Poster of ‘Tamasha Live’ starring Sonalee unveiled
Tamasha has played an important role in the success of Marathi films over the years. Now, the a forthcoming Marathi film titled ‘Tamasha Live’ stars Sonalee Kulkarni is the lead role. The poster of this film was unveiled recently on social media. Directed by Sanjay Jadhav is written by Manish Kadam with screenplay by Sanjay Jadhav and dialogues by Arvind Jagtap. This film is produced by Akshay Bardapurkar, Abhayanand Singh and Piyush Singh.
Speaking about his film director Sanjay Jadhav said, “This film is a musical film and has 30 songs which is experimented for the first time. Sonalee who is good friend of mine is doing this film for first time with me. So, I am myself excited about this project,” Amitraj and Pankaj Padghan have provided music of this film while lyrics are by Kshitij Patwardhan. Choreography is by Umesh Jadhav. Producer Akshay Bardapurkar is also happy to present the combination of reputed director Sanjay Jadhav and talented actress Sonalee Kulkarni together for the first time. The film will release by Diwali 2022.
Teaser Poster of ‘Raosaheb’ unveiled on social media
Teaser poster of new Marathi film ‘Raosaheb’ was unveiled on social media recently. This film has once again brought together Nikhil Mahajan with Planet Marathi. Written by Prajakta Deshmukh, Shripad Deshpande and Nikhil Mahajan this film seems to be on wildlife, as indicated through the poster. The film is jointly produced by Akshay Bardapurkar, Neha Pendse Bayas, Jitendra Joshi and Nikhil Mahajan.
Top Marathi stars come together to sing Pride Song
Planet Marathi OTT platform which was launched recently by actress Amruta Khanvilkar with the release of Marathi film ‘June’, are now getting ready to offer variety entertainment in the form of web series, web films and other entertaining programmes. In the meanwhile many top stars of Marathi film industry joined together to sing the Pride Song for this new channel. This inspiring song has been penned by Sameer Sawant with music composed by Kaushal Inamdar.
This song is directed by Pushkar Shrotri and renowned singer like Swapnil Bandodkar, Aadarsh Shinde, Yogita Godbole and Vaishali Made have rendered their voices for this song with the support of big team of Marathi stars comprising of Vikram Gokhale, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Sharad Kelkar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Sonalee Kulkarni, Siddharth Jadhav, Tejaswini Pandit, Pushkar Shrotri, Subodh Bhave, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Priya Bapat, Mrunal Kulkarni, Prajakta Mali, Sanjay Jadhav, Abhijit Panse, Prasad Oak, Jitendra Joshi, Adinath Kothare, Urmila Kothare, Sonalee Khare, Bhargavi Chirmule, Parna Pethe, Smita Tambe, Gayatri Datar, Abhijit Khandkekar, Siddharth Menon, Bhagyashree Milind, Neha Shitole, Deepti Devi, Sandeep Pathak, Nikhil Chavan, Tejas Barve, Surbhi Hande, Suvrat Joshi, Shivani Bavkar and Planet Marathi Chief Akshay Bardapurkar. It is for the first time that such a big team has been part of this Pride song.
Sharad Ponkshe makes his debut in Web series
Having performed successfully in all three forms of Marathi entertainment namely Stage, television and films, versatile Marathi actor Sharad Ponkshe is now making his debut through a web series on OTT platform. The six part web series has not been titled yet, but will be a family story and will relate the audience to their own lifestyle. The shooting of this serial has begun from yesterday. This web series produced by Pratik Vyas, Amit Kanhere, directed by Amit Kanhere, written by Yogesh Vinayak Joshi is presented by Planet Marathi.
Apart from Sharad Ponkshe the other lead artistes of this web series are, Shilpa Tulaskar, Tejas Barve, Parna Pethe, Uday Nene . According to the makers, though the subject of this serial is of serious type, this will be a family entertainer. Rohan- Rohan have provided music for this web series, while Vishal Sangwai is DOP and Omkar Mahajan is creative producer. Besides this web series, Planet Marathi are offering few more web series too.
Grand inauguration of Planet Marathi office
Last year we had heard about the announcement of new Marathi OTT platform with some big names getting associated with the founder Akshay Bardapurkar. Initially, Pushkar Shrotri and Aditya Oak became partners. Later, media man Amit Bhandari also joined them with Oscar Jury Ujwal Nirgudkar. Now, we understand that Vistas Capital Entertainment Company from Singapore has also shown interest to work with Planet Marathi; which is a big news. Recently, the new office of Planet Marathi was inaugurated at Andheri east, in presence of founder members and special guests.
Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Akshay Bardapurkar said, “When we begin our operations, Marathi filmlovers all over the world, will be able to enjoy the first day first show of Marathi films sitting at home along with their family members. This will also help Marathi films to reach out to maximum people.” Many prominent artistes from Marathi film industry were present to grace this occasion. Among them were, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Mrunal Kulkarni, Amruta Khanvilkar, Tejaswini Pandit, Swapnil Joshi, Shruti Marathe, Gaurav Ghatnekar, Sayali Sanjeev, Gayatri Datar, Neha Pendse, Manva Naik, Swapna Waghmare Joshi, Sonali Khare, Adinath Kothare, Suvrat Joshi, Shivani Bavkar, Aroh Velankar, Subhash Desai, Swapnil Godbole & Amit Phalke.
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Planet Marathi is getting ready with 10 new web series on their OTT platform
During the past few months due to lockdown restrictions , no new Marathi TV serials could be released on small screen. At the same time no Marathi film could see its release in theatres, due to their closure. Though some Hindi films and Web series were released on OTT platforms, we haven’t seen much Marathi content during this period on OTT platform. The reason is simple. Actually, Marathi content didn’t have their own platform and had to depend on others.
But now, Planet Marathi is all set to offer bagful of entertainment through their own OTT platform with 10 new web series and 850 hours of entertainment for little children. The 10 web series will present top directors and artistes. Moreover, in near future more and more Marathi content will be arranged in the form of web series and shot films. According to Producer Akshay Bardapurkar, actor Pushkar Shrotri and music arranger Aditya Oak from Planet Marathi the home viewers will be happy with this offering from them including the first day first show in the form of Digital theatre, which will be operational from December 2020.
Planet Marathi To Launch India’s Only Marathi OTT Platform
Film maker Akshay Bardapurkar of Planet Marathi, actor Pushkar Shrotri, and music composer Aditya Oak have come together to launch Planet Marathi OTT Platform, exclusively for Marathi audience.In today’s world of digital transformation , the emergence of OTT has disrupted the experience of entertainment for the audience making it accessible, affordable, and uncomplicated. While many Indian OTT platforms have tried to be inclusive about regional content, Marathi craft is yet to see it’s high praise! So, these three people are all set to launch this platform.
Planet Marathi OTT’s tagline, ‘Ma Mancha, Ma Marathicha’ evokes a sense of pride as we will finally see the launch of an OTT specifically for Marathi audience. Planet Marathi OTT hosts a plethora of binge-worthy Marathi content like films, theatre, television shows, infotainment, educational content for kids, fiction, non-fiction, reality shows, and a lot more! It is the future of digital entertainment in the Marathi language. IOS and Android users globally will witness entertainment experience that meets international benchmarks with this app. Making premium subscriptions affordable for every household and viewing experiences simplified for all age groups, Planet Marathi OTT streams more than just regular entertainment. The OTT streams recreational content like karaoke songs, recipes, yoga, health, and live-fitness videos too! The somewhat neglected yet noteworthy Marathi content finally finds a rightful place on Planet Marathi OTT.
Six new film projects announced by Producer Akshay Bardapurkar
Only a day after the release of a Mega Venture Film ‘AB ani CD’ by Producer Akshay Bardapurkar of Planet Marathi, the orders for closure of Cinema halls and the Drama theaters were issued by the Government. This collapsed the Box Office arithmetic of many other films along with ‘AB aani CD’. However, without getting bogged down by this sudden onslaught, Producer Akshay Bardapurkar and his team took a brave decision to release this film on Amazon Prime.
Considering the propriety of occasion of Maharashtra Day and Labour Day on the 1st May, the film was released on the Amazon Prime and it received a good response. Now with this success, Planet Marathi is going to produce six new films & Web series projects. Producer Akshay Bardapurkar announced this recently. Two of the important films that would be arriving under the banner are ‘Gosht Eka Paithanichi’ Directed by Shantanu Rode and ‘Chandramukhi’ Directed by Prasad Oak.
The Producers have said that they would make available many
opportunities during future projects for Planet Talent artists as well
as fresh talents for encouraging them. Above projects will have both a genuine variety as well as roles played by top actors from Bollywood. However, the information about the cast as well as directors and the faces from Bollywood appearing in these films has been a secret for now. The decision is going to be most important from the angle of maintaining stability for many economic arithmetic issues.