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Genres:  Drama Censor: U Duration: 153 min. Studio / Presenter: Landmark Films Producer: Amit Naresh Patil, Vinod Manohar Gaikwad, Mahendra Gangadhar Patil DOP: Amol Gole Director: Amol Gole Cast:  Bhalchandra Kadam, Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar, Neha Joshi, Rajesh Shringarpure, Yatin karyekar, Tejpal Wagh Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke.

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.