Madhuri Dixit is getting ready with her debut Marathi film ‘Bucket List’
For the past few months Madhuri Dixit has been in the news, while shooting for her debut Marathi film ‘Bucket List‘. Be it picturising a romantic song with her co star Sumeet Raghavan in Malaysia or riding a super bike in Pune city the 50 year old actress has shown a lot of enthusiasm , while portraying the role of Madhura Sane a Puneri female protagonist housewife in this film.
Actually, Madhuri is making her comeback into films, after doing Hindi film ‘Gulab Gang‘ four years ago. And, the credit goes to director Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar, who convinced Madhuri to do ‘Bucket List‘ film. It is understood that Tejas had written the story of this film, keeping only Madhuri Dixit in mind. For the past few years, we have been hearing that Madhuri Dixit was willing to do a Marathi film, provided she found a good script. So, finally Tejas Deoskar has succeeded in bringing the big star into Marathi.
Madhuri Dixit herself has also been taking lot of efforts to promote this film, her recent appearance at the Marathi award function was just a beginning. And, if the film is getting ready for summer release, there is still time for her to think new methods of promotion. Wishing her and her film all the best.
Madhuri Out, Tejashree In
Television commercials are also watched by the home viewers, with keen interest, during the break of the popular serials, provided there are popular models endorsing the product. In the recent past, we have been observing many commercial ads, with our Marathi artistes promoting the consumer products. Ankush Choudhary, Pankaj Vishnu, Sachit Patil, Girija Oak Godbole are regularly seen in many commercial ads. Recently, we also saw two actresses from ‘Dil Dosti Duniyadari’ serial, advertising for a consumer product.
But, the home viewers were surprised during the week, when Tejashree Pradhan, who plays the popular character of Janhavi in ‘Honar Suun Mi Hya Gharchi’, was seen advertising for a dish washer bar, along with another Marathi actor Adinath Kothare. Incidentally, she has replaced popular bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, who was earlier advertising for the same product. So, it is almost like ‘Madhuri Out, Tejashree In’ to impress the Marathi audience.
The inclusion of more and more Marathi film and television artistes to endorse commercial products, has clearly indicated that their presence on screen, can make a big difference, to market a product. It is mainly because, the Marathi viewers closely relate themselves with actresses like Tejashree, Girija or Swanandi, rather than Bollywood actress like Madhuri, who is not considered as Marathi actress, by viewers in Maharashtra. Madhuri should therefore think seriously, about her Marathi image and accept some offers on Marathi television or films, be it, anchoring of a show, or acting in a Marathi film.
In the coming week, from 2nd November, Colors Marathi will present new comedy show of Bharat Jadhav, at prime time. Earlier, we were not aware of the other performers in this show; but, now it has been revealed that Kranti Redkar will also be part of this show, along with few other popular television artistes. However, it remains to be seen, whether Bharat Jadhav will succeed in pulling the viewers to his show. One thing is sure that Bharat’s mere presence will not work. The script of this show and its presentation will play an important role. By the way, Colors is a also gearing up to present their new serial ‘Ganapati Bappa Morya’, perhaps to compete with other period serials based on mythology.
During the week, we noticed complete dominance of negative characters in most of the Marathi TV serials. Janhavi’s mother in ‘Honar Suun Mi Hya Gharchi’, Mothi Aai in ‘Runji’, Neel’s mother in ‘Nanda Saukhyabhare’, ‘Jui’s sister in ‘Asa Sasar Surekh bai’ were given more than required importance, in every episode. And, there was lot of overacting, noticed by the artistes, performing these roles. On some occasions, they were simply irritating. In the process, the presence of lead artistes the these serial is totally ignored. Hope, it doesn’t go against the serial, as popularity of the serial is always based on positive thinking, as noticed in some of the serials like Asmita’, ‘Duniyadari’ or the laughter shows, which are purely entertaining.
By: Shweta Khot © MMW Network
Madhuri Dixit shakes her legs with Marathi Taraka
Known for her typical dance steps, Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit along with Sridevi, joined the 500th show of ‘Marathi Taraka’ in Mumbai recently. Madhuri not only played the special guest on the occasion; but also entertained the audience, by performing few steps on her favourite song ‘Hamari Atariya Pe…’ amid loud applause from the audience. Mr. Vishwajeet kadam, Secretary of Bharati Vidyapeeth and few other celebrities from Marathi entertainment industry, were present on the occasion.
This special programme was a tribute to Madhuri Dixit and Sridevi, as the 15 marathi dancing actresses comprising of Varsha Usgaonkar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Kranti Redkar, Neha Pendse, Bhargavi Chirmule,Prajakta Mali, Hemangi Kavi, Shruti Marathe, Kishori Godbole, Shruti Palav, Ketaki Palav, Teja Deokar, Sara Shravan, Sanskruti Balgude, Shweta Shinde, & Prachi Pisat presented the dances on the songs from the films of Madhuri and Sridevi. Needless to mention that they received appreciation from these two veteran actresses.