Six new film projects announced by Producer Akshay Bardapurkar
Only a day after the release of a Mega Venture Film ‘AB ani CD’ by Producer Akshay Bardapurkar of Planet Marathi, the orders for closure of Cinema halls and the Drama theaters were issued by the Government. This collapsed the Box Office arithmetic of many other films along with ‘AB aani CD’. However, without getting bogged down by this sudden onslaught, Producer Akshay Bardapurkar and his team took a brave decision to release this film on Amazon Prime.
Considering the propriety of occasion of Maharashtra Day and Labour Day on the 1st May, the film was released on the Amazon Prime and it received a good response. Now with this success, Planet Marathi is going to produce six new films & Web series projects. Producer Akshay Bardapurkar announced this recently. Two of the important films that would be arriving under the banner are ‘Gosht Eka Paithanichi’ Directed by Shantanu Rode and ‘Chandramukhi’ Directed by Prasad Oak.
The Producers have said that they would make available many
opportunities during future projects for Planet Talent artists as well
as fresh talents for encouraging them. Above projects will have both a genuine variety as well as roles played by top actors from Bollywood. However, the information about the cast as well as directors and the faces from Bollywood appearing in these films has been a secret for now. The decision is going to be most important from the angle of maintaining stability for many economic arithmetic issues.
अभिनेत्री अदिती येवले सोशल मीडियाच्या माध्यमातून सादतीये संवाद
सध्या लॉकडाऊन मुळे चित्रपट व्यवसाय ठप्प आहे. चित्रपट, मालिकांचे चित्रीकरण देखील थांबले आहे, अनेक हिंदी, मराठी कलाकार सोशल मीडियाच्या माध्यमातून रसिकांच्या संपर्कात राहताना आपल्याला दिसतायेत. कुणी योगा करतानाचे आपले फोटो शेअर करताना दिसतायेत तर कुणी आपल्या जुन्या आठवणींना उजाळा देत आपले जुने फोटो शेअर करताना दिसतायेत.
‘रुंजी’, ‘एक नंबर’, ‘कुलस्वामिनी’ अश्या अनेक मालिकांमधून घराघरात पोहोचलेली अभिनेत्री अदिती येवले देखील सोशल मीडियाच्या माध्यमातून चाहत्यांशी संवाद सादतीये, विविध पदार्थांच्या रेसिपी ती तिच्या सोशल मीडिया अकाउंटच्या माध्यमातून चाहत्यांना शेअर करताना दिसते. अभिनयाबरोबरच तिला विविध रेसिपी बनवायला आवडतात.
‘वेलकम जिंदगी’, ‘विकून टाक’, ‘नेबर्स’ अश्या चित्रपटांमधून देखील तिने आजवर महत्वाच्या भूमिका साकारल्या आहेत.
Actor Saiprasad Gundewar dies in USA during Brain Cancer treatment
Passionate young actor Saiprasad Gundewar, who was suffering from Brain Cancer for the past two years died today in USA . Sai was operated upon for this ailment in Los Angeles on 22nd February 2019 and since them was undergoing post operative treatment. His untimely passing away is a big loss to not only USA but also to Bollywood and Marathi film industry. He is survived by his wife Sapna Amin , a fashion designer, mother Rajashree and father Rajeev.
Sai had performed in MTV’s Splitsvilla Season4, Survivor on Star Plus, America’s popular serials ‘S.W.A.T.’, ‘Cagney and Lacey’ , ‘The Orville’, ‘The Mars’, ‘Conspiracies’, ‘The Card’. In Hindi, he had performed in films like ‘RockOn’, ‘Pappu Can’t Dance Sala’, ‘Love Break up Zindagi’, ‘David’, ‘I Me aur Mai’, ‘PK’, & ‘Bazaar’. In Marathi films he had performed lead role in ‘A Dot Com Mom’. Team MarathiMovieWorld offer their sincere condolences to his family.
Actress Smita Tambe takes you down memory lane with her first photo shoot
For all film artistes, their first photo shoot is always a memorable moment. If this photo shoot is done during their childhood, it remains a lifelong memory. Now, during this lockdown period, many artistes are spending time going through their own photos to recall their past memories. One such memory was recalled by talented award winning actress Smita Tambe.
Smita Tambe found her old childhood photo during a photo shoot in a studio, which she has shared on her social networking page. Speaking about this memorable moment, Smita says, “During my childhood, my parents had specially stitched new dress for me and they wanted to have my photo shoot in that dress and that too in a Photo studio on the backdrop of a curtain with painting of Kashmir. Whenever I see this photo, I remember the love and affection showered upon me by my parents. And therefore, during this lockdown period, I only think about my loving parents.”
‘Ek Hota Pani’ selected for Mysore International Film Festival
Marathi film ‘Ek Hota Pani’ has been selected for screening at the forthcoming Mysore International film Festival and this is a good news for the makers of this film. The film has also received various nominations in different categories of this film fest. Above all, the writer of this film Ashish Ningurkar has already been declared an award for the best writing on social issue.
Produced by Dr. Pravin Bhujbal and Vijay Tiwari , directed by Rohan Satghare with cinematography by Yogesh Andhare the film has invited all the attention for drawing attention of the audience to the most important issue of water, which is crucial in our life. The film stars Anant Jog, Hansraj Jagtap, Sriya Mastekar, Chaitra Bhujbal, Ganesh Mayekar, Yatin Karyekar, Ranjit Jog, Jairaj Nair, Ashish Ningurkar and Upendra Datey.
Last year this film had already received appreciation at many film festivals and now with its selection for Mysore International Water Film Festival, the makers have added one more feather in their cap. The festival will begin soon after the lockdown restrictions are lifted.
‘Tu Parat Ye’ song released to boost the morale of people
The spread of corona virus has forced the Government to extend the lockdown period in Maharashtra. Our Marathi artistes who are also required to remain at home, are coming out with their ideas to entertain the people of Maharashtra observing all lockdown rules. Recently, 10 Marathi artistes became part of the song ‘Tu Parat Ye’ written and composed by S. Sagar and directed by Swaroop Balasaheb Sawant.
This song video released now is produced by Sachin Dubale Patil and has been shot on the following 10 artistes, namely Prathamesh Parab, Pranav Raorane, Akshay Tanksale, Nikhil Vairagar, Vijay Andalkar, Nikhil Raut, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Siddheshvar Zadbuke, Jayesh Chavan and Swaroop Balasaheb Sawant. The purpose behind producing this video is to offer prayer to God for normalising the tense situation for a better tomorrow. It is an effort to boost the morale of people who are living in tense situation.
Marathi artistes offer a video on the occasion of State’s Diamond Jubilee Year
Due to the spread of coronavirus, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Maharashtra State’s formation day could not be celebrated on 1st May, 2020. But, our Marathi artistes came up with an idea by observing the lockdown rule of ‘stay at home’. They have presented a video suitably titled ‘Vaibhav Maharashtracha’ on this occasion.
The most important thing is that these artistes shot the video at their respective homes taking the help of out latest technology. Aakash Pendharkar and Hemant Dhome with the help of social media platform ‘Helo’ have produced this video which is based on the song ‘Baghtos Kay Mujara Kar’ from Hemant Dhome’s film. This new song has been written by Kshitij Patwardhan, while music is provided by Amitraj.
Singers Hrshavardhan Wavare & Kasturi Wavare have rendered this song in their voices, while this song is pictured on popular Marathi artistes Sonali Kulkarni, Hemant Dhome, Aniket Vishasrao, Sumeet Raghavan, Shashank Ketkar, Rasika Dhabadgaonkar, Sanjay Jadhav, Prarthana Behere, Amitraj, Abhinay Berde, Anuja Sathe Gokhale, Saurabh Gokhale, Chaitrali Gupte, Lokesh Gupte, Siddharth Menon, Kirti Pendharkar, Suyash Tilak, Sayali Sanjeev & Prajakta Mali. This video has received good response on social media.
Lockdown Film festival – a novel concept
During this period of Lockdown, in order to keep the creative people busy, Virus Marathi a YouTube channel has organised a ‘Lockdown Digital Film festival’ . The film could be a short film or a documentary , shot at home, observing all the rules of lock down set by the Government.
This offers a good opportunity to young film makers to attempt something creative which could be noticed . The film can be shot on a mobile or a camera and should have neat presentation with proper editing.
This unique Digital Film festival will offer three prizes in short film section as well as documentary section. The first prize will be of Rs. 7,500/- Second Prize : Rs. 5,000/- and the third prize : Rs. 3,000/-.
Writer Arvind Jagtap, actress Sonali Kulkarni, director Santosh Kolhe, director Sameer Patil have been appointed as Judges for this contest. Last date for submission of entries is 10th May 2020. The bet 10 films will be shown on Virus Marathi channel. For more details: e mail : vmffest[at]gmail[dot]com
Brian & Reema keep Marathi celebrities fit and healthy during lockdown
The spread of Corona virus has brought the entire film Industry on a standstill. It’s been a month since the social events and shoots have come to a halt putting the celebrities locked down at their respective homes. This has resulted a lot lethargic and unhealthy feeling among all those who have been active with their busy work
schedule. And our Marathi celebrities are no exception. But there is a sign of relief for several Marathi celebs since the popular fitness instructor duo Brian D’Souza and Reema Vengurlekar are making sure with their virtual fitness classes that their Marathi celebrity clients stay fit and healthier during this lock down
period.
Because of the lock down all gyms and fitness studios are temporarily non functional. But Reema and Brian are taking virtual classes to motivate their students to be fitter during this social distancing time. Reema Vengurlekar, founder of WOD says, “It is very important to keep ourselves fitter mentally and physically in this difficult and testing time. Keeping this in mind, we have started group online classes for our students. In this quarantine time, we have kept these virtual classes open for all.”
Reema added, “Anybody can just contact us and take a few free trial classes in this stressful time. But for our Marathi celebs we have personal virtual training slots. The free times are now productive physically and mentally. With personalize training and diet plans we are solely concentrating on keeping them fit, healthy and
stress free. “
Brian has received a positive response. He concludes ,“We are content that celebrities like Deepti Ketkar, Prajakta Mali, Hruta Durgule, Snehalata, Spruha Joshi and 70 odd other students are positively transforming themselves during the lockdown. It’s been a month now for our virtual classes and these free of cost virtual classes are getting superlative response from fitness enthusiasts.
Marathi artistes are making good progress in Hindi web series
During this lock down period, when the release of films, shows of Dramas and shootings of films and TV serials have come to a halt, many home viewers have switched over to web series. And when we go through some of the Hindi web series released on different web channels in the recent past, we find many Marathi artistes in prominent roles.
In the newly released web series ‘Hundred’ on Hotstar Specials , Rinku Rajguru finds a parallel role along with Lara Dutta and the trailer of this series clearly indicates that she has a lead role. There are other two Marathi Actor Hrishikesh Joshi and Rohini Hattangadi who have also found prominent roles. Incidentally, Hrishikesh Joshi was also seen in a prominent role of a police Inspector in another popular web series ‘Breathe’ shown on Amazon Original video.
MX player which presents a web series ‘Ek Thi Begum’ in Hindi as well as Marathi Actress Anuja Sathe in title role, with Santosh Juvekar and others . But, the language of this serial is very rough. On the same channel there is another Hindi and Marathi serial ‘Samantar’ starring Swwapnil Joshi and Nitish Bharadwaj. There is another web channel Voot , which offers an interesting Hindi web series ‘The Raikar Case’ a murder mystery directed by Aditya Sarpotdar , which also stars Atul Kulkarni , Ashwini Bhave, Manva Naik , Lalit Prabhakar, Ajay Purkar and Vaishnavi Kadam in prominent roles along with well known Hindi artistes. But, this serial too has used a rough abusive languages uttered by politicians and members of so called affluent family.