• Review: Baba
• Director : Raj R Gupta
• Star Cast: Deepak Dobriyal, Nandita Patkar, Aryan Menghji, Spruha Joshi, Abhijeet Khandkekar, Chittranjan Giri & Jaywant Wadkar
• Screenplay: Manish Singh
• Producer: Maanayata Dutt & Ashok Subhedar

Quick Viewpoint: The basic one liner for ‘Baba’ does have a lot of emotional strength. And to some extent the film does explore it well up until the first half. But somewhere in the second half it loses it’s focus and then never really recovers.

What Works? 

• As said above, the basic story line of the film, where two sets (out of which one set is deaf and dumb) of parents are battling for a kid, is very believable. The situation that has caused this conflict might seem slightly filmy but the complexity of the scenario is from the real world. No parties are wrong yet one of them has to loose!
• The lead cast of the deaf and dumb parents (Dobriyal and Patkar) and the kid (Aryan) belong together in every way. Their chemistry works even more effectively as they are made to communicate without words!
• The film is technically well made, the music especially works really well to give it a light-hearted playful tone mainly in the first half.
• Even when the second half has issues the end is effective, not that it undoes the errors of the film but it still has lasting impression. It is not overly melodramatic and neither is it emotionally dull.

What Fails? 

• In the second half the film wastes too much time on a very irrelevant, unimportant sub track! The whole track could have been summed up in 5 minutes but the film wastes at least 20 minutes or more over it.
• In the end the film gives a sensible vocal perspective to what it wanted to say about the society which treats deaf and dumb individuals differently. Unfortunately the film fails to imbibe the message into the actual screenplay and simply covers it in the climax.
• The deaf and dumb parents are understandably too attached to the kid but never do they realize the importance of a different life for their kid. Maybe unintentionally the film projects them as selfish parents who couldn’t see what’s best for their kid beyond their love for him.
• The other parents portrayed by Spruha Joshi and Abhijeet Khandkekar deserved more exploration as characters in the film. They even have a legit sub-track worthy conflict between them! But the film fails at exploring them and making them lesser important in the story which doesn’t make us understand their emotional side of the story.

Final Verdict: ‘Baba’ is a decent film that can be seen with the family. But with minimum expectations.

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Both Spruha Joshi and Abhijit Khandkekar started their careers around same time. Parallelly they have grown on to become matured actors and have earned lots of love and appreciation from the audience! Both have known each other throughout this journey and have been good friends. Another thing that both of them have in common is the skill of hosting shows and events! Now they will soon be seen sharing the screen together in the upcoming Marathi film ‘Baba‘ releasing on 2nd of August!

‘Baba’ is the first Marathi film of Sanjay Dutt as a producer. It stars popular Hindi actor Deepak Dobriyal in a mute character and it’s a heart touching story about parenthood. Spruha & Abhijit play the characters of parents who suddenly arrive in the lives of a happy family. They start claiming that the kid that has been brought up by the deaf and dumb parents do not belong to them.

The conflict is such that both sides have real emotional attachment with the kid and hence it would be interesting to see how does this conflict resolve in the film! Spruha and Abhijit have mainly been seen in younger roles but these characters seem to be challenging their acting skills for sure! Moreover their performance will be tested against incredibly talented actors like Deepak Dobriyal, Nandita Patkar & Chittaranjan Giri!

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Sanjay Dutt produced first Marathi film ‘Baba‘ created a lot of excitement among audiences after it’s teaser. Bollywood actor Deepak Dobriyal is being seen in a Marathi film for the first time and now the trailer of the film reveals the actual plot of the film and the rest of the important characters. Along with Nandita Patkar & Deepak Dobriyal the film also stars Spruha Joshi & Abhijeet Khandkekar!

The film seems to raise questions about parenthood in a very subtle way. Are emotions more important or is it important to think practically. The age old social & economical difference between two strata of society now has another layer in this film when one pair of parents are deaf and dumb, whereas others are normal.

While such stories are not being seen for the first time in our films, ‘Baba’ still feels like an emotionally impactful experience mainly because of the actors involved in the film! The film releases in theatres on 2nd of August and promises to appeal to the family audiences in particular!

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While Sanjay Dutt has always shown the Marathi influence in his style, from his dressing sense to the way he speaks in Mumbaiya language on and off screen, Sanju Baba as he is fondly called has always been a close icon for the Marathi Manoos! And now Sanju Baba has ventured into Marathi cinema as a producer! Incidentally his film is titled ‘Baba‘!

The first teaser of the film is out and it feels very heart touching. The lead actor in the film Deepak Dobriyal has proved his talent through many great Hindi films in recent times like Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Hindi Medium! He is playing a muted character in this film and is proving that acting is acting no matter which film industry it is! Along with him child artist Aaryan Menghji too captures our fascination from the teaser.

While this film mainly looks like a father son story, the film also stars many important names from the Marathi film industry. Mainly Nandita Patkar, Spruha Joshi, Abhijeet Khandkekar, Chittaranjan Giri & Jaywant Wadkar. Sanjay Dutt and his wife Maanayata Dutt have together produced this film. The film is co-produced under their banner Sanjay S Dutt Productions, with Ashok Subhedar and Aarti Subhedar of Blue Mustang Creations, who had earlier produced the film “Bucket List” starring Madhuri Dixit.

‘Baba’ hits theatres on the 2nd of August!

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Upcoming sports drama ‘Me Pan Sachin’ is a one of kind Marathi film about the passion for our most beloved sport ‘Cricket’! Starring Swapnil Joshi in a never before seen avatar & other actors like Priyadarshan Jadhav, Avinash Narkar, Abhijeet Khandkekar, Kalyanee Mulye & others, ‘Me Pan Sachin’ promises to be a wholesome entertainer about the love of the game & what it means to us!

This film marks the directorial debut of popular Marathi Rapper & producer Shreyash Jadhav. Previously we have seen him being associated with hits like ‘Baghtos Kay Mujra Kar’ & ‘Online Binline’! As seen in the trailer Swapnil Joshi will be seen in two different avatars, one of a young cricketer & then of a father who dreams that his son would be the next Sachin Tendulkar!

The film has truly captured the fancy of the audiences & Swapnil Joshi fans. After a series of underperforming films, Swapnil Joshi gave a huge hit in form of Mumbai Pune Mumbai 3 & now again there will be expectations from him of his fans to entertain them thoroughly with his ambitious film ‘Me Pan Sachin’!

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• Movie : Me Pan Sachin (2019) | मी पण सचिन
• Producer : Neeta P. Jadhav, Sanjay Chhabria, Ganesh Gite and Nikhil Phutane
• Director : Shreeyash P. Jadhav
• Studio : Eros International, Everest Entertainment and Ganraj Associates
• Star Cast :
  • Swwapnil Joshi
  • Kalyanee Mulay
  • Abhijeet Khandkekar
  • Priyadarshan Jadhav
  • Avinash Narkar
  • Suhita Thatte
  • Anuja Sathe
• Story : Shreeyash P. Jadhav
• Screenplay : Shreeyash P. Jadhav, Niyaz Mujawar, Rajesh Kolan and Ajita Kale
• Dialogues : Shreeyash P. Jadhav, Niyaz Mujawar, Ajita Kale
• Sound Design : Dhananjay Sathe
• Music and Lyrics : Harshavardhan Wavre, Karan Wavre and Aditya Patekar (Trineeti Bros)
• Additional Lyrics : Vaibhav Joshi
• Background Score : Amar Mohile
• Cinematography (DOP) : Maneesh Chandra Bhatt
• Editor : Ashish Mhatre and Apurva Motiwale Sahai
• Art Director : Sandeep Inamke
• Costume : Nakshatra Devadikar and Saniya Deshmukh
• Make-up : Satyawir Chaudhary
• Chief Assistant Director :
• Choreography for Title Track : Sujit Kumar
• Cricket Coach : Vishwas Walwalkar
• Visual Promotions : Just Right Studioz
• Executive Producer : Pravin Wankhede and Kshitij Kulkarni
• Associate Director : Akshay Khadilkar
• Associate Producer : Sanjay Dawra
• Creative Head : Saniya Deshmukh
• Color : Redchillies.color
• Colorist : Mahesh B Deshpande
• Line Producer : Rajesh Dhamse
• Motivation Support : Purushottam Jadhav
• Marketing : Amit Bhanushali (52 Friday CInemas Pro) and Amruta Chhaya Mane
• Digital Publicity : Be Birbal
• Finance Controller : Tanaji Sawant
• VFX : Illusion Ethereal Studios
• Post-Production Studio : Ganraj Studios
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 1st February 2019

Synopsis : Me Pan Sachin is a Marathi movie starring Swwapnil Joshi in a prominent role. It is a drama written and directed by Shreyash Jadhav.

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Zee Marathi’s ‘Majhya Navryachi Bayko’ has garnered lots of love & appreciation from the audiences. The trio of Radhika, Gurunath & Shanaya have become like family for the audiences and the chemistry between the characters too is flawless. Just recently we met Isha Keskar as the new ‘Shanaya’. She replaced Rasika Sunil in the serial.

Isha too is fond of shopping in her real life just like ‘Shanaya’. And her style sense too is very hatke & fun! One can say this based on her get up in the recently held Zee Marathi Awards 2018 Nomination Party! The theme of the party was ‘Neon & Pop’ & Isha explored the theme in her own way! She stood out among the guests at the party!

Isha wore a neon florescent coloured outfit along with a pink boa & a pink wig! Isha carried the look very confidently throughout the party! Isha has been nominated in three categories; Best Character, Best Villain & Best Comic Character in this year’s Zee Marathi Awards!

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Zee Marathi Awards is an award show that celebrates the serials & shows off Zee Marathi. Both the audiences & the artists look at it as their own function & eagerly await it every year. The excitement too is very high amongst the fans & the industry about who’ll win in different categories & who’ll perform what skits & dances! Similar to this actual event there’s a nomination part of these awards!

This year’s theme of Zee Marathi Awards 2018 Nomination Party was ‘Neon & Pop’! The number of Marathi stars attended this party & followed the theme through their costume & get up. Stars of Chala Hawa Yeu Dya, Sagar Karande & Shreya Bugde hosted this party! This time there will be a tough fight between Tuzhat Jeev Rangala, Majhya Navryachi Bayko, Jago Mohan Pyare, Lagira Jhala Ji, Baaji & Tula Pahate Re. These serials are nominated in different categories like Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Siblings, Best Jodi, Best Family, Best Serial, etc.

The list of guests for this party included Subodh Bhave, Abhijeet Khandkekar, Anita Date-Kelkar, Isha Keskar, Hardeek Joshi, Akshaya Deodhar, Bharat Ganeshpure, Bhau Kadam, Mahesh Kothare, Shruti Marathe & others. All the Marathi stars enjoyed themselves as most of them are usually busy working for entertaining us! It will be exciting to see which serial wins the most awards this year!

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Zee Marathi’s Majhya Navryachi Bayko has reached high TV ratings from the very beginning of the serial. The characters of Radhika, Gurunath, Shanaya & others have made a bond with the audiences. Some time ago another interesting character of Soumitra was added in the scheme of things!

Soumitra has been trying his best with his unusual tactics to make Gurunath realize his mistake. Soumitra has figured out that Shanaya doesn’t really love Gurunath but she loves his money. So separate Gurunath & Shanaya Soumitra is himself trying to impress Shanaya with his wealth! From taking her to a lavish dinner to gifting her a credit card Soumitra is slowly making Shanaya fall for him!

We are also seeing that Gurunath is being affected by this tactic of Soumitra. He even accuses Radhika that this is her plan to separate him from Shanaya! It would be interesting to see in coming episodes of Majhya Navryachi Bayko whether Shanaya leaves Guru for Soumitra? And if that happens what will happen when Shanaya comes to know the truth of Soumitra’s plan? In between all this will Radhika ever forgive Gurunath? All that will soon be revealed!

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Marathi’s cinema’s international reach is not new! Many entertainment events of the industry take place in foreign countries. But a premiere of a film in a foreign country is a rarity! ‘Bhay’ is an upcoming Marathi film which is set to release on 2^nd March recently had it’s grand premiere in Dubai! The cast & crew of the film, media & the Marathi people of Dubai were present on this occasion. The premiere was held at Roxy Theatre on 23^rd February & moreover the actual residents of Dubai too were present for the premiere.

Presented by ‘5 G International’ & produced by Sachin Katarnavre ‘Bhay’ is edited & directed by Rahul Bhatankar. The guests at this premiere expressed their satisfaction with the film & felt the film engrossed them throughout.

‘Bhay’ is a film about the adverse effect of fear & how it can destroy a person’s life. The film stars Abhijit Khandkekar, Uday Tikekar, Satish Rajwade, Smita Gondkar, Sanskruti Balgude, Vinit Sharma, Siddharth Bodke & others. The film is set to release on 2^nd March all over Maharashtra.

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