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Dhairya, Dhungya and Kabir return with ‘Boyz 3′

Sometimes, characters of a particular film create so much of impact that their character names become more popular than the actors playing these roles. Dhaairya, Dhungya and Kabir are popular characters from super hit Marathi film ‘Boyz’ , which was released five years ago. They made their presence felt in ‘Boyz 2′ which was released a year later. Both these films had done very good business at the Box office. And now, Dhaairya, Dhungya and Kabir  are returning after four long years to entertain their fans via forthcoming Marathi film ‘Boyz 3′.

Boyz 2 Marathi Film Still Image
‘Boyz 2′ Marathi Film Still Image

The teaser of ‘Boyz 3′ was released recently and these three characters are seen in south Indian attire. And now there seems to be a new girl in their life. These three popular characters are played by Pratik Lad, Parth Bhalerao and Sumant Shinde who will continue to entertain their fans with their respective popular characters. Directed by Vishal Sakharam Devrukhkar and produced by Lalasaheb Shinde, Rajendra Shinde and Sanjay Chhabriya this film will be presented by Avadhoot Gupte. This film will be released in theatres on 16th September 2022.

Boyz 3, Pratik Lad, Parth Bhalerao, Sumant SHinde
Boyz 3, Pratik Lad, Parth Bhalerao, Sumant SHinde

‘Morya’ selected for CIFF 2022 at Dhaka

Marathi film 'Morya' Poster, Actor Director Jitendra-Barde
Marathi film ‘Morya’ Poster, Actor Director Jitendra-Barde

 Writer, director and actor Jitendra Pundalik Barde’s film ‘Morya’ has been selected at the prestigious Cinemaking International Film Festival ( CIFF) at Dhaka. Earlier, this film’s teaser was released at the Cannes festival, when it had invited the attention of many film lovers across the globe. Reacting to his film’s selection at Dhaka Festival, writer, director and actor Jitendra Pundalik Barde said, “This is the biggest honour for  me and all the artistes of this film. We had done a lot of research, before presenting this subject through our film.  It was our wish that our subject should reach out to the world and with the selection of our film at CIFF, Dhaka,it seems we have achieved something. ”

‘Morya’ has been produced by Tortuga Motion Pictures, Trupti Kulkarni, Rajesh Vishwanath Ahiwale and co produced by Mandar Mandke and stars Umesh Jagtap, Sanjay Bhadane, Dhanashree Patil, Rahul Rokade, Suraj Ahiwale, Rudram Barde, Kunal Punekar, Shivaji Gaikwad, Deepak Jadhav, Vijay Choudhary, Avinash Pol, Rupali Gayake and Jitendra Pundalik Barde in lead roles.

‘Raan Bazaar’ success party celebrated in a big way

'Raanbazaar' Marathi Web Series, actress Prajakta Mali, Tejaswini Pandit, Director Abhijit Panse
‘Raanbazaar’ Marathi Web Series, actress Prajakta Mali, Tejaswini Pandit, Director Abhijit Panse

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

‘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.

महानायक अशोक सराफ यांची ‘कोण होणार करोडपती’च्या मंचावर उपस्थिती!

Sony Marathi 'Kon Honaar Crorepati', Ashok Saraf and Sachin Khedekar
Sony Marathi ‘Kon Honaar Crorepati’, Ashok Saraf and Sachin Khedekar

दोन आठवड्यांपूर्वी  सोनी मराठी वाहिनीवर ‘कोण होणार करोडपती (kon honaar crorepati)’ या कार्यक्रमाचं नवं पर्व सुरू झालं.मनोरंजनसृष्टीतील अथांग सागरामध्ये अभिनयाचं स्वतंत्र बेट असणारे विनोदाचे बादशाह अशोक सराफ  ज्ञान आणि मनोरंजनाच्या अद्भुत खेळात म्हणजे  ‘कोण होणार करोडपती’च्या मंचावर सहभागी होणार आहेत.

‘कोण होणार करोडपती’च्या आगामी भागात मराठी मनोरंजनसृष्टी ज्यांना ‘अशोक मामा’ म्हणून ओळखते असं अभिनयाचं स्वतंत्र बेट असणारे ज्येष्ठ अभिनेते अशोक सराफ (Ashok Saraf) उपस्थित राहणार आहेत. त्यांना या मंचावरून ऐकणं ही प्रेक्षकांसाठी निश्चितच पर्वणी ठरणार आहे. अशोक मामांनी वयाची पंच्याहत्तरी नुकतीच पूर्ण केली असली, तरी त्यांचा या वयातला उत्साह दांडगा आहे. अशोक सराफ यांच्याबरोबर त्यांचे धाकटे बंधू सुभाष सराफ आणि पत्नी निवेदिता सराफ यांच्या भगिनी डॉ. मिनल परांजपे हेही सहभागी होणार आहेत.

अशोक सराफ यांच्यासारख्या दिग्गज अभिनेत्याला आणि दिलदार माणसाला  ‘कोण होणार करोडपती’च्या मंचावर पाहणं, ही प्रेक्षकांसाठी अभिमानास्पद आणि आनंददायी गोष्ट असणार आहे. पाहायला विसरू नका – ‘कोण होणार करोडपती’ – विशेष भाग, 25 जून, शनिवारी रात्री 9 वा. आपल्या सोनी मराठी वाहिनीवर.

Kranti Redkar begins shooting of ‘Rainbow’ in London

Sharad Kelkar in Rainbow Marathi Movie
Sharad Kelkar in Rainbow Marathi Movie

Few months ago Planet Marathi and Hi IQ’ had announced launch of their Marathi film ‘Rainbow’ produced by Mangorange Productions. Now, director Kranti Redkar has started shooting of this film in London. As Rainbow indicates symbol of all colours, this film will offer the journey of these colours in today’s time in relationship. To watch this rainbow created by well known artistes, film lovers are eagerly waiting for this film.

Urmila Kothare in kranti-redkar directed Movie 'Rainbow'
Urmila Kothare in kranti-redkar directed Movie ‘Rainbow’

‘Rainbow’ stars Sharad Kelkar, Sonalee Kulkarni, Urmila Kothare and Rishi Saxena in lead roles. According to director Kranti Redkar, the title of this film itself is colourful. And therefore, she has tried to show this colourful journey of their relationship through this cinematic version. “Through this film, I had an opportunity to be part of Planet Marathi. The long wait is over and now I have started the shooting of this film,” she said. Describing Kranti Redkar as best actress, Mr. Akshay Bardapurkar said, “Kranti is not only best actress but also a very good director.”

‘Dagadi Chawl 2′ to be released on 18th August

Marathi FIlm, Dagadi Chawl 2, Makarand Deshpandei
Marathi FIlm, Dagadi Chawl 2, Makarand Deshpandei

Producer Sangeeta Ahir who offered a hit film ‘Daagdi Chaawl’ is now ready with the sequel of this film ‘Daagdi Chawl 2′, which will be released on 18th August 2022. An official announcement to this effect has been made on social media. Speaking on this occasion, she said, “ We are very happy to announce the release date of ‘Daagdi Chaawl-2’. Actually, we decided to make this sequel, after watching the overwhelming response to ‘Daagdi Chaawl’. We wish to release this film worldwide on 18th August.”

 Makarand Deshpande , Daddy, Dagadi Chawl
Makarand Deshpande who plays the lead role of  Daddy , will be seen making his powerful entry once again, emerging from the crowd, while it is raining heavily. Now, what more this sequel is going to offer, we will have to wait till this part 2 is released. But, one thing is sure that Makarand Deshpande has got one more opportunity to display his talent through this role.

Grand Music launch of the film ‘Tamasha Live’

Marathi Film 'Tamasha Live', Sonalee Kulkarni, Hemangi Kavi, Pushkar Jog, Sachit Patil, Siddharth Jadhav
Marathi Film ‘Tamasha Live’, Sonalee Kulkarni, Hemangi Kavi, Pushkar Jog, Sachit Patil, Siddharth Jadhav

Few days ago the first song of the film ‘Tamasha Live’ was released, which received overwhelming response from music lovers. Now, the makers of ‘Tamasha Live’ have released the entire music of this film in a grand way, in presence of all the artistes of this film and invitees.  Special dance performances by Sonalee Kulkarni, Sachit Patil and Siddharth Jadhav entertained the invitees on this occasion.

 Now, the music album comprising of songs like ‘Baatmichi Vaari’, ‘Fad Lagalay’,’Wagh Aala’,’Lath Ghalnaar’,’ Rang Lagala’,’ Kadaklaxmi’,’ Garama Garam Ghya’,’ Zunj Lagali’,’ Vasudev’,’ Jau Kashi Maghari’,’ Zakham Gahari’, Gammat Gadya’ are offered to music lovers. Amitrak and Pankaj Padghan have composed the music of these songs on the lyrics of Kshitij Patwardhan. Choreographer Umesh Jadhav has worked very hard on each dance song which has variety like Rap and romantic touch.

 Sonalee Kulkarni, in 'Tamasha Live'

Sonalee Kulkarni, in ‘Tamasha Live’

According to director Sanjay Jadhav, “ Nowdays Marathi films are  attempting new experiments . And therefore, one such experiment has been tried in ‘Tamasha Live’ , where the traditional music has been given a new look, which I am sure would impress the young generation.” This film is all set to release on 15th July 2022.

Gajendra Ahire’s flm ‘Hodi’ (Dear Molly) to be released on 1st July

Marathi Movie 'Hodi', Dear Molly, Gurbani Gill, Liya Boysen
Marathi Movie ‘Hodi’, Dear Molly, Gurbani Gill, Liya Boysen

Renowned director Gajendra Ahire who has directed many quality Marathi films, is now getting ready to release his latest film Hodi (Dear Molly) which will also be released in Hindi and English languages besides Marathi. Recently, the poster of this film was released recently and it has become clear that Gurbani Gill, Alok Rajwade, Mrunmayee Godbole, Ashwini Giri, Liya Boysen and Christer Holmgren in lead roles.

 Marathi FIlm 'Dear Molly', Gurbani Gill, Alok Rajwade, Mrunmayee Godbole, Ashwini Giri, Liya Boysen

Marathi FIlm ‘Dear Molly’, Gurbani Gill, Alok Rajwade, Mrunmayee Godbole, Ashwini Giri, Liya Boysen

This film has already won ‘Best Feature Film’ award at the Guwahati Film festival and therefore film lovers are anxiously waiting for the release of this film. Speaking about his film, Gajendra Ahire says, ” For the past few days I was waiting for the announcement of release date of this film and now the date has been announced. This film is a family film based on a beautiful delicate relationship. All my films have been on social issues and I enjoy making films on the ‘out of the box’  subjects.”

‘Hodi’ (‘Dear Molly’) is presented by Manmohan Shetty and Ganesh Jain and produced by Pravin Nischal and Ratan Jain. Cinematography is by Krishna Sorren.

Milind Kavde’s ‘Takatak 2′ to be released on 19th August

After offering a super hit ‘Takatak (टकाटक)’ three years ago, director Milind Kavde‘s much-awaited sequel ‘Takatak 2′ has been announced jointly by Reliance Entertainment and Purple Blue Entertainment . This film will be released on 19th August 2022 all over Maharashtra. The film will see Prathamesh Parab in the lead once again, accompanied by Akshay Kelkar, Ajinkya Raut, Bhumika Kadam, Pranali Bhalerao, Komal Bodkhe, Sushant Divekar, Swapnil Rajeshirke, Kiran Mane, Pankaj Vishnu, Kiran Baird, RJ Mahesh Kale, Smita Dongre and others.

'Takatak 2' Prathamesh Parab, Akshay Kelkar, Bhumika Kadam, Milind Kavde, Pranali Bhalerao, Komal Bodkhe
‘Takatak 2′ Prathamesh Parab, Akshay Kelkar, Bhumika Kadam, Milind Kavde, Pranali Bhalerao, Komal Bodkhe

According to the makers of this film, While the original was a wild and rib-tickling entertainer, the new part is touted to be a bolder and bigger bonanza of laughs.

Talking about his film, director Milind Kavde says, “If Takatak tickled your funny bone, the second part will make you guffaw even more. We have kept the soul of the original intact while bringing a sassier feel to the story, taking the humour one step further.” Filmed in the serene locales of Goa, sources close to the crew reveal that an exclusive sneak peek of the movie is about to drop soon. If the love for the first film is anything to go by, audiences might just have found their next favourite comedy with ‘Takatak 2′.

With story and screenplay by director Milind Kavde and dialogues by Kiran Berad and Sanjay Navgire, music is by Varun Likhte and lyrics by Jay Atre, cinematography by Hazrat Sheikh Wali and Background Music by Abhinay Jagtap are the other credits of this film.

Dipak Karanjikar to receive ICON award

Deepak Karanjikar, Actor
Deepak Karanjikar, Actor

Renowned Marathi veteran Actor, writer and director Dipak Karanjikar will receive Janasthan ICON award in Nashik. This award will be presented to him for his efforts to popularize and staging Marathi dramas all over India and outside India. Besides holding important posts in administrative and non administrative services, he has promoted our Indian culture in the best way . Along with Deepak Karanjikar two other personalities, namely Vinayak Ranade and Prakash Holkar will also be felicitated for their contribution in promoting Marathi literature abroad.

The awards will be presented by well known Poet Ashok Bagwe at a special grand ceremony on 22nd June in Nashik. This ceremony also coincides with the 8th Annual Day celebrations of Janasthan whats app group, which is the biggest whats app group to promote Marathi culture. Mr. Swanand Bedarkar and Vinod Rathod the head of Janasthan group have appealed to people from Nashik to make this year’s celebrations a grand success.