Bollywood artistes offer their best wishes to Marathi film ‘Aata Vel Jhali’
Anant Mahadevan’s forthcoming Marathi film ‘Aata Vel Jhali’ is very much in the news because it is based on a unique sensitive subject of Euthanasia (Self-Willed Death). No wonder many Bollywood personalities like Hema Malini, Nana Patekar, Abbas Mastan, Suhasini Mulye, Adil Hussain, Tanishtha Chatterjee have given their best wishes on social media for this film, which is due for release on 23rd February 2024.
In fact, Hema Malini has offered her good wishes through a video highlighting the importance of this subject. This film is produced by Dinesh Bansal, G.K. Agrawal and Anant Mahadevan under the banners of Imagine Entertainment & Media and Anant Narayan Mahadevan films and is directed by Anant Mahadevan. This film stars Rohini Hattangadi and Dilip Prabhavalkar in lead roles.
Kedar Shinde to begin New year 2023 with ‘Baipan Bhari Deva’
Presented by Jio Studios, produced by Madhuri Bhosale, director Kedar Shinde has announced the release date of his new film ‘Baipan Bhari Deva’ on 6th January 2023. After ‘Ghe Double’ and ‘Godavari’, this is the third Marathi film to be presented by Jio Studios. This film is co produced by Bela Shinde and Ajit Bhure and will be dedicated to women. It is a story of six sisters who are separated while facing personal, family and financial problems.
The film ‘Baipan Bhari Devaa’ stars versatile actresses like Rohini Hattangadi, Vandana Gupte, Sukanya Kulkarni, Deepa Parab, Shilpa Navalkar and Suchitra Bandekar in lead roles. Speaking about his film, kedar Shinde said that this story of six sisters will be appreciated by Marathi film lovers and they will begin their new year with happiness and with lots of hopes. Every mother, Grandma, Wife, Sister, Mother-in –law and Aunty would co relate this film with their lives
Grand Trailer launch of the film ‘Rashtra’
As the Amrit Mahotsav is being celebrated all over the country, the upcoming Marathi film ‘Rashtra’ is all set to rekindle the flame of patriotism in the minds of the audience. The thought provoking trailer of this film was launched recently. The film will be released on August 26 across Maharashtra. ‘Rashtra’ is produced by Bunty Singh under the banner Inder International and is written and directed by Inderpal Singh.
According to the makers of this film, the thoughts of great intellectuals like Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar will also be brought into limelight through this film. Moreover, the Powerful dialogues, juggling of leading actors, effective ideological conflicts, meaningful songs, mesmerizing music and a plot that mirrors the present day society are the hallmarks of this film. Veteran actors like Vikram Gokhale Mohan Joshi, Rohini Hattangadi, Milind Gunaji, Reema Lagoo, Sanjay Narvekar, Ganesh Yadav and others will be seen in important roles, Union Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale and Swabhimani Shetkari Sangathana Raju Shetty will also be seen in the film. According to director Inderpal, this film deals with a very burning issue in the society. It tells the opinion of every element of the society and also tells how to get out of it. Music composers Nikhil Kamat and Inderpal Singh have composed the music for this film.
Naresh Bidkar’s ‘Once More’ to be released on 1st August
Naresh Bidkar who believes in solving the ‘magical thing in this logical world’ is all set to present his Marathi film ‘Once More’ on 1st August, which based on the husband and wife relationship on this theory. Recently, music release of this film was held in presence of popular actor- director Mahesh Manjrekar and renowned music director Ashok Patki. On this occasion, the teaser of this film was also unveiled.
While speaking on this occasion, director of this film Naresh Bidkar and writer Shweta Bidkar assured that their film will show the audience a new way to live their life. Praising the efforts of Naresh Bidkar, Mr. Mahesh Manjrekar wished him all the best. The film has three songs of different genres , which are rendered by Swapnil Bandodkar, Nakash Aziz and Hamsika Iyer . Lyrics by Shweta Bidkar, music by Shailendra Barve and background score by Saurabh Bhalerao are the other credits of this film.
Made under the banners of Vanshika Creations, Devastha Productions, Lavande Films and Vishnu Manohar Films, the film’s star cast comprises of Rohini hattangadi, Poornima Talwalkar, Bharat Ganeshpure, Vishnu Manohar, Naresh Bidkar along with youngsters Ashutosh Patki and Dhanashree Dalvi.
Did you recognise the celebrity in this photo?
During the earlier days of stage plays and feature films, male artistes used to perform female characters, as there were very less females coming forward in the acting profession. But now, time has changed. Female actresses have taken the challenge to perform male characters. This happened on the sets of director Naresh Bidkar‘s forthcoming Marathi film ‘Once More’. Actually, they were looking for a female to perform the character of a male and unanimously everybody on the sets decided only on one name, which was Rohini Hattangadi.
In this film Rohini Hattangadi plays the role of grandfather , the photograph of this character is seen in this picture. It wasn’t an easy task to perform this character. So, you can imagine how much of hard work must have been there to play this role. When director Bidkar was looking for an artiste to play the double role of male and female simultaneously, he approached Rohini Hattangadi and she accepted this offer, as she found it challenging. Bollywood make up artistes Ramesh and Kamalesh have done prosthetic make up for Rohiniji and this process used to take five hours before the shoot and removal of make up 2 hours after the shoot. So, get ready to watch Rohini Hattangadi in this unusual role on 1st August 2019, when the film will be released all over Maharashtra.
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- Genres: Drama
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- Opening Date: 2018 (04 November)
- Production House: Ekdant Creations
- Producer(s): Chandrakant Lohokare
- Presenter: Zee Marathi
- Writer: Vi Va Shirwadkar
- Director: Hrishikesh Joshi
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- Producer(s): Chandrakant Lohokare
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- Director: Hrishikesh Joshi
- Writer: Vi Va Shirwadkar
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- Artist: Mohan Joshi, Rohini Hattangadi, Sushil Inamdar, Bhakti Desai, Shweta Mehendale, Shubhankar Tawde, Abhijeet Zunjarrao, Milind Adhikari, Aashirwad Marathe, Sayali Kajarolkar, Ram Pure
- Set Design: Pradip Mulye
- Lights: Pradip Mulye
- Costume: Mrunal Deshpande
- Background Music: na
- Makeup: Ulesh Khandare
- Costume Designer: Mrunal Deshpande
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- Lyrics: na
- Music: Narendra Bhide
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Rohini Hattangadi returns to Colors Marathi after 3 years
Popular veteran actress Rohini Hattangadi always gave preference to Marathi TV serials, despite her assignments with Bollywood films. Trough her award winning performances, she has not only won awards in Bollywood, but also Richard Attenborough’s international film ‘Gandhi‘. But, how can we forget her mega serial ‘Char Divas Sasuche‘, which had created record run on Colors Marathi channel. Through this serial she had reached the hearts of many Maharashtrian households.
Now, after a gap of three years Rohini Hattangadi will be returning to Colors channel through forthcoming Marathi serial ‘Sakhya Re‘. Through this serial another young TV star Suyash Tilak will also be returning to small screen along with newcomer Dnyanada Ramtirthkar. In this serial Rohini Hattangadi plays a well suited powerful character of Maa Saheb from a princely family. We are hopeful that the home viewers will welcome their favourite actress in this new role.
Sulochana Didi felicitated by Kedar Shinde & team
Filmmaker Kedar Shinde and his team of ‘Aga Bai Arechha-2′ had an occasion to celebrate Woman’s day , when the first look of their film was unveiled on Monday evening. Producer Narendra Firodia from Ahmednagar and his family took this opportunity to felicitate the grand old lady of Marathi and Hindi Cinema- Sulochana Didi.
The veteran actress who walked towards the dais, was escorted by actor Sachin Pilgaonkar, who willingly came forward to offer his helping hand. Among the 40 women from Maharashtra , who were also felicitated were many well known names in Marathi entertainment industry and other fields, including Rohini Hattangadi and lead actress of the film Sonali Kulkarni. Earlier, Sonali Kulkarni showed a fine gesture, by spending some time with the veteran actress and exchanging pleasantries.
Present on the occasion were MNS chief Raj Thackeray, Kiran Shantaram, Vijay Patkar, Purushottam Berde and other invitees. Many artistes from Marathi film and television industry, were present in large number, to grace the occasion.
‘Image of Woman in Marathi TV Serial’ discussed
‘Image of Woman in Marathi TV Serial’ was the subject of discussion at Asiatic Society, Mumbai as a part of ‘Jagatik Marathi Din’ which is to be celebrated on 27th February. The panel of discussion consisted of Marathi film producer-director Viraaj Raje, Writer Ambarish Mishra, Aruna Joglekar, Marathi Film Critic Soumitra Pote and actress Rohini Hattangadi. After a brief introduction, Ambarish Mishra ,channelled the discussion by stating that TV serials do decide the cultural standards of the society.
Aruna Joglekar, who is a dialogue writer of many popular Marathi serials, stressed that the daily soap scenario is not dominated by creative people, but people with money bags. She stated, “An Advertisement company approaches a channel to make a serial, with a particular region in mind, because their surveys show that there’s huge untapped market available there. The interference is so much that I had to dilute my dialogues in ‘Zoka’ due to pressure from marketing team.”
Rohini Hattangadi was honest in admitting that image of woman in serials, is totally controlled by non-creative people. “The channels should at least make one thought-provoking serial, even if the TRPs are low, after making 3-4 successful serials,” she suggested. Soumitra Pote was of the opinion that in today’s daily soaps, woman characters are utterly unrealistic and there’s no value addition for young audience. Viraaj Raje stated “I have given up being creative head of TV serials, due to unnecessary, unwanted & unwarranted interference of marketing teams. “TRPs are supreme, but strangely and surprisingly the sample strength to measure TRPs is only 60 to 70 thousand,” he stated factually.
Ambarish Mishra concluded the discussion, hoping that the channels would project the women on TV, more realistically and the audience should exercise their right to switch off the TV for the programmes they don’t like, so that the channels are forced to cater to their demands.
“Success is achieved through excellent team work” – Rohini Hattangadi
She was almost nearing 30,when she was playing the role of Kasturba in Richard Attenborough’s English Academy awards winning film ‘Gandhi’. But, that role made her an internationally acclaimed actress. Born as Rohini Oak in Pune, Rohini married Jayadev Hattangadi, who was her batch mate in NSD, Delhi. Today, Rohini Hattangadi, is a renowned personality in films, theatre and television industry. So far, she has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in Gandhi (1982). Since her childhood, she always wanted to become an actress and began her lessons through theatre. Rohini made her film debut with Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s ‘Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan’ in 1978. The film won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. This was followed by her appearance in Mirza’s next picture, ‘Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai’ (1980), which won the same award, and Rabindra Dharmaraj’s drama Chakra (1981). Her roles in these films were not big; but after her performance in ‘Gandhi’ in 1982, she was mostly offered character roles in mainstream Hindi cinema and was often typecast in mother’s roles, much ahead of her actual age. Respected for her acting prowess, she has appeared in about 80 feature films, and is today very active on Marathi television.
Rohini Hattangadi, Actress
Being a versatile actress, Rohini has performed in many Hindi and Marathi serials in the recent past; but, her eTV’s serial ‘Char Divas Sasuche’ which made a record run of more than 6 years continuously. Today, she is the most popular TV actress, returning back with another important role of a head of the family in Zee Marathi’s new serial ‘Honar Sunn Mee Hya Gharchi’. Marathi Movie world spoke to this resourceful actress, to know more about her 35 year long acting career.
Q: We have heard that every serial you are part of in Marathi, turns out to be a marathon serial, gaining popularity. What’s your reaction ? A: Yes, I have seen the success and popularity of ‘Char Diwas Sasuche’; and now, being part of ‘Honar Sun Mee Hya Gharchi’, I watching almost the same reactions coming from people, who I come across. They have appreciated the subject and my role. But, I would attribute the credit of popularity of the serial to the entire team, the writer, producer, director and all the artistes. It’ happens because of good team work.
Q: In your acting career, right from the beginning stage, you have played the Mother’s role for actors, who were much elder to you. How did you react to that situation? A: Being a professional actress, I had to be prepared for any role that was offered to me. Yes, some of the actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Jitendra were more than10 years elder to me. But, it all depended, how that actor playing my son, responded in all those important scenes with me. For any actor, it is very important to extract the best out of him or her; with the good support coming from the artiste who is opposite that person in a particular scene.
Q: Recently, we even saw you performing in a Marathi film ‘Premachi Goshta’ after a long time. Your comments. A: Yes, I did accept that role, as I liked the script.
Q: There are many new Marathi stage plays on different subjects. Aren’t you tempted to perform on Marathi stage now? A: I had done stage in the past. But, in the recent past, I had not received any offers with a good script. But, very soon, you will see me performing in a play ‘Jagadamba’ which is on the life of Kasturba Gandhi. The play was already staged in 2009 and is being revived now. I will be playing the lead role with a solo performance in this two act play. There is lot to be told about life of kasturba Gandhi and her actual role in the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The general feeling is that, ‘behind every successful man there is a wife’. But, in the case of Gandhiji, kasturba was always with him and not behind him. That’s what this play will be speaking about. Through this play, the main character will be communicating with the audience. So, just wait. I am getting ready for this play.
Q: Tell us something about this ongoing serial of yours, ‘Honar Sun Mee Hya Gharchi’? A; Well, I liked the concept and even my role in it. The head of the family I play, is very strict, who wants everybody to be disciplined and speak truth. She is taking good care of all the women folks in the house, after getting rid of the useless men; except her Grandson- Shree, who is well behaved and very much attached to her.
Q: So, can we expect this serial also to be the most popular serial in coming days ? A: I Hope so. After all, success is achieved through excellent team work. Thank you.