Finally, Janhavi says Goodbye to home viewers
Finally, Janhavi played by Tejashree Pradhan has said goodbye, after delivering a baby girl. Her serial ‘Honar Suun Mi Hya Gharchi’ has come to an end, with its final episode held yesterday. From 25th January 2016 onwards, the audience will welcome a new serial ‘Pasant Aahe Mulgi’ in its place. Produced by Nitin Vaidya & Ninad Vaidya, this new serial is directed by Raju Sawant, with the concept designed by well known film and drama director Sameer Vidwans.
‘Pasant Aahe Mulgi’ is based on the subject of ‘matchmaking’ and questions about necessity of horoscope matching, when the couple is already on the same wavelength, with their thinking process matching each other. The story of this serial revolves around Urmi and Vasu, who fall in love with each other during their college days and later Vasu proposing Urmi for marriage. How their contrast family lifestyles, accept their coming together, is what the serial is all about. The lead artistes of this serial are Resham Prashant and Abhishek Deshmukh along with Girish Oak playing the most important role of Pant. The other artistes of this serial are Meghana Vaidya, Padmanabh Bind, Ketaki Saraf, Namrata Kadam, Rama Joshi, Vijay Mishra & Siddhirupa Karmarkar. But, how this serial is able to convince the audience with this subject, it remains to be seen.
It may be recalled that all those new serials released during the past few months have not been very appealing, with nothing new offered through the subject of the serial. Therefore, the expectations of the viewers from any new serial introduced, are very high. In comparison, some of the entertainment shows, were well accepted. The best example is that of ‘Countdown of Marathi songs- Mirchi Top 20’ programmes, presented by Colors channel.
Last week, Maiboli channel presented two Marathi films ‘Samudra’ and ‘Agnidivya’ with interesting subjects . Both the films had renowned artistes from Marathi and had some good content to offer. Even otherwise, Maiboli channel offeres many such Marathi films, which were not shown before on TV channels. It is good to watch such films, instead of watching the routine Marathi comedy films, which are telecast in repeat runs, on other channels.
By: Shweta Khot © MMW Network
Very few serials impress during 2015
TV serials are generally meant for entertaining the home audience. Generally, the evening time is a pass time for housewives. For the working people, it is time for relaxation with light humour , after a tiring day; while for youngsters, it is time for some entertainment. But, are our Marathi TV serials offering the required entertainment to all such people ? Frankly speaking, during the year 2015, we did not notice, much of quality entertainment through these TV serials, except for few exceptions. But, the laughter shows, did entertain the audience to certain extent, on different channels.
Among the Marathi serials telecast on different channels, only ‘Dil Dosti Duniyadari’ on Zee Marathi provided good entertainment, especially inviting the attention of young audience. In fact, the young characters in this serial, represented different sections of society, to relate with the young audience. But, the subjects of other new serials , failed to impress and few of them had to say goodbye. Those, which are yet to find a proper grip on their story and screenplay are, ‘Asa Sasar Surekh Bai’ & ’Saraswati’ ( Recently released) ‘ on Colors, ‘Majhe Pati Soubhagyavati’ & ‘ Nanda Soukhyabhare’ on Zee Marathi, ‘Tumcha Aamcha Same Asata’ on Star Pravah. ‘Runji’ and ‘Kamala’ which began well, unfortunately disappointed , with their further progress. Surprisingly, some old serials on all channels, are still continuing, testing the patience of the audience.
Now, there is big hope from the new year 2016. And, it is high time that respective Marathi TV channels, seriously take into account the subjects, which would appeal all age groups. Actually, no serial should continue for more than a year, as it is very difficult to hold the grip on the story and at the same time, continue entertain the audience. During this first month of the new year, we are expecting one new serial in the form of ‘Pasant Aahe Mulgi’, with an interesting tagline; i.e. For a successful marriage, only matching the horoscope is not necessary; but, even the wavelength should match. Similarly, the wavelength of the characters performing in different serials, should match with the audience. Hope, our programme producers of all TV channels, keep this in mind, during this new year.
By: Shweta Khot © MMW Network
‘Classmates’ premiered in style on Colors channel
Super hit film of the year, ‘Classmates’ was premiered on Colors channel, last Sunday. And, the manner in which it was presented, inserting the talk show amongst the team members, during the break, made it more interesting. It was nice to listen to the experience of all the artistes, during the making of this film. More than that, the telecast of this film was also enjoyable, considering its suspense filled screenplay and wonderful performances of the artistes. They all, really made a very good team.
It looks like that Colors channel is also getting ready to present the premieres of few more new films. The next one being another hit film ‘Balkadu’. But, we only hope that they don’t repeat these films every month, calling it second premiere or 3rd premiere and so on. By the way, the new mythological serial ‘Ganapati Bappa Morya’ on this channel is yet to pick up; as there are many new faces. So, let us wait for few more episodes. But, little Ganesh and Parvati are doing well.
However, things are really not going well with their other serial ‘Kamla’ and entertainment show ‘Aali lahar kela Kahar’. Instead, the other serial like ‘Asa Saasar Surekh Bai’ and ‘Comedy chi Bullet train’ provide better entertainment. But, it’s high time, they replace their other serials with new subjects.
Now, talking about ‘Honar Suun Mi Hya Gharchi’ on Zee Marathi, after the big drama taking place in Janhavi’s house, now the focus is on Pintya’s newly wed wife Sunita. And, Komal Khamkar, who is playing this role, is making her presence felt, with a confident looking performance. Komal, who otherwise speaks good Marathi, has cleverly learned this village style accent, especially for this role. She is a very good dancer too and we hope to see her perform it, in this serial too.
Marathi music channels do help to popularize the songs of all forthcoming Marathi films. At the same time, they also help the new artistes. One best example, is that of Film ‘Urfi’. The songs of this film promoted on music channels, has helped the newcomer Mitali Mayekar. More and more people, especially youngsters, who have become her fans, are visiting nearby theatres, to watch her performance in the film ‘Urfi’ released last Friday.
By: Shweta Khot © MMW Network
कलर्स मराठीवर ‘गणपती बाप्पा मोरया’ प्रेक्षकांच्या भेटीला
लहानापासून मोठ्यांपर्यंत, अगदी सगळ्यांचे लाडके दैवत असलेल्या गणपती बाप्पांची गाथा पौराणिक मालिकेच्या रूपाने सादर होत असून, या मालिकेचा शुभारंभ उद्यापासून (२४ नोव्हेंबर) होत आहे .‘जय मल्हार’ च्या यशा नंतर महेश कोठारे ह्यांच्या, कोठारे विजन द्वारा निर्मित ‘गणपती बाप्पा मोरया’ ही मालिका सोमवार ते शनिवार रात्री ८.३० वाजता ‘कलर्स मराठी‘ ह्या वाहिनीवर प्रसारित होणार आहे.
‘गणपती बाप्पा मोरया’ ही मालिका पार्वती – गणेश या मातापुत्राच्या ममतेच्या अलौकिक नात्याचे विविध पदरही उलगडणार आहे. या मालिकेत बाप्पांच्या प्रचलित आणि सर्वश्रुत असलेल्या गोष्टींसोबत काही अपरिचित कथाही बघायला मिळतील. या मंगलमय गणेशकथांसह शिवपार्वती आणि इतर देवदेवतांचे दिव्य दर्शन, तसेच डोळे दिपवून टाकणारे शिवालय, नयनरम्य नंदनवन ही पावित्र्याची प्रतीके सर्व महाराष्ट्राला मंत्रमुग्ध करतील. असा विश्वास या मालिकेचा निर्माता आणि क्रिएटिव दिग्दर्शक आदिनाथ कोठारे ह्याने दर्शिवला.
एकंदरीतच उत्तम अभिनय, अभ्यासपूर्ण कथा आणि उच्च तंत्राद्यानाच्या सहाय्याने मांडलेल्या अश्या पौराणिक कथा नक्कीच प्रेक्षेकांमध्ये लोकप्रिय होतात. गणपती बाप्पांची हि नव्या स्वरूपातील तेजोमय गाथा, इतर पौराणिक मालीकेंच्या तुलनेत हि नवी मालिका प्रेक्षेकांना किती पसंतीची पडते ते लवकरच कळेल.