Rating: ★★ ½ Presenter: Nishad Audio-Visuals Producer: Kanchan Satpute Director: Raj Pendurkar Story: Dilip Prabhavlkar Cast: Aryan Narvekar, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Jyoti Subhash, Vijay Kenkre Movie Review by: Kashmira Pawaskar

No one would ever thought of a concept scripted nearly two decades back, extremely hastily as a radio play on Mumbai Akashwani, have a journey which would be so incessant. Lathers having been scanned by every medium including the television and print, Bokya Satbande by Dilip Prabhawalkar have hit the silver screens.

Produced by Kanchan Satpute this film is defenitly different from her earlier release ‘Checkmate’ which received a commercial success. The movie is directed by Raj Pendurkar, has three stories chosen from the collection of five sequels to the book. Bokya revolves around a 10-year-old boy, and his relations with acquaintances in the midst of humour, mischief and empathy .We must be remembering our childhood days when we used to play and enjoy a lot during vacations, bokya leaves a nostalgia of all this. There are many laughter moments in the film which tends to touch you’re hearts. Incidentally Prabhawalkar, who recently received the Balsahitya Award for the book, also plays Belwandi Ajoba in the film. Even though this book is written twenty years ago chidren will still get connected to bokya as he is shown with a generation having mobile Lcd screen , internet chatting etc. like this many of the generations kits are connected .Aryan Narvekar plays the lead role of Bokya and the other artistes include Chitra Navathe, Vijay Kenkare, Jyoti Subhash and so on.

Released on April 17 in Pune and Mumbai, the film is produced by Nishad Audio-Visuals. The film has for songs written by Jitendra Joshi and directed by Shailendra Barve.The background score is very much to be appreciated. Especially the tittle song “booookyaaa satbande” catches all the attention.
Even though it has covered three stories some where it feels that it would have been much better if they have included more stories of bokya.
Although written in a generation gone by, Bokya continues to grab attention even from today’s children