With the release of a forthcoming Marathi film ‘Bhairu Pailwan Ki Jai Ho’ Pravin Karle will be celebrating 25 years of his association with the Marathi film industry. As a student of Elphinstone Technical School, Mumbai, Pravin was closely associated with Marathi stage and was part of Sudha Karmarkar’s group of Children’s theatre. Being the son of a Journalist and writer, he was exposed to theatre, right from his childhood. Later, he joined J.J. School of Arts, only to enhance his knowledge in this field. In his acting career, he has won 175 awards in different categories, whether it was for acting, direction or lighting does not matter, as long as they were connected with his profession.
His total dedication to this field made him present many creative things on stage and one of them was a play ‘Dictator’ along with 60 artistes for INT. It was a silent play with only body language and expressions to communicate with the audience. He took a lot of interest to promote Classical plays on television. Pravin has been associated with production of many tele films, ad films, documentary films, some of which have been for BBC. He was assistant director to Mahesh Bhatt for some time. In 2001, Pravin was the Sr.Director of Programming with Zee TV.
Besides his much awaited film ‘Bhairu Pailwan Ki Jai Ho’, Pravin has also completed a Hindi film ‘Hands Up’ for Producer Sudhakar Bokade. His much talked about film ‘Bokad’ is on the floors and will be released by December 2010. Marathi Movie World had a chit chat with Pravin Karle, to know more about his forthcoming film ‘Bhairu Pailwan Ki jai Ho’ . Excerpts from an interview:
Q: Why have you chosen this title for your film? Is it a bilingual film ?
A: The reason for choosing this title is only because of the popular inspiring slogan meant to boost the morale of our today’s youth. I felt that our youth need to be told about the origin of this ancient sports – Wrestling, which has its reference even in our Indian mythology. How much of hard work is there during training and how beneficial it is for health, I wanted to convey that message.
Q: How different this film will be from traditional Marathi film ?
A: The film has a good story and the screenplay and is strong enough to hold the audience to their seats, throughout the film. The producer of the film Dr. Anil Saxena was himself of the opinion to offer this kind of subject to inspire today’s youth and for that reason we opted an actor like Siddharth Jadhav. Listen to the music and watch those four Wrestling ties in my film and you will be convinced about my artiste selection.
Q: How did Siddharth respond to this role?
A: Siddharth is a versatile actor now. He took up as a challenge to play this role. On the sets, he has worked very hard. Even while shooting, we had made arrangement for his Temporary Gym, to boost his morale.
Q: What about marketing of this film?
A: We are making all efforts to market the film well , so as to reach maximum people. We have also chosen online publicity, taking into account the net savvy people.
Q: What about the release date ?
A: The film will be released in Pune and other parts of Maharashtra on 15th October 2010 and for Mumbai we have scheduled the release date as 15th October 2010.