‘Bunny’ to travel worldwide at different Int. Film fests
Producer Shankar Dhuri and writer – director Nilesh Upadhye’s Marathi film ‘Bunny’, which unveiled its first look at World famous Cannes Film Festival, has been receiving very good response at different international film festivals worldwide. Few days ago, this film was selected for screening at the Cinemaking International film festival at Dhaka followed by announcement of award for this film at the Madrid International film festival, Spain.
The film has also been selected at the Fort Smith International film festival, USA, besides getting selected at the other film festivals like ‘K.Asif’, ‘Ayodhya’ and ‘Gandhar Independent’. Reacting on this success achieved by his film, Producer Shanker Dhuri feels that this was possible due to hard work put in by the entire team of technicians and artistes of this film. ‘Bunny’ presents an interesting journey of a ten year old girl who has been isolated from this world by a person with the name of Vivek. According to the makers of this film ‘Bunny’ is a Soci0- psychological thriller.
Child artiste Sanvi Raje plays the title role along with other talented artistes like Shailesh Korde and Sheetal Gaikwad. Sound design by Abhijit Sriram Deo, art direction by Anil Vath, editing by Yogesh Bhatt and background music by Akshay Eluripati are the other credits of thios film.
‘Goshta Eka Paithanichi’, ‘June’ & ‘Mee Vasantrao’ to receive national awards
This year’s best Marathi film national award will be presented to ‘Goshta Eka Paithanichi’ directed by Shantanu Rode and starring Sayali Sanjeev and Suvrat Joshi in lead roles. Overwhelmed by this award for her film, actress Sayali Sanjeev said that she had put in lot of efforts in her role and therefore was happy that her film bagged national award. She said that she was dedicating this award to her father.
Siddharth Menon who played the lead role in Marathi film ‘June’ has been awarded Best actor Special Jury mention award. This has come as the biggest gift for Suiddharth who feels that his dream has been fulfilled. He said that he was dedicating his award to the entire team of ‘June’. This film is directed by Surhud Godbole and Vaibhav Khisti and written by Nikhil Mahajan. Both these films have been produced by Planet Marathi.
Another Marathi film ‘Me Vasantrao’ invited all the attention, as this film bagged two national awards. Best playback singer award for this film was declared for Rahul Deshpande, while best sound recording award for this film was declared for Anmol Bhave. Director of this film Nipun Dharmadhikari expressed his happiness on this achievement and said that music was the soul of this film.
Teaser of ‘Takatak 2′ unveiled
The much awaited teaser of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Takatak 2′ was unveiled recently. It hints that Thokya the lead character of the film will be seen writing his next chapter in Takatak 2. Like last time in Part 1, he will be accompanied by his friends Pranali Bhalerao, Ajinkya Raut, Akshay Kelkar, Bhoomika Kadam, Komal Bodkhe, Sushant Divekar. Actors like Swapnil Rajshekhar, Kiran Mane, Pankaj Vishnu, Kiran Berad, RJ Mahesh Kale, Smita Dongre, who will also be seen in different roles in this part 2.
The original concept of ‘Takatak 2′ is by Milind Kavde and he has also written the story and screenplay. Dialogue are by Kiran Berad and Sanjay Navgire, while Lyrics written by Jai Atre have been composed by music composer Varun Likhte. DOP Hazrat Sheikh Wali has done the cinematography and background music is by Abhinay Jagtap. ‘Takatak 2′ is presented by Reliance Entertainment Studios in association with Purple Bull Entertainment and produced by Omprakash Bhatt, Reliance Entertainment Studios, Naresh choudhary, Aditya Joshi . The film will be releasing on August 18th, 2022 in theatres all over Maharashtra.
पुन्हा एकदा ‘अभंगवारी’ची संगीत मैफल रंगणार – राहुल देशपांडे
२०१८- २०१९ मध्ये मिळालेल्या भरघोस प्रतिसादानंतर आता पुन्हा एकदा ‘अभंगवारी’ची संगीत मैफल रंगणार आहे. २३ जुलै रोजी सायंकाळी साडे सहा वाजता मुंबईतील षण्मुखानंद सभागृहात राहुल देशपांडे आपल्या सुरेल गायकीने अवघे सभागृह मंत्रमुग्ध करणार आहेत. या कार्यक्रमाचे सूत्रसंचालन शर्वरी जमेनीस करणार असून संगीत क्षेत्रातील अनेक दिग्गज या कार्यक्रमाला उपस्थित राहून या ‘अभंगवारी’ची शोभा वाढवणार आहेत.
Biopic on the Life Journey of ‘Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj’ in 3 D format
Known for being the land of great sants, Maharashtra, has preserved the heritage of these sants. The spiritual words of the great sants of the Warkari sect, have already impressed the minds of foreign citizens as well. On one hand millions of Varkaris are preserving the teachings of sants through Vari, on the other hand many foreign citizens are coming and living in India to study the literature and thoughts of these great sants. Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj is one of them. Known as Mauli all over the world, the story of this Mauli will soon come before the audience in 3D with the use of today’s advanced technology.
‘Sant Dnyaneshwar’ 3D Marathi movie
Producer Ajay Thakur recently announced his upcoming Marathi film ‘Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj’ under the banner of V. Patke Films. Through this biopic, Mauli’s life journey will be presented to the audience through 3D format. Director Sameer Asha Patil, known for making films on diverse subjects, will be directing this film. According to the makers , this film will be featuring leading actors of Marathi. The story-screenplay of this film is written by Ajay Thakur and Sameer Asha Patil. Producer Ajay Thakur has so far produced films like ‘Taani’, ‘Phuntroo’, ‘Takatak’, ‘Darling’ while Sameer Asha Patil has also successfully directed films like ‘Chaurya’, ‘Yantam’, ‘Wagherya’, ‘Darling’.
“Whatever you decide to do, is possible” – Hruta Durgule
Described as the most attractive woman on Marathi television, Hruta Durgule is in the news now days. Her two Marathi films will be released back to back in next two weeks. While ‘Ananya’ is releasing on 22nd July, ‘Timepass 3′ will be released on 29th July 2022. In these two films Hruta is playing different type of characters. But, more challenging will be her title role in ‘Ananya’ for which she has worked very hard. 
Actress Hruta Durgule in Ananya Movie
Written and Directed by Pratap Phad this film is a cinematic version of his own Marathi play. Produced by Dhruv Das, Ravi Jadhav and Sanjay Chhabriya, in this film Hruta plays a young intelligent girl who loses her both the hands in an accident. She overcomes this handicap by hard work and tries to be self reliant . How she does it is what this inspiring film has tried to show to the audience. Hruta has uploaded a video showing how she worked hard for the preparation of this role.
Speaking about her hard work, Hruta says, “ After I signed this film, I knew that I had to work very hard and be psychologically strong. The first thing I did was to lose my weight. Later, while doing my workout on flexibility, I used to cry. At one stage I even felt like giving up, but the tagline of this film inspired me to make this possible. I kept in mind one mantra- ’Yes, whatever you decide to do, is possible’. And that’s how I found ‘Ananya’ in me.”
‘Timepass 3′ trailer released with a grand celebration
Zee Studious Business Head Mangesh Kulkarni, Producer Meghana Jadhav and director Ravi Jadhav had an occasion to celebrate an event together. It was trailer release of their forthcoming much awaited Marathi film ‘Timepass 3′, which is all set to release on 29th July 2022. It was a grand celebration in presence of entire team of this film.
In the first two parts of ‘Timepass’ the audience witnessed the love story of Dagadu and Praju. Now, in ‘Timepass 3′ the audience will be surprised to see Dagadu played by Prathamesh Parab with Palavi played by new actress Hruta Durgule. In this film Hruta unlike her television image, will be seen in a new dashing avatar of a modern girl, as clearly seen in the trailer of this film. Along with this lead pair, there will be Madhav lele played by Vaibhav Mangle, Shantaram Parab played by Bhau kadam and the Dagadu gang, besides Aart Wadagbalkar and Sanjay Narvekar in an important role.
‘Timepass-3’ will be prequel of ‘Timepass2’ and sequel of ‘Timepass’ and therefore it will be interesting to see the transformation Dagadu in between this period.There will be five songs in this film written by Kshitij patwardhan composed by Amitraj. Besides direction Ravi Jadhav has written the story of this film with Screenplay and dialogues by Priyadarshan Jadhav.
‘Takatak 2′ Motion Poster released
‘Takatak 2′, the sequel to the Marathi film ‘Takatak’ which took the Marathi box office by storm, is getting ready for release on 18th August 2022. Recently, the motion poster of ‘Tatatak 2′ was released on social media. Lead Actors of this film can be clearly seen in the motion poster , inviting the attention of their fans and has been receiving record number of likes.
According to the makers, through ‘Takatak 2′, fans will once again get to experience a fresh storyline. In this part 2 also Prathamesh Parab is playing the lead role and therefore the fans will experience the chemistry between the successful director of famous films and the popular actor of Marathi fans. In the past, Milind Kavde as a film maker has always tried to convey a social message to the society while entertaining the audience through an interesting plot.
This film being an adult comedy, Kavde has expressed the belief that the audience will take the movie to heart just as they understood the meaning of ‘Takatak’ and ‘Takatak 2′ too. ‘Takatak 2’ also stars Prathamesh along with Akshay Kelkar, Ajinkya Raut, Bhoomika Kadam, Pranali Bhalerao, Komal Bodkhe, Sushant Divekar, Swapnil Rajashekhar, Kiran Mane, Pankaj Vishnu, Kiran Berad, RJ Mahesh Kale, Smita Dongre and others. Director Milind Kavde has also written the story and screenplay of this film. Kiran Berad and Sanjay Navgire have written dialogues . Cinematography is done by Hazrat Sheikh Wali. Background by Abhinay Jagtap, lyrics by Jay Atre and music by Varun Likhte are the other credits.
The film is presented by Reliance Entertainment Studios in association with Purple Bull Entertainment and produced by Omprakash Bhatt, Reliance Entertainment Studios, Naresh choudhary and Aditya Joshi.
New Marathi Web Series ‘Me Punha Yein’ on OTT platform
The Political situation in Maharashtra has witnessed many change of leaders at the top level and at the same time seen the return of the same leaders occupying their position again. Even otherwise, the present situation in Maharashtra politics is the talk of the nation. In this situation, Planet Marathi are coming up with a Web series ‘Me Punha Yein(मी पुन्हा येईन)’ on this subject, which stars renowned Marathi stars like Sayaji Shinde, Upendra Limaye, Bharat Ganeshpure, Siddharth Jadhav, Prabhakar More, Amit Tadwalkar, Ramesh Wani, Sanjay Kulkarni, Rajesh Durge, Rajendra Gupta, Ruchika Jadhav, Seema Kulkarni and Deepti Kshirsagar in lead roles.
Recently, the teaser of this Political web series was released, making it very clear about the different strategies used by Political leaders to acquire power. According to Mr. Akshay Bardapurkar of Planet Marathi, this subject will entertain the web series lovers. This web series is written and directed by Arwind Jagtap and is produced jointly by Planet Marathi’s Akshay Bardapurkar and Gem Creations’ Gautam Koli.
South Film Actress Nimisha Sajayan to make her debut in Marathi films
South Indian Actress Nimisha Sajayan in Marathi film ‘Hawahawai’
South Indian Film Actress Nimisha Sajayan known for her several Malayalam film roles, will be making her debut in Marathi films through ‘Hawahavai’ directed by Mahesh Tilekar. Recently, the poster of this film was launched on social media. Along with Nimisha the film stars Vijay Andalkar in lead role. This film will be released on 7th October 2022.
‘HawaaHawaai’ is produced by Mahesh Tilekar of Marathi taraka Productions and Vijay Shinde of Ninety Nine Productions. Besides Producing and directing this film, Mahesh Tilekar has also written the story of this film with editing work. Highlight of this film is that renowned playback singer Asha Bhosale has rendered a song in her voice at the age of 88. From the poster of this film, it is indicated that this film will be a family film like his previous film ‘One Room Kitchen’.