The motion poster of forthcoming  Marathi film ‘Kandil’ unveiled on social media recently. The film is already receiving very good response from different film festivals and has also been scheduled to be screened at the 19^th Pune International Film Festival this year. Directed by debutant Mahesh Kand is also expected to be released in theatres all over Maharashtra as early as possible this year.

 Produced under the banner of L.K. Pictures by Producers Laxman Kand, Abhijeet Kand and Mahesh Kand, this issue based film revolves around five poor but extraordinary youngsters living in a slum, who dream of becoming rich after having been subjected to a lot of oppression as well as frustration on their path. The five youngsters form the backdrop of the recently unveiled poster of the film “Kandil”. While three youngsters are seen seated on a rock under the tree, while one is shown resting over the tree and the fifth is looking towards the skies with a ray of hope written large on his face about a bright future.

The director of this film, Mahesh Kand has had already undergone the  journey of struggle in his path to become a filmmaker, as he has not taken any training at any film institute for direction but has made it a point to learn all about the various techniques of filmmaking just by participating in different films festivals and film club screenings. Mahesh has also assisted quite a few filmmakers in direction as the chief assistant, including Milind Ukey in the making of his ambitious film “Humne Jeena Seekh Liya”, besides learning for a lot of years under the tutelage of the renowned writer like Amarjeet Aamle. Mahesh has also done a part time diploma course at Fergusson College in Pune in Photography.  Mahesh spent three years in a slum to do his research. The film will be showcased at various International Film Festival before it is released in Theaters of all over Maharashtra.

The film stars Mahesh Kand, Laxman Salunke, Vinod Khurangle, Mandar Phakatkar, Divyaraj Ovwal and Dilip Ashtekar . While Amarjeet Aamle has written the screenplay of ‘Kandil’, Mahesh Kand and Suhas Munde have jointly penned the lyrics for the songs for this film. Mangesh Dhakde who has won the Filmfare award this year and has composed the music for films like “Valu” and “Deool”, has composed for ‘Kandil’, while Nandesh Umap, J. Subodh and Chandradeep Bhaskar have rendered their voices for the songs for the film Sound Mixing has been done by Anup Dev while the National Award winning sound designer M. Sabannavar has designed the sound for the film. Prasad More has cranked the camera for the film . Nilesh Rasal and Dinesh Bhalerao have edited the film.