In the recently held Popular awards of Marathimovieworld.com forthcoming Marathi film ‘Shala’ bagged the special award for much awaited film of 2012. On the very next day there was a pres conference held by Mahesh Manjrekar’s The Great Maratha Entertainment, who are presenting this film. Film maker Sujay Dahake, who has worked very hard in making this film on teenage school life and their first attraction towards opposite sex. Based on the popular novel ‘Shala’ written by Milind Bokil, the director has tried to present the parent-child, Teacher-student and Parent-teacher relationship in an effective manner, as seen in the promos shown on the occasion of screening the first look of this film.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Sanjay Dahake suggested that his film was on the backdrop of Emergency period of 1975-76 and has tried to show, how the developments affected the people in small towns of Maharashtra. The film has been shot at Vaai, off Pune-Satara road and Panhala. Mr. Mahesh Manjrekar who also spoke on the occasion felt that the story of the film was appealing. “All of us have gone through this stage of teenage and are carrying fond memories of that time with us,” he added. While answering to a question , as to why there were two-three Marathi films released on the same day and sometimes there are none; he was very critical about the rising number of marathi films without any content.

“For this film, we have a very different kind of campaign and instead of showing the usual song and dance sequence in the short promo, we have decided to present the views expressed by different people about this film,” he added. Mr. Sujay Dahake was very happy that his film had won the award for much awaited film and thanked the viewers of marathimovieworld.com. He said that since he had opened a page of ‘Shala’ on facebook, it could create awareness among net savvy people. Sanjay has engaged foreigners like Diego Romery and Christopher Harvey to handle the photography and sound recording.

‘Shala’ which stars Dilip Prabhavalkar, Nandu Madhav, Devika Daftardar, Jitendra Joshi, Santosh Juvekar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Anand Ingale, Ganesh Mayekar, Shshank Shende, Snehal Ghayaal, Anshuman Joshi & Ketaki Mategaonkar is all set to release on 20th January 2012.