Majority of people living in our country are not able to meet their daily requirements due to shortage of their earnings. Due to heavy borrowings, they are always in a dilemma to repay their loans. However, most of them live on some hope that one day destiny would change their lives. Latest released Marathi film ‘Nashibvaan’ revolves around the family of one such lower middle class person Baban (Bhalchandra Kadam) , who works as a sweeper in Municipal Corporation. Baban lives in a small room in a chawl and somehow manages the day to day requirements of the family, with his wife ( Mitalee Jagtap) who also supports him with some additional earnings by working as a domestic help. The film is based on original story ‘Dilli Ki Deewar’ written by Uday Prakash.

One day, after completing his duty, Baban is offered some extra work against payment by a Jewellery shop owner, who asks him to clean up the adjacent narrow duct next to his shop. While cleaning the huge debris, Baban hits the Bamboo stick of his broom on the side wall in frustration and few bricks are broken. When Baban peeps inside he notices bundles of high denomination currency notes. He removes few bundles and makes his exit from there after covering the broken portion with the bricks. How, he manages to take away more money from this duct and how his life changes, has been very systematically shown by screenplay writer & director Amol Vasant Gole. In this process, the director has paid more attention on the attitude of different characters, such as Baban, his wife, his female colleague at workplace (Neha Joshi) towards whom Baban has a soft corner and the Police officer.

The screenplay of this film moves very effectively generating a lot of interest, almost on the lines of World Cinema. But, in the post interval stage, the film fails to hold this grip, with few scenes which are not convincing. However, the concluding part gives a surprise to the audience. Overall, this fiction based film has been handled well by cinematographer – director Amol Gole. Performances are very natural by the lead artistes comprising of Bhalchandra Kadam, Mitalee Jagtap , Neha Joshi with good support coming from Rajesh Shringarpure, Yatin Karyekar, Tejpal Wagh and others. Music by Soham Pathak is just fine. This is not a comedy film, but surely a story based film generating some spontaneous humour, which arises out of some dialogues uttered by Bhau Kadam at different situations.

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Cricket has always played a big role in the field of entertainment. The subject of cricket has also been used by our Bollywood film makers, through some of the past films. Among them, ‘Iqbal‘ was one of the most impressive films, which generated the desired impact on the audience. In Marathi, we have seen few films based on cricket and among them, ‘Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho‘ tried to show, how cricket and studies cannot go together. Now, film maker Nitin Kamble has presented his subject on discrimination against Aadivasi community, when it comes to including them in the mainstream, be it in education or sports.

So, very thoughtfully he has chosen his subject, but has failed to create the required impact, through the film’s screenplay. In this film, he presents the character of little Bhalya( Nandkumar Solkar) , a boy from Aadivasi community, living in the outskirts of a village, along with his father Shukrya ( Sanjay Narvekar), mother Heera ( Mitali Jagtap) and grandfather( Ramesh Deo). Bhalya is a school drop out, as he cannot afford the fees of the village school . His family earns just enough income for their food. Bhalya spends his time with his friend Ziprya( Saurabh Karvande), roaming around, taking a dip into river and watching the local village school cricket team practicing on the ground. Actually, he is just passionate about this game of cricket and practices with his friend, emulating all the strokes, with his hand made bat. Watching his perfection, he is spotted by school captain, who is the son of a Government officer (Sharad Ponkshe). Like a good Samaritan , he offers him a chance to play, after convincing his school coach ( Sanjay Khapre). With few tips from the coach, Bhalya excels in his batting. But, this overshadows the performance of local politician’s( Ganesh Yadav) obese son, who is the member of school team.

Knowing about the disturbed state of mind of his son, the politician plays all his dirty games. But, that doesn’t stop the progress of Bhalya, who is selected to play for the school’s team, as a dummy for another player. Needless to say that Bhalya does well, hitting that six on the last ball, in the finals. But, the process through which he is given a chance to play for the school team and the decision taken by the committee to pardon the coach, for cheating; is not at all convincing. And, this is where the film fails to appeal. There were many other ways, to include Bhalya in school team, by someone like Desai Couple, or the foreigner Photographer( Gary Tatney) and well wisher of Bhalya, sponsoring his education. But, the director has thought the other way, to help an Aadivasi boy. There is one scene, where the politician comes to threaten the coach on the ground. He asks the coach to bowl him with half a dozen tennis balls brought by him and he hits all the balls with body line attack on the coach, who fails to protect himself. And, this looks funny, rather than a serious scene. The foreigner trying to defend Bhalya’s case before School Cricket Committee, also fails to convince.

However, the performances of the artistes have been exemplary. Nandkumar Solkar, who has played the role of Bhalya, has performed exceptionally well. Sanjay Narvekar impresses with his body language and fluent dialogues in Aadivasi language with that particular accent. Veteran Ramesh Deo, Alka Kubal Athalye, Sharad Ponkshe, Sanjay Khapre, Ganesh Yadav and Anshuman Vichare in negative role and others have offered good support. Music by Trupti Chavan goes well with the village backdrop, with good music offered for Holi song. Chaitrali Dongre has done a good job, designing suitable costumes of all characters. Last but not the least, I. Giridharan and Shanu Singh Rajput have captured good cinematography through their lenses. To sum up, ‘Bhalya’ batted on a sticky wicket.

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Movie: Well Done Bhalya
Director: Nitin Kamble
Starcast: Nandkumar Solkar, Ramesh Dev, Sanjay Narvekar, Alka Kubal, Ganesh Jadhav, Mitali Jagtap, Sanjay Khapare, Anshuman Vichare, Sharad Ponkshe, Namrata Jadhav, Rajesh Kamble, Sourabh Karvande, Nitin Kamble, Mahesh Kute, Gary, Jeevan Karalkar, Prathamesh Kawle, Sahil Joshi

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