Actress turned director Mrinal Kulkarni proved that she was not only a successful actress but also a good host. On Wednesday late evening, she was the happiest person to find the capacity packed Grand Imperial Banquets at Andheri, with the presence of entire cast and crew of her film, besides media persons and special invitees; to wish her on the occasion of music release and first look of her forthcoming Marathi film ‘Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asata’. Mrinal paid personal attention to each and every invitee, with her cheerful face.

With such a lengthy title of the film, there was a lot of curiosity to know the theme of this film. So, Mrinal herself being the story writer of this film, besides acting and directing it, made it very clear that it was a work of fiction. “I just wanted to elaborate on the close relationship between love and marriage, in the context of three different generations,” she said.

Her speech during this function was filled with humour citing relevant examples to define love , clearly proved that she was a grand daughter of the greatest author G. N. Dandekar. Mrinal performed the muhurat of this multi-starrer film during last March and was able to complete it within an year, which also indicated that she was a good administrator. Realising the importance of the occasion, she gave due credit to Music director Milind Ingale, his young son Surel Ingale, who had composed one song and also the lyricist Saumitra (Kishor Kadam). Before the release of Music CD, which has total three songs from this film, she also requested the singers Ravindra Sathe, Bela Shende and Milind Ingale to give live performance by singing the two songs before the audience.

Finally, she offered a surprise, while revealing the first look of the film, which showed the title song rendered in the voices of all stars of the film – Sachin Khedekar, Sunil Barve, Pallavi Joshi , Neha Joshi, herself and other child artistes. Maharashtra Cultural Minister Mr. Sanjay Devtale was the chief guest of the function and released the music CD. Other dignitaries from Marathi film industry who were present in large number, were Film maker Prakash Bhende and his actress- wife Uma Bhende, Co-producers of the film Pravin & Kaushal Thakkar, Aniket Vishwasrao, Pallavi Subhash, film maker kanchan Adhikari, Vijay Kondke, Tushar Dalvi, Bollywood actor Pankaj Dheer, Sanskruti Kala Darpan President- Chandrashekhar Sandve , Shrabani Deodhar and others.

The film is due for release on 19th April 2013 and has a big star cast comprising of Sachin Khedekar, Mrinal Kulkarni, Pallavi Joshi, Sunil Barve, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Smita Talwalkar, Suhas Joshi, Neha Joshi, Siddharth Chandekar, Rasika Vaze and others. Amlendu Chaudhary is the cinematographer of this film, while the technical director is Ankur Kakatkar. The dialogues of this film are written by Manisha Korde and editing by Shankh Rajadhyaksha. The film is produced by Sachin Parekar and co-produced by Kaushal Pravin Thakkar.