• Movie : Chatrapati Shasan (2019) | छत्रपती शासन
• Producer : Utkarsh Kudale, Priyanka Kagale and Khushal Mhetre
• Director : Khushal Mhetre
• Studio : Prabodhan films & Sawai Martand films
• Star Cast :
  • Makarand Deshpande
  • Santosh Juvekar
  • Kishor Kadam
  • Prashant Mohite
  • Abhijeet Chavan
  • Anil Nagarkar
  • Rahul Belapurkar
  • Sayali Kale
  • Dhanshree Yadav
  • Kiran Kore
  • Sayali Paradkar
  • Ramchandra Dhumal
  • Vishnu Kedar
  • Parag Shaha
  • Prathamesh Joshi
  • Shreyaschandra Gaikwad
  • Abhay Mishra
  • Milind Jadhav
  • Jaydeep Shinde
• Story : Khushal Mhetre
• Screenplay : Kamlesh Bhandwalkar
• Dialogues : Khushal Mhetre
• Singer : Nandesh Umap, Urmila Dhangar, Jhanhavi Prabhu-Arora, Abhijeet Jadhav and Rajan Sarwade
• Lyrics : Nandesh Umap, Dr. Vinayak Pawar and Deepak Gaikwad
• Music : Nandesh Umap, Rohit Nagbhide, Sachin Awaghade, Abhijeet-Rajan
• Sound Design : NA
• Background Score : Praful Karlekar
• Cinematography (DOP) : Sunil Borkar, Nishant Bhagwat and Yogesh Koli
• Editor : Chetan Sagde
• Art Director : Nitesh Nandgaonkar and Anand Sathe
• Costume : Prathamesh Mandhare
• Make-up : Pinto Solapure and Vinay Sharma
• Executive Producer : Shreyas Gaikwad
• Co-Producers : Vrushali Bhandwalkar, Bhushan Mhetre, Gourav Bhosale, Shreyas Gaikwad, Ravi Sonavane and Amar Pawar
• Choreography : Bhakti Naik
• Digital Marketing : Shrinivas Kulkarni
• Publicity Design : Tanmay Todmal
• DI : IC Film Studio
• Visual Promotion : IC Film Studio
• DI Colorist : Chetan Sagade
• Business Head : Kumar Gavada
• VFX Studio : IC Film Studio and 24 Fs Chitra
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 15th March 2019

Synopsis : The film revolves around a professor who has dedicated his life in teaching the principles of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to common people, a young man who is trying to find a new direction to his life through the principles of Shivaji, and a politician who is using the Shivaji`s name to build his own image in politics.

Based on the principles of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the movie implies that if we can understand and imbibe his thoughts, principles, and vision, it can lead to the implementation of many great changes in the society.

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Known for his solid comic timing & representing ‘Vidarbha’ in our popular culture Bharat Ganeshpure has a new film ‘Premwaari’ lined up for release on 8th of February. We have seen him crack jokes on his weight on Chala Hawa Yeu Dya & in other performances but for his role in ‘Premwaari’ he lost a few kgs!

What exactly does his role demand from him that he had to lose weight? Well soon we would come to know about it when we watch the film in theatres on 8th of February! The songs of the film ‘Tu Online Ye Na’, ‘Dandi Jhali Gul’ & ‘Poojachya Haldila’ have become super hit among the audiences.

Out of which ‘Poojachya Haldila’ stars Bharat Ganeshpure in a drunkard avatar! Along with him also seen is the talented actor Abhijeet Chavan. ‘Premwaari’ stars Chinamy Udgirkar & Mayuri Kapadne in the lead & is romantic drama that also has all the elements of a masala entertainer movie!

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Amol Kagne Films, the makers of the recent critically acclaimed ‘Lathe Joshi‘ are back with their new film titled ‘Perfume’. The film stars a young pair of Omkar Dikshit & Monalisa Bagal & romantic suspense thriller. Recently the poster of the film was launched at the prestigious ‘Dagdu Sheth Halwai Ganpati Temple’ in Pune.

Amol Kagne & Laxman Kagne are the presenters of the film that is produced by Dr. Hemant Dixit & Omkar Dixit. The film has many twists & turns in the narrative as the poster of the film hints us! The color palette of the poster also suggests us that the film will be very colorful & vibrant! ‘Perfume’ truly promises to spread its fragrance.

Along with Omkar Dixit & Monalisa Bagal, the film also stars popular actors like Chinmay Mandlekar, Abhijeet Chavan, Sayaji Shinde, Anil Nagarkar, Kamlesh Sawant, Bhagyashree Nhalve, Shilpa Thackeray, Heena Panchal & others! ‘Perfume’ releases in theatres on 1st of March!

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• Review : Re Raya
• Producer : Ajay Kanayalal Sukheja
• Director : Milind Shinde
• Screenplay : Kiran Berad
• Star Cast : Bhushan Pradhan, Sanskruti Balgude, Hansraj Jagtap, Arun Tikekar, Nayan Jadhav & Abhijeet Chavan
• Review by : Abhay Salvi

Rating : 1.5/5

Re Raya Review (Marathi Movie):

Re Raya is a film that lacks any serious inclination towards getting into the soul of the subject. It uses a usual sports drama template & adds anti-system rants to make it seem important. The film fails to make any connect with the audiences & struggles at basic technical aspects of cinema too.

The film starts off with Aadesh’s childhood (Bhushan Pradhan) & how he struggled a bit & made a mark as an athletic. This whole childhood sequence has very little to do with the actual film. The actual starting point of the film is when Aadesh doesn’t win the prestigious ‘Shiv Chhatrapati Puraskar’ (an actual award given to sportspersons & athletes of Maharashtra). The obsession of Indian athletes with such government awards is openly known, however never does ‘Re Raya’ think of it that it’s principally wrong for athletes to be so obsessed with a mere award! It never even tries to explain the importance of this award to us! However it uses the ‘award’ as the most important plot device! Later when Aadesh trains young kids for different athletic games he even says that he wants them to win the award which he couldn’t win!

These 3 young kids belong to the lowest strata of Aadesh’s village. None of them have any inclination towards sports. However they are good at certain talents that are tailor made for certain athletic events. This idea was certainly interesting but sadly the film never really uses it to it’s benefit. It fails at the basic stage of execution. Throughout the film suffers from abrupt & bad cinematography & editing. Another basic aspect at which the film fails is in creating characters. Aadesh’s friend (Nayan Jadhav), love interest (Sanskruti Balgude) have absolutely nothing to do in the film other than just being there for Aadesh, yet they have fair amount of screen time! What they do for a living? Even that is never known!

The only little positive about ‘Re Raya’ is that it manages to show High Jump, Archery to decently acceptable extent. The kid who plays the high jump athlete is probably a high jump athlete himself. However the ‘archery’ part also seems silly when it tries to create drama out of the competition. And the third sport, running is ruined throughout the film by jerky slow motion. Not even once did I see a running event in it’s normal speed! What’s with this obsession?

Talking about the performances, Bhushan Pradhan has again sank to the bottom where he previously was a couple of years ago, some of his recent performances (especially ‘Amhi Doghi’) under capable directors have been good enough but now he’s unbearable in every dramatic dialogue that he delivers. Among the three kids Hansraj Jagtap is the only ‘actor’ & he does decent work. Abhijeet Chavan gets a few decent scenes where we he uses his usual presence! Sanskruti Balgude’s performance stays irrelevant to the film just like her character’s existence. It’s sad that even after being directed by a talented actor like Milind Shinde, the film doesn’t even manage to work on a performance level of it’s ensemble cast.

This film made me think, the convenient use of post film text slide to wrap up the narrative should be officially banned from our films! I mean how simple it is to just say this, this & that happened. Anyways even without the slide ‘Re Raya’ had no chance of becoming a lesser bad film!

Overall:

Sports film is an extremely connectable film genre. And Marathi audiences can easily associate with such stories, provided they are well made films with a decent story to tell.

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Along with the subjects of the film Marathi cinema, these days also has a trend of unique film titles. ‘Perfume’ is one such Marathi film. Made by a talented team this ‘Perfume’ is set to spread it’s fragrance in cinema halls from September! The film stars a fresh Jodi of Omkar Dixit & Monalisa Bagal.

This film is produced by Dr. Hemant Dixit & Omkar Dixit of ‘HR Filmdome’ & is presented by ‘Halal’ & ‘Lathe Joshi’ (upcoming release) fame producer Amol Kagne & Laksman Kagne through their ‘Amol Kagne Studios’. The film is directed & shot by Karan Tandale. The film also stars Chinmay Mandlekar, Abhijeet Chavan, Sayaji Shinde, Anil Nagarkar, Kamlesh Sawant & others.

‘Perfume’ promises to entertain the audience to the fullest. The title of the film has made us excited about the story of the film. But as of now nothing more about the film has been revealed. Keep watching this space for more news & updates on the film.

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• Review : Cycle
• Producer : Amar Pandit and Sangram Surve
• Director : Prakash Kunte
• Story: Aditi Moghe
• Star Cast : Hrishikesh Joshi, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Bhalchandra Kadam, Deepti Lele
• Review by : Abhay Salvi

Rating : 3/5

Cycle Movie Review:

Prakash Kunte directorial ‘Cycle’ is similar to some of his previous works in terms of what it achieves & what it doesn’t. It achieves soulful, simplistic & technically polished story telling standards, but lacks in details of the actual ‘story’. The stories are usually simple enough that they could be described in one line. Though Kunte has that much command over the medium to make a beautiful film out of them, in case of ‘Cycle’ most of the times we don’t mind the compactness of the one line story.

To begin with the flaws, two of the prominent characters in the film, of two thieves played by Priyadarshan Jadhav & Bhalchandra Kadam lack the comic energy between them. Strangely both seem to be giving deliberate understated performances, which didn’t work for me. The subtleness works better when there’s more to read between, here it was limited. Keshav played by Hrishikesh Joshi, his wife (Deepti Lele), Keshav’s father & Keshav’s little girl all of them aren’t enough familiar to us when the conflict of the film has begun.

The problem isn’t that, the problem is that we expect to know them more now that the conflict is active. Instead the narrative is completely concerned with the thieves. I felt since the film was already shorter in length it did have scope for more screen time for Keshav & his family in the second half. ‘Cycle’ is a story which has a sense of fantasy to it, or a sense of allegory, hence finding logic in every little incident that occurs isn’t fair to the film. Yet the incidents that are primary in taking the narrative forward need to be logically backed. ‘Cycle’ lacks this backing at quite a few instances especially in the whole track connected with the thieves.

Hrishikesh Joshi’s performance is one of the biggest strength of the film, his father, wife, daughter all of them are a picture perfect family. The visual feel of the film makes a larger impact in making us feel what the story wants us to feel, more than the story itself, cinematographer Amalendu Choudary deserves the credit for it. The overall openness of the story’s ‘message’ or what it wants to say gives good depth to the film. It shies away from telling us exactly what it meant, it let’s us choose between a few meanings or maybe it says it means all of them. That is the reason why ‘Cycle’ works when seen in totality.

The casting is pitch-perfect, yes even with Bhau Kadam & Priyadarshan (though their understated style didn’t work for me), Deepti Lele is a talented actress who should be seen in interesting roles in the future. The little girl too is lot better than what we see kids doing in daily soaps these days. ‘Cycle’ manages to make us feel it’s 1948 in a small coastal village & also encapsulates the beautiful locales of Konkan.

‘Goodness’ has a merit of it’s own when it’s translated in art earnestly, ‘Cycle’ manages that first & foremost. Better characterizations of the thieves, slightly more screen time to Keshav & co. ‘Cycle’ would have been a ‘complete’ feel good adventure, yet it is good enough to be seen in theatres with our families this summer holidays!

Overall:

‘Cycle’ is family entertainment set in the old world where ‘goodness’ was more common than today. And it has been backed by the technical fluidity of today’s times.

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• TV Serial : Grahan | ग्रहण 
• Also Known As : Grahan Zee Marathi Serial
• Producer : Tejendra Neswankar
• Director : Gautam Koli
• Production House : Trump Card Productions
• StarCast :
  • Sunil Barve as Abhay
  • Abhijeet Chavan
  • Yogesh Deshpande as Niranjan
  • Varsha Ghatpande as Niranjan’s Mother
  • Pallavi Joshi as Rama
  • Padarinath Kamble as Shankar (Shankar Laundary)
  • Ananda Karekar
  • Jaywant Wadkar as Wagh Kaka
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• Title Song Music : Ashok Patki
• Title Song Singer : Devaki Pandit
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• Genre : Horror
• Channel : Zee Marathi
• Starting Date : 19th March 2018
• Starting Time : Monday to Saturday at 10:30 PM

Story Outline : 
Grahan is a Marathi Horror thriller television series starring Pallavi Joshi, Yogesh Deshpande and Varsha Ghatpande. Rama, a happily married woman, lives with her husband and two lovely kids. One day, while crossing the road a speeding truck almost hits her but luckily she escapes unhurt. However, when she reaches home, she finds that everything around her has changed and that her house and family is missing. What happened to her family? Will she ever reunite with them?

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• Movie : Cycle (2018) | सायकल
• Producer : Amar Pandit and Sangram Surve
• Director : Prakash Kunte
• Studio : Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Happy Mind Production
• Star Cast :
  • Hrishikesh Joshi as Keshav
  • Priyadarshan Jadhav as Mangya
  • Bhalchandra Kadam as Gajya
  • Deepti Lele as Jayashree
  • Pradeep Welankar as Holy Man
  • Sandesh Kulkarni as Sawant
  • Vidyadhar Joshi as Savkar
  • Sujata Mogal Pawar as Savkar’s Wife
  • Ruturaj Shinde as Tea Stall Boy
  • Abhijeet Chavan as Shyam
  • Sandhya Mhatre as Jalinder’s Mother
  • Sameer Khandekar as Jalindar
  • Mangesh Satpute as Natha Kumbhar
  • Tanvi Mundle as Natha’s Wife
  • Anil Gawde as Munim
  • Maithili Patwardhan as Mrunmayee
• Story : Aditi Moghe
• Dialogues : NA
• Lyrics : Mangesh Kanane
• Singer :Sagar Phadake and Aditya Phadake
• Original Soundtrack : Aditya Bedekar
• Sound Design : Manoj V. Mochemadkar and Sandeep Madkholkar
• Cinematography (DOP) : Amalendu Chaudhary
• Editor : Mayur Hardas
• Art Director : Mahesh Kudalkar
• Makeup : Nilesh Sonawane
• Costumes : Sachin Lovalekar
• Executive Producer : Avinash Bhanushali
• Co-Producer : MFA and Think Why Not
• Associate Producer : Rajiv Kottomtharayil and Luv Bhatt
• Presented By : Sudhanshu Vats, Ajit Andhare and Nikhil Sane
• Assistant Director : Niket Halve, Prashant Naik and Hemant Kudale
• Associate Director : Vishal Modhave and Swapnil Warke
• DI : Prime Focus LTD
• Visual Promotions : Just Right Studioz
• Publicity Design : Think Why Not
• Digital Publicity : Be Birbal Media Pvt Ltd
• VFX and Titles : Parthsarthi Ayar
• Camera Assistant : Jitendra Borhade
• Executive Producer (Viacom18 Motion Pictures) : Deepa Jathar
• Revenue and Inernational (Viacom18 Motion Pictures) : Gayatri Gulati
• Sales and Distribution (Viacom18 Motion Pictures) : Neeraj Goswamy
• Genre : Drama, Comedy
• Release Date : 4th May 2018

Synopsis : Cycle is an upcoming Marathi film directed by Prakash Kunte. This film is light-hearted family film. The film is produced by Sangram Surve and Amar Pandit and written by Aditi Moghe. The stars in the movie Priyadarshan Jadhav, Deepti Lele, Bhalchandra Kadam and Hrishikesh Joshi. The movie will be released on May 4, 2018.

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We have seen Milind Shinde perform various roles on TV screen, theatre and films. Now he has turned his attention behind the camera and will be directing a sports film based on a rural set-up. The title of this film is yet to be announced. The film is currently getting shot at Shirdi. The film stars Bhushan Pradhan, Sanskruti Balgude, Uday Tikekar, Abhijit Chavan, Nayan Jadhav and Prakash Dhore.

Interestingly, Shinde has previously directed “Naach Tujhach Lageen Haay” and “Kadu”. However, both these films are ready for the release but have some issues with the censor board. The recent film focuses on the sports culture of Maharashtra and how a simple player from rural area inspires kids to play the game and achieve them success at a national level.

The story, screenplay and dialogues for this film are written by Kiran Berad. DoP is Pratap Nayar and music has been composed bu Mangesh Dhakade.

We wish all the best to Milind Shinde in his new venture.

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If a relation has love & trust; happiness can never leave those people in the relationship. That’s the philosophy Yash & Jui’s love story propagated through 500 episodes of ‘Asa Sasar Surekh Bai’. On 13th February this popular Colors Marathi serial completes 500 episodes. The serial has reached homes of all Maharashtrian audiences & has been showered with love.

This little house in the ‘Chawl’ has seen many ups & down throughout these 500 episodes. From watching Yash & Jui’s love blossoming to the efforts they made while taking double chores at home & office. Even in times of difficulties the family was intact &all the dear & near people were around for moral support. The audiences have related the serial’s happenings with their real lives & hence the serial has managed to complete the 500 episode milestone.

But now ‘Assa Sasar Surekh bai’ will soon take a new twist! To know more about it don’t miss the upcoming episodes & tune into Colors Marathi every Monday to Saturday at 8 pm.

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