Marathi film ‘Dashakriya’ which won four awards at the 64th National Film awards, will be officially released in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and other places on 17th November 2017.  But, the good news for this film is that it has also been selected for screening at the International Film festival of India (IFFI) which is scheduled between November 20th to November 28th 2017 at Goa. ‘Dashakriya’ finds its entry among six Marathi films, which have been recommended by Maharashtra Government as official entries of Marathi films.

It may be recalled that director of this film Sandeep Bhalchandra Patil received recognition on his debut for presenting the subject which was new to films. No wonder the film won four national awards. The film is based on the original novel with the same name written by Baba Bhand, which has been given cinematic form by screenplay writer Sanjay Krishnaji Patil. Produced by Ms. Kalpana Vilas Kothari the film stars versatile artistes like Dilip Prabhavalkar, Manoj Joshi, Milind Shinde, Milind Phatak, Uma Sardeshmukh, Asha Shelar, Nandakishore Choughule, along with Arya Adhav, Vinayak Ghadigaonkar & Aditi Deshpande. Renowned cinematographer Mahesh Aney has captured the photography of this film.

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Gopal Algeri of ‘Suyog’ group is all set to present his brand new Marathi comedy play ‘Laginghaai’ on 5th April 2015. Written by Adwait Dadarkar , this is the second successful play by the writer-director for Suyog, after achieving success through ‘Goshta tashi Gamtichi’. But, this new play ‘Laginghaai’ has an interesting team of artistes, comprising of Aditi Deshpande, Omkar Raut, Niyati Ghate & King of Comedy Ashok Saraf.

Set on the backdrop of ‘marriage’ the play presents one such humour filled theme, where the widower father and his son are having affairs and are getting ready to marry; but are in an awkward position to share their marriage plans. Father is feeling odd, because he is marrying at old age , while son is trying to hide his affair, as he wants to marry a woman who is elder to him. This being a pure comedy, writer director Advait Dadarkar is confident about its success. The play has music by Abhijit Pendharkar, who makes his entry with Suyog group. Another highlight of this play is that Bollywood art director Shashank Tere has designed the sets of this play.

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The foundation of marriage has declined over the decades and today we find the problem of broken marriages is getting precedence.

Divorce rates have increased gradually and as a result of this the children from affluent families of separated parents have to undergo a lot of trauma. Debutant director Aditi Deshpande, handles these issues in her film ‘Mee Mann Ani Dhruv’ and succeeds in getting the message across the audience.

Debutant Mahendra Agashe(Ranjeet)- the writer of the film, who plays a principled journalist, is a complete family man, loves his wife Mann(Ketaki Thatte) and son Dhruv(Dhruv Pendse). Trouble starts in their happily married life, when the wife starts having career aspirations and with the influence of her corporate climber friend (Smita Tambe) takes up a job in far place-Bangalore, away from her husband and child.

The husband is broken hearted but concentrates on his passion of writing and turns a successful writer. His only friend philosopher and guide is a poet Nagrik(Satish Pulekar), whom Ketaki resents as good for nothing. But one particular situation changes her perspective. Does she return to her husband and son? Does she move ahead with her career plans? Will Dhruv’s father be a successful single parent?

Watch this simple and unassuming film to know the answers. There are good performances from debutant Mahendra Agashe and Ketaki Thatte (Galgale Nighale), which makes this film watch able, although you have seen such subjects in films made by Basu Bhattacharya and festival gems like Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Scenes From A Marriage’.

The supporting cast of Satish Pulekar, Smita Tambe and many first time actors support ably. The boy Dhruv Pendse is a complete natural. The dialogues by Amol Shetge are good but tend to be too philosophical at certain occasions.
Hrishikesh Kamerkar’s music is soothing albeit only two songs in the background.The cinematography by Chandrashekhar Ayyer is not very razzle dazzle but focuses on the actor’s expressions, rather than camera movements and the film has been shot guerilla style inside a bungalow, with not many outdoor locations.

The editing by Amit Pawar is engaging though the film is sluggish in pace and the audience might lose the patience to see a long drawn film. Overall, director Aditi succeeds in portraying today’s nuclear families, where a working woman can be ambitious and career minded and can even sacrifice her family to achieve her dreams.

Only a woman director could have handled this subject with rare sensitivity and Aditi does that.

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