Love for Marathi plays hasn’t diminished at all, over the years. This has been possible, because of the patronage of established actors and audience equally. Many well known Marathi artistes, started their acting career with experimental plays. This can happen only in Marathi entertainment industry.

Talking about Marathi experimental theatre, a new play in this category, will hit the drama theatres very soon. ‘Veer Daudale Saatach‘ will be a play, directed by Pralhad Kudtarkar, who bagged best director (experimental) trophy, alongside best play, at a recent television awards function. Pralhad Kudtarkar, was an assistant director for a popular Aadesh Bandekar show ‘Home Minister’. He has to his credits Marathi serials, ‘Aambat Goad’, ‘Bhagyalaxmi’, ‘Aabhas Ha’,’ Lakshya’, ‘Ka Re Durava’ as a writer. But , his love for theatre, prompted him to stage Veer Daudle Saatch.

The play is about a Marathi school , deciding to be part of state inter-school dramatic competition and hand over the responsibility to school’s history teacher, who in turn decides to imbibe history through a drama and selects a historical play . Ironically, seven students who happen to be disinterested in history, get selected to act in it. And, what happens next, is all that the play is about.

Veer Daudale Saatach is produced under the banner Rudra Theatre by Sarika Naik and Pallavi Bhojne. Set to be designed by Ajay Pujare and light design will be by Amogh Phadke while background music is to be provided by Samihan. Omkar Bhojne, Ajay Kambli, Abhishek Gaonkar, Sanjay Jamkhandi, Bhagyashri Paane, Santosh Sarode, Priyanka Hande, Ketan Salvi, and Snehal Shidam will be the artistes of this play, to be on staged from 21st August 2015 onwards.

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‘प्रेम’ हा विषय प्रत्येकाच्या जवळचा आणि आवडता असतो; ज्या प्रमाणे मोठ्या पडद्यावर ‘प्रेम’ ह्या विषयाला घेऊन त्याचे वेगवेगळे पैलू असलेले अनेक सिनेमे प्रेक्षकांना पाहायला मिळताय; तसच काहीस चित्र रंगभूमीवर दिसताये; येत्या काळात विविध रूपांतील प्रेमाचे पैलु मराठी नाट्य प्रेमींना पाहायला मिळणार आहे . आनंद म्हसवेकर लिखित – दिग्दर्शित ‘प्रेम रंगी रंगुनी’ हे नवीन मराठी नाटक रंगभूमीवर येणार आहे. संगीत आणि नाट्याचा सुरेल संगम असलेले हे नाटक येत्या २ मे पासून प्रेक्षेकांच्या भेटीस येणार आहे.

श्रीमती संध्या रोठे ह्याची निर्मिती असलेले ह्या नाटकाचे लेखन आनंद म्हसवेकर ह्यांनी केले असून; सुभाष मालेगावकर ह्यांनी संगीत संयोजन केले आहे. अभिनेता अमोल बावडेकर आणि अभिनेत्री दीप्ती भागवत ह्यांच्या ह्यात मुख्य भूमिका आहेत.

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Gopal Algeri of ‘Suyog’ group is all set to present his brand new Marathi comedy play ‘Laginghaai’ on 5th April 2015. Written by Adwait Dadarkar , this is the second successful play by the writer-director for Suyog, after achieving success through ‘Goshta tashi Gamtichi’. But, this new play ‘Laginghaai’ has an interesting team of artistes, comprising of Aditi Deshpande, Omkar Raut, Niyati Ghate & King of Comedy Ashok Saraf.

Set on the backdrop of ‘marriage’ the play presents one such humour filled theme, where the widower father and his son are having affairs and are getting ready to marry; but are in an awkward position to share their marriage plans. Father is feeling odd, because he is marrying at old age , while son is trying to hide his affair, as he wants to marry a woman who is elder to him. This being a pure comedy, writer director Advait Dadarkar is confident about its success. The play has music by Abhijit Pendharkar, who makes his entry with Suyog group. Another highlight of this play is that Bollywood art director Shashank Tere has designed the sets of this play.

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Since 1961, March 27th is being celebrated as a World Theatre Day. Every year a message, is delivered across five continents, by a prominent international theatre personality. This year, it was by Krzysztof Warlikowski from Polland.

During the olden days, in our country there existed Sanskrit theatre. Hundreds of such plays were written, during ancient times. But, when we started getting ruled by outsiders, the theatre took a backseat. However, during the freedom struggle, our very own village theatre came in handy, to deliver the messages of our freedom fighters to the masses. Marathi theatre too did its bit during this period.

Today, Marathi theatre is considered as one of topmost theatres, in the country, as it has always handled social issues strongly; without compromising on entertainment values. Personalities like, Dinanath Mangeshkar, Bal Gandarva, Prabhakar Panshikar, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Pu La Deshpande, Vikram Gokhale, Satish Dubhashi, Nilu Phule, Ashok Saraf, Dilip Prabhavalkar, among so many others, come to our mind. And, their contribution to marathi theatre, is considered extensively high. Marathi dramas, like Sangeet Manapaman, Ekach Pyala, Ghashiram Kotwal, Ti Phularani, are a few among plenty others, which have entertained marathi theatre viewers.

Today, majority of marathi audience do support Marathi dramas in a big way, in spite of the invasion of television, rising ticket prices etc. Also majority of the artistes are using theatre, as a training ground ; before moving to television serials and films.
On World Theatre Day, let us salute all those great personalities, who contributed to this field.

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Don’t ask how some of our Marathi stage actors manage two plays at a time. Two of our leading Marathi actors are at present managing two Marathi plays each; that too in the lead role. Sharad Ponkshe is already in great form with his new play ‘Tya Tighanchi Goshta’. At the same time, he is also staging his favourite play ‘Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy!’. If you find him doing one play today, the next day, you find him in another play.

The same is the case with Writer-actor Chinmay Mandlekar. His latest play ‘Samudra’ has picked up well, with regular shows now. At the same time, we find him doing his favourite play ‘Mr. & Mrs’ In fact, he is managing two different plays on the same day; i.e. one at 4.0 pm and the other at 8.30 pm. at other venue. Isn’t that something worth appreciating ?

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In spite of successful commercial hits Marathi cinema is still facing problems. The reality is that a majority of the Marathi films are facing the issue of availability of screens, and not getting proper time slot for screening. Though the multiplexes, under the guidelines from authorities, allow Marathi films to be screened, steep ticket prices and odd show timings deter Marathi viewers to watch films there. Efforts are being made by many well wishers of Marathi cinema to sort out the problems faced by an average Marathi film producer.
Now, One of the leading actors of Marathi film industry, Makarand Anaspure has come up with an idea to benefit the parties concerned. He has reportedly, approached the State Government and the Municipal Corporation with a proposal, to utilise the free time-slots of drama theatres for marathi film screenings. This way, both, the drama theatre owners and film producers, will be benefitted financially, which in turn can cut down the ticket price drastically, as not every marathi cine-goer can afford the multiplex ticket prices.

The positive response from the authorities, will certainly benefit Marathi film industry.

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