Much awaited ‘Lokshahi’ to release in theatres on 9th February
Much awaited Marathi film ‘Lokshahi’ which has been the topic of discussion among the film lovers, is all set for release in theatres all over Maharashtra on 9th February 2024. The trailer and the songs have already generated curiosity about this film, on social media. This film presents many important issues like the existence of women in politics, dynasty rule, Power struggle, election battle with propaganda of political parties and the outcome of the results with celebrations. In short, the release of the film has been timed well.
Written by lyricist Renowned Singer Jaideep Bagwadkar has rendered a song ‘O Bhau O dada…’ which is picturised on dashing hero Ankit Mohan. The film presents a suspense filled political drama drama with a murder mystery. Produced by Mr. Sushilkumar Agrawal, written and directed by Sanjay Amar the film stars reputed artistes like Dr. Mohan Agashe , Tejashree Pradhan along with Ankit Mohan, Dr. Girish Oak, Samir Dharmadhikari, Bhargavi Chirmule, Amit Riyan, Shantanu Moghe, Prasanna Ketkar, Sushrut Mankani, Ajita Kulkarni & Sonal Waghmare.
Grand Trailer and Music launch of Marathi film ‘Lokshahi’
After raising curiosity about their film since the launch of their film’s poster recently, the makers of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Lokshahi’ have now released the grand trailer and also launched the music of this film. The trailer of the film gives the glimpse of a political thriller and the music of this film is receiving good response on social media.
But, the most interesting thing about this film is its star cast, which comprises of well known versatile artistes who are involved in this power struggle in politics. During the grand trailer and music launch Producer of this film Mr. Sushilkumar Agrawal was present along with lead artistes of this film Dr. Mohan Agashe, Tejashree Pradhan, Amitriyan Patil and others. This film is directed by Sanjay Amar with the music provided by Sanjay- Raji. Besides Dr. Mohan Agashe, Tejashree Pradhan, Amit Riyan the film also stars Dr. Girish Oak, Bhargavi Chirmule, Samir Dharmadhikari and others in prominent roles.
Ajitdada Pawar launches Poster of ‘Aathvani’
Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Mr. Ajitdada Pawar in presence of other dignitaries like M.P. Ms. Supriya Sule, MLA’s Jayantrao Patil, Mr. Dilip Valse Patil The entire team of the forthcoming Marathi film ‘Aathvani’ had approached Ajit dada for his blessings and he obliged them in presence of other dignitaries, by launching the poster of their film.
Directed by Siddhant Ashok Sawant the poster of this film displays veteran artistes Dr. Mohan Agashe and Ms. Suhas Joshi along with lead artistes Surhud Wardekar and Vaishnavi Karmarkar. The film also stars Ninad Sawant in supporting role . The poster also indicates complications in relationship, selfless love and strong bonding between couples.So, it will be interesting to see what exactly is being offered by this film which is presented by Minash Productions and produced by Siddhant Sawant and Ashok Sawant.
This film will be released on 7th July 2023 all over Maharashtra.
‘Ekada Kaay Zale’ Teaser and Music launched together
Teaser and Music of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Ekada Kaay Zale’ were launched simultaneously on 12th July 2022 at the hands of popular singer, music director Shankar Mahadevan , popular singers Suresh Wadkar and Sunidhi Chouhan. On this occasion singers Sunidhi Chouhan and Shubhankar Kulkarni presented the songs from this film. Songs of this film are written by Sandeep Khare, Dr. Salil Kulkarni and Samir Samant.
Dr. Salil Kulkarni besides directing this film based on father and son relationship, has also written the songs, story and provided the music of this film. The film stars Sumeet Raghavan, Urmila Kothare and child star Arjun Purnapatre in lead roles, while other important artistes of this film are Dr. Mohan Agashe, Mukta Barve, Pushkar Shrotri and Rajesh Bhosale. This film is produced by Gajvadan Productions and ShowBox Entertainment and will be released on 5th August 2022.
‘Raan Bazaar’ success party celebrated in a big way
Planet Marathi, A Vistas Media Capital Company, Ravan Future Production, Abhijit Panse & Anita Palande recently celebrated the success party of their OTT Web Series ‘Raan Bazaar’ on the occasion of birthday celebration of Planet Marathi founder Akshay Bardapurkar. The entire team of ‘Raan Bazaar’ was present on this occasion. 
‘Raan Bazaar’ Web Series, Prajakta Mali, Mrinal Kulkarni, Mohan Agashe, Tejaswini Pandit, Makarand Anaspure
In a short time after its release on OTT platform, this series which is a political thriller, had received very good response from viewers, according to the makers of this series. Being a multi starter series, with many renowned artistes from Marathi film and television industry playing important characters, this series had invited the attention of many action series lovers.
Tribute to Vijay Tendulkar on his birth anniversary
6th January was birth anniversary of Late Vijay Tendulkar. On this occasion Storytel Audio Streaming Company released the Audio Drama festival of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays suitably titled ‘Te –Ek Sravya Anubhav (तें – एक श्राव्य अनुभव)’ to pay tributes to this legendary play writer in presence of renowned personalities in Mumbai. Present on this occasion were, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Pushkar Shrotri, Sandeep Pathak, Pushkaraj Chirputkar, Dushyant wagh, Music director Milind Joshi, Director Mangesh Kadam, Director Pratima Kulkarni, and Rahul Patil & Umesh Barve from Storytel ( India).
A 45 minutes short film ‘Varsaa tencha’, which covers the journey of Vijay tendulkar in the drama field; made by Pratima Kulkarni was shown during the press conference. Thereafter, five plays of Vijay tendulkar namely, ‘Sakharam Binder’, ‘Kavlyanchi Shala’, ‘Baby’, ‘Kanyadaan’ & ‘Shantata Court Chalu Aahe’ were released on Storytel app. Out of these five Pratima Kulkarni has directed ‘Kavlyanchi Shala’, while the other four are directed by Mangesh Kadam. Many renowned artistes from Marathi film, television and stage have offered their voices for different characters in these plays.
‘Karkhanisanchi Waari’ takes you on a humour filled road journey
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Produced by Archana Borhade and co produced by Zulfi waris ( ABP Studios) ‘Karkhanisanchi Waari (कारखानिसांची वारी)’ is the latest Marathi film released on OTT platform –Sony Live. With script written by Archana Borhade and Mangesh Joshi and directed by ‘Lathe Joshi’ fame director Mangesh Joshi, this film revolves around Karkhanis joint family living in Pune.
After the death of head of this family (Pradeep Velankar), his close relatives after performing his last rites are on a road trip to Pandharpur via their ancestral house to immerse his ashes , as per his last wish. Five of them namely, brothers - Dr. Mohan Agashe, Pradeep Joshi, Ajit Abhyankar , sister- Geetanjali Kulkarni and son – Om ( Amey Wagh) are on their journey, travelling in their Omni- traveller . They are followed on her motor bike by Om’s girlfriend Madhura ( Mrunmayee Deshpande), who wants Om to disclose their relationship to his close relatives, as early as possible.
While this group is on their way to Pandharpur, the widow played by Vandana Gupte has other plans to meet her financial requirements. She takes another route to settle a score with mistress of her late husband, who lives in another town close to Pune. As writers, director and producers both Archana Borhade and Mangesh Joshi have focussed more on highlighting attitude of each important character existing in today’s materialistic world. They have presented this film in a funny way, to make the screenplay interesting. Happening of humour filled events during their journey and simultaneously showing the developments to unfold the mysterious life of the deceased have been captured very well. The interaction between Vandana Gupte and Shubhangi Gokhale has been presented very well.
The highlight of this film are the performances by all the artistes in important roles. They are so natural that sometimes you feel as if you are travelling along with them. Writer- producer Archana Borhade has also done her main job as a cinematographer extremely well while presenting the emotions of each one of the artistes in close up scenes, besides capturing their humour filled sequences in the outdoor. No wonder, this universal subject representing every age group well presented through this film, has invited the attention of film critics from different parts of the world, wherever the film was screened. Above all, this film has bagged one of the five best films’ award at Tokyo International film festival. This itself is a very good news for Marathi cinema.
Certainly a worth watch film for all. Don’t miss it.
‘Kaasav’ shows the way to overcome depression with a purpose in life
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Renowned director duo Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar made 17 Marathi films together and won various national and international accolades for their previous films like ‘Doghi’,‘Dahavi Fa’ , ‘Vastupurush’,‘Devrai’, ‘Samhita’ and ‘Astu’ (movie review). Two of these films were based on mental illness such as Schizophrenia and Alzimer’s disease. And they presented these two subjects very skilfully handling the subject with the support of Dr. Mohan Agashe himself a Psychiatrist, who was part of both these films.
In ‘Kaasav’ (कासव) we saw Dr. Mohan Agashe contributing in the form of a producer along with the film maker duo Bhave and Sukhtankar. This film has won the National award for the best feature film at the 64th National Film awards. Unfortunately, this film could not be released in a big way in theatres like other Marathi films, but was released recently on Sony Liv OTT platform, which has made it possible to reach out to the Marathi film lovers scattered all over the world.
‘Kaasav’ truly stands to the appreciation it received during the Golden Lotus National award for best feature film. The film’s story is presented in a beautiful cinematic way, to show the relevance of the issues of depression suffered by the youngster (Alok Rajwade) in the film, in relation to the life and nesting cycle of Olive Ridley Sea Turtles, being researched by Janaki (Iravati Harshe) a middle aged divorcee, who herself consults a psychologist for her panic attacks.
Shot at the beautiful beach location of Devgad in Sindhudurg district, the film captures some realistic moments to show, how this middle aged woman tries to treat the depressed youngster, by understanding his problems with the help of a local doctor. There are few other important characters in the form Yadu( Kishore Kadam) driver cum cook of Janaki, Dattabhau (Mohan Agashe) a local, who is working on an olive ridley sea turtles conservation project, Devika Daftardar ( short appearance) playing the step mother of the depressed youngster and others with their perfect Malvani accent, who provide very good support.
Beautiful cinematography by Dhananjay Kulkarni captures the beauty of Devgad beach, while Saket Kanetkar’s music provides good support to this artistic film with a timely message of showing the purpose of living life to a depressed youngster. Perfect editing by Mohit Takalkar has made this 104 minutes length film look very interesting. But, the overall credit goes to the director duo Sumitra Bhave – Sunil Sukhtankar for handling this difficult subject brilliantly with the help of Dr. Mohan Agashe, who has contributed his bit as an actor, but more as a producer. Certainly a worth watch film for all.
World Premiere of ‘Karkhanisanchi Wari’ at Tokyo International Film Fest
Forthcoming Marathi film ‘Karkhanisanchi Wari’( Ashes on a Road Trip) has been selected for the World Premiere at the prestigious 33rd Tokyo International Film festival. The festival is scheduled between 31st October and 9th November in Tokyo. The film is produced by Nine Archer’s Pictures Company and Pravah Productions & Archana Borhade and is directed by Mangesh Joshi. Earlier, this director had directed the film ‘Lathe Joshi’ which had also participated in many international film festivals. Archana Borhade has done the cinematography of this film.
The film’s story is based on a humour filled road trip undertaken by a family and stars renowned actors like Amey wagh, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Dr Mohan Agashe, Gitanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi, Ajit Abhyankar, Vandana Gupte, Shubhangi Gokhale and Pradeep Velankar. Music of this film is composed by A.V. Prafulchandra while the background music is by Sarang Kulkarni. Director Mangesh Joshi has appealed to all Marathi film lovers to strongly support his film.
Renowned veteran actor Dr.Mohan Agashe to step into ‘Tee Phulrani’ TV serial
With his appealing personality Dr.Mohan Agashe has always invited all the attention through various characters portrayed by him in the past, be it in films or on television. Now, this renowned veteran actor will step into ongoing popular TV serial ‘Tee Phulrani‘ on Sony Marathi as Jagdish Mahapatre. This character is very important in this TV serial, as Jagdish Mahapatre is very much against the Deshmukh family and their style of living .
Since his childhood, Jagdish Mahapatre has been hearing from his mother, how Deshmukh family harassed his family. Therefore, it will be interesting to see how Jagdish Mahapatre will deal with Deshmukh family and at the same time it remains to be seen how Shounak and Manju will discover his real identity. But, one thing is sure that with his entry, Dr.Agashe is sure to bring in more interest in ‘Tee Phulrani‘ serial.