Kumar Sohoni’s new play ‘Friend Request’ creates a Buzz….
‘Friend Request’ is a commonly used expression on social media. It is a new way of making friendship with even those who are strangers to you. Sometimes, this way may help you or also land you in trouble. Perhaps looking at the experiences of so many people, a new Marathi play with the title ‘Friend Request’ will be presented soon.
Written by Prasad Dani and directed by Kumar Sohoni, this play stars Ashish Pawar, Priyanka Tendolkar, Atul Mahajan and Ajay Purkar in lead roles. This suspense filled play filled with emotions and comedy, shows how the life of four people changes with one Friend request. The inaugural show of this play will be held in Pune at Tilak Smarak Mandir on 25th January followed by another show next day at Balgandharva Rangmandir on 26th January. The first show in Mumbai will be on 1st February at 3.30 pm in Shivaji Mandir theatre.
‘Pavankhind’ is a tribute to the great warrior Baji Prabhu Deshpande
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Every Sardar and every soldier of the Maratha army played an important role in strengthening the power of the Great warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Film maker Digpal Lanjekar who offered us two films namely ‘Farzand’ and ‘Fatteshikast’ were based on the bravery acts of such Sardars and soldiers. The latest film of writer- director Digpal Lanjekar offers the episode of aggressive battle of Pavankhind fought between Maratha Sardar Baji Prabhu Deshpande along with Bandal Army comprising of only 600 soldiers with the mighty 10,000 + army of Adilshah Sultanate led by Siddi Masud.
It was a well planned battle to mislead the enemy and enable Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to reach Vishalgad through safe route. The film highlights the sacrifice of Baji Prabhu Deshpande and the Bandal army, while fighting the enemy in this region. So, the film is a tribute to Baji Prabhu Deshpande and all those soldiers from his army who were severely injured and laid down their lives for the safety of their beloved King.
The film has therefore given enough scope to Ajay Purkar, who has played the important role of Baji Prabhu Deshpande. He seems to be the favourite of the director, as in his earlier films he had played equally important characters of Tanaji Malusare and Motyaji Khalekar. Another artiste who invites all the attention is Harish Dudhade in the role of Bahirji Naik. At present, he is most popular actor on Marathi television. It may be recalled that Harish had played the character of Bahirji Naik very efficiently in Digpal’s previous film ‘Fatteshikast’.
Among others, Chinmay Mandlekar as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Mrinal Kulkarni as Rajmata Jijau, Ankit Mohan with his strong physique as Rayaji Bandal and Kshiti Jog as Badi Begum make their presence felt in this multi starrer film, which concludes with the great battle in Maratha history , in which both the sides suffered heavy casualties. And therefore, we notice a lot of bloodshed while watching these action scenes. At the same time, there are many emotion filled scenes reminding about the love and respect every soldier from Maratha army had for their brave King. This film is now available for viewing on Amazon Prime.
Marathi artistes are making good progress in Hindi web series
During this lock down period, when the release of films, shows of Dramas and shootings of films and TV serials have come to a halt, many home viewers have switched over to web series. And when we go through some of the Hindi web series released on different web channels in the recent past, we find many Marathi artistes in prominent roles.
In the newly released web series ‘Hundred’ on Hotstar Specials , Rinku Rajguru finds a parallel role along with Lara Dutta and the trailer of this series clearly indicates that she has a lead role. There are other two Marathi Actor Hrishikesh Joshi and Rohini Hattangadi who have also found prominent roles. Incidentally, Hrishikesh Joshi was also seen in a prominent role of a police Inspector in another popular web series ‘Breathe’ shown on Amazon Original video.
MX player which presents a web series ‘Ek Thi Begum’ in Hindi as well as Marathi Actress Anuja Sathe in title role, with Santosh Juvekar and others . But, the language of this serial is very rough. On the same channel there is another Hindi and Marathi serial ‘Samantar’ starring Swwapnil Joshi and Nitish Bharadwaj. There is another web channel Voot , which offers an interesting Hindi web series ‘The Raikar Case’ a murder mystery directed by Aditya Sarpotdar , which also stars Atul Kulkarni , Ashwini Bhave, Manva Naik , Lalit Prabhakar, Ajay Purkar and Vaishnavi Kadam in prominent roles along with well known Hindi artistes. But, this serial too has used a rough abusive languages uttered by politicians and members of so called affluent family.
Fatteshikast (फत्तेशिकस्त)
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Release Year: 2019 (15 November)
- Genres: Historical, Drama
- Rating: ★★★★
- Censor: UA
- Duration: 130 min
- Studio/presenter: Almonds Creations, A A Films
- Producer(s): Ajay Arekar
- Executive Producer: Utkarsha Jadhav
- Director: Digpal Lanjekar
- Writer: Digpal Lanjekar
- ScreenPlay: NA
- Dialogues: NA
- Official Facebook Page I Twitter
Cast & Crew
- Producer(s): Ni
- Executive Producer: Utkarsha Jadhav
Production Design: Pratik reddy, Sanjay karole - Co-producer: NA
- Director: Digpal Lanjekar
- Assistant Director: NA
- Writer: Digpal Lanjekar
- Screen Play: NA
- Dialogues: NA
- Lyrics: Sant-shresht Tukaram Maharaj, V S Khandekar, Digpal Lanjekar
- Music: Devdutta Manisha Baji
- Playback Singer: Avadhoot Gandhi, Adarsh Shinde, Bela Shende
- Cinematographer (DOP): Reshmi Sarkar
- Editor: Pramod Kahar
- Star cast: Chinmay Mandlekar, Mrinal Kulkarni, Anup Soni, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Ankit Mohan, Nikhil Raut, Ajay Purkar, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Harish Dudhade, Prasad Limaye, Vikram Gaikwad, Aastad Kale, Ruchi Mohan, Siddheshwar Zadbuke, Rishi Saxena
- Art Director: NA
- Costumes: Purnima Oak
- Casting Director: NA
- Makeup: Sanika Gadgil
- Sound : Himanshu Ambekar, Nikhil Lanjekar
- Background Score: Devdutta Manisha Baji
- Choreographer: Subhash Nakashe
- VFX Studi Illusion Ethereal Studios
- D.I. Colourist: Prakash Joseph
- Action Scenes: Babbu Khanna
- Post Production: Pixel D Studio
- Promos: Just Right Studios
- Marketing Director: Sunny Bakshi
- Music Label: Zee Music
- Digital: Visual Junkies
- Publicity Designs: Brijesh Dedhia
- Title Animation: Akshay Khedekar, Khushbu Khedekar
- Publicity Photo shoot: Tejas Nerurkar
- P.R.O.: Ganesh Gargote
- Distributor : AA Films
Synopsis :
‘Fatteshikast’ : Is the first surgical attack by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. This film shows the most important episode in Shivaji Maharaj’s life, covering his brave attack on ShaisteKhan, the general in Mughal army, who had captured his Lal Mahal in Pune.
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Fatteshikast Movie Poster
Operation Jatayu ( ऑपरेशन जटायू )
- Genres: Action, Drama
- Rating: na
- Opening Date: 2018 (25 December)
- Production House: Anamika, Ambika
- Producer(s): Dinesh Pednekar, Sujata Marathe
- Presenter: Saisakshi
- Writer: Digpal Lanjekar, Nitin Wagh
- Director: Digpal Lanjekar
- Official Facebook Page I Twitter
Credit List
- Producer(s): Dinesh Pednekar, Sujata Marathe
- Co-producer(s): na
- Director: Digpal Lanjekar
- Writer: Digpal Lanjekar, Nitin Wagh
- Dialogues: na
- Artist: Ajay Purkar, Raju Bavdekar, Sunil Jadhav, Shrikant Bhide, Kiran Shewale, Sanjay Mahadik, Amit Jambhekar, Sanket Oak, Pradeep Ghule, Laxmikant Sanzgiri, Jaydeep Thackeray, Sudhir Rokade
- Set Design: Sandesh Bendre
- Lights: Tejas Devdhar
- Costume: Poornima Oak
- Background Music: Devdatta Baaji
- Makeup: na
- Costume Designer: Poornima Oak
- Hair Style: na
- Art: na
- Lyrics: na
- Music: Devdatta Baaji
- Playback singers: na
- Choreographer : na
- Publicity Designs: na
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Ajay Purkar
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Born : 17 September
Occupation : Actor
Ajay Purkar is known to TV home viewers as a character actor. Ajay Purkar started his film career from film ‘Kadachit‘ then after ‘Balgandharv‘. Ajay Purkar who was seen in the lead role in Mukta Barve’s previous play ‘Code Mantra‘. In this play Ajay played lead character of Prataprao Nimbalkar a responsible powerful army officer of Indian army. His other films are ‘Ugly‘, ‘Sangharsh‘,’Farzand‘, etc.
Filmography:
- Movie(s)
- Farzand (2018)
- Sangharsh (2014)
- Premachi Goshta (2013)
- Ugly (2013)
- Balgandharva (2011)
- Kadachit (2007)
- Serial(s)
- Sakhya Re (Colors Marathi)
- Play(s)
- Dhai Akshar Prem Ke (ढाई अक्षर प्रेम के)
- Code Mantra ( कोड मंत्र )
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Mukta Barve returns to Marathi drama with ‘Dhai Akshar Prem Ke’
After offering Marathi dramas with unique names like ‘Chhapa Kataa‘,’Rang Nava‘, ‘Love Birds‘ and ‘Code Mantra‘, renowned actress turned drama producer Mukta Barve has returned with her new Marathi play ‘Dhai Akshar Prem Ke‘. The inaugural show of this play was staged on 23rd December 2017. Produced by Mukta Barve along with Sujata Marathe, muhurat with announcement of this play was made on 9th November 2017 stating that it was based on the novel ‘Tu Bhramat Aahasi Vaya‘ penned by V.P. Kale.
It may be recalled that Sujata marathe is also an actress, having performed with Mukta Barve, in her two previous plays ‘Deepstambh‘ and ‘Code Mantra‘. Through this play, she is making her debut as a producer. Digpal Lanjekar has converted the original novel into drama script besides directing this play. Ajay Purkar who was seen in the lead role in Mukta’s previous play ‘Code Mantra‘ will once again play lead role in ‘Dhai Akshar Prem Ke‘, while actress Kiran Khoje, who performed a small but important role in TV serial ‘Rudram‘ along with Mukta Barve , will play lead opposite Ajay Purkar. This play also stars Sachin Deshpande, Atul Mahajan, Tejas Kulkarni, Nitish Ghare and Ashwini Kulkarni.
Dhai Akshar Prem Ke ( ढाई अक्षर प्रेम के )
Rating: na
Opening Date: 2017 ( 23 December )
Production House: Ambika and Rasika Production
Producer(s): Dinu Pednekar
Presenter: Mukta Barve
Writer: Va. Pu. Kale, Digpal Lanjekar
Director: Digpal Lanjekar
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Credit List
Executive Producer(s): na
Co-producer: Sujata Marathe
Director: Digpal Lanjekar
Assistant Director: na
Writer: Va. Pu. Kale, Digpal Lanjekar
Dialogues: na
Artist: Ajay Purkar, Kiran Khoje, Sachin Deshpande, Atul Mahajan, Tejas Kulkarni, Nitish Ghare, Ashwini Kulkarni
Set Design: Sandesh Bendre
Lights: Rahul Joglekar
Costume: Purnima Oak
Background Music: Nupura Nifadkar
Makeup: na
Costume Designer: na
Hair Style: na
Art: na
Lyrics: na
Music: na
Playback singers: na
Choreographer : na
Publicity Designs: na
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‘Dhai Akshar Prem Ke': na
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Gripping ‘Code Mantra’ draws a full house on 1st day of New year
Mukta Barve‘s gripping Marathi play ‘Code Mantra‘ has already played 100 shows in just six month’s time, ever since it was launched in June 2016. Incidentally, besides playing the lead role of a military law expert, Mukta Barve is also producer of ‘Code Mantra’, along with other co producers. This play being very close to her heart, you find the finest presentation on Marathi stage, with wonderful performances coming from her and her co stars like Ajay Purkar, Umesh Jagtap, Kaustubh Diwan and many others totaling about 40. The play has special significance, as it is set on the backdrop of an unusual happening in Maratha regiment of Indian Army.
On the first day of this new year, this play was performed at Borivali’s Prabodhankar Thackeray Auditorium and drew a full house, which obviously boosted the morale of the entire team of ‘Code Mantra’. We are all aware about the acting skills of talented Mukta Barve ; but it was nice to see the best from another talented actor Ajay Purkar, whom TV home viewers only recognize as a character actor. Through this play, Ajay plays the lead character of Col. Prataprao Nimbalkar a responsible and powerful Army Officer of Indian Army. Obviously, when both these important characters come face to face on the stage, we find the exchange of fire through words, which have been cleverly captured by the director Rajesh Joshi a well Known director of Gujarathi plays and TV serials and making his debut in Marathi through this play.
‘Code Mantra‘, which has a good subject, has been cleverly presented by the director, to hold the audience to their seats. Through this play, the audience come to know about different ranks of Indian Army and their functions. But, what captures the audience is the presentation of the script. The post interval session is more gripping and filled with suspense, as we notice many interesting happenings. All in all, the cast and technical support team display an excellent team work. Besides wonderful performances by all the artistes, the superb background music, excellent lighting and above all, the captivating realistic set design make ‘Code Mantra’ a worth watch. Don’t miss it.
Rating: ★★★★