‘Ek Hota Pani’ selected for Mysore International Film Festival
Marathi film ‘Ek Hota Pani’ has been selected for screening at the forthcoming Mysore International film Festival and this is a good news for the makers of this film. The film has also received various nominations in different categories of this film fest. Above all, the writer of this film Ashish Ningurkar has already been declared an award for the best writing on social issue.
Produced by Dr. Pravin Bhujbal and Vijay Tiwari , directed by Rohan Satghare with cinematography by Yogesh Andhare the film has invited all the attention for drawing attention of the audience to the most important issue of water, which is crucial in our life. The film stars Anant Jog, Hansraj Jagtap, Sriya Mastekar, Chaitra Bhujbal, Ganesh Mayekar, Yatin Karyekar, Ranjit Jog, Jairaj Nair, Ashish Ningurkar and Upendra Datey.
Last year this film had already received appreciation at many film festivals and now with its selection for Mysore International Water Film Festival, the makers have added one more feather in their cap. The festival will begin soon after the lockdown restrictions are lifted.
‘Tu Parat Ye’ song released to boost the morale of people
The spread of corona virus has forced the Government to extend the lockdown period in Maharashtra. Our Marathi artistes who are also required to remain at home, are coming out with their ideas to entertain the people of Maharashtra observing all lockdown rules. Recently, 10 Marathi artistes became part of the song ‘Tu Parat Ye’ written and composed by S. Sagar and directed by Swaroop Balasaheb Sawant.
This song video released now is produced by Sachin Dubale Patil and has been shot on the following 10 artistes, namely Prathamesh Parab, Pranav Raorane, Akshay Tanksale, Nikhil Vairagar, Vijay Andalkar, Nikhil Raut, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Siddheshvar Zadbuke, Jayesh Chavan and Swaroop Balasaheb Sawant. The purpose behind producing this video is to offer prayer to God for normalising the tense situation for a better tomorrow. It is an effort to boost the morale of people who are living in tense situation.
Marathi artistes offer a video on the occasion of State’s Diamond Jubilee Year
Due to the spread of coronavirus, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Maharashtra State’s formation day could not be celebrated on 1st May, 2020. But, our Marathi artistes came up with an idea by observing the lockdown rule of ‘stay at home’. They have presented a video suitably titled ‘Vaibhav Maharashtracha’ on this occasion.
The most important thing is that these artistes shot the video at their respective homes taking the help of out latest technology. Aakash Pendharkar and Hemant Dhome with the help of social media platform ‘Helo’ have produced this video which is based on the song ‘Baghtos Kay Mujara Kar’ from Hemant Dhome’s film. This new song has been written by Kshitij Patwardhan, while music is provided by Amitraj.
Singers Hrshavardhan Wavare & Kasturi Wavare have rendered this song in their voices, while this song is pictured on popular Marathi artistes Sonali Kulkarni, Hemant Dhome, Aniket Vishasrao, Sumeet Raghavan, Shashank Ketkar, Rasika Dhabadgaonkar, Sanjay Jadhav, Prarthana Behere, Amitraj, Abhinay Berde, Anuja Sathe Gokhale, Saurabh Gokhale, Chaitrali Gupte, Lokesh Gupte, Siddharth Menon, Kirti Pendharkar, Suyash Tilak, Sayali Sanjeev & Prajakta Mali. This video has received good response on social media.
Lockdown Film festival – a novel concept
During this period of Lockdown, in order to keep the creative people busy, Virus Marathi a YouTube channel has organised a ‘Lockdown Digital Film festival’ . The film could be a short film or a documentary , shot at home, observing all the rules of lock down set by the Government.
This offers a good opportunity to young film makers to attempt something creative which could be noticed . The film can be shot on a mobile or a camera and should have neat presentation with proper editing.
This unique Digital Film festival will offer three prizes in short film section as well as documentary section. The first prize will be of Rs. 7,500/- Second Prize : Rs. 5,000/- and the third prize : Rs. 3,000/-.
Writer Arvind Jagtap, actress Sonali Kulkarni, director Santosh Kolhe, director Sameer Patil have been appointed as Judges for this contest. Last date for submission of entries is 10th May 2020. The bet 10 films will be shown on Virus Marathi channel. For more details: e mail : vmffest[at]gmail[dot]com
Marathi artistes are making good progress in Hindi web series
During this lock down period, when the release of films, shows of Dramas and shootings of films and TV serials have come to a halt, many home viewers have switched over to web series. And when we go through some of the Hindi web series released on different web channels in the recent past, we find many Marathi artistes in prominent roles.
In the newly released web series ‘Hundred’ on Hotstar Specials , Rinku Rajguru finds a parallel role along with Lara Dutta and the trailer of this series clearly indicates that she has a lead role. There are other two Marathi Actor Hrishikesh Joshi and Rohini Hattangadi who have also found prominent roles. Incidentally, Hrishikesh Joshi was also seen in a prominent role of a police Inspector in another popular web series ‘Breathe’ shown on Amazon Original video.
MX player which presents a web series ‘Ek Thi Begum’ in Hindi as well as Marathi Actress Anuja Sathe in title role, with Santosh Juvekar and others . But, the language of this serial is very rough. On the same channel there is another Hindi and Marathi serial ‘Samantar’ starring Swwapnil Joshi and Nitish Bharadwaj. There is another web channel Voot , which offers an interesting Hindi web series ‘The Raikar Case’ a murder mystery directed by Aditya Sarpotdar , which also stars Atul Kulkarni , Ashwini Bhave, Manva Naik , Lalit Prabhakar, Ajay Purkar and Vaishnavi Kadam in prominent roles along with well known Hindi artistes. But, this serial too has used a rough abusive languages uttered by politicians and members of so called affluent family.
मराठी कलाकार एकत्र येऊन म्हणताय ‘पुन्हा एकदा गरुड भरारी घेऊ’
इतर देशांच्या तुलनेत भारतात कोरोनाबाधितांची सध्या संख्या कमी असली तरीदेखील हा आकडावाढतच चालला आहे, याचा परिणाम म्हणून अनेकांच्या मनामद्धे नकारात्मकता वाढत आहे. याच धर्तीवर लोकांमध्ये सकारात्मकता वाढवण्यासाठी अनेक मराठी कलाकारांनी एकत्र येऊन ‘पुन्हा एकदा गरुड भरारी घेऊ’ हे प्रेरणादायी गाणं तयार केले असून सोशल मीडियाच्या माध्यमातून ते सर्वांपर्यंत पोहचवण्याचा प्रयत्न केला आहे. या गाण्याचे ध्वनिमुद्रण आणि चित्रीकरण हे दोन्ही सर्व मराठी कलाकार घरातून मोबाईलच्या साहाय्याने केले असून, तांत्रिक बाबींच्या साहाय्याने शक्य तितकं स्टुडिओ ध्वनिमुद्रणाच्या बरोबरीचं करण्याचा प्रयत्न केला आहे.
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‘पुन्हा एकदा गरुड भरारी घेऊ’ या गाण्यात आपल्याला दीपाली सय्यद, मनोज जोशी, किशोरी शहाणे, मकरंद अनासपुरे, रेणुका शहाणे, शिल्पा अनासपुरे, पुष्कर जोग, स्मिता गोंदकर, शरद पोंक्षे, वर्षा उसगावकर, मानसी नाईक, गायत्री दातार, नितीश चव्हाण, स्मिता शेवाळे, देवदत्त नागे, किरण गायकवाड असे कलाकार एकत्र दिसतात. गाण्याचे दिग्दर्शन व संकलन मकरंद शिंदे यांनी केले असून, संगीत जीवन मराठे यांनी दिले आहे.
गाण्याची संकल्पना अभिनेत्री दीपाली सय्यद यांची असून हे गाणं रसिकांसमोर आणण्यासाठी श्रीनिवास कुलकर्णी, अमोल घोडके, राजेंद्र अनासपुरे यांनी पुढाकार घेतला.
Ashish Ningurkar shoots a Social short film on Corona awareness at home
‘Where there is a will, there is a way.’ A creative person cannot sit idle, even in the period of lock-down. In the present situation of lockdown due to spread of corona virus, when majority of the people are required to sit at home and watch movies and news on television or play leisurely games like carom and playing cards, writer, lyricist Ashish Ningurkar has attempted something out of the box. Ashish has been part of some sensible films like ‘Rairand’, ‘Ek Hota Pani’ and short films like ‘Aarsa’ and documentary like ‘Coma’ .
Ashish who works for Postal department in Ghatkoper, Mumbai is held up in his house at his native place Vambori in Nagar district. But, instead of sitting idle, while reading books, he came across an idea of shooting a short film at home, using his own family members in the cast of the film. So, observing the rule of ‘Work from Home’, the film was shot in a day to create awareness about the danger of corona virus and the precautions to be taken by people. After completing the film, when his family members watched this film, they were extremely happy to see the impact created by this film.
Ashish himself has conceived the idea of the script and has directed this film, besides handling the camera. His father Ashok Ningurkar, mother Jayashree Ningurkar, cousin Swarup kasar have performed in this film, while Ishant Sigh and Abhishek Lagas have done the editing work. The film has already become viral on social media.
Shashank keeps himself busy in Kitchen with new recipes
“21 days lockdown will soon get over. But, these 21 days will show us the real path of life.It will give us time to study ourselves.” says actor- film maker Shashank Udapurkar philosophically. Incidentally, his latest sensible hit film ‘Prawaas’ starring Ashok Saraf, Padmini Kolhapure and himself saw its release little before the coronavirus struck our nation.
Through this film, which was written and directed by Shashank himself, the film lovers understood the feelings and emotions of this sensitive person and his way of looking at life. Today, being at home, Shashank is offering all the help in Kitchen and attempting his own recipes. He has promised one new recipe everyday.
Once again he has shared his thoughts and experience on his social media page, stating, “Offering helping hand to your near and dear is a pleasure. A single person working will always feel tired. But, sharing the burden together makes things much easier. You too share the burden of others offering your hands for help.”