‘Goshta Eka Paithanichi’, ‘June’ & ‘Mee Vasantrao’ to receive national awards
This year’s best Marathi film national award will be presented to ‘Goshta Eka Paithanichi’ directed by Shantanu Rode and starring Sayali Sanjeev and Suvrat Joshi in lead roles. Overwhelmed by this award for her film, actress Sayali Sanjeev said that she had put in lot of efforts in her role and therefore was happy that her film bagged national award. She said that she was dedicating this award to her father.
Siddharth Menon who played the lead role in Marathi film ‘June’ has been awarded Best actor Special Jury mention award. This has come as the biggest gift for Suiddharth who feels that his dream has been fulfilled. He said that he was dedicating his award to the entire team of ‘June’. This film is directed by Surhud Godbole and Vaibhav Khisti and written by Nikhil Mahajan. Both these films have been produced by Planet Marathi.
Another Marathi film ‘Me Vasantrao’ invited all the attention, as this film bagged two national awards. Best playback singer award for this film was declared for Rahul Deshpande, while best sound recording award for this film was declared for Anmol Bhave. Director of this film Nipun Dharmadhikari expressed his happiness on this achievement and said that music was the soul of this film.
Unique tribute by Team ‘June’ on the occasion of Father’s day
On the occasion of Father’’s day, the entire team of forthcoming Marathi film ‘June’ has paid unique tribute in the form of a song on ‘‘Father’ which is a reprise version of a song titled ‘Baba’ from this film. This song has been penned by Nikhil Mahajan on the music of Shalmalee Kholgade and rendered by Anandi Joshi. For the reprised version, this song has received support from Anandi Joshi , Neha Pendse Bias, Shalmalee, Resham Srivardhan, and group of common friends comprising of Amruta Khanvilkar, Priya Bapat, Girija Oak Godbole, Mrunmayee Godbole, Parna Pethe, Gaura Nalawade & Sanskruti Balgude .
Speaking on this occasion Music director of this film Shalmalee said, “We don’t give as much of importance to our Fathers, which they actually deserve. This particular song ‘Baba’ in the film is a solo female track very well rendered by Anandi. Whenever I listen to this song , I get emotional. I am sure, even the audience will experience the same.” While the leading lady of this film Neha Pendse Bias feels , “ All the relevant things like Sincerity, hard work, honesty, ethics in my progress, I have acquired from my father and I am grateful to him.
‘June’ starring Neha Pendse Bias, Siddharth Menon, Kiran Karmarkar, Resham Srivardhan, Nilesh Divekar in lead roles, is due for release soon
Music of Web Film ‘June’ released
Planet Marathi’s first Web Film ‘June’ will be the debut of Shalmalee Kholgade as a music director and therefore all eyes were on the release of film’s music. Now, the four songs of this film have been released on social media, giving a glimpse of her music. Shalmalee is all excited about her new journey. “I always like to experiment new things and therefore I am confident that my well wishers would appreciate my work as a music director , the way they appreciated me as a singer.” She said.
Shalmalee is thankful to her entire team while composing the four songs in different moods. The lyrics of Nikhil Mahajan and Jitendra Joshi have added the required flavour to these songs. Planet Marathi’s Akshay Bardapurkar is all praise for the songs in this film . He is more happy that this film has found a right platform at the national and international film festivals, because of the positive outlook presented through this film’s story. Starring Neha Pendse Bias, Siddharth Menon, Kiran Karmarkar, Resham Srivardhan & Nilesh Divekar this film will be soon released on OTT platform.
First film of Planet Marathi OTT ‘June’ due for release
For the past several days we have been watching the announcements of web series and web films by Planet Marathi OTT platform. But now, their first Marathi film ‘June’ is all set for release next month. Therefore, there is a lot of curiosity about this film, which stars Neha Pendse, Siddharth Menon, Kiran Karmarkar, Resham Srivardhanand Nilesh Divekar in lead roles.
Directed by Surhud Godbole and Vaibhav Khisti and written by Nikhil Mahajan, music of this film is composed by Singer turned Music director Shalmalee Kholgade, who is making her debut as music director through this film. Lyrics are penned by Jitendra Joshi, while this film is produced by Shardul Singh Bayas, Neha Pendse Bayas, Nikhil Mahajan & Pawan Malu.
Trailer of this film has been released today on the official website of Planet Marathi. ‘June’ was already selected at the 51st IFFI in Indian Panorama section. Now, this film has also been selected at the Pune & Kerala film festivals besides prestigious New York film festival.