‘Kas’ set for an early release
‘Kas’ which means ‘Test’ in the context of crisis in human life, is the name of the new Marathi film, which is due for release shortly. The film revolves around an educated sensible woman Arundhati Modak, is undergoing a real test in the time of crisis in her life. In the process along with her even her husband, sister-in-law, sister and a friend are made to suffer. But, each one of them select their own way to face the situation.
Director duo Mahesh Satoskar and Aruna Joglekar, who have given in the past two sensible films like ‘Mahananda’ and ‘Nivdung’ have presented this film too in such a way that it is likely to create that desired impact on the audience, like their previous films did. ‘Kas’ has the music by Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar on the lyrics of Aarti Prabhu and Sudhir Moghe. Prominent singers like Asha Bhosale, Swapnil Bandodkar have rendered their voices for songs, while Radha mangeshkar makes her debut as a singer through this film.
Popular Marathi Television actress Bhargavi Chirmule makes her big screen debut through this film while playing the central character of Arundhati in this film. The other star cast of the film comprises of Prasad Oak, Rajesh Shringarpure, Neelam Shirke, Madhav Abhyankar, Vidya Patwardhan, Anand Abhyankar. Late Chittaranjan kolhatkar will also be seen in this film. The film is due for release on 22nd October 2010.
3 Marathi artistes nominated for APS awards
Marathi films have received recognition not only at the national level but also at the international level. Now, the good news is that for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 5 Indian films have been nominated in different categories; out of which three are for Marathi films. Atul Kulkarni has been nominated in Best actor’s category for film ‘Natarang’, Tejaswini Pandit has been nominated in best actress category for her film ‘Mee Sindhutai Sapkal‘ (which is yet to be released) and Sudhir Palsane finds his nomination in Best Cinematography category for the film ‘Vihir‘.
The awards ceremony will be held on 2nd December 2010 at Gold Coast in Australia . The awards are being given since 2007 with the initiative of Queensland Government and with the joint efforts of CNA International UNESCO and International Federation of Film Producers Association. The host have taken into account the films from 70 countries.
Madhav Abhyankar to return with ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’
After six years of break, popular Marathi drama ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’ is returning to stage in a few days time. Mr. Madhav Abhyankar was all excited about the revival of this sensational Marathi drama, which took place in Pune on his birthday. While speaking to Marathi Movieworld, the versatile actor said that the muhurtha of this play in Pune was attended by distinguished guests .
It may be recalled that prior to his entry into television and Cinema, Mr. Abhyankar was known for his performance as Nana Phadavnis in ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’. Recently, his film ‘Second Inning‘ won the best film award at an international festival in England. Madhav Abhyankar had played an amazing lead role of a retired judge in this film. However, his love for stage continues and the grand revival of this play is the best example of his commitment to theatre. Madhav is already seen in ongoing TV serial ‘Maaylek’ on television. His forthcoming films are ‘Kas’ and ‘Mani Mangalsutra‘.
Big ‘B’ launches music of ‘Mee Sindhutai Sapkal’
The music launch of producer Sachin Khanolkar’s film ‘Mee Sindhutai Sakpal‘ was graced by the presence of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who released the music CD’s in presence of a huge audience at the Novotel Hotel, Juhu on Tuesday, 12 Oct 2010.
The entire cast of the film comprising of Tejaswini Pandit who plays Ms.Sapkal, Jyoti Chandekar, Suhas Palshikar, Upendra Limaye, Neena Kulkarni, Ganesh Yadav, Charusheela Sable Vachchani were present and director Anant Mahadevan introduced the film and the cast. The music composer Ashok Patki and lyricist Pravin Davne were also present.
Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, who was present for a short time said, “It’s a great honour for me to release the music of a film based on a lady, who has adopted so many needy children and given them roof , clothing and education to make these children pillars of society today; like doctors, MBA’S, etc. and I am sure a director of the caliber of Anant Mahadevan could only do justice to a bio-pic of this stature”. Among the other celebrities present wereSulochanadidi, Kiran Shantaram, cricketer Paras Mhambrey, director Rajeev Patil, cinematographer Sanjay Jadhav, actor Maithili Javkar, Atul Parchure, Arun Kadam, veteran director Vikas Desai, distributors Shyam Shroff and Nanubhai and others. Ms. Sindhutai Sapkal herself was present in person and regaled the audience with her ‘sher-o-shairi’ and certain touching moments of her life. The film is set for an early release.
7 Marathi films find place at prestigious Film festivals
The end of October will witness two important international film festivals in Mumbai, during which period at least seven Marathi films will find their place . Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) which is being held between October 21 to October 28, will show 4 Marathi films namely Shekhar Sartandel’s ‘Nirmalya’, Hitendra Upasani’s ‘Burzvagaman’ , Veena Lokur’s ‘Platform’ and Gauri Sarwate’s ‘Mani Mangalsutra’.
While ‘Nirmalya’ and ‘Buzvargaman’ will be shown in the New faces section, ‘Platform’ and ‘Mani Mangalsutra’ will be shown in Indian frame section. About 200 Indian and foreign films will be screened during the week long festival. For registration and further details, viewers may contactwww.mumbaifilmfest.com.
In the 9th ‘Third Eye’ Asian Film festivals which begins on 29th October in Mumbai, three Marathi films find their place. In fact, Anant Mahadevan’s new Marathi film, ‘Mee Sindhutai Sapkal’ which is yet to be released, finds the pride of place on the concluding day of the function on 4th November 2010. Two other Marathi films, Gajendra Ahire’s ‘Surparambya’ and Nitin Nandan’s ‘Jhing Chik jhing’ will be shown in the ‘Spectrum Asia’ section of this festival. About 110 films from different Asian countries including India will be shown during this festival. The registration of viewers for this festival begins on 15th October 2010 at Plaza Cinema, Dadar, Fun Republic, Andheri and Y. B. Chavan Centre, Opp.Mantralaya, Mumbai.
NCPA Marathi Film festival
In appreciation of different subjects being handled by today’s Marathi films, The National Centre for Performing Arts ( NCPA) began hosting the festival of Marathi films called ‘Nave Valaan’ since last year. This year’s festival began with ‘Natarang’ followed by screening of films like ‘Jetaa‘ and ‘Lalbaug Parel‘. The festival will go on till 13th October 2010, with entry on first come first served basis, at the NCPA complex; Mumbai.
On Monday at 6.30 pm, there will be screening of Sanjay Jadhav’s ‘Ringa Ringa‘ and on Tuesday it will be Satish rajwade’s film ‘Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai‘. The festival will conclude on 13th October 2010 at 6.30 pm, with the screening of Nitin Nandan’s ‘Jhing Chik Jhing.’ After every screening, a talk show ‘Chouraha’ is being organized with the director and artistes of the film
Prabhakar Pendharkar is no more
Prabhakar Pendharkar son of Bhalji Pendharkar passed away today in Pune.
A noted writer and director, Prabhakar Pendharkar had released an autobiography of a film studio in Marathi last year. He had many other writings to his credit. He directed some good films directed by him were “Shabbaas Sunbai”, “Bal Shivaji” “Bhaav Tethe Dev” and also “Balak Shibaji (In Bengali)” for the Children’s film society.
It may be recalled that this veteran of Marathi film industry was also associated with film maker V. Shantaram, during the making of the film “Do Aankhen Barah Haath”.
Rajnikant is now available for Marathi films
The biggest news on Tuesday was not about Superstar Rajnikant meeting Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray at his Bandra residence; but the South Megastar expressing his desire to act in Marathi films. What better news, Marathi film industry would have asked for ? Rajnikant, who has roots in Maharashtra, from where he migrated to Tamilnadu; was in Mumbai for promotion of his latest released film ‘Robot’.
After meeting Mr. Thackeray, he sought his blessings and also compared the Sena chief to God. Was Rajani inspired to make this statement after meeting the Sena chief, only he can answer this question. But, we at MarathiMovieWorld, welcome his decision, especially at a time, when Marathi film industry needs a boost from an actor of his caliber.
Grand Music launch of ‘Mani Mangalsutra’
It was the happiest day in the life of film maker Gauri Sarwate. Music of her much talked about Marathi film “Mani Mangalsutra – Naate Navya Pidhiche” was unveiled in a grand way by Times Music on Tuesday 5th October 2010 at Red Lounge, Cinemax, Andheri. Durga Jasraj in the capacity of the chief guest praised the efforts of Gauri Sarwate for making this wonderful creation. She applauded Gauri’s guts to take up such a subject and convert it into a musical film. “I am a great fan of Avadhoot Gupte and I can understand how hard he must have worked on the music of this film” she added.
Besides having the support of Times Music, the film has also found a solid backing of Reliance Big Pictures to distribute the film all over Maharashtra. Speaking on the occasion Gauri Sarwate thanked Lord Ganapati, as during the recent Ganapati festival time she found the two big groups to back her film. Present on the occasion were Ms. Shikha Singhi, head Film Acquisition and Marketing Times Music and Mr. Utpal Acharya, Head Distribution & Acquisition, Reliance Big Pictures.
Also present on the occasion were singers Vasundhra Das, who has rendered her voice for the first time in a Marathi film and Shreya Ghoshal, who has rendered the ‘Mangalagauri’ song. Avadhoot Gupte – the Music director of the film, Praveen Joshi, who has scored background music and Omkar Karve, the actor from the film were also present. The leading lady of the film – Hrishita Bhatt, who is making her debut in Marathi film, said that she agreed to do the film, as she liked the script.
During the function, three songs from the film were shown to the press and each one of them had a class of its own. The song ‘Nava daav chal mandayala.‘ reminded the olden days of Prabhaat films. Very rightly, the director has shot this song in black and white. Shreya Ghoshal seemed to have worked very hard on the ‘Mangalagauri‘ song; as she herself later admitted that it took 7 hours to complete that 7 minute song; since she wanted to be perfect with every word. The film has other singers like Rahul Vaidya and Sailee Panse, while lyrics are penned by Sudhir Moghe, Sandeep Khare and Prashant kulkarni; offering a variety.
The film is due for release all over Maharashtra (except Nagpur and Amrawati) in next 15 days time
Play ‘Agadbam’ Online Game Free
For the first time in the promotion of a Marathi film, an Online game has been used. In this fun game, ‘Najuka‘ the 250 kg strong lead character of ‘Agadbam‘ is required to cross the river. Viewers, who wish to play this game, should visit the site www.agadbam.com and click the Games section. After log in, the viewer can play this fun game to help Najuka cross the river in minimum time with just five chances. Game available on www.marathimovieworld.com
Ms. Trupti Bhoir, who plays the lead character of Najuka, with full body prosthetic make-up’, felt the need of such a theme to market her film. The game has been designed by the technical experts led my Jitendra More of Marathi Movie World, who are also Online partners of this film.
Help:
After you click the ‘Start the game’ button. Use the upside arrow for her jump, to take off. The Jump Meter provided on the left side of the screen will measure her jump. But, before she comes down, using the other arrows- left , right, and down; make her land on one of the rocks scattered around in the river.
In all, you have five chances to help her cross the river. If she lands on the Green floating boats, it will help you as a lifeline; to take you closer to one of the rocks close to the other end. The time you take to make her cross the river, will be recorded in the timer on the top. You can try as many times. But, every time, don’t forget to log in.