Marathi film ‘Mai Ghat Crime no. 103/2005′ bags best movie award in Singapore
Anant Narayan Mahadevan is a big name in film industry. The actor turned director is now in the news for having bagged the Best film award at the Singapore South Asian International Film Festival for his Marathi film ‘Mai Ghat: Crime no. 103/2005′, which has been edited and directed by him. Produced by Mohini Gupta, this film was nominated in 6 out of seven categories. Besides Best film award, the film has also bagged best editing( Anant Mahadevan) and best cinematography( Alphonse Roy) awards .
Based on a true story, this film revolves around a mother’s fight for her son who was wrongly arrested as a thief and tortured to death. According to a statement released by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, the film raises a vital moral dilemma in the end. “Can one really win justice after everything is lost? I am thankful to those who left me, because they taught me I can do it alone.” the statement read.
Renowned Marathi actress Usha Jadhav plays the lead role of Prabha Mai in this film along with other versatile artistes like Suhasini Mulay as the lawyer, Kamlesh sawant as Cop, Girish Oak as CBI lawyer, Vibhavari Joshi as Sunanda and Vivek Chabukswar as Nitin Athavale. The film has also been officially selected in competition at the prestigious ‘The Asia Pacific Awards 2019′.
Son makes a film ‘Khichik’ for his father
In this film industry, We have heard father making a film for his son to launch him as an actor in films. But, in our Marathi film industry it will be happening the other way. Through the forthcoming Marathi film ‘Khichik’ Producer Sachin Dhakate will be presenting his father Anil Dhakate in an important role. Pritam SK Patil has written and directed this film.
Anil Dhakate who is an electrical engineer has served high post at administrative level.Though he didn’t have any exposure to acting, he was always curious about this field and always wished that he should be in acting field. His son Sachin has fulfilled his wish by offering a role of an illiterate grandfather in this film. The trailer of this film has also raised the curiosity of film lovers about this film.
Speaking about this film, Anil Dhakate says, “My son was aware about my wish and had was confident that I would be able to perform as an actor. When the script of this film came to him, he made his decision to offer me this important role. Therefore, it was a great experience for me. I would say that this film has open the new door for me.” The film stars versatile artistes like Siddharth Jadhav, Sudesh Berry and Prathamesh Parab
Fine gesture by Aaroh Velankar
At a time when many of our Bollywood artistes could not come together to help the flood victims of Maharashtra during the recent calamity, our Marathi artistes are doing a commendable work to raise the funds and help for these victims. Recently, Aroh Velankar, the finalist of ‘Big Boss 2 Marathi show’ also showed a fine gesture by donating Rs. 1 lakh towards flood relief fund after meeting the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Mr. Devendra Fadnavis.
Taking note of this fine gesture by this actor, the Chief Minister’s office also tweeted this news. Speaking about his help, Aroh said, “I have been helping for a social cause for a long time. But, I don’t like to make it public. This time, the Chief Minister’s office made it Public through their tweet.” He further added, “The natural calamity due to heavy rains was witnessed by me, while I was working on the Big Boss sets. And had made up my decision to offer some financial help from my side for this purpose.”
It may be recalled that Aroh is already associated with various social welfare organisations. He participates in awareness campaigns of ‘I Vote’ besides working for the welfare of handicapped people. With his active involvement in such social projects, his well wishers are all praise for him.
Poster of ‘Pratigya’ unveiled
Ganapati festival is considered to be the most auspicious time to launch or promote the Marathi films. Many film makers take advantage of this festival period by organising events at popular community Ganapati festivals in different parts of Mumbai and Pune. Kavya Dream Movies who are producing forthcoming Marathi film ‘Pratignya’ had organised unveiling of poster of their film at the Ganeshgalli Community Ganesh Festival, Lalbaug, to seek the blessings of Lord Ganesha recently.
During this ceremony all those connected with this film were present, including writer Ashish Ningurkar, actor-and co producer Ajit Vasant Pawar, artistes Pradeep Kadu, Sunil Jadhav, Siddhesh Dalvi, production managers Pratish Sonavne and Swapnil Nimbalkar. Speaking on this occasion writer Ashish Ningurkar said that his film is based on real life incident and therefore besides entertainment would also send across a strong social message. Popular drama artiste Pradeep Kadu also expressed his views stating that such subjects should be highlighted through feature films to create awareness in the society.
After a long time Bharat Jadhav and Subodh Bhave reunite on big screen
Lord Ganesha is addressed as Ganapati Bappa in Maharashtra during Ganapati festival. During this Ganapati festival the poster of a film ‘Appa ani Bappa’ with a tagline ‘Appa Yetoy Bappa sobat’, which in English means ‘Appa is coming along with bappa’ had become very popular among the film lovers, as it carried the picture of Subodh Bhave carrying Bharat Jadhav sitting on a wooden platform. Therefore there is a lot of curiosity about this film which is scheduled for release on 11th October 2019.
There is no doubt that this poster which has been presented on the backdrop of Ganapati festival will also have some involvement of Ganapati bappa in its story. Garishma Productions who have presented Bollywood films like ‘Son of Sardar’ and ‘Atithi Tum kab jaoge’ have presented this Marathi film, to make their debut in Marathi. Produced by Garma Dhir and Jalaj Dhir the story of this film is written by Ashwini Dhir and Arvind Jagtap with cinematography by Surya Mishra. The music is by Sarang Kulkarni, Sayali Khare and Abhang Repost .
Along with Subodh Bhave and Bharat Jadhav the film also stars Dilip Prbhavalkar, Sampada Kulkarni & Shivani Rangole.
Sayali Sanjeev and Shivani Surve to play female lead in ‘Satarcha Salman’
Recently, when the teaser of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Satarcha Salman’ was unveiled on social media it presented the dashing look of lead actor Suyog Gorhe . And it received overwhelming response from the viewers. But, there was curiosity among the viewers to know who was in the female lead in this film. Now, this curtain has been raised and it has been disclosed that there will be two female artistes in the female lead.
Sayali Sanjeev and Shivani Surve are the two faces in the female lead opposite Suyog Gorhe in this film, which has been indicated through their character poster released on social media. While Sayali sanjeev will be playing the innocent and simple character of Madhuri Mane, the bold and dashing character of Deepika Bhosale will be played by Shivani Surve. Now, it remains to be seen who will be the heroine of Suyog Gorhe in this film?
Produced by Prakash Sindhi the film is written and directed by Hemant Dhome, who has handled variety of subjects so far. The film will be released on 11th October 2019 all over Maharashtra.
‘Hirkani’ song presenting the grand Coronation of Shivaji Maharaj launched
There have been many songs in the past based on the coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj , the biggest historical event. But, director Prasad Oak has given a grand look to this event on screen through his forthcoming much talked about Marathi film ‘Hirkani’. Recently, the song video of this film was launched in style in a ceremony held in Mumbai in presence of the team of this film.
This eight and a half minute length song has been pictured on nine Marathi artistes including popular names like Suhas Joshi, Pushkar Shrotri, Siddharth Chandekar, Jitendra Joshi, Hemant Dhome, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Kshiti Jog, Rajashri Thakur, Chinmay Mandlekar and Rahul Ranade, displays six different forms of folk arts. The film is produced by Falguni Patel , co produced by Lawrence D’souza with creative direction by Rajesh Mapuskar. After watching this grand song, one thing is certain that this film is an ambitious project of director Prasad Oak.
This song penned by Sandeep Khare on the music of Amitraj has been rendered in the voices of singers like Nilambari Kirkire, Vivek Naik, Amitraj, Deepali Desai, Jiya Suresh Wadkar & Gaurav Chati. Speaking about this song, director Praad Oak said that Coronation of Shiv Chhatrapati Maharaj is one of the most important events in the film and therefore he wanted to be pictured in a grand way.
Shruja Prabhudesai to portray an important character of Bayo in ‘Himalayachi Savali’
Every actress has a dream to play a role which should extract her acting potential to the maximum. For stage and television actress Shruja Prabhudesai this opportunity has walked in with the most important role of ‘Bayo’ in the revived 1972 popular play ‘Himalayachi Savali’. Along with her in the lead role is Sharad Ponkshe who will play the character of Nanasaheb.
The inaugural show of this revived Marathi play will be held on Sunday 29th September in Nashik. Incidentally, Nashik also happens to be the birthplace of the writer of this play Prof. Vasant kanetkar. Directed by Rajesh Deshpande the play also stars Jayant Ghate, Vighnesh Joshi, Kapil Redkar, Omkar Karve, Krushna Rajshekhar, Prakash Sable, Makarand Navghare, Vasantika Walke, Pankaj Khamkar.
Made under the banner of Supriya Productions, this play is produced by Prakash Desai Pratishthan & Avdoot Productions. Govind Chavan and Prakash Desai are presenting this play with music by Rahul Ranade. Art direction Sandesh Bendre, costumes-Mangal Kenkre, production designer- Subhash Redkar are the other credits of this play.
Speaking about her role in this play, Shruja says, “This is the most challenging role I am playing, which has different shades. I am learning a lot during rehearsals, as I am portraying a character which is more older than my age, keeping in mind the body language and expressions of that character. Being from Konkan belt, I was comfortable with the required accent from this character.”
Pritam Kagne to play a Marathon athlete in Subhash Ghai’s Marathi film
Pritam Kagne who made her acting debut through award winning Marathi film ‘Halaal’, later performed a variety of roles in films like ‘Ahilya’, ‘Monsoon Football’ , ‘Sangharshayatra’ , ’31 October’ and few others. Now the good news for her is that she has bagged a very important role in Showman Subhash Ghai’s forthcoming Marathi film ‘Vijeta’. And this seems to be a big achievement for the young actress.
Pritam has been selected to play a Marathon athlete and presently she is undergoing training for the same. She has herself revealed this big news on her social networking page and is excited about the same. MarathiMovieWorld had in the past interviewed this soft spoken talented actress, when she had expressed her desire to do variety of challenging roles. She has already proved her ability as an actress through her memorable role in the film ‘Halaal’. A very hard working actress that she is, it will be interesting to see her playing the role of an athlete. Our best wishes to her.
Saleel Kulkarni announces his next film ‘Ekda Kay Jhal’
Music director turned writer – director Saleel Kulkarni after the success of ‘Wedding Cha Shinema’ has now announced his next film ‘Ekda Kay Jhal’. This clearly indicates that he has understood the pulse of Marathi film lovers and would like to offer them much more through his forthcoming film. The poster of his new film was shared by him on social media recently, generating more interest among his well wishers.
Through this film, once again Salail Kulkarni will be shouldering the responsibility as a writer, director and music director. And he proposes to release this film next year during the summer season. Having included the popular faces like Mukta barve, Shivaji Satam, Alka Kubal, Sunil Barve, Ashwini Kalsekar, Bhau kadam, Shivraj Waichal & Rucha Inamdar in his debut film as a director, now it remains to seen whom he prefers for his second film ‘Ekada Kaay Jhala’. Will it be a purely entertaining film or a story based suspense film? Let us wait and watch further details.