Marathi actress Anuja Sathe steals the show in Hindi Web Series
Last week we had written about a big group of Marathi artistes inviting all the attention in a mega Hindi serial. Now, we have taken notice of one more Marathi actress who had made it big in Hindi Web series. Actually, Hindi web series have given ample scope to many talented Marathi artistes, but to bag a lead and title role is something creditable.
Prominent among the Marathi artistes bagging title role in Hindi web series is Anuja Sathe Gokhale. Anuja plays title role in ‘Ek Thi Begam’. She was already there in Season 1 of this web series, but now, in Season 2 she has much wider scope, playing an angry young woman who is in search of the Don responsible for her husband’s murder. In Season 2 you will see her handling a gun, for which she has taken proper training to present her character more realistically.
This is not the first time, Actress Anuja Sathe has been offered the lead role. Earlier she played the lead character of Dhara Solanki the main protagonist in Hindi serial ‘Tamanna’ , besides playing prominent role of Radhabai in ‘Peshwa bajirao’ serial and ‘Khoob Ladi Mardaani – Jhansi Ki Rani’, where she played a negative role of Jankibai. Incidentally, Anuja also played important characters in popular Hindi films like ‘Bajirao Mastani’, ‘Blackmail’ & ‘Parmanu – the story of Pokhran’. Anuja is married to popular Marathi actor Saurabh Gokhale
Marathi artistes offer a video on the occasion of State’s Diamond Jubilee Year
Due to the spread of coronavirus, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Maharashtra State’s formation day could not be celebrated on 1st May, 2020. But, our Marathi artistes came up with an idea by observing the lockdown rule of ‘stay at home’. They have presented a video suitably titled ‘Vaibhav Maharashtracha’ on this occasion.
The most important thing is that these artistes shot the video at their respective homes taking the help of out latest technology. Aakash Pendharkar and Hemant Dhome with the help of social media platform ‘Helo’ have produced this video which is based on the song ‘Baghtos Kay Mujara Kar’ from Hemant Dhome’s film. This new song has been written by Kshitij Patwardhan, while music is provided by Amitraj.
Singers Hrshavardhan Wavare & Kasturi Wavare have rendered this song in their voices, while this song is pictured on popular Marathi artistes Sonali Kulkarni, Hemant Dhome, Aniket Vishasrao, Sumeet Raghavan, Shashank Ketkar, Rasika Dhabadgaonkar, Sanjay Jadhav, Prarthana Behere, Amitraj, Abhinay Berde, Anuja Sathe Gokhale, Saurabh Gokhale, Chaitrali Gupte, Lokesh Gupte, Siddharth Menon, Kirti Pendharkar, Suyash Tilak, Sayali Sanjeev & Prajakta Mali. This video has received good response on social media.
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.
Anuja Sathe to play title role in bilingual web series
Talented Marathi actress Anuja Sathe Gokhale who was seen in Marathi and Hindi films in prominent roles since last 6 years, will now play title role in forthcoming bilingual web series ‘EkThi Begum’, which is a revenge story set on the backdrop of 1980 period.
Anuja plays the character of Ashraf Bhatkar alias Sapna, who takes the revenge against Don Maksud (Ajay Gehi), who is behind the death of her husband Zahir (Ankit Mohan). Directed by Sachin Darekar , this web series will be available for free viewing on MX Player from 8th April 2020.
Recently, the trailer of this film was released. Speaking about her role in this series, Anuja says, “Till now we have only heard about the male Mafia/Don , but now, you will see a story of a woman who turns Mafia Queen, to take the revenge of her husband’s death”. Along with Anuja and Ankit this series stars Chinmay Mandlekar, Rajendra Shirsatkar, Resham, Abhijit Chavan, Pradeep Doitode, Vithal Kale, Nazar Khan, Vijay Nikam, Anil Nagarkar, Suchit Jadhav, Raju Athavale, & Santosh Juvekar in prominent roles.
Saurabh Gokhale will be active on his social networking site
From ‘Radha Hi Bavari‘ Marathi TV serial to Rohit Shetty’s upcoming Hindi film ‘Simba‘, Saurabh Gokhale has made good progress in his acting career for the past five years. Incidentally, he is also celebrating 5 years of his marriage with another talented star Anuja Sathe. Anuja has also made very good progress from stage, television to Hindi films and her latest being ‘Parmanu‘. So, it has been a good successful journey for the couple.
So, obviously Saurabh wants to connect with his fans through the most important social networking media, for which he has started his new page on facebook, uploading all relevant information, which his admirers are looking for. Prominent among the latest uploads are the photos of Saurabh with his wife and also with his pets. Both Saurabh and Anuja have lots of potential , which can be tapped by creative directors. We at Marathi Movie World wish both of them a grand success.