GALGALE NIGHALE REVIEW
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Rating: na
Presentor: Zee Talkies Company: Shree Sai Productions Producers: Bela Shinde Director: Kedar Shinde Music: Ashok Patki, Vaishali Samant Singer: Vaishali Samant Story, Screenplay, Dialogues: Mangesh Kulkarni Cast: Bharat Jadhav, Siddhart Jadhav, Ramesh Deo, Ketakee Thatte, Santosh Mayekar, Kamalakar Saatpute, Vithhal Umap, Sunil Ranade, Archana Gayakwar Movie Review by: Pradip Patil |
Zee talkies and Kedar Shinde, Bharat Jadhav as Galgale, a star cast consiting of Siddharth Jadhav, Ramesh Dev and Vitthal Umap. Everything about ‘Galgale Nighale…’ is Class one, so the expectations are sky high. But unfortunately, it turns out be one the worst films made in recent times. It’s really saddening to see so many talented people associated with such a bad film.
Kedar’s all previous films are known for sheer mind numbing energy which makes you overlook any illogicalities. But this time the film suffers from a lethargy that seems to have affected everyone associated with this movie. At certain times the film seems to take seriousness similar to that of RGV’s Sarkar and for the rest of times it reminds you of Akshay Kumar’s hit Welcome. But throughout those 2.15 hour, the film never finds its own form.
The film falters in every aspect. It has two of the most brilliant actors of current times and yet fails to take the full advantage. The weak story leads to even weaker screenplay. Even the maverick Kedar is out of form this time, It feels as if he has exhausted all his creativity. There are many moments in the cinema that will make you feel why someone even bothered to go ahead with such a silly thing. Characters make appearance for 5- 6 minutes and then disappear, only to reappear later on when you have almost forgotten about them. And I am not talking about secondary characters. All the main characters are treated similarly.
Initially it seems as if the film is attempting an exploration of Galgale’s world and why he behaves in an eccentric way, but this aspect is dealt with just a single scene and then focus shifts to mafia family and love story. There was ample scope to extract funny moments from the conflicts arising because of Galgale’s innocence and the mafia family, instead of that the film incorporates the murder mystery and that too a feeble one.
The intial one hour seems almost unnecessary, the script could have done without involving Galgale’s office in it. The characters and the
scenes from Galgale’s workplace make no worthy contribution to the film.The Galgale’s antics seems torturous after initial few moments.
It offers nothing new. Those who have already seen Galgale in Sahi Re Sahi will be disgusted and those who are watching him for first time will be bored.
The only moment when the film shows some spark is 5 minutes before the interval, when Galgale (Bharat Jadhav) reaches Gauri’s (Ketaki Thatte) house. But it’s just a false hope, the second half is equally bad as the first half. The movie is so dull that the viewers won’t be bothered about anything about that is happening on the screen till the climax is reached, which is infact good for Kedar. Whatever happens during those ending reels is simply ridiculous.
The acting is nothing to write about. Bhara Jadhav as confused Galgale offers nothing new. The rest of the cast is also OK. The dialogs are totally off the mark and add to it the Koli language, it becomes almost impossible to understand what’s happening. The background music is just cheap imitation of some hindi films. One of the song has so loud music track that it’s hard to comprehend the lyrics. Even the makeup seems amaturish.
To sum it up, skip this and wait till the director and his team find their form next time. It’s in the best interest of all !
‘sanai chaughade’ REVIEW
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Rating: na
Presenter: Mukta Arts Ltd. Producer: Dipti Talpade Story, Director: Rajeev Patil Camera: Pushpank Gawde Music: Avadoot Gupte Cast: Sai Tamhankar, Shilpa Tulaskar, Tushar Dalvi, Santosh Juvekar, Subodh Bhave, Sushant Shela, Meghna Erande & Bharti Aacharekar, Special Appearance – Shreyas Talpade Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke |
In the era of 21st century globalization is unrepeatable part of our life. Especially in the metro cities, many of us prefers shopping malls even for vegetables than ‘mandai.’ Naturally our marriage system, relations and even social structure is changed a lot because of influence of global culture. ‘Sanai-Choughade’ is the bold (not visually, but mentally) covers all these aspects and provokes audiences to think about the success.
The story moves around Sai (Sai Tamhankar). Her elder niece Urmila (Shilpa Tulaskar) and Jijaji Shrikant (Tushar Dalvi) promises her mother on death bed that they will follow responsibility of her marriage. Sai starts living with Urmila and Shrikant after her mom’s death. Urmila and Shrikant, who had gone through love marriage, are completely unaware with ‘typical Maharashtrian arrange marriage system.’ After taking many good and bad experiences, they came to know about latest marriage bureau handled by Rahul Borgavkar (Subodh Bhave)- ‘Kande –Pohe.’ The modern marriage bureau believes on logical match making than traditional one. They organises a nice trip to a hill station. The thought behind it is all of them will get a chance to get familiar with feelings, nature and Sanai Choughade understanding of partner. Sai and Aditya (Santosh Juvekar) fall in love with each other. Just before finalisation of their marriage, Sai revealed her past. She was in love with Shryas Talpade and had given birth to his child. Shreyas was ready to marry Sai and accept the child but unfortunately he became pawn of destiny and died in an Accident. Now do Aditya accept her past? What was reaction of other people who represents society? Do Shrikant and Urmila accept her mistake? What steps Rahul Borgavkar takes to keep his motto ‘Nothing is Impossible.’ The story developes swiftly and gives answer to all these question. Thanks to director Rajiv Patil and script writer- Sanjay Pawar for handling such a sensitive issue efficiently and giving different but certainly nice experience to audiences.
Sai Tamhankar and Subodh Bhave played lead characters in the movie and both had done well. Especially Subodh Bhave catches maximum attention through amazing facial expressions. Twice or thrice Sai’s inexperience can be noticed but in her debut movie she is much promising. Santosh Juvekar, Tushar Dalvi and Shilpa Tulaskar strongly supported Subodh and Sai. Chinmay Mandlekar has also played done really nice job even in the small role. His body language and dialog delivery is simply amazing.
Versatile Avdhoot Gupte has given good music. Especially the song ‘Kande-Pohe’ sung by Sunidhi Chauhan has appropriately used in whole movie. Camera, lights and especially cinematography are good but certainly far behind ‘Mukta Arts’ standard.
A credit must be given to Rajiv Patil for handling two different stories- ‘light comedy of Mulgi Dakhavne’(I swear I couldn’t find appropriate English word) and problems of pre-marital pregnancy. Audiences do not realize any jerk or it does not sound odd, when story moves from light comedy to serious issue.
Marathi cinema is getting globalize and producers are showing courage to handle sensitive issues. Dipti Talpade’s this movie is nice example of it. But the really nice thing is she never tried to show something ‘extra ordinary.’ She has successfully shown how serious topics can even be handled through perfect commercial film. And as even a common man can also enjoy this movie, seriousness of the issue can be delivered to higher no. of people. And that’s real success of ‘Sanai-Choughade.’
‘SAKHI’ REVIEW
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Rating: na
Company: Shree Chintamani Vision Producers: Lata Narvekar, Bharati Acharekar Director: Sanjay Surkar Story: Gautam Rajadhyaksha, Yogesh Khadikar Music: Ashok Patki Lyricst: Sudhir Moghe Cameraman: Harish Joshi Cast: Ashok Saraf, Sonali Kulkarni, Subodh Bhave, Usha Nadkarni, Raghavendra Kalkol, Pushkar Shotri, Lokesh Gupte, Santosh Juvekar, Jyoti Joshi, Kishor Mahabole… Movie Review by: Nisha Garud |
Far of from the usual storylines of commercial movies where two people meet, develop romantic love for each other and then live a happy life every after, Sanjay Surkar’s Sakhi is a movie which is unusual in all respects and aspects. It moves away from typical comedy forcibly included in movies to deviate the audience’s attention from a weak script and keep the movie going. Sakhi is a story of a relationship that develops between two strangers brought together by fate.
The two strangers, Suryakant Jagdale(Ashok Saraf) and Nishi ( Sonali Kulkarni ) find each other at a such a time in their life when both need support and a mentor to guide them. Suryakant, an accountant returns to his village Jatgaon, where he is born and brought up by his godmother Kunda Tai (Usha Nadkarni). He hides the fact from her and his friends that he is actually been fired from his job. He decides to spend his time by doing something for the villagers. But his all efforts end in vain. Restless, frustrated and tired, Suryakant contemplates on what is to be done next when he hears a woman’s cry for help.
Soaked in blood and badly bruised, he sees Nishi (Sonali Kulkarni) being chased by two men. He saves her and takes her to his house. Nishi narrates the tale of how she was married of by her brothers into a rich Inamdar family. She comes to know on her wedding night itself that her husband is not loyal to her. Her brother-in-law eyes her every time with bad intension and her mother -in-law turns a blind eye to all this and reminds her that she should actually be obliged to them for taking her into their family and not complain.
Sonali Kulkarni gives her best performance ever as a woman suppressed by the conditions, trying her best to adjust to her cursed fate. Unable to bear the brunt any longer, she runs away from the house. When is refused an entry into her brother’s house, she admits herself into a women’s ashram but there too she does not find solace. She escapes from the ashram only to be chased by two men and finally being saved by Suryakant.
Ashok Saraf gives a strong performance after a long time by playing a role of a mere understanding friend who strives to give a new meaning to his Sakhi’s life, a woman who needs support, care and security. A relationship which is beyond friendship develops between the two. Sonali’s voice gives her an advantage in playing out well her role of a tortured wife and of innocent village lass.
The movie drags too much with in the second half. The ego clashes shown between Subodh Bhave and Saraf are unnecessary. Some scenes are too obvious in the movie. The end of the movie is seems to have well thought about but was also dragged a lot. Though the movie loses its touch in the here and there, it is brought back by effective dialogues and strong performances by Saraf and Usha Nadkarni, who plays an understanding and supportive character. Certainly a bold subject to make a movie on but would have been effective if the script was more intense.
De Dhakka, Marathi Comedy Movie.
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Rating: na
Presenter: Zee Talkies Producer: Satya Films Director: Sudesh Manjrekar, Atul Kale Story: Mahesh Manjrekar Camera: Shailesh Awasti Music: Ajit-Atul-Sameer Cast: Shivaji Satam, Makrand Anaspure, Siddarth Jadhav, Medha, Saksham Kulkarni and Gauri Vaidya Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke |
Riding high on the success of ‘Saade Maade Teen’, Zee Talkies team is back with their latest movie ‘De Dhakka’. While ‘Saade Maade Teen’ was inspired from classic ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gadi’, ‘De Dhakka’ finds it inspiration from 2006 Oscar contender ‘Little Miss Sunshine’…
While there may be raised eyebrows over the trend of inspired movies, let us stay away from that point. What matters is whether the movie entertains or not? and ‘De Dhakka’ turns out to be a good entertainer. Credit must be given to the Zee Talkies team for successfully ‘Indianising’ the story (those of who have seen the original must know how different it was from typical hollywood movies)
This is the story of Jadhav family. A family with lots of troubles. Subhanrav(Shivaji Satam), his son Makarand (Makrand Anaspure), Makrand’s wife Sumi (Medha), Makarand’s children (Saksham Kulkarni) and Sayali (Gauri Vaidya) and Sumi’s brother Dhanaji (Siddharth Jadhav).
The movie begins with a brief introduction of all the family members and the audience gets to know the characters and their ambitions. Makrand is a motor mechanic who has spent all his money to fund his work which, he hopes, will make him millionaire. Subhanrav is sore with Makrand for this reason and Makrand hates subhanrav for drinking too much. Things don’t go well between two of them. While Makrand’s son aspires to be a wrestler. His daughter dreams of being a dancer. Dhanaji (Makarand’s brother in law), suffers from kleptomania. And Sumi, Makrand’s wife tries hard to keep the family happy.
Things change when sayali is selected for a dance competition and the whole family sets on a journey to Mumbai…on a autorikshaw. The Jadhav family is faced with many problems during the journey and how do they overcome them and also rediscover the family ties during the journey forms the rest of the story.
First half is very engaging, all the main characters are introduced and established. Then the movie moves ahead and audience gets to know of all the problems that the Jadhav family is facing, this part has been effectively handled with the help of some comic moments. The directors have done good job of maintaining the fine balance between comedy and emotional scenes. But the second half seems to drag at someplaces. The final dance competition is ok. Makrand’s speech towards the end seems to deviate from the main theme but nonetheless it should go well with the audience as it directly appeals to your heart.
The movie has a good storyline (Well, the credit goes to the original ) but the screenplay fails to take the full advantage of the story. The way police officer is portrayed is childish. Even Dhanaji’s multiple personality disorder doesn’t fit in properly. The confrontations between Makrand and Subhanrav seem repeating in the second half. And try as hard as you can, it’s bit hard to imagine audience booing away a lavani performance in dance competition at mumbai. The writers and director should have worked on these loose ends.
The performances are good. Shivaji Satam’s acting seems monotonous though. Makrand’s character has many shades, a loving and caring father, an angry son, a troubled husband and he shows all the emotions with ease. Siddharth Jadhav gives an energetic performance once again. Not a single moment is dull when he is on screen. Ajit-Atul & Sameer’s music is as usual catchy. The background music seems loud at some places. The title track ‘De Dhakka’ is excellent and it goes perfectly well with the story.
On the whole, ‘De Dhakka’ is a good one time watch.
After making its presence felt all over the world, The ‘Tingya’ finally arrives in Maharashtra.
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Rating: na
Company: A Small Town Boy Production Producer: Anita Rai, Anand Rai, Ravi Rai Story, Screenplay and Dialogues & Direction: Mangesh Hadawale Lyrics: Prakash Holkar Director of photography: Dharam Gulati Cast: Sharad Goekar, Tarnnum Pathan, Ajit Gawande, Inesh chauhan, Sunil Deo, Madhavi Juvekar, Chitra Nawathe, Vitthal Umap, Kamlesh Sawant, Mansi Lonkar Movie Review by: Pradip Patil |
Tingya’ pays tribute to the farmers and also highlights the hardships faced by the farmers. Having this much information about the film I had certain notions but the movie proved me totally wrong.
Welcome to the world of ‘Tingya’, where he lives in a small village in Maharashtra. Tingya’s father a farmer owns a pair of bulls, Chitangya and Patangya. ‘Tingya’ shares a great relationship with Chitangya. Chitangya is an inseperable part of Tingya’s life. But one day Chitangya is injured and is unable to work on the farm. Tingya’s father, who is already burdened with debt, is left with no option but to sell the ailing bull to a butcher and buy a new one. The rest of the story consists of how’Tingya’ tries to save Chitangya from being sold to the butcher.
What stands out is the ease with which Tingya’s innocence is portrayed on screen. ‘Tingya’ is based on a solid story. It takes you on emotional lows and highs. What I liked the most about the movie is that it never tries to burden us with the despair; instead it tries to find the small moments of happiness that make the life beautiful. This is the movie that is full of hope.
The script is another strong point of ‘Tingya’. The relation ‘Tingya’ shares with Chitangya is made very clear with few scenes and then the story proceeds to hilight the dilemma faced by Tingya’s family. The parallel track of Tingya’s friend rashida and her family is also well knit with the central theme.
There are many memorable scenes like the scene where Tingya goes to town in search of a doctor or the scene where he gets drunk and talks to his friend Rashida about her grandmother’s death to save Chitangya are brilliant. Another scene that made me emotional was the scene where ‘Tingya’ is waiting for his father who has gone to bring a tractor so that his bulls can rest. This short scene brings out both the hope and despair with equal effectiveness.
The movie sticks to rural language and it adds to the authentic rural feel. The movie uses background music sparingly but to the full advantage. There are few scenes that could have been easily edited without altering the impact.
Sharad Goekar who plays the character of ‘Tingya’ has given such a confident and natural performance that it is hard to believe that he is facing the camera for the first time. Madhavi Juvekar gives a fine performance in a role of a mother who is caught between her son’s happiness and her husband’s decision.
The movie ends with a positive note. And a positive note is what ‘Tingya’ brings to the Marathi movie industry.
‘MANN PAKHARU PAKHARU’ REVIEW
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Rating: ★★★
Company: Kloud9 Tv & Entertainments Producers: Ali Asgar, Probal Raha, Ashish Malshet Director: Ankush Bhatt Music: Jitendra Kulkarni Lyricst: Praven Damne Cameraman: Mangesh Sawant Art: Ramakant Cast: Sachin, Girija Oak, Subodh Bhave, Mohan Joshi, Prashant Damle, Jr. Mehmood… Movie Review by: Saurabh Karnik |
We have seen many great movies based upon medical profession like ‘Anand’, ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ or even ‘Shwaas’ in Marathi. Despite the same base, every movie carried different aspect of medical profession and human relations. ‘Man Pakharu Pakharu’ is belongs to the same tradition, which discovers a beautiful relation between a doctor and a patient while dealing with problems of people facing neurological disorder.
The story starts at hospital, where Dr. Neelay Raje (Subodh Bhave) joins as new doctor. He is a sensitive guy, unlike other doctors his emotions are not died yet. He wants to discover his own path and wants to treat patients from his heart instead of brain. He finds his inspiration from Dr. Pandit (Prashant Damle) in same hospital. While treating the patients facing neurological disorder, he interacted with a young patient- Sarang (Sachin Pilagavkar). Sarang is like an alive dead body. He has lost all his senses. Neelay finds out extraordinary willpower of Sarang and gives all the efforts to bring him back in this world. Further story develops through amazing relations, emotions and dialogs between Sarang and Neelay. Different aspects of relations of a doctor and a patient, a mother and a son, doctor and hospital owner or even between two patients have been covered brilliantly in the movie. The story provides quiet lot information about neurological disorder without breaking flow of story. Though it is a very static subject, Iravati Karnik- story and screen play writer has taken enough care to make it interesting. It is extremely good and successful attempt of Iravati- a new generation author to write such an informative but still entertaining story. All the time she had kept in mind that it’s a commercial movie, not a documentary and audiences admire her efforts a lot.
Movie has got really good star cast. ‘Subodh Bhave’, ‘Sachin Pilgavkar’, ‘Mohan Joshi’, ‘Prashant Damle’, ‘Ila Bhate’ and ‘Girija’. Names are enough to state the high class acting and it would be better experience to watch them on screen, instead of reading about their high-quality acting over here. Sachin has spent more than 4 decades in the industry but day by day his acting is getting more and more younger. He himself is a school of acting and we have seen many great renowned actors inspired by him.
All the feature of his role has been presented incredibly by Sachin. It is a challenge for any actor to perform a mentally handicapped patient, yet Sachin has presented it magnificently. He hardly cries in the movie, but his facial expressions, body language and dialog delivery literally make the audiences cry. A patient of neurological disorder, a young man, a good son and beyond all, an enthusiastic and kind hearted human being, all these aspect of Sarang’s character has charmingly shown by Sachin. He had actually got into the skins of Neelay. He had lived the character and I have no doubt in my mind that it is going to be milestone character in Marathi Film Industry. Subodh Bhave sounds good in role of Neelay. All the characteristics of Neelay like a shy doctor, emotional human being and helpless friend in the case of Sarang has played nicely by him. Prashant Damle, Ila Bhate and Mohan Joshi are as usual acted well. Girija hasn’t got much scope to show her skills.
Director Ankush Bhat had taken fine efforts to present such a beautiful story without losing depth of it. Thanks to Ankush, for not converting such a sensitive story into a mockery or ‘filmy.’ Music of Jitendra Kulkarni adds nice essence to the story. Especially, the symphony that he has used as theme music is really heart-touching.
Old is gold is true, but young talent is not at all less than good. When fresh talent like Iravati and experienced actor like Sachin works together, impact is much better than any other film. I think both of them have set an ideal example of a symphony of old and new. If others too follow them, audiences will definitely get the nice treat of gracious movies.
EK DAAV SANSARACHA REVIEW
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Rating: na
Presenter: Shri Sai Producer: Karuna Sanjay Director: Sudesh Manjrekar, Atul Kale Story: Mahesh Manjrekar Camera: Shailesh Awasti Music: Ajit-Atul-Sameer Cast: Shivaji Satam, Makrand Anaspure, Siddarth Jadhav, Medha, Saksham Kulkarni and Gauri Vaidya Movie Review by: Pradip Patil |
The lifestyle is changing and with these changes come the problems. Most of the people are caught up with such problems thesedays. How important is having a child for the happiness of a family? Is it the ultimate aim of marriage? What does the husband wife relationship needs to succeed? a good sexual life or a mature understanding?
Sanjay Surkar’s latest movie ‘Ek Daav Sansaracha’ tries to find these answers.
Ajit (Sandip Kulkarni) and Mukta (Sarika Nilatkar) work for a orphanage. Both fall in love and get married. Trouble begins when Ajit’s ex wife meets Mukta. It is revealed that the reason Sandip and his ex wife separated is Sandip’s inabilty to conceive a child. How the misunderstandig is cleared forms the rest of the movie.
The movie works at places beacause of screenplay and dialogues. The biggest drawback is the weak story. The story has many loose ends. The movie tried to suggest that it is more important for a couple to understand each other rather than having a child. But the message seems to be lost.
Sandip Kulkarni plays the short tempered but honest guy with ease. Sarika Nilatkar and Asavari Joshi are equally competent. Makrand Anaspure leaves a strong impression even in a small role.
Sadly, ‘Ek Daav Sansaracha’ has turned out to be an ordinary affair.
latest marathi film review: CHECKMATE
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Rating: na
Company: Nishad Audio Visuals Producer: Kanchan Satpute & Chandrashekhar Mahamuni Story, Screenplay, Cinematography & Direction: Sanjay Jadhav Dialogues: Vivek Apte Music: Sunil Kaushik Cast: Ankush Chaudhari, Swapnil Joshi, Sanjay Narvekar, Rahul Mehandale, Vinay Apte, Anand Abhyankar and Sonali khare Movie Review by: Saurabh Karnik |
Amazing cinematography. Awesome editing. Stunning special effects. Hey, I am not stating here specialties of Hollywood, nor I am talking about any latest Bollywood movie! These are major characteristics of our own Marathi movie ‘Checkmate’. Thanks to Sanjay Jadhav and his all team, who gifted such a beautiful movie to audiences.
It is a challenge for any writer to describe the story on paper. The story develops in front of audiences through various small pieces, which are the part of a puzzle. When all the pieces fix at appropriate position, puzzle gets solved and audiences understand complete story with a sudden shock. The story moves around three young guys who were cheated through fake financial scheme. Unfortunately all of them lost all their precious money that they had collected by cheated somebody. Now they come together and make a plan to recover their money.
So the story is all about implementation of the plan and troubles that had been faced while implementation. Everyone treat himself, as the master of the game and thus everyone became just a pawn for other character. But actual master of the game comes forward only at the end of the movie. Of course the remaining story has to be seen on screen itself and I promise all the readers that it is just a thrilling experience to watch it on a big screen. Sanjay Jadhav- one of the best cameraman in the industry has taken a huge risk in his directorial debut to come up with such kind of risky story. One small mistake in presentation could have been destroyed the whole film. But he trusted his own abilities and as a result Marathi Film Industry got such a wonderful movie.
Ankush Chaudhari, Swapnil Joshi, Sanjay Narvekar, Rahul Mehandale, Vinay Apte, Anand Abhyankar and Sonali khare are the main star-cast of the movie. None of them our new to us, and everybody has acted impressively. But Swpanil Joshi is the real surprising package for viewers. We have seen him in many hindi and Marathi serials, but none of those gave him a chance to show his real skills. This was his first opportunity had made no mistake. His ‘bolbacchangiri’, facial expressions and even dialog delivery is extremely good. Ankush, Vinay and Sanjay are as good as expected. Sonali doesn’t have much scope in the film.
As I stated earlier, technical side is the real strength of the movie. Sanjay Jadhav himself handled camera, cinematography, and direction and he did every job perfectly. Sunil Kaushik’s background music adds good essence in the story.
Marthi Film Industry had never faced shortage of good stories or actors. It was the technical part, where it was lacking. With this movie we can surely say that the industry has came over this aspect also. We can surely consider it as a new beginning and if others will also follow Sanjay, golden days of Marathi Film Industry are not long away.
AAR AAR AABA.. AATA TARI THAMBA Review
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Rating: na
Company: Sanwedana Films Foundation Producer: Reema Amarapurkar Director: Reema Amarapurkar Story, Screenplay: Balaji Waghmode Cinematography: Sanjay Memane Music: Avadhoot Gupte Cast: Sadshiv Amarapurkar, Milind Gawali, Teja Devkar, Surekha Kudachi, Nagesh Bhosale, Priya Berde, Satish Taare, Savita Malpekar, Ravindra Berde, Vikas Samudre, Raja Ambole Movie Review by: Pradip Patil |
Even after the 60 years of independence, the rural areas are still facing the age old problems. It is well known fact that the apathy on politicians’ side is the main culprit. The only thing that these politicians are interested is in power and their own well being.
What if the young guns come forward and take the things in their own hands? Will the situation change? Sanvendana Foundation’s latest movie “Aar Aar Aabaa.. Aataa Tari Thamba” tackles the same issue with a humorous touch.Aabaa (Sadashiv Amarapurkar) has been the sarapancha of a village for such a long time that he treats it as his own kingdom. So busy is he with his politics that he hardly finds any time to solve the problems faced by the villagers. When some young people return to their village after completing their education, things begin to change.
These people armed with knowledge question the aristocracy of Aabaa and challenge him in the upcoming election. How Aabaa tries to foil their attempt forms the rest of the story.
The film entertains at some places but its script is a letdown. The movie has many characters and these are introduced to us by the Narrator (Nilu Phule). The concept of narration seems interesting initially but later on it seems repetitive. The movie seems to deviate from its theme as no mention is made to the actions taken by youngsters to solve the problems.
Sadashiv Amarapurkar fits perfectly well in the role of Aabaa. satish Tare and Vikas Samudre provide some entertainment. Milind Gavali, Priya Berde, Ravindra Berde have done their parts well. Avdhut Gupte’s music really stands out. Special the sang “Ek chal bharal pakharu…”
The director Reema Amarapurkar’s (daughtr of Sadashiv Amarapurkar) first attempt is worth a mention. Best of luck for her next film. Hope will see some more good & meaningfull movies from her.
‘VALU’ REVIEW
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Rating: ★★★
Company: Mukta Art Pvt. Ltd Producers: Ganapat Kothari, Prashant Pethe, Girish Kulkarni, Umesh Kulkarni Director: Umesh Kulkarni Story: Girish Kulkarni, Umesh Kulkarni Cast: Atul kulkarni, Mohan Agashe, Bharathi Acharekar, Girish Kulkarni, Veena Jamkar, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Nirmitee Sawant, Nandu Madhav, Renuka Daftardar, Mangesh Satpute, Amruta Subhash, Satish Tare… Movie Review by: Saurabh Karnik |
If we observe the current trend of Marathi Movies, whole industry is jam-packed with comedy movies. Common audiences are getting bored with same and same kind of movies performed by repeated actors. On this background, ‘Valu- the wild bull’ cherishes audiences with genuine and true humor.
The whole story takes place at a small village called ‘Kusavde’. There is traditional bull- Durkya in this village which is devoted to god from his childhood by the villagers. The bull which was very popular among villagers during his childhood becomes free soul as he grows up. As we all know, society do not accept a kind of a free soul personality, they started to trouble Durkya. Many villagers blame Durkya for their own deeds. Slowly his image immerges as risky creature. As nobody in the village can control Durkya, villagers called forest officer to trap him. The further story develops through humorous incidences take place while capturing the ‘Durkya’, is the bottom-line of this movie.
The ‘Valu’ is used as a metaphor to show free soul of the society. All the villagers are symbol of a society that does not allow the person to live his life freely. Each character in the film represents different ‘classes’ of the society. All these metaphoric symbols have been successfully managed by the director without making the film complicated. In this movie, various cultural, social, political aspects have been covered very swiftly without disturbing flow of the story. The genuine satire or black comedy format gains success in attaching audiences with the movie.
The movie has gotten huge star-cast. Atul Kulakrni has implanted so much energy in the role of forest officers that viewers can’t restrict themselves from admiring him. Various aspects of this role have been shown very promptly by him.It is a pleasant experience to watch amazing
performance of well-known actors like ‘Dilip Prabhavalkar’, ‘Amruta Subhash’, ‘Mohan Agashe’, ‘Nirmiti Savant’ and many others. Especially Amruta has really lived the character.
Unlike many Marathi films, this movie has done well on technical part. After almost 3-4 years, director ‘Mangesh Kulkarni’ is entered very prominently in this field after his award winning short film- ‘Girni.’ He has taken care that satire or black comedy format of a movie will remain constant through out the movie. Symbolic representation of many characters and incidences enforces viewers to admire him. Mangesh Dhakde- music director of the movie has done great job. His entire background music creates extremely useful impact on audiences. Especially theme music of ‘Valu’ is simply outstanding! Make-up and cinematography is also done very well.
Though movie sounds like satire or comedy film, it has successfully presented suppression of a common man from ‘micro to macro’ level. But even who could not understand these behind the scene facts, can also enjoy the movie as a genuine comedy film. The thread which connects classes as well as masses with the movie is the biggest strength of this movie. This film has already been presented in various international film-festivals and we have no doubt, that it will achieve great success and popularity in near future.