Opening ceremony of 5th Cinemax Marathi Film festival was held at Cinemax, Versova-Andheri, in the presence of dignitaries from Marathi film industry. The main attraction of this ceremony was the premiere of much awaited Marathi film ‘Pangira’, scripted by Sanjay Patil and directed by Rajev Patil. Almost all the members of ‘Pangira team were present and they were felicitated by Cinemax DGM- Girish Wankhede. Some other film makers like Anant Mahadevan, Mahesh Kothare, Kanchan Adhikari were also felicitated.

Mr. Mahesh Kothare appreciated the efforts taken by Cinemax to promote Marathi films, while Ms. Adhikari, welcomed such move by Cinemax to extend their festival to many more theatres in their chain this time. Mr. Girish Wankhede in his small speech made it very clear that Cinemax was always there to support Marathi films by making more and more theatres open and that too during prime time. “This year we were able to reach out to Nashik and Malegaon for the seven day festival and next year we will have a 14 day festival of Marathi films at 14 locations simultaneously, all over Maharashtra,” he said.

The artistes of ‘Pangira’ Pramod Pawar, Mita Savarkar, Smita Tambe, Chinmay Mandlekar, Shravani Pillay and others looked happy with the reaction of the viewers after the show. Mr. Rajeev Patil, the director was more than happy to notice the support of many Bollywood personalities like Mr. Vinod Pande, Mr. Dharmesh Tiwari and others appreciating his efforts to project reality through this film. Some of the films selected for screening during the one week festival at 7 Cinemax outlets in Maharashtra( like Versova, Sion, Wondermall( Thane), Kalyan, Nagpur,Nashik & Malegaon) were ‘Mee Sindhutai sapkal’, ‘Manya – the Wonder Boy’, ‘Lalbaug Parel’ ’Huppa huiya’, ‘Ideachi Kalpana’, ‘Paradh’ besides ‘Pangira’.