Movie: Golaberij
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Release Year: 2012, 10 February
Company: Different Strokes Communications Pvt. Ltd
Producer: Dr. Devdatt Kapadia
Co- Producer: Mrunal Kapadia
Ex-Producers: Ashish Tharthare
Director: Kshitij Jharapkar
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Screenplay: Kshitij Jharapkar
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Music: Milind Joshi
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Choreography: Dilip Mestry
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Cinematography: Vijay Deshmukh
Art: Swapnil Keni
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Cast: Nikhil Ratnaparakhi, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Bharat Jadhav, Sanjay Narvekar, Avinash Narkar, Subodh Bhave, Mukta Barve, Bhargavi Chirmule, Prasad Oak, Sharad Ponkshe, Pushkar Shrotri, Hemangi Kavi, Vaibhav Mangale, Satish Pulekar, Abhijit Chavan, jayant wadkar, Vidyadhar Joshi, Kshitij Zarapkar, Kamlakar Satpute, Dr. Neha Deshpande- Kamat
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‘Providing background music is more challenging’ – Milind Joshi
Milind Joshi is not a new name to Marathi Music World. Thirteen years ago, when Marathi Cinema offered a super hit in the form of ‘Bindhast’, Milind Joshi was the man behind its music. He had also won Zee Marathi’s popular award for the film’s music. A student of Applied Arts, he had earlier worked for an ad agency as a visualizer and copywriter and later showed interest in set design for Marathi dramas. He has also won state award for best set design. But, when he learned Indian classical music from his mother Shaila Joshi, he developed further interest in this field and went on to learn light music from Pt. Yashwant Deo. He also learned western music from Joe Fernandez.
Milind Joshi, Music DirectorToday, he composes music in different formats, which has enabled him to find assignments from countries like Germany and U.S. Milind also keeps himself busy with conduct of workshops for singing and voice training. “Art is just a medium, through which an artist must convey something,” he feels. Using his creativity, Milind also presented an unusual musical concert on the life of Bahinabai Choudhary, where he composed western music on her original lyrics. At present he presents his own show ‘Rang Nava’, where he presents poems of well known poets like Indirabai Sant, Shantabai Shelke, Kusumagraj, Suresh Bhatt and Saumitra. Mukta Barve reads some selected poems in this programme. it is receiving a good response.
Milind has provided background music to the ongoing award winning Marathi play ‘Tom Aani Jerry'; but, he is looking forward to release of his new film ‘Ashach Eka Betavar’, where besides composing music for songs, he has also provided back ground music for this film. Marathi Movie World spoke to Milind Joshi in Pune, during the first look of this film. Excerpts from the chit chat with him:
Q: How important is music for the films, which are filled with suspense or based on real novels?
A: I have had the experience of providing music to an action packed suspense film like ‘Bindhast’ and also to a story based light comedy like ‘Golaberij’. Personally, I feel that music does play an important role in such films, adding that extra flavour.
Q: Do you think that composing music for the songs and providing background music for the same film, helps a lot?
A: No. In fact, both are different types of Job. When you are managing both for the same film, care is to be taken to study the screenplay well. In the case of background music, special attention is to be paid for a suspense filled film.
Q: Tell us something about composing music for songs in ‘Ashach Eka Betawar’ ?
A: In this film, there are three songs, which are picturised at different situations.Devki Pandit’s song ‘Ek Chaya javal yete…’ has meaningful lyrics. The second song ‘Kill me Kill…’ rendered by Mahalaxmi Iyer is a fun song and the third one is a relief song shot on a beach.
Q: Now that you are also providing background music for this film, how was your personal experience?
A: It was a great experience. In this film, the background music was used in two ways. First to increase the curiosity and second to reduce the impact. I had many such spaces in this film, where I could use the effects well. I am sure, the audience would appreciate the same.
‘Golaberij’ is a feast for Pu La’s fans
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Presentor: Different Strokes Communications Pvt Ltd Director: Kshitij Zarapkar Music: Milind Joshi Camera: Vijay Deshmukh Art: Swapnil Keny Cast: Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Dr. Neha Deshpande, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Satish Shah, Prashant Damle, Sanjay Narvekar, Subodh Bhave, Avinash Narkar, Mukta Barve, Bhargavi Chirmule, Prasad Oak, Anand Ingle, Pushkar Shotri, Sharad Ponkshe, Vijay Kadam… Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke |
Many years ago, P.L. Deshpande ( Popularly known as Pu.La.) composed music for a children’s song ‘Nach Re Mora’ for an album and Asha Bhosale rendered her voice to add melody to this beautiful song, which is still fresh in the memory of every Maharashtrian household. Even otherwise, unforgettable Pu.La. has always been the most popular writer from Maharashtra for his humour. To make a feature film on the life and stories of this prolific writer, itself is a big news. Filmmaker Kshitij Zarapkar attempted this unusual experiment through his latest film ‘Golaberij’,which is almost like paying tributes to the renowned writer.
The film opens in a typical style of a Marathi play with a ringing of bell and the red curtain raising up and soon we peep into Pu La’s childhood, in a true theatrical style; as we notice Manoj Joshi as a story-teller in a theatre, addressing the capacity filled audience, enjoying every moment. Slowly, he unfolds every important moment in the life of Pu La, right from his childhood. Be it, his family, friends from the school, teacher and then we get the glimpse of some of his popular characters penned through his stories coming live.
Pu La’s youth days have been well captured with Nikhil Ratnaparakhi playing his role with ease. His association with Chitale master ( Played by Dr. Mohan Agashe) other friends like Sonya Bagalkar ( Prasad Oak) , Antya kulkarni ( Pushkar Shrotri), Nanda Pradhan( Subodh Bhave) Nanda’s girl friend ( Bhargavi Chirmule) have been well presented in this cinematic format. Pu. La’s grand daughter- Dr. Neha Deshpande- Kamat plays the important character of Sunitatai, Pu.La’s wife with confidence and that helps to make some of the scenes coming live.
Pu.La’s stay in Ratnagiri and his interaction with famous character Antu Barva ( played by Dilip Prabhavalkar) makes the film more interesting. His shifting to Belgaum and his association with Raosaheb – the theatre owner of Ritz Cinema ( Played by Khsitij Zarapkar himself) goes on to explain, how flexible he was, to fulfill his desire as a story writer of plays and perform as an actor in films. One cannot forget the humour filled train journey incident in the company of Pestankaka a parsi gentleman ( Played by Satish
Shah). Very cleverly, the director posts an interval after this scene and reopens the film with a typical announcement of credits as seen in Marathi dramas, which is something unique.
In the film, you also find the characters of Namu Parit ( Sharad Ponkhe), Hari Tatya ( Avinash Narkar), Sakharam Gatne(Dushyant Wagh), Nandini ( Mukta Barve), Kulkarni ( Prashant Damle), Babadu ( Sanjay Narvekar) Narayan ( Anand Ingale) coming live through their limited but effective performances. Especially, his scene with Babadu, on his return to Mumbai is something special. At the same time Abhijit Chavan and Shrirang Deshmukh get an opportunity to play the famous personalities like G.D. Madgulkar and Ram Gabale respectively, who were close to him. But, unfortunately, due to omission of the scenes based on ‘Mhais’ ( to avoid legal complications) some other talented artistes have been deprived of their appearance. But, luckily Hemangi Kavi Dumal, who is in the scene related to ‘Mhais’ finds herself in title song ‘Nach Re Mora’.
Music that plays an important part of this film with fresh look provided by Milind Joshi to the original songs, goes well with the script. Nach Re Mora being the title song is mesmerizing, while the picturisation of Ethech Taka Tambu has avoided glamour and paid more attention on its lyrics to remind the old version. Thanks to producer Dr. Devdatt kapadia and director Khsitij Zarapkar for this offering, which has turned out to be a feast for Pu La’s fans.
‘Satarangi Re’ and ‘Golaberij’ releasing today
Marathi film lovers will have a feast to celebrate Valentine’s day with two films with different subjects. Both these films have invited attention for different reasons. ‘Satrangi Re’ is a film based on Youth and their love for music, which is likely to attract the larger section of youths. But, film maker Aditya Sarpotdar claims that it is also the film for parents of today’s youth, to understand the dreams of their children towards completion of their teenage. The film stars popular artistes from Marathi film industry.
On the other hand, we have a different type of offering coming from Kshitij Zarapkar in the form of ‘Golaberij’, which is a tribute to the great writer P.L. Deshpande. Through this film, Kshitij has tried to bring alive some important people in the life of Pu.La., as he was popularly called, including his wife Sunitatai. He has also knitted the sequences involving some characters from his popular stories. Some of the old songs composed by Pu La have also been revived in this film. The film presents a big team of popular young and veteran artistes from Marathi film industry, playing different characters.
‘Golaberij’ is a story, not a history – Kshitij Zarapkar
You never know, what destiny has in store you. Otherwise, an Electrical Engineer with MBA (Finance) from USA, would never be trying his luck in Marathi film industry. Kshitij Zarapkar was well settled with his job in USA, till he came back to India few years ago, to stage his own drama group’s play ‘Sundara Manamadhye Bharali’ here in India. And, he became a part of this Marathi entertainment industry. Thereafter, he performed in 5 dramas and about 30-35 serials. Kshitij came into limelight as an actor with the show “Ghadlay Bighadlay’.
Today, Kshitij is in news for his new Marathi film ‘Golaberij’, based on the life and stories of P.L. Deshpande, noted Marathi writer known for his humour. This is the fifth film, Khsitij is associated with; and besides writing the screenplay, he is also directing this film. Prior to this, Khitij had written the story of ‘Ishya’, “Ideachi Kalpana’, ‘Karuya Udyachi Baat ( which he also directed), and ‘Thenga’( a commercial film, yet to be released).
Kshitij Zarapkar
For the past three and a half years, Kshitij was into extensive research, seriously planning to stage a play based on the incidences in the life of P.L. Deshpande. All that he wanted to present was some humour associated with people around P.L. and the important Characters created by him, through different stories. But, when the play could not be presented, Kshitij tried to use this collection, to make a film. When he found a producer, Kshitij really became serious about the project and completed this film, which is now ready for release. Today, he is all excited about this film, which has some popular names playing some important characters, either associated with Mr. P.L. Deshpande or part of his stories. But, he has opted for Nikhil Ratnaparakhi, a talented actor to play the role of Mr. P.L Deshpande, as he perfectly fitted into all his requirements.
“Golaberij’ is neither a documentary nor a biopic. It is a story and not a history,” says Kshitij, when you ask him as to what exactly he has presented through his film. But, he has certainly generated a lot of interest through his film. The last time he tried his hands at ‘karuya Udyachi Baat’ a sensible film, which was the first film in the world on the issue of Global warming; but, couldn’t receive much success. When you ask Kshitij, the reason for the same, he blames the producer, who according to him did not promote the film properly, prior to its release.
Highlight of ‘Golaberij’, are the dialogues. Though the screenplay is written by Kshitij himself, he has taken special efforts to retain the original dialogues of P.L. Deshpande, in the script, giving due credit to the great writer. “ While seeking the permission to make this film on his stories, Sunitaji was particular about retaining originality and therefore, I made it a point to use even the comas and full stops in the dialogues,” says Kshitij.
“ Making a film on P.L. Deshpande and the people around him including some of his popular story characters, was itself a challenging job. But, I have worked very hard to present this story in a cinematic form, which I am sure will be appreciated by people from all age groups,” he concludes.