Get ready to witness ‘Love & much more’ coming Friday
There cannot be an end to films based on Love Stories. Coming Friday, there are three such releases, which are based on ‘Love’. Now, ‘Love’ has been defined by many filmmakers till date, in their own way. Prakash Kunte wants to offer his creation, linked with a cup of coffee, suitably using the title of his film ‘Coffee Aani Barach Kahi’. At the same time, creative director Santosh Mainkar has set Goa , as the backdrop for his love story, ‘Prem at First Sight’. But, Dr.Mrunalini Patil through her film ‘Kay Raav Tumhi’ has other plans , which revolves around three senior citizens young at heart, trying to win the heart of a young girl.
Actually, all these films have different subjects. While ‘Prem at First Sight’ will be targeting the audience from Goa as well as Maharashtra, ‘Coffee Aani Barach Kahi’ is perhaps banking on major cities of Maharashtra. However, ‘Kay Raav Tumhi’ is likely to offer comedy generated through this ‘Shaukeen’ style of love story.
‘Prem at First Sight’ has a team of youngsters including Sumaydh Gaikwad, Shweta Pagar, Suchet Gavai, Sameeksha Desai and others, ‘Coffee Aani Barach Kahi’ has Prarthana Behere, Vaibhav Tatvawadi, Bhooshan Pradhan and Neha Mahajan in the lead. ‘Kay Raav Tumhi’ has an interesting team of young and old, comprising of Ravindra Mahajani, Satish Pulekar , Yatin karyekar ,glamorous Niyati Joshi, along with Pankaj Dhome and Bollywood actress Shital Singh. Now, it will be interesting to watch , which love story attracts maximum response.
Coffee with love from 3rd April
In the upcoming line of romantic films, which are believed to be appealing to the younger generation, comes yet another romantic Marathi film ‘Coffee Ani Barach Kahi’. The filmmaker’s target audience is obviously youth, who enjoy the romantics stories with twists and turns with enthusiasm .
White Swan Productions , Ravi Jadhav Films in association with Everest Entertainment are connected with this film. Recently, they released the film’s music and first look with much fanfare, in the presence of a few popular Marathi film industry names and obviously, the entire cast and crew. ‘Coffee Ani Barach Kahi’s music is composed by Aditya Bedekar on lyrics of Yogesh Damle.
The film’s cast is Prarthana Behere, Vaibhav Tatwawadi, Bhooshan Pradhan, Neha Mahajan, Ila Bhate, Avinash Narkar among others. ‘Coffee Ani Barach Kahi’ is directed by Prakash Kunte. So, get ready to taste this Coffee with love from 3rd April 2015.
‘Mee Aani U’ presents a different love story without a grip
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Rating: ★★★
Studio: Lohiaas Entertainment, Ashtvinayk Media And Entertainment. Producer, Director: Nitin kamble. Writers: Sangram Patil, Arvind Jagtap Editor: na Cinematographer: na Cast: Bhushan Pradhan, Sai Lokur, Mohan Joshi, Sayaji Shinde, Ujwala Jog.. Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke |
We have seen many Bollywood action films inspired by Hollywood films; but, we have not seen much on Hollywood’s romantic comedy with a touch of fantasy. However, director Nitin kamble has attempted one such experiment in the latest released Marathi film ‘Mee Aani U’. Inspired by Hollywood’s 2005 film ‘Just Like Heaven’ which was actually based on original novel ‘If only it were true'; director Nitin kamble has given a different treatment, to target the young Marathi audience.
So, ‘Mee Aani U’ begins very artistically with the backdrop of animated effects and Mangesh Desai playing the narrator of this fantasy based romantic love story of happy go lucky Abhishek Chaudhary ( Bhushan Pradhan) and aspiring Journalist Ira Kurundkar ( Sai Lokur). So, it’s ‘Play Love all’ through facebook chatting, where Abhishek poses himself as Che Guevara, while Ira who uses her real name, but displays the photo of Rani Mukherjee on her timeline. Both of them agree to meet each other in person, in their hometown Kolhapur. But, before that they do come across each other at a TV channel’s office; where Abhishek grabs the job already offered to Ira, by adopting unfair practice.
Feeling cheated by News editor Diwan( Mohan Joshi), who also happens to be a friend of her father ( Sayaji Shinde), an arms dealer in town; Ira meets with an accident while driving back home. She moves into Coma in the hospital. Ira’s father blames Diwan for this accident and hence to help his friend, Diwan deputes Abhishek on the job. Having come to know the truth about Ira, his real friend; Abhishek does all that he could do. But, he starts imagining Ira around him at home and in office. It’s actually hallucination, which sends a wrong message to others. But, Abhishek’s healing touch gives some hope to the doctor to revive Ira, who is in Coma. He convinces Ira’s adamant father to try out this therapy, to conclude the film with happy end.
Director Nitin kamble who begins the film so well, does not get good support from the limited theme and hence he keeps on attempting the hallucination effects on the lead pair, besides using the Narrator repeatedly. It is only the interaction between Sayaji Shinde and the attending doctor in the hospital and Mohan Joshi’s scenes with Bhushan Pradhan and Bhushan’s confrontation with his father at home, generate some humour. The film has used the backdrop of reality TV programme ‘Rokh Thok’ very well on three occasions, to keep some momentum in the screenplay. The climax is interesting; but lack of grip in the screenplay, makes the film look like an average entertainer.
The film however gets full marks for the fine performances coming from all the artistes. Both Bhushan and Sai have performed very naturally. Both of them look good. They receive good support from Sayaji Shinde, Mohan Joshi, Ujwala Jog and others. Sayaji, who otherwise plays a villain, finds better scope to express his emotions in this film. The technical effects have been used well. More attention has been paid on Sai’s designer clothes. Even art design during song sequences and excellent cinematography are something special. Not a bad film; but certainly would have been better, if the film maker had worked more hard on adding some more interesting situations in the screenplay.
Bhushan Pradhan, Actor