Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni bag Marathi Filmfare awards
The beautiful black lady is now in the hands of many Marathi film award winners. Only difference was that during this Filmfare awards for Marathi films, the traditional musical instruments of Maharashtra, the Dhol -tashe , Lejhim and Tutari, were played in the background music , to honour the award winners. So, one thing is clear that Filmfare have started recognising the strength and progress of Marathi films, during the past few years.
Several celebrities from Bollywood were also present on the occasion. Prominent among them were, Vidya Balan, Urmila Matondkar, Tabu, Athiya shetty, Varun Dhavan & Suraj Pancholi.Among the top celebrities in Marathi were Ramesh Deo, Mahesh Manjrekar, Riteish Deshmukh, Sonali Kulkarni, Mrinal Kulkarni, Mahesh Kothare & others.
Films like ‘Lai Bhari’,’ Rege’,’ Elizabeth Ekadashi’ & ‘Fandry’ shared most of the awards, while ‘ Prakash Baba Amte- The real hero’ bagged the Filmfare award for the best film, besides bagging the best actor( Nana Patekar) and Best actress( Sonali Kulkani) awards. The award for the best popular actor award went to Riteish Deshmukh for his debut in Marathi through super hit Marathi film ‘Lai Bhari’.
The first award for Film fare Lifetime achievement, went to veteran actor Ramesh Deo, who at the age of 86 years, is still active with his acting assignments.
Urmila Matondkar in a Marathi film
Popular Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar who after creating sensation in Hindi for more than a decade, has now made her entry into Marathi films through Amar Gupte’s film ‘Hridaynath’.
Recently, Urmila picturised an item number for a song in the film, which was picturised at Dream Zone studios, Jogeshwari, Mumbai. Sunidhi Chouhan has rendered her voice for this song. The film also stars other Bollywood artistes like Jackie Shroff and Aditya Pancholi, besides Marathi artistes like Swarangi Marathe, Chinmayee Sumeet and Amey Husnawadkar.
The film has total six songs and its music has been composed by A.R. Rehman’s music arranger- Santosh Muley. Jaishrikant Sawant is the creative producer and the film will be released by the end of this year.