Marathi film ‘The Disciple’ wins award at Venice International Film Fest
We are all aware that for the few years our Marathi films have been inviting all the attention at different international film festivals, winning awards in different categories. Now, the latest news is that Director Chaitanya Tamhane‘s new film ‘The Disciple’ has won best screenplay award at the Venice International Film festival . This is for the first time that a Marathi film has won such a prestigious award at this international film festival.
It may be recalled that the Venice International Film festival is the oldest international film festival in the history of Cinema, being hosted since 1932. For the past 20 years non of the Indian films were selected for this festival and therefore the selection of ‘The Disciple’ was a big news for India. So, it was not only getting the honour of nomination, but this film has won two awards in ‘International Critics Award’ and ‘Best Screenplay award’.
Chaitanya Tamhane had earlier made a film ‘Court’, which had also received high appreciation. This film ‘The Disciple’ is based on Indian classical music and classical singer Aditya Modak plays the lead role in this film. Speaking about this achievement, Director Chaitanya Tamhane said that he had worked very hard during the making of this film this award has brought a lot of satisfaction.
‘Court’ to be released throughout India
Winning awards at film festivals, does not necessarily guarantee a film commercial success at box office. Such films, which catch fancy of section of audience and jury, are also required to reach out to the maximum number of people, to create awareness. Promotion of movie has become an order of the day, through which the film maker expects the viewers to watch his film in theatres.
The makers of soon to be released a National Award winning film ‘Court’, which is produced under the banner Zoo Entertainment by Vivek Gomber, is well aware of compulsions of promotions. When ‘Court’ was conceived by writer, director Chaitanya Tamhane, he did not get an instant go ahead by the producer, who in turn wanted some time to ponder over the project. If not meagre profits, but at least a break even was expected from this first time film project. But after a nod from Mr Gomber, Mr Tamhane kept no stone unturned, to make this movie realistically interesting, and all the awards speak for the film.
Now, the makers of ‘Court’ are busy in promoting this multi-award winning film. They feel that the awareness about this national award winning film, should be spread many fold. So they have requested all the people, who featured in the film, numbering around hundred, to promote the film through their personal contacts in social media. This emotional appeal was met with innocent enthusiasm shown by the entire group of first-time ‘actors’. Incidentally, this very cast got a special mention from the jury of MAMI, as Best Ensemble of Cast in a Film.
National award winning film ‘Court’, which can boast of 18 more awards at various film festivals and expected to increase the tally because it has still 20 odd invitations from other international film festivals, is the first Marathi film to be released nationwide, simultaneously on 17th April 2015.
‘Court’ visits 20 film festivals to bag 17 awards
Marathi films have always been hailed for its content. With a Variety of thought-provoking subjects handled by directors, the films have been receiving a lot of praise and accolades at different film festivals.
One such film which is produced by Vivek Gombhar under the banner Zoo Entertainment Pvt Ltd, is, ‘Court’ . Obviously this film, as the title suggests, tries to throw light on the smaller courts in India in a realistic way, keeping the narration interesting. The film is written by Chaitanya Tamhane, who is also making his is debut as a director with this film. The film has already made waves at 20 national and international film festivals. MAMI at Mumbai , Venice International film festival , Tomorrow Int. film festival at Moscow to name a few, it bagged 17 awards, in different categories including Best film and Best director. ‘Court’ will be released for general audience on 17th April 2015.