Marathi film ‘Unaad’ selected for ZLIN Film Festival
Produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Ajit Arora, Chandresh J Bhanushali & Pritesh Thakkar , presented by Jio Studios and directed by Aditya Sarpotdar , the so called coming of age Marathi film ‘Unaad (उनाड)’ has been selected at the International Competition of Feature Films ,Youth Category at ZLIN Film Festival. This announcement has been made by director Aditya Sarpotdar on social media.
Based on the lives of three youths belonging to Koli community and their struggles in life, ‘Unaad’ stars Abhishek Bharate, Devika Daftardar, Ashutosh Gaikwad, Hemal Ingale, Avinash Khedekar, Pravin Prabhakar & Priyanka Tendolkar in lead roles. Written by Saurabh Bhave the screenplay of this film is written by Saurabh Bhave and Kalyani Pandit while dialogues are penned by Kalyani Pandit. Music by Gulraj Singh, cinematography by Lawrence D’cunha, Casting by Rohan Mapuskar, art by Mahesh Kudalkar , editing by Faisal Mahadik, Imran Mahadik and Bhavesh Todankar are the other credits of this film.
Trailer of Aditya Sarpotdar’s ‘Zombivli (झोंबिवली)’ released on social media
After directing successful Marathi films like ‘Uldhaal‘, ‘Satrani Re’, [movie review] ‘Narbachi Wadi’ [movie review] , ‘Classmates’ [movie review] & ‘Faster Fene’, [movie review] Aditya Sarpotdar has released the trailer of his new Marathi film ‘Zombivli (झोंबिवली)’ which will be a Horror Comedy. Aditya himself has unveiled the exciting trailer of this film on social media with an appeal to his well wishers to share the same among others.
In the trailer, we notice lead actor Amey Wagh and lead actress Vaidehi Parshurami facing the so called Zombies, while they are travelling in a car. They go to the police station and explain the Police officer about their description; but the Policeman is ready to believe him. The Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works in English films. So, in Marathi, this seems to be a new experiment tried by director Aditya Sarpotdar. Along with Amey Wagh and Vaidehi Parshurami the film also stars Lalit Prabhakar, Trupti Khankar and others.
The date of release of this film has been announced as 26th January 2022. So, let us wait and see how Amey Wagh and others succeed in countering these zombies in this film.
Amey, Vaidehi, Lalit starrer ‘Zombivli ‘ teaser launched
Aditya Sarpotdar, who directed films like ‘Uladhaal’, ‘Classmates’, ‘Faster Fene’ and ‘Mauli’ is ready with his next Marathi film ‘Zombivli ‘ starring Amey Wagh, Vaidehi Parshurami and Lalit Prabhakar in lead roles. Recently, the teaser of this film was launched, besides announcing the release date of this film in theatres, as 30th April 2021.
Due to lock down shootings of all the Marathi films had come to standstill. But, immediately after the unlock was declared, ‘Zombivali’ was the first Marathi film to begin shooting at places like Mumbai and Latur. Now, with completion of shooting, ‘Zombivali’ will be the first Marathi film to announce its release in theatres. The teaser of this film gives an idea that this film will be a combination of horror and comedy. The film is based on a Zombie who controls a popular part of Suburban Mumbai.
According to Aditya Sarpotdar, this will be the first big film in Marathi on Zombie, with a new subject. He has appealed to the Marathi film lovers to watch this film in theatres.
‘Zombivli’ directed by Aditya Sarpotdar launched with muhurat
At a time with certain restrictions on shootings of films, Marathi film industry seems to have taken up the challenge. Yoodle Films who are making a film ‘Zombivali’ presented by SaRe Ga Ma is being directed by Aditya Sarpotdar, who had earlier directed successful films like ‘Classmates’, ‘Mauli’ and ‘Faster Fene’. Recently, the muhurat of this film was performed with its first poster launch. ‘Zombivli’ which connects with Dombivali known for its Zombie connection, will be a Zom Com film.
So, the film promises Horror Comedy , which is new to Marathi cinema. Shooting of this film will soon begin at Latur and the film stars Youths like Amey Wagh, Lalit Prabhakar and Vaidehi Parshurami in lead roles. The film be targeted on youth viewers. With Lawrence D’Cunha as DOPthe music will be composed by AV Praful Chandra. Sainath Gunwad, Siddhesh Purkar, Mahesh Iyer, Yogesh Joshi have written the story of this film. The makers of this film plan to release this film next year i.e. 2021.
‘Mauli’ offers entertainment filled with lot of action
Action with entertainment has always been the formula of most of successful Bollywood film makers like Prakash Mehra, Manmohan Desai and Subhash Ghai between 70s and 90s. Thereafter the Bollywood saw a change with some new themes supported by technology. On the contrary our Marathi film industry saw the traditional comedy changing into good subject based sensible films. But, 4 years ago Riteish Deshmukh who made his debut in Marathi, brought the old Bollywood formula of action combined with lost and found drama into Marathi, through his film ‘Lai Bhari‘. And, it worked well, as the young audience in particular, liked his action filled fights of the hero with bad men and also his style of dialogue delivery.
Now, Riteish Deshmukh has attempted one more such formula film packed with action and entertainment in the form of ‘Mauli’. Since this is not a sequel of ‘Lai Bhari‘ you can call this ‘Mauli‘ a distant cousin of Mauli of ‘Lai Bhari‘. This new Mauli ( Riteish Deshmukh) also has his past filled with lot of emotion filled happenings during his childhood, shown in flashback with some scenes picturised on his mother in distress played by actress Girija Oak. That’s how we get introduced to film’s protagonist Mauli a Police Inspector with 6 years of service and having seen 3 transfers. After landing as in charge of a small village in Maharashtra, he comes across a toughest mafia of land, distillery and water tankers- Nana Londhe ( Jitendra Joshi) whose men beat him up during their first meeting. But, soon we find a lot of change within him, with the encouragement received from his lady love from the village Renuka ( Saiyami kher) and a tea vendor Siddharth Jadhav. Time comes when he takes on all those gang members of Nana one by one to establish himself as the new hero of the village.
This is a limited story, but director Aditya Sarpotdar known for his successful films like ‘Classmates‘ and ‘Faster Fene‘ has tried his best to present a formula based action film well suited to his hero Riteish who has tried to offer some variety through his performance . ‘Mauli‘ is totally male dominated film with more fight scenes filled with violence, leaving less time for director Aditya Sarpotdar. Same is the case with lead actress Saiyami Kher, finds limited scenes to display her acting skills. She is however given some importance in the climax. She seems to be a perfect choice for that role. Siddharth Jadhav also finds restricted scenes though he tries to bring in some humour into this film. Among the character artistes Shrikant Yadav, Usha Naik & Girija Oak find some scope to display their skills. Genelia D’souza makes guest appearance in a ‘Holi‘ song as expected, but this time Riteish has not invited any Bollywood stars in guest appearance.
Technically it is a well made film, with good cinematography by Amalendu Choudhary . Drone cameras have been used very well to capture aerial photography. Special effects are almost on par with any big budget Bollywood film. Ajay Atul’s music is good but not as impressive as his previous hit films. Repeated slow motion scenes, predictable happenings (except for one twist before interval), are the few drawbacks of this film. If you keep your logical thinking aside, especially while watching those fight scenes, ‘Mauli‘ offers entertainment filled with lot of action for 2 hours 16 mins.
Mauli (माऊली)
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Release Year: 2018 (14 December)
- Genres: Drama
- Rating: ★★★
- Censor: UA
- Duration: 136 min.
- Studio/presenter: JIO Studios
- Producer(s): Genelia Deshmukh
- Executive Producer: Sanjay Mehta
- Director: Aditya Sarpotdar
- Writer: Kshitij Patwardhan
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Cast & Crew
- Producer(s): Genelia Deshmukh
- Production:A Mumbai Film Company, Hindustan Talkies
- Executive Producer: Sanjay Mehta
- Co-producer: Pankaj Razdan, Ashish Chowdhry, Deepa Pardasany, Ravi Walia
- Director: Aditya Sarpotdar
- Assistant Director: na
- Writer: Kshitij Patwardhan
- ScreenPlay: na
- Dialogues: na
- Lyrics: Guru Thakur, Ajay Gogavale
- Music: Ajay-Atul
- Playback Singer: na
- Cinematographer (DOP): Amalendu Chaudhary
- Editor: Sanjay Sankla
- Starcast: Riteish Deshmukh, Saiyami Kher, Siddharth Jadhav, Jitendra Joshi
- Art Director: na
- Costumes: Karishma Gulati, Sachin Lovalekar
- Makeup: na
- Sound : Arun Nambiar
- Background Score: Troy – Arif
- Choreographer: Bosco -Caesar, Ranju Varghese
- DI, VFX: Prime Focus Ltd
- D.I. Colourist: na
- Promos: na
- Music Label: na
- Publicity Designs: Marching Ants
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‘Dance Maharashtra Dance’ starts from tomorrow at 9:30 on Zee Yuva
Dance reality shows have always received good response from home viewers . In the past ‘Dance India Dance’ popularly known as DMD had a big success, with involvement of big names. Now, Zee Yuva, will be presenting ‘Dance Maharashtra Dance‘ reality show in a big way from 24th January 2018. This programme will be telecast on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays @ 9.30 pm.
The makers of ‘Dance Maharashtra Dance‘ programme had to first shortlist 90 dancers from 5,500 participants who gave their auditions in different parts of Maharashtra like Thane, Nashik, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, besides Mumbai. And, it was a tough task for the judges to select 18 finalists for this show.
So, it will be interesting to see the talent among these best 18, to watch the ultimate winner. Big names like film maker Aditya Sarpotdar, Choreographer Phulwa Khamkar, actor Siddharth Jadhav and anchor Suvrat Joshi are associated with this show, to judge the performance of these finalists.
‘Faster Fene’ takes you on a fast track
Movie: Faster Fene
Rating: ★★★1/2 Genres: Drama Censor: UA Duration: 130 min. Studio / Presenter: Mumbai film Company, Zee Studios Producer(s): Genelia Deshmukh, Mangesh Kulkarni Director: Aditya Sarpotdar Cast: Amey Wagh, Parna Pethe, Girish Kulkarni, Dilip Prabhavalkar Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke |
Detective stories are not new to Hindi Films or television. Even in Marathi few years ago, we saw a film like ‘Pune 52‘, which was based on a detective. Latest released Marathi film ‘Faster Fene‘ inspired by Late B.R.Bhagwat’s short stories and developed by Kshitij Patwardhan and directed by Aditya Sarpotdar is a detective story with a difference. It literally takes the audience on a fast track, while uncovering a biggest education scam.
In this film Banesh Fene( Amey Wagh) a youngster who comes to Pune to appear for Medical Entrance Exam, takes halt at Old Writer Bhagwat ‘s ( Dilip Prabhavalkar) house known to his family and is required to extend his stay there to detect a biggest education scam. Actually, at the exam centre Fene comes across another student Dhanesh Lanjekar , who seems to be all prepared for the exams. But, next day, when Fene is about to leave for his home town, he reads a newspaper story about the sad news of Dhanesh committing suicide. Out of curiosity, he decides to stay back and with his hobby of detecting the strange happenings, starts investigating the cause of Dhanesh’s death.
In his endeavor he finds support from his childhood friend turned trainee journalist Aboli( Parna Pethe), an auto rickshaw driver Ambadas ( Siddharth Jadhav ) and a street child Bhu Bhu ( Shubham More )who is offered shelter by Mr. Bhagwat. There are many interesting happenings in this film, while Fene encounters the most dangerous middle man involved in the biggest education scam Appa ( Girish Kulkarni ) . Screenplay and dialogue writer Kshitij Patweardhan and director Aditya Sarpotdar have very cleverly succeeded in uncovering the scam with the help of their main character of Fene. What is more appreciating is the subject dealt in this film, which is very timely.
There is no doubt that Amey Wagh who has all round experience of stage, television and films has given his best in the lead role, but Girish Kulkarni as a villain in this film is highly impressive. But, his role has been extended more than required in the second half of the film, especially in the scene while travelling in a PMT bus. Good support comes from artistes Dilip Prabhavalkar, Siddharth Jadhav, Parna Pethe, Shubham More, Shrikant Yadav and others. This film does not have a single song, but the background music by Troy Arif is remarkable and so is the sound design by Pramod Chandorkar and Pranay Pansare. Art Director Nikhil Kovale and photographer Milind Jog have also helped to make this film more presentable. Certainly a worth watch film. Don’t miss it.
Faster Fene ( फास्टर फेणे )
Genres: Drama
Rating: ★★★1/2
Censor: U/A
Duration: 130 min.
Studio/presenter: Mumbai film Company, Zee Studios & Ritesh Vilasrao Deshmukh
Producer(s): Genelia Deshmukh, Mangesh Kulkarni
Executive Producer: Rajkumar Tiwari, Sanjay Mehta
Director: Aditya Sarpotdar
ScreenPlay: Kshitij Patwardhan
Dialogues: Kshitij Patwardhan
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Executive Producer: Rajkumar Tiwari, Sanjay Mehta
Director: Aditya Sarpotdar
Assistant Director: na
Writer: Kshitij Patwardhan
ScreenPlay: Kshitij Patwardhan
Dialogues: Kshitij Patwardhan
Lyrics: na
Music: na
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Cinematographer (DOP): Milind Jog
Editor: Faisal Mahadik, Imran Mahadik
Starcast: Amey Wagh, Parna Pethe, Girish Kulkarni, Dilip Prabhavalkar
Costumes: Kalyani Kulkarni Gugle
Makeup: Saurabh Kapde, Girish Shinde, Sonali Phuge
Sound : Pramod Chandorkar, Pranam Pansare
Background Score: Troy Arif
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DI, VFX: Prime Focus Ltd
D.I. Colourist: Xavier Joseph
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Aditya Sarpotdar, Director
Biography / Profile:
Aditya Sarpotdar is a young filmmaker, who is trying to bring that quality change into Marathi films; with improvisation on technical aspects to make it look like any standard Bollywood film. His latest film ‘Satrangi Re‘ and ‘Classmates‘ are the best examples of his work.
Filmography:
- Movie(s)
- Mauli (2018)
- Faster Fene (2017)
- Classmates (2015)
- Narbachi Wadi (2013)
- Satrangi Re (2012)
- Uladhaal (2008)
- Thodi Thodi Si Manmaaniyan (Hindi 2017)
- The Sholay Girl (Hindi 2019)
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