashant Gokhale, who is releasing her new Marathi film aptly titled ‘Vacation’ also on 29th October 2010. Banking on the topic of friendship, the film which narrates a simple but sensible tale on this subject, is directed by Deepak Sadashiv Tarkar. The film has tried to unfold several issues in the lives of four youngsters related to fun and thrill. The story of the film revolves around four characters namely- Jai, Chitra, Neha and Yamini.
Through this film four new faces are being introduced. They are Vikas Patil, Gauri Sahasrabuddhe, Kirti Mehendale, Neesha Shah. Others in important roles are Satish Pulekar, Anand Abhyankar, Shrikant Desai, K. Vrushali, Ashwini Ekbote, Vighnesh Joshi, Gajanan Gokhale, Bharat ganeshpure, Jyoti Joshi, Sujata deshmukh, Pallavi Patil and Surekha Upadhye. Smita Tambe and Santosh Juvekar make guest appearances.
The script of ‘Vacation’ has been written by Neha- Deepak while Kamlesh Bhadkamkar has composed the music.
Zee Talkies coming in a new avtaar
Zee talkies TV channel which bee entertaining the Marathi cinema viewers non stop 24 hours for the past 3 years, will now be entering its fourth year of entertainment. We are all ware of this channel’s success story, which did not limit to telecast of old and new Marathi films but also made their entry as producers of Marathi films. This enabled Marathi cinema to not only find a financer to meet the rising budget of the films but also reach out to maximum viewers with the help of heavy promotion.
Now, in their fourth year, Zee Talkies is planning to have a new look. So, wait for this change to take place in just few days time.
‘Mee Sharuk Manjarsumbhekar’ soon on Marathi stage
Film maker Mahesh Manjrekar is all set to use his lucky mascot Siddharth Jadhav on Marathi stage. He will soon launch Siddharth Jadhav as Sharuk Manjarasumbhekar in his forthcoming Marathi play ‘Mee Sharuk Manajarsumbhekar’. The play is based on the dreams and aspirations of thousands of youngsters who come to Mumbai daily, but hardly a handful of them achieve success.
The play will send across a message to the viewers, how hard it is for those who come to fulfill their dreams here. These days to live in this city itself is a big challenge and to overcome the hurdles of daily travel is another adventure. At present, the rehearsals of this play are in full swing and the play is about to be launched soon.
‘Agadbam’ awaiting for Guinness book approval
After doing a good business in Maharashtra, Trupti Bhoir’s ‘Agadbam’ which is running in the third week run now, is expecting a big news. The experts from Guinness Book of records will be visiting India soon, to verify the facts about the longest period of make up held by actress Trupti Bhoir during the making of this film.
The film prior to its release had emphasized more on the hard work put in by Trupti for preparing herself in the character of Nazuka who weighed 250 kgs, almost 4 times that of her normal weight. Trupti who worked on the sets of this film for 26 hours continuously to shoot a particular dance sequence had taken that required risk of being in prosthetic make up for the longest duration. Accordingly, she had even applied to Guinness Book of records to register her creation.
Now, after the experts deputed by Guinness Book of records verify the facts during their forthcoming visit, Marathi films will get an international recognition with this rare achievement. Incidentally, it will also be the first Indian film to record this success.