• Review :  Baapjanma (2017)
• Producer : Sumatilal Shah
• Director : Nipun Dharmadhikari
• Star Cast : Sachin Khedekar, Pushkaraj Chirputkar, Sharvari Lohokare, Satyajeet Patwardhan, Akarsh Khurana
• Story : Nipun Dharmadhikari
• Music : Gandhaar
• Review By : Abhay Salvi

Rating : 4.5/5

निपुण धर्माधिकारी लिखित दिग्दर्शित ‘बापजन्म’ चित्रपट तुम्हाला तुमच्या बाबांची दुसरी बाजू जाणून घेण्यास प्रवृत्त करेल! कसा? वाचा आमचा सविस्तर रिव्ह्यू-

Baapjanma Marathi Movie Review :

Nipun Dharmadhikari’s debut film as a director ‘Baapjanma’ is a treat to audiences of all tastes. He has so beautifully incorporated different audience sensibilities to give us a film that can be enjoyed by all. This is what Marathi cinema needs right now more than anything else. This film is conventional in a way that it won’t possibly discover something entirely new, yet there’s a fair amount of novelty to it. 

The trailer of ‘Baapjanma’ gives very little about the actual film. The film wants the audiences to enter the theatre with that little information. The audiences though only realize it when they watch the film. It’s almost a calculative decision by the makers to make the audience perceive one film & later surprise them with something unexpected & refreshing. Out of which one thing I can definitely reveal is that this film is a laugh riot at so many instances! Pushkaraj Chirputkar as Mauli is responsible for most of it. He simply owns his character!

Yes the film is a story about a 60 plus man who has written his will. But the humour as mentioned above doesn’t have the traits of a black comedy. Instead it’s more like harmless light hearted fun. It helps this film to get a certain completeness that Marathi audiences desire for. Sachin Khedekar’s Bhaskar Pandit is a complex character. He isn’t stereotypical in any way & hence he becomes the perfect protagonist for this non-stereotypical story. Among the rest of the characters Madhav Vaze stands out with almost four lines or so throughout the runtime. Last seen in 3 Idiots, this senior actor is actually the little kid who played ‘Shyam’ in 1950s Marathi classic ‘Shyamchi Aai’.

Last year we had ‘Ventilator’ that reminded us that our fathers are as important as our mothers (I mean in our Films). ‘Baapjanma’ makes even stronger connect on that level; but the film doesn’t necessarily try to make the father in this story relatable to all. Bhaskar Pandit as said before is a complex man & the audiences shouldn’t try to find a straightforward moral of this story regarding fatherhood!

Among the rest of the cast Sharvari Lohokare (Bhaskar Pandit’s daughter) & Satyajeet Patwardhan (Bhaskar Pandit’s son) seem to be perfectly casted. Sharvari Lohokare is one of the underrated actors working in Marathi currently here she makes the most of the opportunity. Patwardhan too enacts his role with good effect, of a son who has much against his father yet deep down he loves his father for the few happy memories.

There are a few moments in ‘Baapjanma’ that defy logic however they never disconnect us from the story. Also because they arrive late in the film & the film has already entertained us thoroughly.

Sachin Khedekar continues his top form as usual. This character had ‘Sachin Khedekar’ written all over it. It must be author backed. Yet Khedekar manages to do it differently, had this film arrived say five years ago that wouldn’t have happened. In the last 2-3 years Sachin Khedekar has transformed himself into a polished actor who projects the minutest of details on screen.

In a scene we see Bhaskar Pandit typing a long message to his son through an online chating medium. We see the son waiting for the message to arrive (as ‘typing’ appears on the messenger), but then Bhaskar Pandit deletes it & the messenger shows ‘offline’. This little scene is the soul of ‘Baapjanma’ for me. Nipun Dharmadhikari has managed to modernize our old emotions. They are as effective as they were earlier but now they are presented in a way that actually exists today!

Overall:

‘Baapjanma’ is a beautiful story told even more beautifully. It doesn’t have a formula to it, it organically reaches a complete form by the end of the film & as audiences we take home the whole story with us than just a moral message!

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We’ve seen many Indian films made about mothers & motherhood. Very few films try to figure what exactly is it to be a father, that too not an out of proportion filmy style father, but a father we all have in our lives. A father who might have performed all the responsibilities of providing food, shelter, clothing, security to his children & family, but emotionally he has been distant from them.

The trailer of Sachin Khedekar starrer & Nipun Dharmadhikari directorial ‘Baapjanma’ makes us think about all this & the father in our lives. This subject itself is so refreshingly novel. The story of a man who has lived a certain way all his life & suddenly at a point he is made to rethink about everything. As if he’s been given an opportunity to correct his mistakes!

Sachin Khedekar has been in top form recently & this trailer suggests that it would be a sheer treat to watch him play this character!

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Sachin Khedekar is a veteran actor on Marathi screen for more than 25 years and has many acclaimed films to his credit like ‘Mee Shivajiraje Bhosle Boltoy’, ‘Kaaksparsh’, ‘Aajcha Mazha Divaas’, etc and now his most eagerly awaited film ‘Baapjanm’ is about to release and we caught up with him at the trailer launch of the film .Here is what he has to say.

‘Baapjanm’ sounds like a very strange title?

Yes. But it is relevant to the story of the film. We have often seen films on relationships between a motherand her son, but this film will focus on the relationship between a father and a son and I play the father in the film. He is not an emotional father but a strict disciplinary one.  It focuses on the generation gap that exists between the present generation and the older one. Director Nipun Dharmadhikari who makes his debut with this film has presented the film in a different and effective way.

What is your opinion about the debutant director Nipun Dharmadhikari?

He is young and talented and I have seen him perform and direct in plays staged in Pune and the Purushottam Karandak and he has also acted in a very nice way in the film ‘Highway’. He has a very bright future ahead of him. He shot the film in just 35 days in and around Pune. It was a pleasure working with him.

What is the other cast of the film?

The film also stars Pushkrakj Chirputkar, Sharvari Lohkare, Satyajeet Patwardhan and Akarsh Khurana.

You are gradually moving towards character roles.

Yes. At my age one can’t expect more and there is a lot of depth in the characters I play and its also an always pivotal role in the film. Marathi films are generally character driven and not hero or heroine oriented. The graph of the actor and the role is very important like my roles in the recently released Kaccha Limboo, etc.

Whats next on the anvil?

I am waiting for a good book adaptation for a film in Marathi as the Marathi culture is full of great authors and I am waiting for some director to approach me with such a role. Also I am acting in Hindi films like Judwaa 2 and Golmaal-4.

Do you find any difference in Marathi and Hindi film industry ?

Basically it’s the same but the atmosphre on a Marathi film set is very friendly and less stressed out and whereas on a Hindi film set, its all chaos and there is a lot of stress and a lot of a noisy atmosphere on the sets.

Please name any five films in Marathi that you are really proud of.

Astitva, Mee Shivaji Raje Bhosle Boltoy, Aajcha Divas Majha , Kaaksparsh and Shikshanachya Aicha Gho.

Any plans of turning director?

No. I  am not temperementally fit to be a director. I am happy being an actor.      

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• Movie : Baapjanma (2017) | बापजन्म
• Producer : Sumatilal Shah
• Director : Nipun Dharmadhikari
• Studio : Sixteen by Sixty-Four Production, Everest Entertainment, Eros International
• Presented By : Sanjay Chhabria – Everest Entertainment

• Star Cast : 

  • Sachin Khedekar as Bhaskar pandit
  • Pushkaraj Chirputkar as Mauli
  • Sharvari Lohokare as Veena
  • Satyajeet Patwardhan as Vikram
  • Akarsh Khurana as Ashok Khurana
  • Shriram Pendse as Old man 1
  • Ramesh Medhekar as Old man 2
  • Sunil Godbole as Old man 3
  • Sudhir Phatak as Old man 4
• Story : Nipun Dharmadhikari
• Music & Background Score : Gandhaar Sangoram
• Lyrics : Kshitij Patwardhan
• Singer : Deepti Mate (Man Shevantiche Phool), Jaydeep Vaidya (Gandha Ajunahi)
• Sound Design : Akshay Vaidya
• Cinematography (DOP) : Abhijit D. Abde
• Editor : Suchitra Sathe
• Makeup : Dinesh Naik
• Costumes : Sayli Soman
• Marketing : Amit Bhanushali
• Production Design : Satyajeet Patwardhan
• Color: redchillies.color
• Publicity Campaign: Sachin Suresh Gurav
• Visual Promotions : Navprabhat Studio
• Co-Producers : Keyur Godse, Neeraj Biniwale, Amrut Athavale, Nipun Dharmadhikari
• Genre : Drama
• Duration : 134 Mins
• Release Date : 29 September 2017

Synopsis : Bhaskar Pandit is a senior citizen living only with his caretaker Mauli and his dog Tiger. His wife has passed away a few years back and he has a strained relationship with both his children. One day, while going through his journal he realizes that he has been living the exact same routine for many months. With this sudden jolt of realization, he decides to go on a mission to mend the relationship with his children… and he will stop at nothing till he achieves what he wants!

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