Now days, we find many new directors attempting to offer something to Marathi cinema, in the name of comedy. However, in the new film ‘Jalsa’ we find the director Ashutosh S Raaj playing multiple roles as a film maker, an actor and also a writer, to offer this so called traditional comedy through his film.

Actually, ‘Jalsa‘ is the story of two youngsters Amar Patil ( Ashutosh S Raaj) and Prem Patil ( Nikhil Wairagkar) who are passionate about directing a film. Amar who is from a well to do family, becomes so desperate that he borrows money from people in their neighborhood and when he cannot repay the same, his father ( Mohan Joshi) drives him out of his house. Amar along with Prem then finds shelter in the house of his maternal uncle Bhaiyyasaheb ( Bharat Ganeshpure) in a village , where both of them find an opportunity to stage a play based on the old classic drama ‘Ekach Pyala‘ with local artistes, their two girlfriends ( Girija Joshi & Shital Ahirrao) and their Uncle, who is also an actor expert in performing the female roles .

The film’s screenplay literally drags in the first half, with most of the time wasted in showing all the important male characters consuming hard drinks and uttering all the non sense, by taking the audience for granted. Especially, the character played by Arun Kadam is shown drinking almost in all the long scenes to his share. The characters played by Sagar Karande, Abhijeet Chavan, Mohan Joshi have been wasted in this film. More scope has been given to TV comedian Bharat Ganeshpure, but his character hasn’t been developed properly, in the company of too many artistes, including the two youngsters played by director Ashutosh S Raaj himself , Nilhil Wairagkar, their two girlfriends Girija and Shital with their love stories etc. The much talked about ‘Bai Vadyavar…‘ song picturised on Manasi Naik has turned out to be the title song of the film shown at the beginning part of this film.

The director has been able to present only the last 15- 20 minutes of the film with some real comedy drama. Otherwise, the rest of the film fails to appeal, for presenting not so interesting plot and a poor screenplay. The film ‘Jalsa‘ may appeal only to some of the village folks, who are fond of local based entertaining plays. But, for real sensible Marathi film lovers, this film is a big disappointment. However, good art design by Vaibhav Shirolar and sound design by Manoj Mochemadkar and Sandeep Madkholkar are the only technical plus points of the film. Music by Samir Saptiskar for the two songs in this film is just fine. In short, ‘Jalsa‘ offers just an average comedy.

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Nilu Phule was a renowned personality  in Marathi film industry during 70s and 80s. During his acting career of 40 years, he has performed in about 60 Marathi and Hindi films. He was very popular as a villain . In spite of portraying cruel characters on screen, he was very popular amongst women because of his good off screen image. His famous dialogue in most of the films ‘Bai Vadyavar Ya’ had reached instant popularity during 70s and 80s.

Now, Studio 9 Entertainment through their forthcoming film ‘Jalsa‘ will pay tributes to this legendary Marathi actor, by using his famous dialogue in the lyrics of a song from this film. Penned by Ashutosh Raj, who is also directing this film, the music for this song is composed by Sameer Saptiskar and the dance performed on this song by Manasi Naik is choreographed by Rajesh Bidve. Anand Shinde has rendered this song, which according to the makers of this film, would a be a instant hit song.

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Actor, producer director Ashutosh Raj is making a Marathi film titled ‘Jalsa’. Recently, the film was launched with muhurat, followed by shooting. Ashutosh who has written the story of the film , along with Abhiram Bhadkamkar. Incidentally, Abhiram is a creative director of this film, which also stars popular comedian Bharat Ganeshpure. The other star cast of the film, besides Ashutosh and Bharat , comprise of Nikhil Wairagar, Girija Joshi, Shital Ahirrao,Sonali Vinod, Sagar Karande, Abhijit Chavan, Arun Kadam & Ankur Vadhave.

The story of this film is about two youngsters Amar & Prem from Pune from rich family, who are keen on taking up acting as their career, much against the wish of their parents.  But, their maternal uncle encourages and helps them. Their journey on way to this glittering field, is all that the film will present, through its humour filled screenplay.  The film will be released soon, after completion of shooting and post production work.

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