Bollywood actress Hrishita Bhatt who played the lead opposite Abhishek Bachchan in ‘Shararat’ will now play a lead role in Gauri Saravate’s Marathi film ‘Mani Mangalsutra’. Hrishita was very much impressed when Gauri narrated the script to her and agreed to play the lead role. The film talks about the importance of mangalsutra and why […]
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Raj Thackeray takes up issue of Marathi films
For the past few years Marathi films have been getting step motherly treatment from Multiplex owners in Maharashtra, in spite of getting the tax exemptions from the state government. As per the existing agreement between Maharashtra Government and Multiplex owners, it is obligatory for Multiplexes to screen Marathi films but many Multiplexes are either avoiding […]
Read More‘Vihir’ wins award at Stuttgart Festival
Marathi film ‘Vihir’ has one more feather in its cap. It has won the ‘German Star of India’ award at the Stuttgart Film Festival. The movie was screened at this festival last week. It is a great honour to Marathi film industry for presenting a good cinema to international audience with a subject depicting the […]
Read MoreMohan Tondwalkar is no more
Mohan Tondwalkar who headed the most popular Marathi Drama company Kalavaibhav, passed away today after a brief illness. He was 77. Mr. Tondwalkar had produced 80 Marathi plays, including popular plays like ‘Purush’, ‘Gela Madhav Kunikade’, ‘Nati Goti’, ‘Vaadaa Chirebandi’, ‘Premasathi Vattel te’ and the latest- ‘Shambhuraje’. Having given scope to several top Marathi artistes […]
Read MoreMarathi Theatre Festival at NCPA
After almost about 10 years, National Centre For Performing arts (NCPA) have opened their doors to Marathi Theatre. From 7th August 2010 ‘Paratibimb Marathi Natya Utsav’ will begin here with mixture of contemporary Marathi Theatre, ranging from a Tale of sixteenth century saints to modern day relationships. One does not know the reasons for discontinuance […]
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