According to the director, Aurangazeb was a cruel ruler but at the same time he was ambitious. Therefore, we were in search of a versatile actor and we felt that Rajit Kapoor would do justice to this role. Rajit Kapoor while reacting on his role said that till now he has performed variety of roles; but through this film he had an opportunity to play a negative character. Along with Rajit Kapoor the film also stars Pramod Pawar, Shashank Udapurkar, Dilip Tahil, Mrunal Kulkarni, Mohan Joshi, Bharat Dabholkar, Lokesh Gupte, Bal Dhuri, Deepak Shirke, Amit Deshmukh, Late Anand Abhyankar, Samir, Mohini Potdar, Priya Gamre in prominent roles.

Music for this film is provided by Avinash Vishwajeet, Guru Sharma and Aarav, while background music is by Amar-Amit Desai. Cinematography by Suresh Deshmane, editing by Bharat Bahi, art by Anil Vath and action by P. Satish are the other credits.

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Actor and film maker Shashank Udapurkar is a happy man today. He was lucky to find his film’s release and success thereafter in theatres last year, before the lockdown began by end of March 2020. Now, he is enjoying more fruits from his film’s success at different international and National film festivals. Recently, at the seventh Rajasthan International film festival held at Mehrangad Fort ,Jodhpur Shashank Udapurkar won the best director award besides his film ‘Prawaas’ (movie review) winning the Special Jury award for best regional film. The film’s producer Om Changani also won the Pride of Rajasthan award for the selection of ‘Prawaas’at the IFFI 2020 .

Reacting to this big success, director- actor Shashank Udapurkar said, “It was a big honour to screen this film to conclude this festival and the standing ovation given by the audience after watching this film, was more than an award.” ‘Prawaas’ has also been selected for screening at the Trichur International film festival in Kerala. So, there are many more awards expected to come. The film stars popular Marathi artistes like Ashok Saraf, Padmini Kolhapure, Vikram Gokhale, Shreyas Talpade and Shashank Udapurkar.

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• Release Year: 2020 (14 February)
• Genres:  Drama
• Rating: ★★★★
• Censor: U
• Duration: 173 min
• Studio/Presenter: Om Chhangani Films
• Producer(s):  Om Chhangani
• Executive Producer: Pavan Paliwal
• Director: Shashank Udapurkar
• Writer: Shashank Udapurkar
• Screen Play:  Shashank Udapurkar
• Dialogues: Shashank Udapurkar
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Cast & Crew

• Producer(s): Om Chhangani
• Executive Producer: Pavan Paliwal
• Production Controller: Nilesh Gundale
• production manager: Narendra Mudholkar
• Co-producer: …
• Director: Shashank Udapurkar
• Assistant Director: Bhagyesh Rajendra Raut, Ankush Rameshrao Ubhad
• Writer: Shashank Udapurkar
• Screen Play: Shashank Udapurkar
• Dialogues: Shashank Udapurkar
• Lyrics: Guru Thakur
• Music: Salim Sulaiman
• Playback Singer: Sonu Nigam,  Hariharan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sukhvindar Singh
• Cinematographer (DOP): Suresh Deshmane
• Editor: Sanjay Sankla
• Star Cast: Ashok Saraf, Padmini Kolhapure, Shashank Udapurkar, Vikram Gokhale, Shreyas Talpade, Rajit Kapoor, Girish Pardeshi
• Art Director: Mahesh Salgaonkar
• Costumes: Deepti Sutar
• Casting Director: …
• Makeup: Shrikant Desai
• Sound : Aravind Vijayakumar
• Background Score: Amar Mohile
• Choreographer: …
• VFX Studio: …
• D.I. Colourist:  Andreas Brückl
• Action Scenes: …
• Post Production: …
• Promos: Santosh Kumar
• Marketing Director: …
• Music Label: Zee Music
• Digital: Vizual Junkies
• Publicity Designs: Studio Link
• Title Animation: Akshay
• Publicity Photo shoot: Tejas
• P.R.O.: Ganesh Gargote
• Distributor : AA Films

Synopsis :

Prawaas :  The story of this film revolves around a retired senior citizen who is suffering from Chronic Kidney disease and is dependent on dialysis twice a week. Like any such patient Abhijat Inamdar ( Ashok Saraf) is depressed and feels that he has become totally dependent on his wife Lata ( Padmini Kolhapure) who takes very good care of him. His treating doctor in the hospital (Vikram Gokhale) is also not happy with him, for not following his instructions . Abhijat and Lata’s only son ( Shashank Udapurkar) lives in USA but is constantly in touch with his parents over phone.

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• Padmini Kolhapure finds a suitable role in ‘Prawaas’ to display her hobby
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• Shashank keeps himself busy in Kitchen with new recipes
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• Padmini Kolhapure to return to Marathi films after 14 years
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Through this film, which was written and directed by Shashank himself, the film lovers understood the feelings and emotions of this sensitive person and his way of looking at life. Today, being at home, Shashank is offering all the help in Kitchen and attempting his own recipes. He has promised one new recipe everyday.

Once again he has shared his thoughts and experience on his social media page, stating, “Offering helping hand to your near and dear is a pleasure. A single person working will always feel tired. But, sharing the burden together makes things much easier. You too share the burden of others offering your hands for help.”

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Human activities are limited by time and death. Their personal power is the ability to take action. But in many cases it prevents them from taking action? The reason for the same is obviously ‘fear’. Sometimes after attaining certain age, disability or ailments prevents many people from doing what they actually intend to do. But, when such people interact with others who are worst sufferers, they find the solution to live life more happily by helping others.

Latest released Marathi film ‘Prawaas’ produced by Om Chhangani and written- directed by Shashank Udapurkar is based on this simple philosophy. The story of this film revolves around a retired senior citizen who is suffering from Chronic Kidney disease and is dependent on dialysis twice a week. Like any such patient Abhijat Inamdar ( Ashok Saraf) is depressed and feels that he has become totally dependent on his wife Lata ( Padmini Kolhapure) who takes very good care of him. His treating doctor in the hospital (Vikram Gokhale) is also not happy with him, for not following his instructions . Abhijat and Lata’s only son ( Shashank Udapurkar) lives in USA but is constantly in touch with his parents over phone.

Time comes when Abhijat notices more underprivileged people living life full of hardships in spite of their sufferings. He decides to shift his focus from his own problems and does something worthwhile to make others happy. In the process, he finds his happiness. His wife who is initially against her husband’s plans, later supports him in his mission. The film presents a very sensible serious thought provoking subject, which is certainly inspiring. It delivers one important message – “What remains to be done is special, in journey of life”,

 Writer- director Shashank Udapurkar has handled this emotion filled universal subject in an effective manner to connect with the audience from all age groups. He has himself played the role of son who lives far away from his parents and has performed reasonably well. But, as a director he finds very good response from the versatile lead pair of Ashok Saraf and Padmini Kolhapure who have played their respective characters with complete understanding. This is a lifetime role for Ashok Saraf and he has put in his heart and soul into it. This is one of his best roles so far. Good support also comes from Vikram Gokhale through his limited role of a doctor. Other artistes like Rajit Kapoor with Shreyas Talpade and Girish Pardeshi in special appearances also make their presence felt .

Certainly an inspiring worth watch film timely released in today’s materialistic world. Technically also it is well made film of 133 minutes length with suitable music from Salim Sulaiman ,excellent cinematography by Suresh Deshmane and expert editing by Sanjay Sankla. Therefore certainly stands chance of winning not only awards at National level but also at international level.

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Padmini is very good at painting and in this film she has found a lead role of a painting artist that too another versatile Marathi actor Ashok Saraf. When this role was offered to her by director Shashank Udapurkar, Padmini was in tears, after hearing the script. So much she was moved after hearing the story. More than that she was happy that she could do lot of paintings during the shooting schedule of this film.

The film also stars Vikram Gokhale, Rajit Kapoor & Shashank Udapurkar. The shooting of this film has taken place in America and Manali and the music has been scored by Bollywood music directors Salim Suleman, with lyrics by Guru Thakur. Popular singers like Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam, Sukhvinder Singh and Hariharan have rendered their voices for the songs in this film.

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Produced by Om Changani , written and directed by Shashank Udapurkar, the other main co travellers in this journey are, Vikram Gokhale, Rajat Kapoor and Shashank Udapurkar. The film is also likely to draw attention of non Marathi people, as both Ashok Saraf and Padmini Kolhapure have worked in many Bollywood films. Another highlight of this film is that Bollywood music directors Salim Suleman will be making their debut in Marathi by offering their music to this film.

Lyrics by Guru Thakur, art by Mahesh Salgaonkar, editing Sanjay Sakla, background music Amar Mohile and cinematography by Suresh Deshmane are other credits of this film, which is all set for release on 31st January 2010 all over Maharashtra.

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Having won the Filmfare award at a very young age, Padmini Kolhapure had a very successful career in Bollywood as a big star during 80s and 90s. For ‘Insaf Ka Taraju‘ she won the best supporting actress award in 1981, while for ‘Prem Rog‘ she won the best actress Filmfare award, which was a big achievement. Padmini made her debut in Marathi films through ‘Chimni Pakhara‘ which was a hit film and also won her many popular awards. She is now doing Ashutosh Gowarikar’s next Hindi film ‘panipat‘ in lead role. But, at the same time she is returning to Marathi cinema, in lead role through Shashank Udapurkar’s next film ‘Pravas‘.

Padmini’s journey as an actress began as a child actress through the film ‘Ek Khiladi Bawan Patte‘ and thereafter she has not looked back. With films like ‘Ishq Ishq Ishq’, ‘Zindagi’, ‘Dream Girl’,’Sajan Bina Suhagan’, ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’ and others, she soon matured into a young beautiful actress to perform in lead roles opposite big Bollywood actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Rishi kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Raj Babbar, Jitendra, Kumar Gaurav and others in several films. Few years ago, She also played Shahid kapoor’s mother in the film ‘Fata Poster Nikla hero‘. But besides acting with the help of her husband Tutu Sharma, she continues to produce Hindi, Marathi and other regional language films. In forthcoming Marathi film ‘Prawaas‘ Padmini is playing a totally different kind of lead role opposite Ashok Saraf and the shooting of this film is in progress at present.

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At a time, when we notice a change coming into Marathi films, still some Marathi film makers believe in doing a copy-paste job from Bollywood. A new Marathi film ‘Dhava Dhav’ does exactly that. Shahank Udapurkar, who identifies himself as a script writer of this Marathi film, goes on the lines of Bollywood’s popular duo- Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra, making a provision for himself to play a double role. And, to add some star value to the film he selects Bharat Jadhav as his co-star.

The film begins with the so called backdrop of ‘Sholay’, with two brothers-Jai and Veeru becoming Police Inspectors, only because their mother wants them to do so, to settle the score with their father’s killer- Gabbar Patil. This so called Gabbar has not only killed their father, but has also taken away Vijay, the twin brother of Jai while in cradle, along with him; so as to make him a Don ( Just another Bollywood formula). He sends him to a ‘Don School’, somewhere abroad. But, when Vijay graduates and returns back, he behaves more like a film hero than Don. He calls himself Vijay Dinanath Chavan. If that is not enough, the Mother of Jai and Veeru, plays the role of Bollywood’s popular Mom-Rakhee, uttering her translated dialogues from Bollywood films.

The entire film drags in this fashion with all translated dialogues from few Bollywood movies, uttered by most of the characters. The two girls-Hema and Malini, who play the daughters of a Senior Police Inspector, obviously pair with Jai and Veeru. They flirt with them on the lines of another Bollywood film ‘Aankhen’. Finally, the film ends with a typical climax of Bollywood films of 70s and 80s.

Looking at this patchwork done with the help of some Bollywood films, the audience is made to think, whether to call this film an action, comedy or mockery of Bollywood ? With the presentation of such themes, how can one expect audience at the theatres ? The 2 pm show at one of the multiplexes in Mumbai that too on a Sunday  was cancelled for want of people and at the other one located in a mall, it was screened for a dozen of viewers. We do have good actors in Marathi, but if they are made to act in such movies, then certainly it is a waste of their talent. Talking about the veterans like Mohan Joshi (who plays Gabber Patil), Smita Jaykar (Mother of Jai-Veeru-Vijay) and Anand Abhyankar (Sr. Police Inspector); they are simply wasted in their respective roles. The two girls namely Madhavi Nimkar and Hrutuja Patil are taken just for namesake to play the heroines. While the rest of the artistes play supporting roles, only to complete their team work

Music by Nadu Honap is just average and the background music is also a copy and paste job from popular Bollywood hits. Direction by Bharat Gaekwad is nothing special and so are the acts of Bharat Jadhav and Shashank Udapurkar. If there are few more such repeats in Marathi, those few who respect Marathi cinema, will also have to think twice before going to the theatres during those first three days.

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