Is Saurabh Gokhale turning the new angry young man of Marathi cinema ?
Having proved his mettle on Marathi stage and television, during the past few years, Saurabh Gokhale has now established himself in Marathi cinema. We saw his angry young man image in award winning film ‘Partu‘. Earlier, he had played a Police officer in the film ‘Yoddha‘. And now, he plays an important role of Subodh Bhave’s brother in the new film ‘Bho Bho‘ which is released recently.
Saurabh plays a real angry young man in the film ‘Bho Bho‘ and has enough scope to once again make his presence felt, in this suspense filled thriller. With this performance, he has indicated that he can be considered as the new angry young man of Marathi cinema. In this film, Saurabh’s wife Anuja is playing his sister in law and there are few scenes, where there are heated arguments between the two. After ‘Bho Bho‘ Saurabh’s next film will be ‘Page 4′ and there is one more film in the pipeline. He is also doing a Marathi play, to keep himself active on Marathi stage. But, don’t think, he will return to television, unless there is a role, most suited to him.
‘Partu’ binds Maharashtra and Rajasthan in an emotive cord
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Rating: ★★★ ½
Studio/presenter:East West Films Producers:Nitin Adsul, Sachin Adsul , Rupesh Mahajan, Darrel Cox, Clark McMillian Director: Nitin Adsul Writer: Nitin Adsul, Clark McMillian, Darrel Cox Dialogues: Mayur Deval Music: Shashank Powar, Greg Sims Cinematographer (DOP): Sanjay Khanjode Genres: Drama Censor: U/A Duration: 130 Min. Cast:Kishor Kadam, Smita Tambe, Saurabh Gokhale, Gayatri Deshmukh, Anshuman Vichare, Navani Parihar, Raja Bundela, Ravi Bhartiya, Yash Pande Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke |
It is not an easy job to bind the people from different states and culture together, through an emotion filled film’s story. But, US based Marathi filmmaker Nitin Adsul has succeeded in doing so. Through his latest Marathi film ‘Partu’, made under the banner of his US based East West Films, Nitin has presented a true story of his father’s uncle, a farmer, by profession and living in Nagar district of Maharashtra. The period of this story has been set on the backdrop of rural areas of both in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, during the period 1968 to 1985.
Laxman (Kishore Kadam) a farmer just managing to provide enough food to his family, with farming, finds a little boy on the streets of a village in Nagar district. He provides shelter to this boy, along with his two children, much against the wish of his wife ( Smita Tambe) . The boy is actually from a village in Rajasthan ,who is lost at Ahmednagar Railway station missing his uncle in the crowd. But, the name of the village pronounced by the boy, is not properly understood by Laxman and he calls it some other place. Even his name Prithvi, is understood by the farmer as Partu. Laxman tries to locate the village with the help of village postman, but is unable to locate it.
So, Partu becomes a close member of the farmer’s family, having lived with them for 17 long years. Laxman also gets him married to his friend’s daughter ( Gayatri Soham). Later, when it’s time to go on a pilgrimage, the family happens to travel to Rajasthan also. It is here that Lakxman gets a message through a messenger of almighty, to move to a particular village in Rajasthan, to fulfill his wish of returning Partu, to his biological parents. With lots of hurdles, he finally reaches the destination, in the film’s climax. But, it is Partu, who takes his own decision in the end.
The film has been very well presented with proper planning, being a true story. At the end of the film, the director has not forgotten to show the audience, the real life people, on whom the film has been made. And, that is the best part of this film. There are very few flaws noticed in the film’s story; but this being a true story, they can be ignored. There are many emotion filled scenes in the film and the versatile artistes like Kishore Kadam, Smita Tambe, Saurabh Gokhale and Gayatri Soham Deshmukh have given full justice to their respective roles in this film. For Saurbh Gokhale this is a good debut in films. He has done one face to face scene of confrontation with versatile actor Kishore Kadam very well. Anshuman Vichare in the role of a private vehicle driver, has generated some humour, in post interval session, in this otherwise touching emotion filled film.
Music is just apt for the film’s story and two songs have been picturised very well. One of them is picturised on the young couple and the other towards the end, depicting the Rajasthani culture. Good photography, excellent background music and perfect sound design are other plus points of this brilliant film.
The overall film is very appealing and touches the heart of the audience, because of its emotion filled screenplay. It also binds Maharashtra and Rajasthan in an emotive cord .
Partu ( परतु )
Studio/presenter: East West FilmsGenres: Drama
Rating: na
Censor: U/A
Duration: 130 min.
Producers: Nitin Adsul, Sachin Adsul , Rupesh Mahajan, Darrel Cox, Clark McMillian
Executive Producer: na
Director: Nitin Adsul
Writer: Nitin Adsul, Clark McMillian , Darrel Cox
ScreenPlay: Nitin Adsul, Clark McMillian, Darrel Cox
Dialogues: Mayur Deval
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Cast & Crew
Executive Producer: na
Director: Nitin Adsul
Assistant Director: na
Writer: Nitin Adsul, Clark McMillian , Darrel Cox
ScreenPlay: Nitin Adsul, Clark McMillian, Darrel Cox
Dialogues: Mayur Deval
Lyrics: na
Music: Shashank Powar, Greg Sims
Playback Singer: Shankar Mahadevan, Jasraj Joshi, Janhavi Prabhu Arora, Manish Rajgire and Shikha Ajmera
Cinematographer (DOP): Sanjay Khanjode
Editor: Rajesh Rao
Starcast: Kishor Kadam, Smita Tambe, Saurabh Gokhale, Gayatri Deshmukh, Anshuman Vichare, Navani Parihar, Raja Bundela, Ravi Bhartiya, Yash Pande
Costumes: Sachin Lovalekar
Makeup: na
Sound : na
Background Score: na
Choreographer: na
DI, VFX: na
D.I. Colourist: na
Promos: na
Music Label: na
Publicity Designs: na
P.R.O.: na
Distributor : na
Synopsis
‘Partu’ : In 1968, MUMBAI city, a seven year old Rajasthani boy PRITHVI arrives from RAJASTHAN with his uncle PREM SINGH to enjoy the Mumbai attractions. After two weeks of stay, during his departure back to Rajasthan, he gets separated from his uncle in a crowded MUMBAI train station and not knowing the way back, he boards wrong train and actually ends on a train station called AHMEDNAGAR about 200 miles from MUMBAI. PRITHVI is found by a poor Marathi farmer named LAKSHMAN. He and his family welcomes PRITHVI into their home. Despite the language barrier, and with little or to no knowledge of PRITHVI’s home, they struggle to find his parents. But with little money and an entire family to raise, LAKSHAMN eventually gives up his efforts to find PRITHVI’s home. As the months and years go by pass PRITHVI becomes accustomed to his new family as he receives their love, affection, and starts to learns the local language, routines and rituals. Although he has stopped searching, LAKSHMAN still feels an obligation and has hope of to one day finding PRITHVI’s parents. 17 years later in 1985, PRITHVI, is a handsome young man of 24. He is married and has settled in AHMEDNAGAR with the joint family. LAKSHMAN and family join a pilgrimage to a northern part section of India. While there, he manages to track down the location of PRITHVI’s hometown in RAJASTHAN. Lakshman and family go through various adventures but finally reach the doorsteps of PRITHVI’s parents. Its been 17 long years and a lot has changed for everyone. PRITHVI’s family is overjoyed to find him after 17 years. PRITHVI now reunited with his mother and family starts to find it a little hard to adjust to the new environment. He is torn between the love he feels for the family that raised him and the family that lost him.
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Partu’ is a true story of my father’s Uncle – Nitin Adsul
Nitin Adsul has been living in USA for the past several years; but he has been watching all Marathi films. Knowing about the good response received by Marathi films, based on good scripts, for a long time, he was thinking about making a Marathi film, on the true story happening in the life of his father’s uncle, a farmer from a village in Nagar district, in Maharashtra. Since, Mr. Adsul who lives in Washington DC and a co founder of East West Films; he narrated this true story to his partners and they all agreed to make a Marathi film on this universal subject. And, that’s how Partu’ was shot in Rajasthan and Maharashtra, at the end of last year and beginning of this year.
‘Partu’ is now all set to release on coming Friday and Nitin is eager to know the response of the audience to his debut Marathi film. The story ‘Partu’ revolves around a small boy, who is lost in Maharashtra and is offered shelter by a poor farmer and his family. The farmer tries to search his family in Rajasthan, but in vain. So, he brings up this boy along with his two children and prospers in his Agri business. He also finds a bride for this boy and gets him married. It is an interesting tale of a farmer, who hasn’t given up hopes, to search the biological parents of this boy. Finally, when he finds them, it is interesting to see, what this young boy does.
“I am sure, this story will appeal to audience from different parts of the world, besides the Indian audience. But, my target audience is from Maharashtra and Rajasthan. After all, it is a true story, which happened in the life of my Father’s uncle, living in Nagar district and has a connect with a boy from Rajasthan,” he concluded.
‘Partu’ promises ‘out of the box’ content
Marathi films are known for their offering variety of content. Keeping with the trend, forthcoming Marathi film ‘Partu’ also promises ‘out of the box’ content. Made under the banner of Hollywood’s ‘East West Films’ and written and directed by Nitin Adsul , an Indian settled in USA, the film has already raised lot of curiosity about its subject, which is based on a real life story.
Though the artistes of this film are from Marathi film industry and Bollywood, the technical support comes from highly qualified international technical persons. The film has been shot in Rajasthan and Maharashtra; but the cinematography and background music of this film, are expected to make a big difference. The film stars Kishore Kadam, Smita Tambe, Saurabh Gokhale, Gayatri Deshmukh, Anshuman Vichare, Navani Parihar, Raja Bundela, Ravi Bharatiya and child artiste Yash Pande , around whose character, the film revolves.
Music by Shashank Powar, background music by Hollywood’s Greg Sims, editing by Rajesh Rao and cinematography by Sanjay Khanjode are other credits.
‘Partu’ is Hollywood’s first Marathi film
Marathi films are going worldwide. Now, we find even Hollywood film makers taking interest in producing a Marathi film. East West Company which has produced many Hollywood films, including award winning films like ‘Kundalini’ & ‘ Together Forever’, have now made a Marathi film ‘Paratu’ which is directed by NRI Nitin Adsul, who has settled in USA for a long time.
Recently, Nitin completed the shooting of this film in Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The film stars well known artistes from Marathi and Hindi film industry. They are, Kishore Kadam, Smita Tambe, Saurabh Gokhale, Gayatri Deshmukh, Anshuman Vichare, Navnee Parihar, Raja Bundela ,Ravi Bharatiya and child artiste Yash Pande.
The film’s story, which is unique and set on the backdrop of 1968 to 1985 period; is written by Clerk Mack Milliam, Nitin Adsul, & Daryl Cocks. The dialogues in Marathi are penned by Mayur Deval, DOP is Sanjay Khanjode and music is by Shashank Powar. The theme song in this film is by Shankar Mahadevan.