Every year we find at least three to four Marathi films drawing good crowds at the theatre windows. But, the year 2019 doesn’t seem to be lucky at least for top Marathi directors of big banner films. The best examples are films like ‘Bhai 1 and Bhai 2‘ directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, ‘Ashi Hi Aashiqui‘ directed by Sachin Pilgaonkar, ‘Luckee‘ directed by Sanjay Jadhav and recently released big banner film ‘Rampaat‘ directed by award-winning director Ravi Jadhav.

There was certainly nothing wrong with the subject of ‘Bhai 1 & 2‘ as it dealt with the most popular personality of Marathi literature and also Marathi film industry. Perhaps, the decision of making this film in two parts and releasing them one after the other within a gap of a month was not acceptable to the Marathi film lovers. Now, looking at reviews of these five films, none of these films received the likely positive response from the critics. If that was not enough, even the regular film lovers did not respond much as expected in the cinema halls. And, this was certainly bad news not only for these big banners but also for the Marathi film industry.

With almost 20 weeks passed during the current year 2019, we are still waiting for a super hit Marathi film from a new or reputed director. And, this certainly is a big worry for Marathi filmmakers.