Versatile Marathi actor Jitendra Joshi is in the news. He has won Best actor’s award for the film ‘Godavari (गोदावरी)’ at the New York Indian Film Festival ( NYIFF) 2022. ‘Godavari’ is Jio Studios presented Marathi film , which is produced by Blue Drop Films and Jitendra Joshi Pictures. This film has already earned a name at different national and international film festivals , wherever it was screened.

Directed by Nikhil Mahajan, this film will now be screened among the five films at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival . Speaking about his film director Nikhil  Mahajan said, “I am glad that Jitendra was selected for the  best actor’s award  at NYIFF. This film was completed in 17 days.” The film stars Jitendra Joshi, Vikram Gokhale, Neena Kulkarni, Sanjay Mone, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Gauri Nalavade in lead roles.

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Ever since its official announcement, forthcoming Marathi film ‘Y’ has created a lot of curiosity among film lovers about its unique title. Now, actress Mukta Barve has posted her own photo carrying  the big printed letter ‘Y’ on social media. Subsequently, Swapnil Joshi, Neena Kulkarni and Prajakta Mali were also seen displaying the letter ‘Y’ on their posts on social media. All these artistes have shown their support for ‘Y’ and have asked the viewers, whether they also support ‘Y’?

Actor Omkar Govardhan

Now, with the curiosity about this film rising day by day, it is not yet clear whether all these artistes are part of this film or there are others involved with this film. According to Ajit Wadikar director of this film, “There is a lot of struggle behind this letter ‘Y’ and we have made an effort to place it before the audience , who are supporting us a lot.” Actress Mukta Barve says, “ You will come to know the meaning of ‘Y’ through this film. This is not simply a letter, but the fight of a woman to live this life.” 

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अजित सूर्यकांत वाडीकर दिग्दर्शित ‘Y (वाय)’ हा मराठी चित्रपट लवकरच प्रेक्षकांच्या भेटीला येत आहे. सोशल मिडीयावर सध्या या चित्रपटाची जोरदार चर्चा पाहायला मिळत आहे. चित्रपटात महत्वाची भूमिका साकारणाऱ्या मुक्ता बर्वे हिने आपल्या सोशल मीडियावर ‘वाय’ चे पोस्टर धरलेला एक फोटो शेअर केला. त्यापाठोपाठ मराठी सिनेसृष्टीतील स्वप्निल जोशी, नीना कुळकर्णी, प्राजक्ता माळी इत्यादी अनेक कलाकारांनीही ‘वाय’ चे पोस्टर हातात धरून त्यांच्या सोशल मीडियावर त्यांचा फोटो शेअर केला आहे! या सर्वच कलाकारांनी ” माझा पाठिंबा आहे ! आपला … ? “ अशी विचारणा चाहत्यांना केल्यामुळे , चाहत्यांमध्येही ‘वाय’ या नावाबद्दल आणि चित्रपटाबद्दल उत्कंठा निर्माण झाली आहे.

हे सर्व कलाकार ‘वाय ‘ या चित्रपटांमध्ये आहेत का की यातील काही मोजकेच कलाकार ‘ वाय ‘ या चित्रपटामध्ये आहेत की आणखी यापेक्षा वेगळेच कलाकार चित्रपटामध्ये आहेत हे अजूनही गुलदस्त्यात आहे. शिवाय या पोस्टरमागचा अर्थ आणि नेमका उद्देश काय, याविषयीही अनेक तर्कवितर्क लावले जात आहेत. त्यामुळे आता ‘वाय’ विषयीची प्रेक्षकांची उत्सुकता अधिकच वाढली आहे.

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Every talented artiste is in search of a role to give his or her best. Age does no matter. What matters the most, is the character you are offered and its importance in the script. Versatile Marathi and Hindi film actress Neena Kulkarni has found one such opportunity to prove her mettle through recently released Marathi film ‘Photo Prem’ on Amazon Prime.

Produced by a team of Mehul Shah,  Aditya Rathi and Gayatri Patil and directed by the debutante director duo Aditya Rathi and Gayatri Patil, this 93 minutes length film features the main character of Mai a middle aged married woman who is camera shy and avoids facing camera directly even during her daughter’s marriage. After her daughter’s marriage, Mai becomes lonely at home, as her husband keeps spending his time after office with his friends and their parties. Except for watching television serials during the day and chatting with her domestic help Mai has no other work to keep herself occupied.

One day she attends a funeral of a woman (wife of her husband’s friend). She notices a problem faced in their family, where search is on for the deceased woman’s photograph, to be submitted to a newspaper Obituary column. In the absence of her photo, the news with the photo cannot appear in newspaper. This particular happening makes Mai feel uncomfortable and she keeps on thinking as to what would happen in her case and how people will remember her, in absence of her proper Solo Photo. How she deals with this situation is what the film’s screenplay is all about.

There is no doubt that some of the incidences are humour filled but due to limited content, the directors were not able to expand the screenplay with more interesting happenings, except for the climax, which is good. Nevertheless, actress Neena Kulkarni has found a lifetime lead role in this film and she has given full justice to her emotion filled character. Her husband and daughter are just namesake in this film. Instead, scope is given to the domestic help played by Chaitrali Rode, with some support coming from Amita Khopkar as Akka her relative, Pro Photographer Sameer Dharmadhikari and few others. Kaushal Inamdar‘s music and Kedar Phadke’s cinematography are the other plus points of this film.

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The film revolves around the central character of Mai played by Neena Kulkarni, who is more concerned about her available photos which are not good according to her. So, she is afraid as to whether people will remember her after her death. The makers of this film are happy that Amazon Prime Video have been associated with them to release this film on streaming services, which would help their film to reach worldwide. They are confident that the viewers on this platform their Marathi film with a different subject.

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Neen Kulkarni, Dr Amol Kolhe, Sayaji Shinde, while tree plantation on set

12 जानेवारी राष्ट्रमाता जिजाऊ माँ साहेबांची जयंती. त्या निमित्ताने स्वराज्यजननी जिजामाता मालिकेच्या सेटवर वृक्षारोपण करण्यात आले. स्वराज्यजननी जिजामाता मालिकेच्या टीमने 150 रोपटी लावली. या कार्यक्रमाला डॉ. अमोल कोल्हे, नीना कुळकर्णी आणि सयाजी शिंदे हे उपस्थित होते.

शिवजयंती निमित्ताने शिरूर येथे बायोडायव्हर्सिटी प्लांटची उभारणी करणार असल्याचे डॉ. कोल्हेनी या वेळी सांगितलं. शिवभक्तांबरोबर या वृक्षारोपणाची हिरवी मशाल, या वृक्षारोपणाचा विचार घेऊन या वेळी शिवनेरीवर देखील जाऊ असंही ते म्हणाले.जिजाऊ माँ साहेबांच्या जयंती निमित्त मी सगळ्यांना हे आव्हान करतो की झाडांना पण एखाद्या सेलिब्रिटीप्रमाणे मान द्या तरच लोक त्यांना जपतील.

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With the story and screenplay by Nikhil Mahajan himself along with Prajakt Deshmukh, the film presents a family story with a difference, as claimed by the director. The strong star cast of this film comprises of Vikram Gokhale, Neena Kulkarni, Jitendra Joshi, Gauri Nalawade, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Sakhi Gokhale and Sanjay Mone. Dialogues by Prajakt Deshmukh , lyrics by Jitendra Joshi and music by A V Prafullachandra are the other credits.

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Set on the backdrop of Love, relationship it throws light especially on the marriage relationship and stars renowned artistes like Sai Tamhankar, Parna Pethe, Lalit Prabhakar, Neha Joshi, Pushkaraj Chirputkar, Sagar Dshmukh, Ipshita, Neena Kulkarni, Ravindra Mankani in lead roles. The film has been shot in Mumbai and Pune and therefore obviously focused on the lifestyle of youngsters in these regions. The film is all set to release in coming new year 2020.

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Gajendra Ahire has made about 40 Marathi films in the past, on different subjects involving social issues. Now, his new film ‘Kulkarni Chaukatla Deshpande’ raises an important question, whether by changing your lifestyle or by changing your attitude and also your husband, have you really succeeded in changing yourself or achieved what you desired ?

The film revolves around a 30 + woman Ms. Deshpande( Sai Tamhankar) who divorces her husband Mr. Deshpande (Nikhil Ratnaparakhi) only because he is not dashing and does not satisfy her sex life. One wonders, how she had a love marriage with him? Then getting the custody of her 8 year old son ( Rohan Shah) , she sends him to a boarding school and gets involved with a well to do man Mr. Kulkarni ( Rajesh Shringarpure) who also has a son almost of Rohan’s age. Mr. Kulkarni has already deserted his wife, only because she is not keeping well. So, after enjoying their ‘live in relationship’ both Mr. Kulkarni and Ms. Deshapnde finally plan to get married and they proceed to Ladakh along with their children during their vacation time, so that they get adjusted .

While Kulkarni’s son who is shown over smart and selfish, is ready to accept Ms. Despande as his new mother, Rohan is hesitant to accept Mr. Kulkarni as his father. Ms. Deshpande’s mother ( Neena Kulkarni) is also opposed to her daughter’s decision. But, Ms. Deshpande makes all efforts to convince her son during his vacation period, finding time from her busy job. Does she succeed in her attempt? This is what writer director Gajendra Ahire has tried to show through this film. To a certain extent he has succeeded in presenting what he had to convey, but at some places he has inserted unwanted time consuming scenes including a song. Selection of Ladakh as location for vacation trip offers visual pleasure. However, after return from Ladakh trip the film’s screenplay loses its grip for sometime, till the climax.

Performances of artistes are best part of this film. Sai Tamhankar gets ample scope to display her emotions, while Rajesh Shringarpure and Nikhil Ratnaparakhi are at ease while showing their natural skills through their respective characters. But, compared to Rajesh Shringarpure, Nikhil’s character hasn’t been properly presented. As Sai’s son Rohan Shah has cleverly shown his reaction through his body language without over reacting , to express his inner feelings. Neena Kulkarni also offers good support through her limited role. Music is not very appealing as there are many people involved into it including the writer- director. Moreover, writer- director himself has appeared as a singer in the title song. However, the cinematography by Arjun Sorate & Krishna Soren is impressive and that is one more plus point of the film, besides good performances.

All in all, ‘Kulkarni Chautatla Deshpande’ is a thought provoking film but should have been better, if it was handled with more interesting and humour filled sequences .

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During the 70s film makers like Hrishikesh Mukherkee and Basu Chatterjee offered some quality films generating mild humour, very successfully through their gripping screenplay. Perhaps inspired by the films of these two film makers, national award winning Marathi film maker Shrabani Deodhar has tried this experiment in Marathi through her latest released film ‘Mogara Phulala’. And well suited to the title of her film, she has successfully presented this film to emit the pleasant fragrance of mild humour.

Very effectively director Shrabani Deodhar tells you the emotional bonding between a 30+ typical most obedient ‘mama’s boy’ Sunil Kulkarni ( Swapnil Joshi) and his possessive mother ( Neena Kulkarni) . The dominating mother whose younger brother in law and elder son have married the girls of their choice, after her husband’s death, wants her younger son to marry the girl of her choice. And Sunil who is a software engineer does what his mother feels right for him.

But, after rejecting about 38 marriage proposals, Sunil finally falls in love with a woman Shivangi Gupte ( Sai Deodhar) who is almost of his age, but is a widow, who has a little daughter Reva. Shivangi works as Asst ,Manager in a co-op Bank , where Sunil along with his friend Mayur ( Sandeep Pathak) have set up a software programme for them. Both come closer, when Sunil’s bachelor uncle who is a and dramatist visits the joint family and happens to stage a play for Shivangi’s bank for competition, on the insistence of bank manager Dhaigude( Anand Ingale). When Sunil’s mother comes to know about the closeness of her son with Shivangi, she plays a game to separate them. Finally, all goes well after sequence of interesting happenings .

‘Mogara Phulalaa’ is certainly a well made film to keep the audience engaged from start to finish. The appealing story of Shrabani Deodhar supported by crisp screenplay and dialogues by Sachin Mote makes ‘Mogara Phulala’ more presentable . Music is not the base of this film, but Rohit Raut’s music is appealing for two background songs. Equally good is Amol Gole‘s superb photography. But, what appeals the most are the excellent performances of Marathi Superstar Swapnil Joshi ,popular TV star Sai Deodhar , veteran actress Neena Kulkarni , Chandrakant Kulkarni and a big team of artistes in supporting roles. Director Shrabani Deodhar has extracted the best out of all these versatile artistes, in almost all the scenes. All in all ‘Mogara Phulala’ has turned out to be a worth watch film for all.

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