‘Photo Prem’ presents Neena Kulkarni in a lifetime role
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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.
‘Photo Prem’ to be premiered on Amazon Prime on 7th May
Amazon Prime Video and Everest Entertainment are all set to release the Marathi film ‘Photo Prem’ on Amazon Prime from 7th May 2021. While making this announcement, the trailer of this film was also released. The film stars versatile actress Neena Kulkarni in the central role along with Amita Khopkar and Sameer Dharmadhikari in important roles. The film has been produced by Aditya Rathi, Mehul Shah and Gayatri Patil , while it is written and directed jointly by Aditya Rathi and Gayatri Patil.
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.
Five Marathi films selected for Indian Panorama at IFFI 2019
The 50 th International Film Festival of India is scheduled to be held in Goa from 20th to 28th November 2019. And the good news is that five Marathi films have been selected in Indian Panorama at Iffi 2019 among the 26 films to be screened on this occasion. The film lovers numbering about 10, 000 will get an opportunity to witness 200 best films from 76 countries at this Golden Jubilee celebrations of IFFI.
The names of the five films selected in Indian Panorama are, ‘Tujhya Aaila’ directed by Sujay Dahake, ‘Anandi Gopal’ by Sameer Vidwans, ‘Bhonga’ by Shivaji Lotan Patil, ‘Mai Ghat-Crime No. 103/2005′ by Anant Mahadevan, ‘Photo Prem’ by Aditya Rathi & Gayatri Patil. It may be recalled that last year there were only two Marathi films in this Indian panorama, but this year the number has risen to five. Competing with them will be 3 films each from Bengali and Malyalam language. So, there is a lot to be expected from these five films.