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Spruha Joshi
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Besides acting, I love to compose poems – Spruha Joshi

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Spruha Joshi is a popular name in Marathi entertainment. At present, she is in full form with two of her plays ‘Never Mind’ and ‘Lahanpan Dega Deva’ inviting all the attention from Marathi stage lovers. Through her role in ongoing TV serial ‘Eka Lagnachi Doosri Goshta’, she has made her presence felt. On big screen, we saw her dashing role in Avadhoot Gupte’s film ‘Morya’ opposite Santosh Juvekar. Marathi Movie World spoke to Spruha, to know more about her achievements in this field.

Spruha Joshi
Q: How and when your acting career took off ?
A: It all began during my childhood. While I was studying in Balmohan Vidyamandir, Vidya Patwardhan was my arts teacher. Having contributed a lot to children’s theatre, she was instrumental in developing me and others towards acting. While doing a one act play ‘Natukli’ for school, she was involved in production of a serial ‘De Dhamaal’ for Alpha Marathi channel. I was in 7th standard at that time, when I made my first commercial debut as a child artiste. This was followed by my performances in ‘Ek Ha Asa Dhaga Sukhacha’, ‘Aabhalmaya’, ‘Bombay lawyers( NDTV) and ‘Satyamev Jayate’.

After joining Ruia College, I performed in one act play ‘Ga Ma Bha Na’ followed by Gajendra Ahire’s ‘Maaybaap’, which was my film debut. During my college days, I performed in many one act plays, acted in popular serial ‘Agnihotra’ and film ‘Morya’.

Q: Tell us something about your roles in ‘Lahanpan Dega Devaa’ and ‘Never Mind’.
A: My character in ‘Lahanpan Dega Devaa’ is of a moody mischievous college girl Sharayu from a upper middle class family of 60s era. This character is very cute and typical of her age, who shares close friendly relationship with her sister-in-law. In ‘Never Mind’, I play an equally important and challenging character of Smita, a young girl, who has just entered Media and Advertising field. She unknowingly falls in love with her Boss, while sharing advice on different issues. It’s all fun, to see it happen.

Q: Your character of Kuhoo in ‘Eka Lagnachi Doosri Goshta’ is also inviting attention. Tell us something about this role.
A: There is no doubt about the popularity of this serial. But, the character of Kuhoo is also has its own importance. It’s a nice role of a young girl, who is mischievous, friendly and emotionally attached to all family members. She is a poet and communicates very philosophically with others. People are discussing about her habits. That’s the strength of this role.

Q: What are your other interests, besides acting?
A: I spend time in writing. I just love to compose poems. In 2008 my first set of poems got published. Now, I am working on one more.

Q: Tell us something about your forthcoming projects.
A: As I have already mentioned, I am presently focusing on my ongoing two plays and one serial. All these roles are different and have variety. As regards big screen, I am performing in Ramesh More’s forthcoming film ‘Sur Rahoo De’.

Thanks Spruha. Wishing you all the best.

Ila Bhate
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Success can be achieved through hard work and patience – Ila Bhate

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Twenty five years ago, she was running her own science laboratory in Mumbai after doing her graduation with Microbiology and acquiring a Post Graduate Diploma in Laboratory management. But, at that stage, she felt that she was not meant for this job. The glamorous field of acting invited her attention. And that’s how Ila Bhate turned an actress, with her first commercial appearance through Marathi play ‘Apradhi’. Today, she is the popular stage and TV actress. With the success of ongoing productions ‘U Turn’ and ‘Eka Lagnachi Doosri Goshta’, Ila has found the place in the heart of stage and Home TV lovers. Marathi Movie World spoke to this talented actress, who has devoted herself to the field of acting for a little more than 25 years now. Excerpts from the interview:

Ila BhateQ: Who encouraged you to take up career in acting ?
A: At a time, when I could not focus on my lab work; my husband realized that my attention was somewhere else. He had spotted the talent in me; during the debates, where I took active interest. With his support, I just tried my acting skills through Arun Johglekar’s marathi play ‘Apradhi‘.

Q: Was that your acting debut ?
A: yes, you may call it so; as I had never acted at professional level before that. Our entire team comprising of Pradeep Velankar, Sunil Shende, Ramakant Deshpande, Mohan Munge, Rajani Velankar and others were from our Vile parle area. I had a small role, but it was effective one. Soon after that in 1989, I had a role to play in a film ‘Vazir’ starring Ashwini Bhave, Vikram Gokhale & Ashok Saraf. In the year 2000, I made my debut on television through DD’s popular serial ‘Damini‘.

Q: In the recent past your play ‘U Turn’ has received a grand success. What you have to say about that ?
A: The success of ‘U Turn’ is its team work. Like the way, a good recipe is planned with proportionate ingredients for a tempting dish; the excellent team work worked in favour of this play. Actually, Anand Mhasvekar had very cleverly presented this subject based on friendship between two opposite sex people in the second half of the life. Mr. Govind Chavan dared to produce this play on a different subject and our theatre audience and critics welcomed it. I would say that the hard work put in by two of us and the technical team was supported by destiny, to attain success.

Q: According to you, how important is the timing and response of the co-artistes ?
A: I always try to attain comfort level with my co-artistes. Be it the mother-son, Husband-wife, Mother-daughter relationship; I am always at ease. It is always necessary to react with required expressions or body language, when the other artiste is delivering his or her dialogues. This helps in making the play or serial popular, with your indirect participation. I don’t perform for my own self; but for the effective presentation of that scene involving others in my presence. I have been fortunate to work with comfort, in the company of popular actors like Vikram Gokhale, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Mohan Joshi, Dr. Girish Oak, Ashok Saraf, Ramesh Bhatkar & Sanjay Mone,

Q: Do you think that training at acting workshops, help in building a career in this field?
A: I wouldn’t like to comment on acting workshops. According to me, acting needs to be in your blood; but, you need to brush up that talent. Success of Workshops will depend upon the capacity of the trainee. The purpose of attending the workshop should not be to attain quick results. There is a lot of hard work is required with patience, while learning other technical matters besides acting. Success will come, but a lot of word work and dedication is required for the same.

Q: Say something about your ongoing popular serial ‘Eka Lagnachi Doosri Goshta’ .?
A: Here again, it’s a good team work. Thanks to Shrirang Godbole, Chinmay Mandlekar and Rajiv Patil, the people behind the screen. But, I would specially like to mention about Lata Ravindra, who has penned the dialogues. Each one of us is so much involved with this serial that we enjoy every moment during the shooting. And that is the success story of this serial.

Q: Among the recently released Marathi films, which one in particular, invited your attention?
A: I like the film ‘Kaksparsha’. It is a well presented film, which takes you almost into that era of pre independence. It has a story, which is serious with tragic end; but that was necessary to respect the original story. All the artistes have given their best performances. The other two films, which have invited my attention are ‘Masala’ and ‘Khel Mandala’; but I have yet to watch them.

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‘I was confident about my acting career’ – Umesh Kamat

Umesh Kamat, Actor

For the past few years, acting has opened a new career for youngsters. Even after Graduation, many youngsters have preferred singing ,acting and film making as their career. Some of whom who were Doctors, Engineers and even IT professionals have switched over to this profession. One such youngster who took up acting as his career, after his Post graduation is Umesh kamat. Today, he is not only an established Marathi actor but happily married to Priya Bapat , who is also from the same field.
Since childhood, Umesh was associated with stage performances as a hobby; but, he pursued his education till post graduation; only to choose acting as his career. Umesh began with stage plays and later performed in many TV serials and about 10 Marathi films released so far. Some of the prominent serials he has performed in are ‘Asamnbhav’ and ‘Eka Lagnachi Doosri Goshta’. Though Umesh has not been lucky to find his films becoming hits; his performances in these films were really very good. He has worked with many popular and new actresses like Saie Tamhankar(in two films), Nisha Parulekar, Urmila kanitkar, Bhargavi Chirmule and Priyanka Yadav. Two of his plays ‘Gandhi Aadva Yeto’ and ‘Nava Gadee Nava Rajya’ are presently drawing good crowds.

Umesh Kamat, ActorNow, Umesh is eagerly waiting for two of his films to be released shortly .Both are romantic films. One is ‘Time Please’ opposite his own wife Priya for the first time on Big screen, apart from Siddharth Jadhav and Saie Tamhankar in supporting cast and the other is ‘Lagna Pahava Karun’ opposite Mukta Barve. Marathi Movie world spoke to this young brilliant actor, to know more about his experience in this field. Excerpts from an interview:

Q: After completing your education, you entered acting field to make a career. How was the response from your family?
A: They were very supportive; as they saw the confidence in me. Till then, I was into acting as a hobby. But, then I wanted to take it seriously. So, I gave my full time.
Q: How was your childhood like?
A: I lived in RBI Colony, Santacruz( West) for 20 years; as my mother worked for Reserve Bank of India. It was a good community living with social gatherings and programmes in the colony. In fact, it was a good platform to exhibit my acting talent.

Q: When exactly you turned to professional acting?
A: It was only after I completed my Post Graduation. At that time, Ii was matured enough to take my decisions. Moreover, I was confident about myself.

Q: You shot into limelight, after your performance as Adinath in the popular TV serial ‘Asambhav’. Isn’t it?
A: Yes, that’s right. The serial offered a good subject and I really enjoyed working in that serial. The role was good and people appreciated it.

Q: You are really having a good time with your ongoing play, ‘Nava Gadee Nava Rajya’. Now, you are doing a film, ‘Time Please’ based on this play. How confident are you about this film?
A: Actually, when I was offered this film by the makers of this play, I was initially hesitant, thinking that it would be the repeat of same things what we did on stage. But, when the developed script was shown to me; I was convinced that the cinematic format would be appealing with addition of new things, which were not possible to show on stage. For example, the lifestyle of IT people, their weekend parties and other liberties enjoyed by them outdoors. When Priya and myself did the reading of the dialogues for the film for the first time, we found them very interesting for a change. Many occasions, after reading a scene, we used burst into laughter.

Q: You are also doing a film with Mukta Barve. What is that film about ?
A: Yes, this is Ajay Naik’s own film. It is a romantic film. Ajay is a good friend and when he approached me with this subject, I found the subject new and related to lives of today’s youngsters. Moreover, my chemistry with Mukta had worked well in the concluding episodes of ‘Eka Llagnachi Doosari Goshta’. So, I immediately agreed to do it.
Q: Are there any other films in the pipeline?
A: Yes, I am doing a film ‘Pune via Bihar’ which is a love story of a Boy from Pune and Girl from Bihar. Mrunmayee Deshpande is playing the lead opposite me in this film.