With ‘Bharatiya’ still holding the fort in 35 theatres in Mumbai during the second week; we did not notice release of any Marathi film during the week. But, on coming Friday, i.e. on 24th August 2012 will see release of three Marathi films together.

‘Aghor’ a sensational film made by Nagpur film makers, talks about corruption in medical field, especially taking place in so called Multi-specialty clinics. According to the makers, the film shows the good and bad side of the profession with two popular heroes from Marathi film industry- Santosh Juvekar and Aniket Vishwasrao heading the star cast in the company of Sai Tamhankar, Manasi Kulkarni, Tejasvi Patil, Kishori Shahane, Dr. Vilas Ujavane and others. The film is directed by Salim Shaikh a theatre personality from Nagpur.

Another film ‘Hridaynath’ is a film by Amar Gupte, revolves around a teacher from Konkan and is based on crisis with principles. Jackie Shroff, who made his debut in Marathi through Renuka Shahane’s film ‘Rita’ will be playing the lead role in this film along with other Bollyowood actor Aditya Panchol besides a team comprising of Chinmay Sumeet, Swarang Marathe and Ameya Husanwadkar. Highlight of this film is that Urmila Matondkar performs an item number for the first time in Marathi.

The third film ‘Yedpat Gaon’ is presented by Ajay R Singh and directed by debutant S. Vikram. This is comedy film, which presents the story of cursed village. Bajrang Badshah and Nisha Parulekar play main lead. Others in the cast comprise of Milind Gunaji, Mohan Agashe, Usha Nadkarni, Ashalata, Ujjwala Shinde, Twinkle, Deepa Tapekar, Deepak Shirke and Kishor Nandalaskar. Music of this film is by Milind Shinde.