Besides fighting for ‘Best Film award’ in Zee Gaurav Puraskar, scheduled for 20th March 2014, two popular films of recent past ‘Fandry’ and ‘Duniyadari’ will also be fighting together in the categories like best direction & best supporting actress category. While ‘Fandry’ received separate nominations in the best editing, best cinematography, best child actor, best supporting actor, besides the three nominations mentioned above, ‘Duniyadari’ has received nominations in 11 categories separately, other than the three mentioned above.

Surprisingly, ‘Time Pass’ which was hit film of the recent past, after ‘Duniyadari’ hasn’t received many nominations, compared to these two films, except for the three nominations received in Best Singer ( male), Best music and best dialogues. However, there are surprise inclusion of films like ‘Avtarachi Goshta’, ‘Rege’, and ‘Astu’ in the best film category, to compete with ‘Duniyadari’ and ‘Fandry’. Incidentally, ‘Rege’, ‘Astu’ and ‘Avatarachi Goshta’ have also found nominations in few other categories too.

In the Marathi drama section of professional group, ‘The Death of a Conqueror’ , ‘Mr.& Mrs.’, ‘Thodasa magic Thodasa Logic’, ‘Ekada Pahava Na Karun’, & ‘Get Well Soon’ will fight for best Professional Drama category; while ‘Tu aani Mee’, ‘Price Tag’, ‘Lejhim Khelnari Pora’, ‘Cross Road’, & ‘Eka Gurkhyache Mahakavya’, will fight in the best experimental play category.

This time in the Zee Gaurav Awards committee the Jury comprising of Kanchan Nayak, Writer Girish Joshi, and Amar Mohile looked after the film section, while Ravindra Divekar, Vijay kenkre and Pradeep Rane were in charge of the professional dramas and the team comprising of Dr. Bandivadekar, Sanjay Mone and Vivek Lagoo were the Jury for Experimental plays selection.