‘Shahanpan Dega Deva’ – performance oriented film
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Rating: na
Presenter: Great Maratha Entertainment Company Pvt. Ltd. Producer: Twinkel Group & Mirah Entertainmetn Pvt. Ltd. Direction: Sudesh Manjrekar, Atul Kale Screenplay: Abhijeet Deshpande, Mahesh Manjrekar Camera: Ajit Reddy Music: Ajit- Sameer Cast: Bharat Jadhav, Ankush Choudhary, Sanjay Narvekar, Vaibhav Mangale, Siddharth Jadhav, Kishore Kadam, Santosh Juvekar, Kamlakar Satpute, Manva Naik, Kranti Redkar and Mahesh Manjrekar. Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke |
Known for his Police detection stories, writer Shrikant Sinker had also written in the past a play ‘Aaliya Bhogasi’ based on a team of mentally unstable people in a mental asylum, who only think of their past profession and enact their skills all the time. Producer Mahesh Manjrekar, perhaps got inspired with that play, while projecting his characters through his new film ‘Shahanpan Dega Deva’, which also revolves around 5 such mentally unstable characters( Bharat Jadhav, Siddharth Jadhav, Ankush Choudhary, Vaibhav Mangale & Sanjay Narvekar), who are being treated in his own way at a private Mental asylum by Dr. Subodh ( played by Mahesh himself) , attached to that asylum.
Mr. Manjrekar known for his offerings on sensational subjects, this time thought of moving into comedy and hence selected this performance oriented film with the sole motive of entertaining the audience. Directed jointly by Atul kale and Sudesh Manjrekar, the producer has himself got involved into the screenplay and dialogues in the company of Abhijeet Deshpande and Sanjay Pawar. There is nothing much seriously happening into the screenplay, except for theose mischievous acts by the five characters , which only encourage competition among themselves. It only looked like that the directors had during the pre-interval stage had given complete freedom to them, resulting into overacting by atleast two characters.
It was only after interval, it gave an impression that the director duo had taken total control of the film. The happenings in the film clearly indicate that each character had his own share to display talent under a given situation, which was nothing but pose mentally disturbed and perform an act to look more natural in that condition. And, this experiment succeeds only to a certain extent in post interval session comprising of 55 minutes.The film does not pay much attention on the past history of these characters, except for Bharat Jadhav, whose past incidence has been shown for proving him mentally unstable. The total length of film is just nearing two hours, a perfect length, as further extension would have certainly taxed the audience.
‘Shahanpan Dega Deva’ is a male dominated film, as the three girls namely Manva, Kranti and Poorva play just show pieces and have been rightly used in the climax scene as item girls. Manva makes her appearance just at the stroke of interval, while Kranti comes in almost towards the end of the film. Most of the scenes in the film are based on ‘mind act’ done by each character and among them Sanjay Narvekar invites all the attention for his cricket gimmicks that go very well with his body language. His character also springs a surprise in the climax, thus turning him into a real hero.
Watching the performances of other artistes, Bharat Jadhav, Vaibhav Mangale, Ankush Choudhary and Mahesh Manjrekar himself are all within their limits, except for Siddharth, who has been controlled in the second half, avoiding dialogues for him. Kamlakar Satpute, playing the gay Don is just fine; nothing exceptional about his performance, as we have seen such characters on the screen in the past. Since the film has Bollywood flavour, he reminds you of Kulbhushan Kharbanda in ‘Shaan’, but doesn’t look dangerous. Among the three doctors from the asylum playing villains, Kishore Kadam is impressive. Others in the supporting cast have done well, but Santosh Juvekar has been wasted in that ordinary looking side role.
There isn’t much scope for music in the film, except for the so called item number in the climax, where lavani has been performed in a different style. The background music sounded loud pre interval, but has been used well in the later part of the film. Cinematography by Ajit Reddy is good . The film is likely to impress the kind of audience who enjoy watching TV shows like ‘Comedy Circus’ and ‘Fu bai Fu’, as this film is based only on performances to entertain the audience with a given theme.
‘Aatapita’ has a bizarre tale
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Rating: na
Presentor: Samarth Art Innovatives Producer: Bhooshan Patil, Deepali Samant and Aachal Rane Story, Screenplay, Direction: Uttung Shelar Dialogues: Prashant Loke Cinematographer: Prasad Bhende Music: Sanjeev Kohli Cast: Bharat Jadhav, Sanjay Narvekar, Ashwini Apte, Girish Salvi, Pradeep kabre, Mohan Khambete, Pratibha Goregaonkar, Raju Shisadkar, Santosh Patil, Rahul Kulkarni, Rohan Bhalekar, Satish Pulekar Movie Review by: Ulhas Shirke |
Someone has rightly said that there is a fine line between coincidence and fate. Samarth Art Innovative’s new Marathi film ‘Aatapita’ tries to draw this fine line, when Ashutosh (Bharat Jadhav) who dreams of becoming a writer decides to make Nandu (Sanjay Narvekar), the hero of his story. Nandu works in the recovery of loan department of a bank. Writer- director Uttung Shelar who has conceptualized this unusual plot, has however left it to the audience to decide whether the happenings in the film are just a coincidence or it’s the destiny of the person.
‘Aatapita’ is a simple tale in the day to day life of two individuals, presented in a tricky manner to keep the audience on the hold till the climax, when it finally concludes with a surprise. It’s a totally different experience in Marathi films, as such themes are generally observed in Marathi dramas. But, the director has given a better treatment to the plot, using the adaptability of the two excellent actors, who bring liveliness to every scene. Moreover, the dialogues by Prashant Loke, obviously help add a special flavor to the screenplay, which is based mainly on these two characters .
There isn’t much scope for lady members in the film and therefore the so called leading lady Vibhavari (Ashwini Apte) has been included more as a showpiece to play the girl
Bharat Jadhav, Sanjay Narvekar, Aatapita
friend cum would-be of Nandu. It is for this reason, you find her looking different in every scene she is part of. Music too has less scope in this film with three songs placed before interval without any specific purpose. The music director -Sanjeev Kohli therefore through his background music tries to make his presence felt , with the usage of strange sounds, never heard of before and it is very difficult to understand the purpose behind it.
However, based on the overall presentation, ‘Aatapita’ looks more realistic, because it does not deviate from the main plot. There are not many outdoor locations, yet Prasad Bhende captures some best moments through his lenses. With light make-up used on the artistes, he has managed the close-up shots well. The sound quality and editing is satisfactory.
In the film, Ashutosh is shown as an employee of Municipality’s water department, but instead of focusing on his job, the director has paid more attention on his passion for writing. On the other hand, he has shown some strange happenings in the life of Nandu , to support the theme well . There are few fun filled scenes, on the role played by recovery agents and their understandings with the concerned bank’s executive.
Being a character oriented film, both Bharat Jadhav and Sanjay Narvekar have plenty of scope to display their skills at variable situations. Satish Pulekar in his guest appearance offers variety through his limited role. But, it is Girish Salvi, who steals the show. Pradeep kabre is seen after a long time, while many other characters are new faces, but they support well in the cast. ‘Aatapita’ has a bizarre limited tale, but is well presented, to suit the requirements of big screen.
‘Target’ designed for youth audience
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Rating: na
Producer: Jagdish Unecha, Rakesh Unech Presenter: J. K. Movies Director: Vivek Gore,. Rajesh Kolam Camera: Sandeep Patil Choreographer: Umesh Jadhav Music: Abhijeet Kawthalkar, Jeetendra Kulkarni Cast: Sanjay Narvekar, Ankush Chaudhari, Siddharth Jadhav, Swapnil Joshi, Kranti Deddkar,Tejaswini Pandit, Smita Gondkar, Vinay Apate, Sanjay More Movie Review by: Sandeep |
J. K. Movies new marathi film ‘Target’ is an action filled political thriller with a dose of youth angst. The story is about five idle friends Sanjubhai (Sanjay Narvekar) who thinks he is a ‘bhai’, Anky(Ankush Chowdhary) a builder’s son, who is a skirt chaser, Swapnil(Swapnil Joshi) -politician Vishwasrao’s (Vinay Apte’s) son, who is disillusioned with his father, the Home Minister of the state finding no time for his family,Sattar( Siddharth Jadhav)- a meat shop owner’s son with a penchant for the handycam and Paddy (Bhushan Kadu) -a pizza delivery boy.
These boys become friends with three girls played by Kranti Redkar, Tejaswini Pandit and Smita Gondkar after a lot of minor tiffs. Once, they attend a rave party in a farmhouse in a jungle, where a cop (Vivekanand Gore) tries to arrest Swapnil for drugs possession but then all the friends run helter shelter in the jungle and then they see a child sacrifice being performed in the jungle and then chance upon another boy who is kidnapped.
They rescue him but the bad guys are after them and whether they survive in the jungle and get the villains into jail and solve the ‘sacrifice’ mystery is the plot of the film.
The film moves at a brisk speed once the characters are established and the adventures captured in the jungle are really thrilling. Director duo Vivekanand Gore and Rajesh Kolan give the film a kind of ‘LOST’ series look and those umpteen teen campus drive-in movies that were a rage in the US in the 80’S. The political angle is a much repeated track.
The performances by the artistes are good, especially Kranti Redkar and Sanjay Narvekar. Swapnil Joshi plays a serious type of role with conviction. The cinematography by Sandeep Patil is slick, especially the jungle sequences. Cameos by Vinay Apte and Sanjay Mone are impressive. The item number by Manasi Naik was unnecessary.The music by Jeetendra Kulkarni and Abhijeet Kavthalkar is not up-to the mark.
The editor Sarvesh Parab could have used more pace in the first half. In all, the film will appeal to the youth and is good for a lazy evening hangout, when you need the air-conditioned ambience of a multiplex.
‘Har Har Mahadev’ getting ready with negative cutting
Producer Sharad Shelar and director Subhash Phadke’s film ‘Har Har Mahadev’ is complete and the negative cutting of this film was done by writer-collector Vishwas Patil. The film is the story about a young man who takes an initiative to reform a village. The film’s message is to stop people from committing suicide and face life with confidence.
The film stars Sanjay Narvekar in the lead role along with Arun Nalavde, Rekha Kamath, Amita Khopkar, and introducing new lead pair of Gauri Sukhthankahar and Raahil. The music is by Uday-Abhijit and cinematography by Vishwanath. The film is set for an early release.
Suspense thriller comedy film ‘ Kalshekar Aahet Ka?’
Bramha Vision Presents Suryakant Suryavanshi produce and Vijay Satghare Directed film ‘Kalshekar Aahet ka ?‘ , has finished their Shooting. This is a First film of Bramha vision. The story, Screenplay Written by Anil Pawar.
‘Kalshekar Aahet ka ?’ has mega star cast including Bharat Jadhav, Dipali Sayyad, Sanjay Narvekar, Reshma Marchant, Dipak Shirke ,Usha Nadkarni, Kishor Nadlaskar, Ravindra Berde, Jayraj Nayar, Ganesh Diwakar, Vijay Chavan, Aasha Nyate, Janardan Parab, Vikas Samudre and Resham Chitar.
Director Vijay Satghare said, ‘Film’s plot and presentation is totally different. Leading charector of film Kalshekar (Bharat Jadhav) is a Rich person. All are very curious, Kalshekar always thinks that someone from their nominee of going to kill him for the property.. Suddenly a newly married couple come for honeymoon in his bungalow and they face many problems. One by one many unexpected, bizarre incident happened and someone murderer? Finally who become nominee? What Happened with honeymoon couple? to see what’s ahead we need to watch this suspense thriller comedy, Audience will surely love bharat and sanjay’s chemistry in this flick.
Music of the film is full of catchy, melody song. There are five soundtracks included in music album. Music is rendered by Chinar-Mahesh. S.R.K.Media Entertainment has taken care of marketing for this film
One more big budget film ‘Mohan Aawate’
In these days, many Marathi big budget movies are realizing. This year’s upcomming and most waited movie Mohan Aawate is also included in this list. Mohan Aawate includes a song shooted in essel world which cost 50 lakhs. This song ‘Jadhle Tuze nate’ is written and composed by Anurudha Kale and Choregraphed by Phulwa Kalmalkar. This song shooted on 48 Hight-speed camera, Which is the hi-quality camera.
The shooting at this movie is carrying out at andheri the open space at Mhada.
The story is based on a simple young man from village. He always tries to help the people of the village so his parents sent him to Mumbai.there he works in a cycle reparing shop situated at dockyard at that time by the influence of some people he gets the job in dockyard.
Slowly and gradually he enters in the business. Many people become jealous of him. but, he comes out of the bad polices and games of his enemies. This is the story of the movie in short. The main thing is that he doesn’t able to tolerate any type of injustice. Wherever he notices he fights against it. Because his mother taught him since childhood not to behave badly and also not to tolerate any type of bad behaviour from anybody.
Fifty percent of its shooting is completed. Movie will be in theatres by end of the year.
Javed Ali has sang to Marathi tunes in Mohan Aavate (true man, true story).
After SP Balasubramanyam, Sonu Nigam, Kunal Ganjawala, Hariharan, its now Hindi music’s famous and topmost singer who has given his voice to songs in Gajani, Jodha Akbar Javed Ali has sang to Marathi tunes in the movie ‘Mohaan Aavatey (true man, true story)‘. The song ‘Jadle Nate‘ has been written by producer and musician Aniruddha Kale. Speaking about his new venture, Ali said, “I have sung songs in many languages but I always wanted to sing in Marathi. I am thankful to Aniruddha and Subhash Kale for giving me this opportunity.”
‘Mohan Aavate’, a story about a man who is extremely intelligent but cannot seen injustice being done to others started with its shoot with a mahurat at the Ajiwasan Studio.
The movie produced under the banner of musician Aniruddha Kale and Haroon Shaikh’s Arch Film and Entertainment is about Mohan who does not think about the consequences of his action and goes ahead to help the person in need. It is about how his short-tempered personality causes a lot of in his love life and also brings problems in his social life.
The movie, been directed by Subhash Kale, has actors Sanjay Narvekar , Siya Patil in the lead role. Sanjay Narvekar has worked in movie like ‘Vastav’ and is now doing a movie called Pakkya Bhai. The plot and the dialogues are written by Subhash Kale. The story is by Aniruddha Kale. The other actors are Mohan Joshi, Mohan Aghase, Nirmal Pande, Ahok Shinde, Madhu Kambikar.
The movie will start its shooting in full swing from March 13.
‘Be Dune Sade Chaar’- A Funny adult comedy !
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Rating: na
Presenter: Video Place Production Producer: Nanubhai Jaisinghani Director: Girish Mohite Story: Aniruddha Potdar, Abhay Darvane Music: Anand Menon, Ajit Parab Cast: Mohan Joshi, Atul Parchure, Sanjay Narvekar, Vandana Gupte, Sai Tamhankar Movie Review by: Sandeep Hattangadi |
Nanubhai Jaisinghani (Video Palace) is a well known producer in Marathi(VCD’s and DVD’s and his first film production ‘Be Dune Saade Chaar’ is a lavish comedy with great production values.
The film revolves around Anant Kitturkar (Mohan Joshi) who leads a double marital life with two wives and children in two different cities. The first one is Manorama(Vandana Gupte) with daughter Rashmi(Sai Tamhanker) and the other being Anjali (Mugdha Shah) along with son Rahul(Sushant Shelar).
How Anant handles both the families, is a hilarious situation in the film , especially when his son and daughter celebrate their birthday on the same day. Anant’s secret is known only to his good friends played by Sanjay Narvekar and Atul Parchure. And these friends in one tight situation are forced to reveal Anant’s secret , that leads to many funny situations.
The story by Anirudh Potdar and Abhay Dakhne is nothing novel, as films like David Dhawan’s ‘Saajan Chale Sasural’, ‘Gharwali Baharwali’ and the recent Marathi hit film ‘Hay Kay Nay Kay’ find similarity to their plot. It also has shades of Goldie Hawn’s Hollywood hit ‘Deceived’.
The film is watch able only because of the creation of funny situations and dialogues. The entire cast performs well, with Mohan Joshi leading the pack. Atul Parchure is hilarious and Sanjay Narvekar is impressive.
It’s a trendsetting film, as Mohan and Atul have sung a song for the first time. The highlight is Resham Tipnis’ sizzling dance number. Director Girish Mohite has handled the comic subject very well. The music by Ajit Parab and Menon(Ishq Ishq ) is tuneful. Technically, the film is first rate and a slickly made like any big budget Hindi film with dazzling cinematography by Santosh Shinde.
See this film, if you like yourself to be entertained by a mindless comedy.
‘Gav Tasa Changla’ releasing on this friday
Coming to the big screen after many years of entertaining the audience through villainous roles is veteran actor Nilu Phule with ‘Gav Tasa Changla’. A presentation of R Dawar Events Pvt Ltd, produced by Anand Daware and directed by Mahesh Tilekar, the movie will be released on Jan 9.
Nilu Phule had retired from movies in 1996 after giving some mesmerising performances in movies like ‘Samana‘, ‘Sinhasan‘, ‘Pinjara‘, ‘Jait re Jait’, ‘Binkamacha Navra’ and ‘Majha Pati Korad Pati’. In ‘Gav Tasa Changla’, he plays the role of a teacher who is determined to change the people of a village who are lacking progress mainly because of their own lethargic nature.
The audience will be treated with a variety of comedy characters associated with the plot. The castoff the movie includes Sanjay Narvekar, Kranti Redkar, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Siddharth Jadhav, Nagesh Bhosale, Vijay Chavan, Charushila Sabale, Nayana Apte, Kishori Ambiye.
The story of the movie has been written by Mahesh Tilekar, the plot and dialogue is by DM Mirasdar and Mahesh Tilekar. The songs written by Mahesh Tilekar are sung by Asha Bhosale and Anand Shinde. The music is by Kamlesh Bhadkamkar. The screenplay is by Debu Devdhar. The choreography is by Dipali Vichare, art direction is by Giresh Kolapkar and editing is by Sanil Kokate.
So get ready to get entertained and witness Nilu Phule in a new role this January.
latest marathi film review: CHECKMATE
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Rating: na
Company: Nishad Audio Visuals Producer: Kanchan Satpute & Chandrashekhar Mahamuni Story, Screenplay, Cinematography & Direction: Sanjay Jadhav Dialogues: Vivek Apte Music: Sunil Kaushik Cast: Ankush Chaudhari, Swapnil Joshi, Sanjay Narvekar, Rahul Mehandale, Vinay Apte, Anand Abhyankar and Sonali khare Movie Review by: Saurabh Karnik |
Amazing cinematography. Awesome editing. Stunning special effects. Hey, I am not stating here specialties of Hollywood, nor I am talking about any latest Bollywood movie! These are major characteristics of our own Marathi movie ‘Checkmate’. Thanks to Sanjay Jadhav and his all team, who gifted such a beautiful movie to audiences.
It is a challenge for any writer to describe the story on paper. The story develops in front of audiences through various small pieces, which are the part of a puzzle. When all the pieces fix at appropriate position, puzzle gets solved and audiences understand complete story with a sudden shock. The story moves around three young guys who were cheated through fake financial scheme. Unfortunately all of them lost all their precious money that they had collected by cheated somebody. Now they come together and make a plan to recover their money.
So the story is all about implementation of the plan and troubles that had been faced while implementation. Everyone treat himself, as the master of the game and thus everyone became just a pawn for other character. But actual master of the game comes forward only at the end of the movie. Of course the remaining story has to be seen on screen itself and I promise all the readers that it is just a thrilling experience to watch it on a big screen. Sanjay Jadhav- one of the best cameraman in the industry has taken a huge risk in his directorial debut to come up with such kind of risky story. One small mistake in presentation could have been destroyed the whole film. But he trusted his own abilities and as a result Marathi Film Industry got such a wonderful movie.
Ankush Chaudhari, Swapnil Joshi, Sanjay Narvekar, Rahul Mehandale, Vinay Apte, Anand Abhyankar and Sonali khare are the main star-cast of the movie. None of them our new to us, and everybody has acted impressively. But Swpanil Joshi is the real surprising package for viewers. We have seen him in many hindi and Marathi serials, but none of those gave him a chance to show his real skills. This was his first opportunity had made no mistake. His ‘bolbacchangiri’, facial expressions and even dialog delivery is extremely good. Ankush, Vinay and Sanjay are as good as expected. Sonali doesn’t have much scope in the film.
As I stated earlier, technical side is the real strength of the movie. Sanjay Jadhav himself handled camera, cinematography, and direction and he did every job perfectly. Sunil Kaushik’s background music adds good essence in the story.
Marthi Film Industry had never faced shortage of good stories or actors. It was the technical part, where it was lacking. With this movie we can surely say that the industry has came over this aspect also. We can surely consider it as a new beginning and if others will also follow Sanjay, golden days of Marathi Film Industry are not long away.