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Marathi music has become very popular with songs from the film ‘Katyar Kaljaat Ghusali‘ and ‘Sairat‘. And, this has also increased the demand for musical albums. Recently, a new company Music Media Cinevision formed by Rohini Prafull has also entered the music industry. Their first music album ‘Nad Khula Manjula‘ is now ready, which is picturised on actress Sara Shravan and actor Abhishek Banerjee. Written by K.Prafull, the music and playback is by Shyam Sagar.

After this song, Music media Cinevision are all set to release an album during Navaratri and are also engaged in 9 more music albums. They are also gearing up to produce their first Marathi film, shooting of which will begin by end of this year. They have already recorded a Ghazal for this film, in the voice of renowned singer Hariharan.

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Mumbai’s Shivaji Mandir is known for staging Marathi dramas over the years. But, on Tuesday morning muhurat of a Marathi film ‘Paij‘ was held at this venue. On this occasion all the artistes and technicians were present, along with chief guest of the function Meghraj RajeBhosale , President of Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal. As the film is based on the Life journey of a Lavani queen, Lavani dances were presented on this occasion.

Kakaji Arts and Films, who had earlier presented many music albums are the producers of this film. Directed by Prakash Bhalekar, the film is directed by Prakash Bhalekar and the lead stars of this film are Mohan Joshi, Mangesh Desai, Sonali Kulkarni, Sara Shravan, Ramesh Vani & Prabhakar More. Produced by Pandharinath Bhalekar, Santukrao Kolte & Vinod Vaishnav, Story by Sanjay Kolte, screenplay-dialogues and music by Pandharinath Bhalekar and cinematography by Jitendra Achrekar are other credits of the film.

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Ten years ago, Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar, then Petroleum Minister of India, created a controversy, by ordering removal of plaque  at Cellular Jail in Andamans, containing poem penned by Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who spent 11 years in that jail, during India’s freedom struggle. The order of the Minister drew sharp criticism from BJP and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, who protested strongly, seeking apology from the Minister. In short, it was made a political issue and there was not much public outrage noticed, on the statement made by the Minister.

But, 10 years later, we find the same issue being raised in latest Marathi film ‘What About Savarkar’ produced by Atul Parab & Rohiit Shetty and directed by Rupesh Katare and Nitin Gawde. Though all films are generally work of fiction, ‘What about Savarkar’ makes you think, as to what would happen today , if a politician makes such a remark against the late freedom Fighter? Thanks to the Social media. It  is so active today, that any such remarks made by our politicians, receives spontaneous  reaction from the young generation.

The film presents the same topic of a Petroleum Minister (name changed to Ayangar) who makes a remark to insult the late freedom fighter Veer Savarkar. One Abhiman Marathe ( Shrikant Bhide)  working in a multinational company spontaneously reacts, by lodging his strong protest against the Minister’s remarks. He writes in his blog on social net working site, stating  that he would  teach a lesson to the Minister, during his proposed visit to Mumbai, by welcoming him with a garland of foot wears. Watching huge response to his page, with 28,000 likes within a day; the Government decides to arrest him, for this act, which they call anti national act. Abhiman goes underground, to accomplish his mission.

In his mission, Abhiman  gets support from his office colleague Suniti Singh (Sara Shravan), Suryakant Pawar( Atul Todankar)  , an educated brother of a peon from his office, Kranti kamble( Avinash Narkar)  a self styled revolutionary from Alibaug  and his own grandfather Namdev Marathe (Sharad Ponkshe). The Police hunt  him, as Abhiman keeps changing his hideouts from Mumbai to Alibaug, then from Alibaug to Manipur at Suniti’s native town and from there to Amritsar to a well wisher (Gajendra Singh Chouhan) .His final destination then turns Delhi, as the Minister cancels his Mumbai trip and  is all set to give his speech during a book release function. The climax has been shot very cleverly, to show the final public reaction, on this issue; that too in Delhi.

Very cleverly the director has presented this limited story, through an interesting screenplay; taking the audience on a trip to various places. In the process ,he shows  the beauty of these places, especially Alibaug, Manipur and Amritsar. Even the locations in Mumbai have been different, covering the heritage buildings and landmarks of South Mumbai at Fort & Ballard Pier. For that one must thank cinematographer A.K. Sebestian for his excellent camera work. But, the timing of the film, seems to be wrong, as we see BJP ruled Governments at Centre and in the State. Moreover, today we find freedom of speech exercised on social networking sites, to lodge protest against anyone .  Perhaps, the work on this film, might have started two years ago.

But, the film has succeeded in passing the five elements of Savarkar’s  philosophy  cleverly,  through the screenplay. In fact, this film is a tribute to the greatest freedom fighter of India, who served maximum sentence in cellular jail, during India’s freedom movement. There are many facts in history brought to light, through this film. Not many were aware that Hridaynath Mangeshkar lost his job in Aakashvani, because he composed the lyrics of Savarkar.

Actually, the film has tried to show, how the politicians opposed to Savarkar’s  style of functioning, by trying  to suppress him. Most of the characters in this film, are shown, inspired by his ideology.  Good performances by  debutant Shrikant Bhide, Atul Todankar, Avinash Narkar , Sharad Ponkshe ,Sara Shravan and others make this film more appealing.   It was nice to see Sharad Ponkshe  playing the role of  grandfather with a young heart, who is also shown  tech savvy. Savarkar’s  poem Swatantra-te-Bhagavati’ has been used well in the title track of the film. Background music is also impressive. A must see film for all those who believe  in Savarkar’s ideology about ‘Akhand Bharat’ .

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The character played by Shrikant is inspired by the ideology of great freedom fighter of India, Veer Savarkar. Shrikant, who has also appeared in many short films, gets enough scope to display his potential, through this role of a protagonist , who fights against injustice. In fact, this film represents today’s generation . Directed by Nitin Gawde, the film stars Shrikant  Bhide, along with  Sharad Ponkshe, Vivek Lagu, Avinash Narkar,  Atul Todankar & Sara Shravan.

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