Avadhoot Gupte’s ‘Gat Mat’ teaser poster launched
Somebody has rightly said that marriages are made in heaven. But, the pair is made for each other, it is necessary for them to meet at least once . Based on one such subject is the forthcoming film ‘Gat Mat’ which will be Avadhoot Gupte‘s presentation in association with Yashraj Industries. Recently, on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, the teaser poster of this film was launched, which has received very good response.
This film produced by Rajendraprasad Srivastav and directed by Nishith Srivastav will be released on 16th November 2018. The teaser poster shows the image of a young lovers with a sign of love and a tagline ‘Aamhi Julvun Deto’. This also indicates that this film will be a romantic film. However, there is suspense regarding star cast of this film. But, one thing is sure that this film will be targeted at young audience.
Shrikant Bhide makes his debut through ‘What About Savarkar’
Marathi stage has offered many talented artistes to Film industry. Now, Shrikant Bhide, who has been working on stage for past several years and who is a good dancer gets a lifetime role, to play the central character of Abhiman Marathe in forthcoming Marathi film ‘What About Savarkar’. The film is all set to release on 17th April 2015.
The character played by Shrikant is inspired by the ideology of great freedom fighter of India, Veer Savarkar. Shrikant, who has also appeared in many short films, gets enough scope to display his potential, through this role of a protagonist , who fights against injustice. In fact, this film represents today’s generation . Directed by Nitin Gawde, the film stars Shrikant Bhide, along with Sharad Ponkshe, Vivek Lagu, Avinash Narkar, Atul Todankar & Sara Shravan.
Rahul Roy unveils the music of ‘Just Gammat’
Today, Modern day life has become a lot more stressful .It requires a stress-buster to cool the nerves. This is where, Humour in our films, play a pivotal role, to cure stress. One such stress-buster Marathi movie coming our way, is ‘Just Gammat’, presented by Sharadkumar Shrivastava and produced under the banner Silver Screen Entertainment by Seema Shrivastava. The music of the film was released recently, at Mumbai.
RJ Mayuresh Shirke, who anchored the event with ease, welcomed the guests and introduced director, Milind Arun Kavade and the musical team. Nitin Kumar Gupta, who is debuting as a music composer with this Marathi movie. Deepak Angevar, who has written the title song, appears twice in the movie ; has been rendered by Avadhoot Gupte , in two different styles. Mandar Cholkar has penned an item song using all liquor names. Heena Panchal, who has done an item number on ‘Bewda’ song was also called on stage. N K Gupta showcased the ‘virtual 3D girl’ (an animated version of an item girl, done @Russia) which they plan to upload sometime next month, just before the release .
Original ‘Aashiqui’ guy, Rahul Roy was the chief guest and unveiled the music of a ‘Just Gammat’. “I stay at Shivaji Park and am in touch with lots of Marathi film makers. In fact we want to rope in these talented people to Bollywood, but the trend seems to be the opposite. Lots of non-Marathi film-makers are getting attracted to Marathi films.” he said and continued “I was in the process of making a Marathi film, but unfortunately my director (Rajiv Patil) died untimely “.
The lead actor Sanjay Narvekar arrived late due to a stage play in distant suburbs of Mumbai. He narrated, how in an intoxicated state, two friends plan to kill each other each other’s wives and after getting sober the next morning; what ‘Gammat’ happens, is the one-line of the film story and he expressed the film to be a commercial success.
Arun Kadam, Vijay Patkar, Jaywant Wadkar and Smita Gondkar, who was looking stunning in a black mini, represented the cast. Apart from these actors, Aditi Sarangdhar, Jitendra Joshi, Atul Todankar, Sanjay Kulkarni, Aarti Solanki, Deepak Shirke are also part of the film.
Working with Shahrukh, was a memorable experience – Atul Todankar
For the past 15 years, Atul Todankar has been entertaining the audience on stage and television; but he received the recognition of an actor like a rubber stamp, with Zee Marathi’s reality show ‘Fu Bai Fu’. Atul himself admits that Zee is like his aunty, to offer him all that he aspired for, i.e. Name, fame and right kind of roles. His latest achievement is an ad film that too for Dish TV, along with none other than Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan. In fact, Atul received his first break on Television, through Sachin Pilgaonkar’s ‘Tu Tu Main Main’. Knowing his ability, Sachin offered him a chance in his dance show ‘Ekapeksha Ek’, offering him a partner like Vishakha. Thereafter, it was ‘Fu Bai Fu’ with Anshuman Vichare and since then Atul’s progress has been noteworthy.
The beginning of 2012 has been most memorable for him, having done an ad with Shahrukh Khan and getting two good offers from Marathi Dramas, namely Rajesh Deshpande’s ‘Aaho Rahoo Dhyana Ghari’ which will be staged on the auspicious Gudhi Padwa day and Shekhar Dhavlikar’s ‘A Aaicha B Baicha’ which will be staged in April 2012. Atul is all excited about these two projects, as he plays both the roles opposite his favorite actress Nirmiti Sawant, with whom he had performed in the past at the beginning of his acting career on stage. It may be recalled that Atul has worked with many known people like Santosh Pawar and Kedar Shinde. He played as replacement for Shreyas Talpade in the play ‘Tur Tur’ in the past.
A student of Mumbai’s Shardashram School, known for cricket, Atul has seen all those cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli creating records for his school. Sachin is two years senior to him and he did inspire Atul to take up cricket. But, Atul had other plans. After his 12th, Atul joined Engineering in Mumbai’s VJTI college and even passed with a good percentage. He even got his placement in a good company through Campus recruitment. But, suddenly he developed interest for stage, when he saw his friends like Paddy and Vikas perform during a drama rehearsal. Atul thought that there was a lot of creativity in this field. He decided to pursue this new hobby and hence joined BEST as an Engineer, as he very well knew that BEST encouraged artistes like Prashant Damle, Sharad Ponkshe and others.
Atul went on to win many awards while in the service of BEST and received good support from his employers and superiors, whenever he was required to perform. At present, Atul is on special leave, having been associated with many projects; but his employers have told him to return to his job, within next two years, if he so desires. With the available time with him, Atul wants to make the best use of it by focusing his attention on good roles. The two big stage assignments he has in hand, would certainly open the doors for him on television and films. He is already doing a serial ‘Puneri Misal’ and ‘Fu Bai Fu’ has already brought him name and fame.
Recalling his most memorable moment in life, Atul remembers the day, when he was selected to play a friend of Shahrukh Khan for the Dish TV advertisement, released recently. “It so happened that I was busy shooting for ‘Puneri Misal’, when I received a call from a coordinator to report for audition of this advertisement. But, I could not report, as my shooting got over late in the evening. Next day, I received a call again and they asked me to report. So, I managed to report that day and they took my audition for all eight different characters. When I received the call again to inform me that I was short listed and was required to report for dress rehearsal, still I was not that serious; as on that day too, I was on my way to Pune. But, they agreed for the next day. When I went there, I was told that I was doing the ad along with Shahrukh Khan. It was a great moment for me, when on the actual shooting day, I met him. He released my tension by himself introducing to me and gave me a hug, when I told him that I couldn’t believe my eyes that I was working with him,” says Atul, while narrating the incident.
“For me, Shahrukh was a great inspiration, as I found him a perfect professional actor, who comes prepared for all his scenes. He takes his own time to rehearse the scene and is very systematic in his work. There are many good qualities of him that I learned during my association with him for about 7 hours on the sets. I closely observed him. It was an experience to remember, ” he concludes.