Movie: Takatak
Director: Milind Kavde
Music: Varun Likhate
Cast: Prathamesh Parab, Ritika Shrotri, Abhijit Amkar, Pranali Bhalerao, Bharat Ganeshpure, Pradeep Patwardhan, Ananda Karekar & Umesh Bolke
Movie: Takatak
Director: Milind Kavde
Music: Varun Likhate
Cast: Prathamesh Parab, Ritika Shrotri, Abhijit Amkar, Pranali Bhalerao, Bharat Ganeshpure, Pradeep Patwardhan, Ananda Karekar & Umesh Bolke
After releasing the poster of his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Takatak‘, director Milind Kavde has now released the bold trailer of ‘Takatak‘ to attract the youth audience. The trailer of this film clearly hints that it will be a naughty sex comedy involving young pairs of Prathamesh Parab – Ritika Shrotri and Abhijit Amkar – Pranali Bhalerao. There are other artistes like Bharat Ganeshpure, Pradeep Patwardhan and Ananda Karekar also in supporting roles.

After directing films like ‘Yedyanchi Jatra‘,’Just Gammat‘,’Shinma‘ and ‘1234‘ in the past, this is a comeback film of Director Milind Kavde. Besides directing this film Milind Kavde has also written the story and screenplay of this film along with Producer Ajay Thakur. Lyrics by Jai Atre and music by Varun Likhte. The film has been shot at picturesque locations in Mumbai, Thane and Goa by cinematographer Hazrath Shaikh ( Wali), while popular singers like Anand Shinde and Shruti Rane have rendered their voices for the songs in this film.
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Marathi films based on true stories have always invited the attention of film lovers. Sanjay Krishnaji Patil who won the President’s award for best screenplay in the film ‘Dashakriya‘, is back again as a writer and presenter with his film ‘Bandishala‘ which is directed by Milind Lele. But, what is more important is that renowned Marathi actress Mukta Barve is playing the bold central character of a Lady Prison Officer in this film, which is the highlight of this film.

Incidentally, ‘Bandishala‘ which is based on a strong social subject has been selected by Maharashtra Government for the Cannes Film Festival in France. The film has also been nominated in seven categories in the 56th Maharashtra State Film awards. Sanjay Krishnaji Patil, who has written the story, screenplay, dialogues, lyrics is also the presenter of this film, showing his total involvement in this film. Earlier, he was associated with two other award-winning films like ‘Jogwa‘ & ‘72 Miles‘ as a writer and presenter. Besides Mukta Barve, the film also stars Vikram Gaikwad, Sharad Ponkshe, Hemangi Kavi, Savita Prabhune, Asha Shelar, Pravin Tarde, Ashwini Giri, Ajay Purkar, Madhav Abhyankar and others.
For a long time, there has been a talk about Big ‘B’ Amitabh Bachchan thinking about performing seriously in a Marathi film. Now, we understand that he is certainly doing a Marathi film ‘AB & CD‘ which is to be directed by Milind Lele, who had earlier directed Marathi films like ‘Manya Sajjana‘ and ‘Kurukshetra‘. Most of the shooting of this film which will begin from 20th May will be done in Mumbai and Pune. In this film, Amitabh Bachchan has to do important scenes with Vikram Gokhale. The film also has two songs.

It may be recalled that 25 years ago Mr. Bachchan along with his wife Jaya Bachchan had taken part in the devotional song of Marathi film ‘Akka‘ produced by his make up man Deepak Sawant. Thereafter, in 2009 we saw his ABCL Company producing Marathi film ‘Vihir‘ which was directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni. Recently, we also saw him shooting for Hindi film ‘Jhund‘, which is directed by ‘Sairat‘ fame Nagraj Manjule. But, performing an important role in Marathi and that too in the company of another versatile actor Vikram Gokhale, is a big news for Marathi film lovers.
Pritam Kagne, who made her debut in Marathi films in 2013 with ‘Navra Majha Bhavra‘ has performed in a number of films since then, including the award-winning film ‘Halal‘ with National award-winning director Shivaji Loten Patil. In this film, she played the central character along with Priyadarshan Jadhav and Chinmay Mandlekar. Produced by her brother Amol Kagne, this film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Goa Film Festival, Pune International Film Festival and Godrej Film Festival. Pritam also acted in Bollywood feature film ’31st October’, which was released in 2016.

Now, her latest Marathi film ‘Ahilya‘ directed by Raju Parsekar is in news. Just two days ago, Pritam received a big surprise in the form of awards received on the same day. And, she shared this happy news with her friends on her social networking page. “Feeling proud and very happy and with immense pleasure I am here sharing this lovely post, Friends with a surprise to me, I have received two awards in one single day, The Sanskruti Kala Darpan Award (Impressive performer female) & Dadasaheb Phalke Award (Promising actress of the year) on 11-5-2019 & our film ‘Ahilya‘ movie got Award as the best social film “.

Popular Bollywood and South Indian film actress Shantipriya who was at the top during 90s , having done films opposite top heroes of that time like Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Rohit Roy, Prasanjit Chatterjee. Besides her Hindi films, Shantipriya had also done hit Telugu and Tamil films. Later, we saw this renowned actress on small screen with popular projects like ‘Dwarakadhish Bhagwan Srikrishna’ and ‘Mata Ki Chowki’.
Now, after watching the progress of Marathi films with its friendly environment and systematic presentation of subject, she has been high praise for the same. If offered a good role , she is willing to do a Marathi film. So, after Madhuri Dixit, Urmila Matondkar and few others, another Bollywood actress is likely to make her debut in Marathi. But, how good is she with Marathi language, it remains to be seen.