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Chhote Champions set to offer big Entertainment

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Vodafone ‘Eka-peksha Ek – Chhote Champions’ are all set to entertain in a big way on Zee Marathi from 30 October 2009. This dance competition for children will be telecast every Friday and Saturday at 9.30 pm. You may call it a Dhamaka after Diwali. This is the fourth series of competition, which will have 25 children in the age group of 6-14 years presenting variety of dances ranging from classical to western. The best choreographers have been selected for the job to extract the best out of these talented children.

Popular actor- director Sachin Pilgaonkar will be judging their performances in the capacity of the Chief Judge, while every episode will have a guest judge to assess the performance of the participants. For the inaugural show, popular actor Mr. Ashok Saraf will be the special guest.

Review of Marathi Film Anolkhi He Ghar Majhe

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Rating: 3/5
Presenter: Nomad Films, Akshar Films
Producer: Juned Menon, Shekhar More
Director: Sachin Deo
Story: Mahesh Manjrekar
Music: Ashish Rego, K.C. Loy
Cast: Ashok Saraf, Tushar Dalvi, Kavita Laad-Medhekar, Sushant Shelar, Pushkar Shrotri
Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke

In the year 1987, T. Rama Rao made a family social with the name of ‘Sansaar’ in Hindi, starring Anupam Kher, Seema Deo, Raj Babbar, Rekha, Archana Joglekar, Shekhar Suman and Ajinkya Deo in important roles. Now, exactly 22 years later Director Sachin Deo comes up with its Marathi version in the name of ‘Anolkhi He Ghar Majhe’. So, how do you call this Ghar Anolkhe, when it is just a new ‘Sansaar’? One can understand about the situation then and now, but the human tendency hasn’t changed. Whether it is father’s ego with the progression of age or son’s selfishness, when it comes to living in a joint family system. Nothing seems to have changed. In fact, with the prevailing nuclear family system, we hardly find joint family system existing now. But, film makers Junaid Memon and Shekhar More thought that this was the right time to strike with the old formula to spread awareness among the new generation. .

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So, Din Dayal Sharma is replaced by Jagannath Deshmukh( Ashok Saraf) who takes retirement from his job and pays off the debt that has multiplied over the years for bringing up his three sons and making two of them capable of shouldering their responsibilities. He thinks that his elder son (Tushar Dalvi) who is having a good job and his second son ( Pushkar Shroti) who is a motor mechanic; would be able to support the family. The youngest son ( Sushant Shelar) is in the final year of Engineering. With the eldest son already married to Shubhada( Kavita Laad Medhekar), the senior Deshmukh looks a happy man wanting to relax rest of his life. Kavita Laad in Anolkhi he ghar majhe
But, sensing the burden of expenditure falling upon him after his father’s retirement and with the marriage of his brother followed by the return of his married sister back home after dispute with her husband ; Shekhar opens up a fight with his parents, over expenditure sharing at home. This happens when his wife goes for delivery to her parent’s place. This sudden outburst by the eldest son also hurts old man’s ego and he draws a line in their big house earmarking two parts. He swears to teach his elder son a lesson. With the moral support of his second son who earns extra doing night shifts, he himself takes up a job in a library.

So, you find two families living in the same house, when Shubhda returns with her baby. She is shocked to find this division, being the most sensible person in the family. At this stage, Shubhada takes the lead to reunite the family, taking steps one by one. And then, this family drama of almost two and half hours, concludes with happy ending. Ashok Saraf , plays the family head in his own style, but his wig does not look natural. Meghna Vaidya plays his wife- Malati with ease. Both Tushar and Kavita as husband and wife look very natural in their behaviour, especially while supporting each other very well in all the scenes they have done together. Pushkar Shroti is good as the most obedient son, while Sushant Shelar looks a perfect student, who gets one good scene to express his emotions. The other supporting artistes have done well, with very small role for Arun Tikekar.

‘Anolkhi He Ghar Majhe’ is otherwise a well presented film, but has dragged too long with almost 5 -6 songs picturised in outdated format. Those who have missed Hindi film ‘Sansaar’, shouldn’t miss this film, which a film for entire family.

‘Mastar Eke Mastar’ set to release on June 12

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Education today has become a big business. Educationalists are more interested into making money than imparting the right knowledge to the students. Meghraj Rajbhosale’s ‘Mastar Eke Mastar’ is exactly based on this topic.

The movie is Meghraj Rajbhosale’s second production after ‘Jau Tithe Khau. It is about the Bappa More, a school teacher who through various means becomes an owner of a huge educational institution. He ends up destroying his own life and career for the greed of money. Ashok Saraf plays the role of Bappa More. Pramod Joshi. Mangesh Desai, Deepali Sayyad, Surekha Kudachi and Vijay Khote are the other actors.

The film is directed by Sanjay Surkar After films like ‘Chaukat Raja, ‘Tu Tithe Me and ‘Saatchya Aat Gharat.

This is Surakar’s first comedy film. The film was earlier banned by the Censor Board because of its negative message on education and teachers but was later given a clean chit and no scene was edited.

Musician Harshit Abhiraj has composed music for the film. Vaishali Samant, Anand Shinde, Ravindra Sathe and Sanjay Samant have sung the songs. So be ready to catch all the action and your favorite actor Ashok Saraf into his comedy cameo.

Carrying on the tradition of entertaining the audience by tickling their funny bone is the movie ‘Ek Daav dhobi Pachad’

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Rating: ★★
Presenter: Zee Talkies
Producer: Shree Mangesh Films
Director: Satish Rajwade
Story: Girish Joshi
Camera: Suresh Deshamane
Cast: Ashok Saraf, Subodh Bhave, Prasad Oak, Kishori Shahane-veej,
Movie Review by: Jitendra More

Comedy has been an inevitable element of Marathi Cinema since centuries. Carrying on the tradition of entertaining the audience by tickling their funny bone is the movie ‘Ek Daav dhobi Pachad’

Produced by Ashok Saraf and presented by Zee Talkies, the movie revolves around the life of Dada Dandke (Ashok Saraf), a crook whose business involves controlling and opening new beer bars and casinos. The so-called gunda of the village, he is fondly called as dada by his associates. Dada is notoriously known for capturing polling booths and doing vasooli from people. However, a transformation comes about in his life when he meets his long lost love, Hema (Asawari Joshi-Saraf). Dada puts a marriage proposal which Hema rejects saying that he is not the same person she had met years back. She comments on his language, clothes and way of living.

Unable to face the rejection, Dada decides to change himself and win Hema’s heart again. His attempts to improve make him appoint a Marathi teacher for his language, a fashion designer to stitch international and help all the loved ones in trouble. His journey to be a good man in Hema’s eyes, keeps his enemies wonder that he is planning to come up a new plan this time.
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Saraf, as an authoritarian father and a man of honour suits the role well. However, his unreasonable comedy does not go with his image. Again keeping the image of a good actor intact is Subodh Bhave as the Marathi
teacher. Seeing Bhave into a sober role after the brutal role in Uladhaal is amazing and Bhave has made the transformation well. Pushkar Shrotri as Babya, the right hand man of Dada seems to be wasted and so are the acting talents of Prasad Oak (Trimbak Joshi), an accountant madly in love and Madhura Velankar (Saylee) as his lady love. Mukta Barve as Dada’s daughter in her role as Sulochana gets on the nerves of the audience.
With such a huge star cast, directed by Satish Rajwade has not been able to give justice to even one character. However, even after losing the plot of the movie, he comes out good in the end. Music by the two greats Ajay-Atul suits the theme of the movie, however, the audience would have expected a few more songs to keep with the mood of the movie. Nivedita Joshi-Saraf makes a good screen presence even after so many years.

A good movie overall but certainly not reaching the heights set by movies that have brought about a metamorphosis of Marathi movie industry.

‘SAKHI’ REVIEW

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Rating: na
Company: Shree Chintamani Vision
Producers: Lata Narvekar, Bharati Acharekar
Director: Sanjay Surkar
Story: Gautam Rajadhyaksha, Yogesh Khadikar
Music: Ashok Patki
Lyricst: Sudhir Moghe
Cameraman: Harish Joshi
Cast: Ashok Saraf, Sonali Kulkarni, Subodh Bhave, Usha Nadkarni,
Raghavendra Kalkol, Pushkar Shotri, Lokesh Gupte, Santosh Juvekar,
Jyoti Joshi, Kishor Mahabole…
Movie Review by:  Nisha Garud

Far of from the usual storylines of commercial movies where two people meet, develop romantic love for each other and then live a happy life every after, Sanjay Surkar’s Sakhi is a movie which is unusual in all respects and aspects. It moves away from typical comedy forcibly included in movies to deviate the audience’s attention from a weak script and keep the movie going. Sakhi is a story of a relationship that develops between two strangers brought together by fate.

The two strangers, Suryakant Jagdale(Ashok Saraf) and Nishi ( Sonali Kulkarni ) find each other at a such a time in their life when both need support and a mentor to guide them. Suryakant, an accountant returns to his village Jatgaon, where he is born and brought up by his godmother Kunda Tai (Usha Nadkarni). He hides the fact from her and his friends that he is actually been fired from his job. He decides to spend his time by doing something for the villagers. But his all efforts end in vain. Restless, frustrated and tired, Suryakant contemplates on what is to be done next when he hears a woman’s cry for help.
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Soaked in blood and badly bruised, he sees Nishi (Sonali Kulkarni) being chased by two men. He saves her and takes her to his house. Nishi narrates the tale of how she was married of by her brothers into a rich Inamdar family. She comes to know on her wedding night itself that her husband is not loyal to her. Her brother-in-law eyes her every time with bad intension and her mother -in-law turns a blind eye to all this and reminds her that she should actually be obliged to them for taking her into their family and not complain.
Sonali Kulkarni gives her best performance ever as a woman suppressed by the conditions, trying her best to adjust to her cursed fate. Unable to bear the brunt any longer, she runs away from the house. When is refused an entry into her brother’s house, she admits herself into a women’s ashram but there too she does not find solace. She escapes from the ashram only to be chased by two men and finally being saved by Suryakant.

Ashok Saraf gives a strong performance after a long time by playing a role of a mere understanding friend who strives to give a new meaning to his Sakhi’s life, a woman who needs support, care and security. A relationship which is beyond friendship develops between the two. Sonali’s voice gives her an advantage in playing out well her role of a tortured wife and of innocent village lass.

The movie drags too much with in the second half. The ego clashes shown between Subodh Bhave and Saraf are unnecessary. Some scenes are too obvious in the movie. The end of the movie is seems to have well thought about but was also dragged a lot. Though the movie loses its touch in the here and there, it is brought back by effective dialogues and strong performances by Saraf and Usha Nadkarni, who plays an understanding and supportive character. Certainly a bold subject to make a movie on but would have been effective if the script was more intense.

‘SADE MAADE TEEN’ REVIEW

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Rating: na
Presenter: Zee Talkies
Producers: Anubhuti Art
Director: Ankush Chaudhari – Sachit Patil
Music: Ajit Parabh – Hrishikesh Kamerkar
Cast: Ashok Saraf, Makarand Anaspure, Bharat Jadhav, Siddharth Jadhav,
Amruta Khanvilkar, Sujata Joshi…
Movie Review by: Nayana

What do u get when you put together 3 brilliant marathi actors and give a Desi Tadka of oldie Chalti ka naam gaadi? Simple…! This makes a new massala movie in marathi. A few years back Mahesh Kothare tried such a Tadka in his “Dhumdhadaka’ which was based on ‘Pyar Kiye jaa’, and marathi movie industry rejuvenated. Else marathi film was stucked in a wicked savkar(money lander)/ jamindar(landowner) and sasurvashin/ saas bahu type, so called ‘bechari bahu’ , and overflowing buckets of tears with sobbing women coming out of the cinema halls. It was Mahesh Kothare (Dhumdhadaka) and Sachin Pilgaonkar’s (Navari mile navryala) efforts, which really dragged marathi film out of such stuff.

When one started speaking about marathi films 2types of reflex actions suddenly blown on – one is with twisting faces ‘We don’t like to watch marathi films’, and another one with a deep sigh ‘Gone those golden days of marathi films’!!
History repeated and aapale Sachit Patil and Ankush Chaudhary along with Zee talkies and Anubhuti Arts entered in film production with ‘Saade Maade Teen’. Na!! It’s not a remake or replica, but it’s a metamorphosis of the same theme bloomed in the marathi mati. Ofcourse, inspired from ‘Chalti ka nam Gadi’ one of Kishor Kumar’s debut film, the film is a rib-tickling comedy set against the backdrop of Garage, filled with ‘Ek ladki bhigi…’ type ‘barasat’ ka gana or may be ‘panch rupaiyya’ type, leading to hilarious situations!

While this film promises to be potential blockbuster this year, it also makes the launch of Zee Talkies brand.
The story is of 3 brothers- the family head ‘Dada’ (Ashok Saraf) and his 2 brothers Madan (Makarand Anaspure) and Chandan (Bharat Jadhav), running their Kurale garage. The younger duo never dares to go against dada’s wish. Dada is a character who hates female because of his first crush. A gal (Sukanya Kulkarni) betrayed him after a marriage proposal.
Obviously, when 2 gals enters in the life of the younger ones, the chaos evoked, and both caught in dilemma of the threat of Dada and emotional attachments. Here enters the Villain to create obstacle between the life of our dupe Chandan, and opulent Madhura. Now guess who help this couple? So after removing all the barricades, the smashing end of the film…
Sachit and Ankush played a safe game. Well, half battle was already won by casting these trios, and afterwards director didn’t allow Makarand and Bharat to rove from the basic storyline. Even they haven’t added their famous accent shown in other films and used them tactfully as never seen before.
A little but most important thing, if they could use the Ashok saraf’s caliber more effectively, as the role offered to him is less challengeable as compare to his capacity, the film would be definitely full 2 dhamal!!!

Else nothing to say about their fantastic tuning, understanding, and coordination. Instead our wise audience won’t accept such a dupe characters. Needless to say Minor mistake like winning applause by repeating same dialogue excusable!!
Dialogues by Sanjay Mone satisfy you. Well, its not a burst of laughter in fact the film doesn’t need it, but more sharp dialogues would keep the film at great height surely.
The directors have taken some kind of support of farcical comedy. The climax fighting comes in the form of farce. Of course no one expects smashing de danadan fighting as it is not an action film, but still…..missing something in this shot only. Otherwise the film takes you from smiling to chuckling and then giggling. Overall a fresh comedy!!!

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Aayatya Gharat Gharoba ( आयत्या घरात घरोबा )

Aayatya Gharat Gharoba Marathi Film Poster
Release Year:  1991
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Rating:  na
Censor: U
Duration: 138 min.
Studio/presenter: Kittu Films
Producer(s): Sachin Pilgaonkar
Executive  Producer: na
Director: Sachin Pilgaonkar
Writer: Sachin Pilgaonkar
ScreenPlay: Vasant Sabnis, Sachin Pilgaonkar
Dialogues: Vasant Sabnis
Official Facebook Page I  Twitter

Producer(s): Sachin Pilgaonkar
Executive Producer: na
Director: Sachin Pilgaonkar
Assistant Director: Avinash Thakur
Writer: Sachin Pilgaonkar
ScreenPlay: Vasant Sabnis, Sachin Pilgaonkar
Dialogues: Vasant Sabnis
Lyrics: Shantaram Nandgaonkar
Music: Arun Paudwal
Playback Singer:  Suresh Wadkar, Anuradha Paudwal, Mohammad Ajij, Shailendra Singh, Prashant Damle, Sachin Pilgaonkar
Cinematographer (DOP): Randev Bhaduri
Editor: Sachin Pilgaonkar
Starcast: Sachin Pilgaonkar, Ashok Saraf, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Laxmikant Berde, Rajeshwari, Kishori Shahane
Art Director: Sharad Pol
Costumes: Anil Khanna, Supriya Pilgaonkar
Makeup: Mohan Pathare
Sound : Pandurang Bolur
Background Score: na
Choreographer: Madhav Kishan, Vijay Borade
DI, VFX: na
D.I. Colourist:  na
Promos: na
Music Label: na
Publicity Designs: na
P.R.O.: na
Distributor : Dhrupad Shah

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Aapli Mansa ( आपली माणसं )

Aapli Mansa Marathi Film Poster
Release Year: 1982
Genres: Drama
Rating: na
Censor: U
Duration: 130 min.
Studio/presenter: A. Purnachandrarao, Suyog Chitra
Producer(s): Sudhir Bhat
Executive  Producer: na
Director: Sudhir Bhat
Writer: na
ScreenPlay: Madhukar Toradmal
Dialogues: Madhukar Toradmal
Official Facebook Page I  Twitter

Producer(s): Sudhir Bhat
Executive Producer: na
Director: Sudhir Bhat
Assistant Director: Vijay Kulkarni, Shirish Joshi
Writer: na
ScreenPlay: Madhukar Toradmal
Dialogues: Madhukar Toradmal
Lyrics: Saumitra
Music: Ashok Patki
Playback Singer:   Aasha Bhosale, Suresh Wadkar
Cinematographer (DOP): Harish Joshi
Editor: Vishwas – Anil
Starcast: Dilip Prabhavalkar, Reema Lagoo, Ashok Saraf, Prashant Damle, Sachin Khedekar, Renuka Shahane, Prajakta Kulkarni, Mohan Joshi, Sudhir Joshi
Art Director: Ranjana Damle, Deepak Joshi, Babal Naik
Costumes: Shripad Pai
Makeup: Ashok Shirsat
Sound : Pradeep Deshpande
Background Score: na
Choreographer: na
DI, VFX: na
D.I. Colourist:  na
Promos: na
Music Label: na
Publicity Designs: Sanjay Pawar
P.R.O.: na
Distributor : na

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Ashi Hi Banva Banvi (अशी हि बनवा बनवी )

Ashi Hi Banava Banavi Marathi Film Poster
Release Year: 1989
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Rating: na
Censor: U
Duration: 130 min.
Studio/presenter: V Shantaram Production, Yuva Production
Producer(s): Kiran Shantaram
Executive  Producer: na
Director: Sachin Pilgaonkar
Writer: Vasant Sabnis
ScreenPlay: na
Dialogues: na
Official Facebook Page I  Twitter

Producer(s): Kiran Shantaram
Executive Producer: na
Director: Sachin Pilgaonkar
Assistant Director: Avinash Thakur
Writer: Vasant Sabnis
ScreenPlay: na
Dialogues: na
Lyrics: Shantaram Nandgaonkar, Sudhir Moghe
Music: Arun Paudval, Anil Mohile
Playback Singer:   Suresh Wadkar, Anurash Paidval,Shailendra Sinh,Uttara kelakar, Sachin
Cinematographer (DOP): Ram Allam
Editor: Avinash Thakur , Chintu Dhavale
Starcast: Sachin Pilgaonkar, Ashok Saraf, Laxmikant Berde, Siddharth Ray, Swapnil Mohite, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Ashwini Bhave, Priya Arun, Nivedita Joshi, Nayantara, Viju Khote, Sudhir Joshi
Art Director: Sharad Pol
Costumes: Damodar Jadhav
Makeup: Mohan Pathare, Vijaya Kamat
Sound : Pandurang Bolur
Background Score: na
Choreographer: na
DI, VFX: na
D.I. Colourist:  na
Promos: na
Music Label: na
Publicity Designs: Shreekant Dhongade
P.R.O.: na
Distributor : na

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Maza Pati Karodpati

Maza Pati Karodpati Marathi Movie
Studio/presenter: Glamour Films
Release Year: 1988 (20 January)
Genres: Drama
Rating:  na
Censor: U
Duration: 130 min.
Producers: Chelaram Bhatiya, Lalachand Bhatiya
Executive  Producer: na
Director:  Sachin
Writer: Ashok Patole
ScreenPlay: Sachin
Dialogues: Ashok Patole
Official Facebook Page I  Twitter

Producer(s): Chelaram Bhatiya, Lalachand Bhatiya
Co-producer: Ela Bhate, Avinash Thakur
Executive Producer: na
Director: Sachin
Assistant Director: Avinash Thakur
Writer: Ashok Patole
ScreenPlay: Sachin
Dialogues: Ashok Patole
Lyrics: Shantaram Nandgaonkar
Music: Arun Puidval
Playback Singer:   Kishor Kumar, Anuradha Paudval, Sachin
Cinematographer (DOP): Suryakant Lavande,
Editor: Chintu Dhavale, S. Rav
Starcast: Sachin Pilgaonkar, Supriya, Ashok Saraf, Kishori Shahane, Shobha Khote, Nilu Fule
Art Director: Sharad Pol
Costumes: Damodar Jadhav
Makeup: Mohan Pathare, Vijaya Kamat
Sound : Pandurang Bolur
Background Score: na
Choreographer: na
DI, VFX: na
D.I. Colourist:  na
Promos: na
Music Label: Arun Paudval
Publicity Designs: Shreekant Khongade, Dyansagar Ofset Works
P.R.O.: na
Distributor : na

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