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Surya Film Creation’s new Marathi movie ‘Rakhandaar’, which was in news recently, is releasing on 26th Sept ’14 all over Maharashtra. In this world, some feel that God is to be felt within, while the atheists question about existence of God. Producer, Director Dr. Mrunalinni Patil, has toyed with this idea, in her latest film ‘Raakhandaar’.

A simpleton, Sadanand Lokre (Jitendra Joshi), is an innocent person, who believes in helping his neighbours without any expectations. But, in the process, loses his job and starts working in his late father’s shop as a cobbler, with the only thought in his mind, ‘work is worship’. Khushaba (Ajinkya Deo), appears in the scene, as a villager with his special attire, and meets Sadanand, who realizes and believes that Khushaba is godly personality.

In comes, Australia returned Madhavi (Anuja Sathe), who falls in love with the innocence of Sadanand and they get married, defying Madhavi’s father’s wish of she getting married to the Manager in his office. Later, she gives birth to a son. Just before that Sadanand prays to God, for a son. But, unaware of her husband’s wish, Madhavi promises a return gift to God, that she shall return the same back to him.

There’s a villain in the form of Manager, (Anup Choudhary), who is bent upon marrying Madhavi, who tries, in vain, to spoil her marital bliss; with his childish acts. Khashaba – the Raakhandaar, of whom Sadanand & Madhavi’s son Chhota- Malhar (Master Shreeveer Kadam), also gets extremely fond of; affectionately calls him Devappa, who is always there to rescue our Sadanand whenever in trouble.

The story by Anand More, is a bit lengthy and screenplay also bit patchy. Some scenes erupt abruptly, without any connection to previous scene. Editing should have been handled a bit professionally. Jitendra Joshi does justice to Sadanand, with his innocent face and his couple of one-liners do collect laughter. Anuja Sathe has done very well, as bubbly as well as serious Madhavi and has good screen presence. Ajinkya Deo who plays Raakhandaar, looks handsome in this character and has done justice to his role. Music (Kanak Raj, Sameer Phaterpekar) is saving grace of the movie and filming of songs is very good. Background score of Sameer Phaterpekar, is apt.

Cinematographer Jehangir Choudhary is successful in capturing the required mood of the film. Director, Dr Mrunalinni Patil has tried to camouflage fiction with drama, with some philosophy thrown in. There’s always a next time. Jai Maharashtra. Jai Malhar…..Yalkot Yalkot Jai Malhar.

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Director kishore Pandurang Belekar known for his debut Marathi horror film ‘Sa Sasucha’ and Asutosh Rana better known for his portrayal of dangerous characters in films like ‘Dushman’ and ‘Sanghrash’ have come together to offer new Marathi film ‘Yeda’, which is also debut film of Ashutosh Rana in Marathi. Therefore, this film had a special significance, knowing the capacity of these two people in their respective departments i.e. direction and acting. Moreover, the film having received ‘A’ certification of Censors, it was certainly expected to be horror filled film.

Set on the backdrop of a small town off Mumbai, the story of the film revolves around a psychic character of Appa Kulkarni ( Ashutosh Rana) who tortures his wife Savitri ( Kishori Shahane Vij) and wants his only young son Unmesh ( Aniket Vishwasrao), who is a Site Engineer, to marry a girl from wealthy family, so that he could recover all the expenses, he spent on his education. But, Unmesh who is in love with Pradnya( Pradnya Shastri) the only daughter of a postmaster from local Post office Mr. Vasant Narvekar( Satish Pulekar).

Knowing the dangerous nature of her husband, Savitri encourages her son to flee with Pradnya, suggesting him to take up another job at a new place. Pradnya gives a shock to her parents, as she flees with Unmesh, without taking them into confidence. Her mother Sadhana ( Reema Lagoo) feels more hurt. But, the psychic father of Unmesh doesn’t take this shock lightly. When Unmesh returns with his wife to seek the blessings of his kind hearted mother; Appa is almost on the verge of killing his own wife; who suggests her son to run away . Both manage to escape, as Appa follows them.

Appa is now after the blood of his own son and his daughter in law who is now pregnant. Violent Appa succeeds in his series of killings, targeting whoever comes in the way. Helpless Pradnya returns to her parents in that condition and finally delivers a baby boy; but breathes her last during delivery. The child is now in the custody of Vasant and Sadhana Narvekar; who are threatened by Appa to hand over the child. The entire post interval session is filled with mystery, as to what would be the next step of Appa and how Vasant Narvekar would face him. After face to face battle, Vasant escapes from the clutches of violent Appa in the climax, due to intervention of Police brought by his wife.

While he is overpowered by Police team, he warns Vasant that he would return soon to take back the child. And courageous Vasant dares to answer him back, stating that between him and his grandson, he would stand like a wall, to accept his challenge. In the climax scene, Vasant could have finished Appa in self defence; but it seems that the director had a sequel of this film in mind. The film which had held its grip over the screenplay for 130 minutes , therefore failed to satisfy the audience in the climax with an expected revenge, which was perhaps differed till part 2 of ‘Yeda’, as indicated through the concluding dialogue.

Technically, ‘Yeda’ is a well presented film by director Kishore Belekar , with good effective sound recording by Sanil P.K. and good support of location sound coming from Anil Nikam. Photography by Raees Ansari is very apt to the screenplay of this film. In the lead role Ashutosh Rana has really worked hard to present his dangerous character. He has received good support from versatile senior artistes like Satish Pulekatr, kishori Shahane and Reema Lagoo, who have performed equally well. In fact, it is a common man’s (Vasant Narvekar’s) courageous fight against violent ‘Yeda’ (Appa).

The young performers Aniket and Pradnya do not find much scope in this film; but, they have played their roles satisfactorily. Barring the violence part and not so convincing climax, ‘Yeda’ is otherwise a good creation.

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Vasant Purushottam Kale, popularly known as Va Pu, was a renowned Marathi novelist.

He wrote about 60 books but his most popular novel was ‘Partner’. Va Pu himself was so impressed by the character of Partner from his book that he himself played the title role in a Marathi play, which was staged sometime during early 80s. Being an architect by profession, the writer had rightly chosen ‘Accommodation problem in Mumbai’ as the backdrop of this love story of a young couple.

Va Pu’s ‘Partner’ was attempted in the form of a TV serial in the past. And now, Sameer Ramesh Surve makes his debut as a director through a feature film ‘Shree Partner’ based on this novel. Sameer, a great admirer of Va Pu’s literature, was very keen on making a film on ‘Partner’. Finally when he acquired the official rights, his dream came true.

Through this film, the director had the liberties of glorifying the characters; but he preferred to stick to originality in the script and only added few meaningful melodious songs to support the expressions of the three main characters in this film; i.e. the central character of Partner( Satish Pulekar), Shree ( Padmanabh Bind) and Kiran ( Shweta Pagar). All the songs are played in the background, to create their desired impact. Some intimate love scenes have also been shot with decency.

Very effectively, these three characters have been presented in the film’s screenplay so that the audience get the feeling of reading the original novel. Shree’s first meeting with Kiran, his first interaction with his so called ‘Partner’, who later offers him accommodation in the corridor of his house and later turns his Guru; his exploitation by his selfish mother, brother and sister in law, everything has been shown realistically. The director has cleverly used the term ‘third person’ making the life of Shree miserable.

The writer’s philosophy on alphabets W & M and using the same to show how a Wife becomes wiser after becoming Mother herself, have been picturised well. Though script is the heart of the film, it is the mesmerizing music of Nilesh Moharir , sensible lyrics of Ashwini Shende and melodious voices of Swapnil Bandodkar, Bela Shende and Madhuhree make this film more appealing. Deepali Vichare’s creative choreography during one of the songs and Sandeep Dhumal’s fabulous cinematography also invites attention.

In the central role of Partner, Satish Pulekar has given full justice to his fun loving but helpful character. Talented stage actor Padmanabh Bind plays the role of Shree with responsibility. Shweta Pagar, who makes her acting debut through this film, in an important role of Kiran, has proved that she is an actress to reckon. Perhaps, her training at Anupam kher’s acting school, has boosted her confidence . Lalan Sarang in the role of Shree’s mother doesn’t have much to offer, except for one scene, where she finds some scope. Others in the supporting cast have done a good job. ‘Shree Partner’ is certainly a well presented film, for retaining the original flavour of the celebrated writer.

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Aditi Deshpande, known for her brilliant roles in films like ‘Not Only Mrs.Raut’, ‘Jogwa’ and ‘MaayBaap’, makes her directorial debut with the film ‘Mee Mann Ani Dhruv’ releasing on Oct 1.

The story is by Ranjit aka Mahendra Agashe, a hospitality industry executive, who makes his debut in the film as a journalist married to a career minded wife played by Ketaki Thatte who after their son Dhruvv (Dhruvv) is three years old wants to return back to a job but has to face stiff opposition from her conservative husband, who wants his wife to be a complete homemaker.

Ultimately, it leads to a divorce with legal battle and the rest of the film is based on these divorce proceedings. The director and the writer want to highlight the present syndrome of high divorce rates in nuclear families, especially in metro cities. Satish Pulekar too plays an important role.

The film has two songs composed by Hrishikesh Kamerkar, who has also sung the songs which will be in the background soundtrack. The DOP is veteran Chandrashekar Ayyer. The lyrics are by Ashok Bagwe and dialogues by Amol Shetge. The editor is Amit Pawar and art direction by Sunil More. The film is produced by Aditi’s mother Sarita Moulgand.

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MNS Chief Raj Thackeray has a terrific sense of humour. Whenever he is asked to speak at functions, he makes spontaneous remarks to create laughter among the audience. On the occasion of Music and website release function of the Marathi horror film ‘Sa ..Sasucha’, the charismatic leader while appreciating the efforts of the film maker Kishore Belekar, asked him if he needed any help from him. “ I can help you a lot with my own experience with horror films. My own film is treated sometimes by critics, as horror film,” he remarked with a pause; allowing the jam packed elite audience to burst into laughter. Obviously, he was referring to his recent ‘Khall and Phataak’ remarks and aftereffects.

While boosting the confidence of Marathi film makers, he stated, “ You focus on internal matters of the film and we will look into the external requirements. I will certainly look into your grievances with the Multiplexes.” Referring to the meeting he had planned with the Producers of Marathi films the next day, he appealed to all those and artistes to come forward openly with their issues. “ Don’t cry, be bold and address your issues. I will not ask for any favour in return. Don’t be scared that in future I may ask you to join my party’s election campaign or meetings etc.. All I can assure you that I am playing no politics with this issue. It’s my genuine effort to sort out your problems,” he remarked categorically. At the same time he appealed to Marathi film lovers to go and watch Marathi films at Multiplexes “I assure you that henceforth they will have to screen Marathi films during prime time. Now, it all depends on your response.”

Kishore Belekar, who is directing this film, thanked his producers Harish and Sunita Patil, Nupur Rathod besides thanking Sameer Dixit who is distributing the film and Videocon Group, who are presenting this film. Among those present on the occasion were Yatin karyekar, lead actress of the film- Sonali Kulkarni, Bharati Achrekar, Satish Pulekar, Lyricist & music director Sandeep Khare and young Music directors Viraj and Ankur, who have provided the background music for this film.

‘Sa..Sasucha, is a thriller which revolves around a woman and her deceased mother-in-law. It’s an unusual story about the quest of this woman who longs to find answers to the strange incidents that she experiences in the new house after marriage.The film is full of special and terrific sound effects, as experienced after watching the trailor of the film. While speaking to Media persons after the function, Director Kishore Belekar spoke about some of the issues during film’s promotion. “In some theatres, they were hesitant to show the trailor of my film, even against payment, which is strange”. Starring Sunil Barve, Sonali Kulkarni, Vinay Apte, Shubhangi Gokhale, Yatin Karyekar, Kamlesh Sawant, Omkar Karve, Vimal Mhatre, arun Bhadsavle, Rajesh Bhosale, Anita Ninave and k. Vrushali, the film is due for release on 27th August 2010.

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