करोना विषाणू संसर्गामुळे महाराष्ट्र राज्य स्थापनेचा हीरकमहोत्सवी वर्धापन दिन साजरा करता आला नाही. मात्र, मराठी चित्रपटसृष्टीतील कलाकारांनी वैभव महाराष्ट्राचं या खास व्हिडिओच्या माध्यमातून अभिवादन केलं आहे. विशेष म्हणजे, या कलाकारांनी एकत्र न येता त्यांच्याच घरी राहून हा व्हिडीओ चित्रीत केला आहे.

स्वरूप स्टुडिओ आणि चलचित्र कंपनीच्या आकाश पेंढारकर, हेमंत ढोमे यांनी सोशल मीडिया प्लेटफॉर्म हेलोच्या सहकार्याने या व्हिडिओची निर्मिती केली आहे. हेमंत ढोमे दिग्दर्शित बघतोस काय मुजरा कर या चित्रपटातील बघतोस काय मुजरा कर या गाण्याच्या चालीवरच क्षितिज पटवर्धन यांनी नवं गीत लिहिलं आहे. अमितराज यांचं संगीत असून, हर्षवर्धन वावरे, कस्तुरी वावरे यांनी हे गीत गायलं आहे.

व्हिडिओमध्ये सोनाली कुलकर्णी, हेमंत ढोमे, अनिकेत विश्वासराव, सुमीत राघवन, शशांक केतकर, रसिका धबडगांवकर, संजय जाधव, प्रार्थना बेहरे, अमितराज, अभिनय बेर्डे, सौरभ गोखले, अनुजा साठे, चैत्राली गुप्ते, लोकेश गुप्ते, सिद्धार्थ मेनन, कीर्ती पेंढारकर, सुयश टिळक, सायली संजीव, प्राजक्ता माळी यांचा सहभाग आहे. या गाण्यात महाराष्ट्रातील महत्त्वाची ठिकाणं, संस्थां यांची माहिती देण्यात आली आहे. सोशल मीडियामध्ये या गाण्याला उत्स्फूर्त प्रतिसाद लाभतो आहे.

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• Movie : Dhurala (2019) | धुरळा
• Producer : Zee Studios, Anish Joag, Ranjit Gugle
• Director : Sameer Vidwans
• Star Cast : Ankush Chaudhari, Sai Tamhankar, Siddharth Jadhav, Sonalee Kulkarni, Amey Wagh, Prasad Oak, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Umesh Kamat & Alka Kubal-Athalye
• Story, Screenplay and Dialogues : Kshitij Patwardhan
• Background Music : A V Prafullchandra

Viewpoint: Marathi cinema has had very few but great political films over the years. Most of them have lasted the test of time and are considered classics. Moreover we as a culture are very politically inclined and find day to day political incidents fascinating and exciting with our strong opinions about it. The recent chaotic political atmosphere also fueled the same, and in between all this ‘Dhurala’ is a brilliantly crafted political film that we all deserved!

What Works? 

• Unlike many other recent Indian political films, the political canvas of ‘Dhurala’ is smaller. It’s not about state level or national level politicians but about a political family working within the boundaries of a village. But the makers of this film have proved that the stakes are equally high here! In fact since the focus remains on a family and their internal as well as external politics the film becomes very character driven and we get to know all the primary characters in & out!
• The dialogue writing of the film strikes the right balance of being slightly filmy yet extremely believable! ‘Right’ because that’s what we see politicians doing too! Dramaticness or ‘filmyness’ has become an inseparable part of our politics.
• The film gives an inside view of how a political family functions from within. How in a strange way their privilege might actually be more of a curse. We understand the ruthlessness and the ugliness of the political games they have to play to survive or go forward.
• All the lead actors get an equal opportunity to shine! Siddharth Jadhav and Sonalee Kulkarni in particular get to play characters which they had never played before and shine in them! Ankush Chaudhari matches the subtle smartness of his character perfectly and Sai Tamhankar again hits it out of the park with her extremely sensitive performance!
• Technically the film is good at all levels. But it’s the background score that stands out bright and bold! The score gives context to many simpler scenes and makes us more interested than otherwise. It’s not just the quality of the score but the timing of it that makes the difference I believe and this film has so precisely got it right!
• Eventually ‘Dhurala’ works as a basic human drama. The setting is all of a political film, but somewhere we see ourselves in the film, that is what cinema is supposed to do! It has to speak to us in a very human way beyond all of it’s outer layers!

What Fails?

• No real major flaw in this film. Except a little one, I feel many a times the film doesn’t build an atmosphere. It feels a little too focused on it’s characters alone (which is great) but visually it could have done with building scenes in such a way that we feel where exactly is it happening, and we are a part of it.

Final Verdict: Post Sairat Marathi cinema has been in search of a film that works easily with a broader audience and is also brilliantly crafted. ‘Dhurala’ has that potential in my opinion. It surely feels like a hopeful resurrection of good Marathi cinema at the box office!

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• Movie : Dhurala (2019) | धुरळा
• Producer : Zee Studios, Anish Joag, Ranjit Gugle
• Director : Sameer Vidwans
• Studio : Zee Studios
• Star Cast :
  • Ankush Chaudhari
  • Sai Tamhankar
  • Siddharth Jadhav
  • Sonalee Kulkarni
  • Amey Wagh
  • Prasad Oak
  • Priyadarshan Jadhav
  • Umesh Kamat
  • Alka Kubal-Athalye
• Story : Kshitij Patwardhan
• Screenplay and Dialogues :
• Lyrics : Kshitij Patwardhan
• Sound :
• Sound Design : Avinash Sonawane
• Music : A V Prafullchandra
• Background Music : A V Prafullchandra
• Cinematography (DOP) : Akash Agrawal
• Editor : Faisal Mahadik
• Art Director : Nilesh Wagh
• Costume : Kalyani Kulkarni Gugale
• Make-up : Saurabh Kapde
• Presenter :
• Choreography :
• Co-Producer : Gautam Munot
• Visual Promotions :
• Digital Promotions :
• DI Colorist :
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 3rd January 2020

Synopsis :

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Ever since the first teaser of upcoming Marathi release ‘Dhurala‘ went out the excitement among Marathi film lovers has been on the peak! After a long long time Marathi audiences are anticipating a truly exciting Marathi film! Rightfully so as the names associated to this film from writer Kshitij Patwardhan, director Sameer Vidwans to the star studded cast of the film, all of it create expectations!

While the first teaser of the film hinted us that the film is set in a village and the politics within it. The trailer of the film goes deeper into that and now the film feels more like a story set in the internal politics of a political family! We believe the audiences might be treated with two genres in one and we might see two sides of the characters through these genres!

Sai Tamhankar, Ankush Chaudhari, Amey Wagh, Sonalee Kulkarni, Prasad Oak, Siddharth Jadhav, Alka Kubal & Umesh Kamat all these actors seem very natural in the trailer of the film and ‘Dhurala’ promises to give all of them their chance to shine! The film releases on 3rd of January 2020 and hopefully would start the new year on a great note for Marathi cinema.

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महाराष्ट्राच्या राजकारणात नेहमी धुरळा उडतच असतो. मात्र महाराष्ट्राने ह्या महिन्याभरात एक राजकीय सिनेमाच पाहिलाय. कारण एखाद्या सिनेमालाही लाजवेल अशा घडामोडी महाराष्ट्राच्या यंदाच्या राजकारणात घडल्या आहेत.

आणि याच राजकीय वातावरणात एका मराठी सिनेमाचा टीजर युट्युबवर रिलीज करण्यात आला. हव्वा कुनाची रं? हव्वा आपलीच रं. ह्या ‘धुरळा’ डायलॉगने तर टीकटॉक, इंस्टाग्रामवर तुफान व्हायरल झालेले आपण पहिले.

‘धुरळा’ हा सिनेमा महाराष्ट्राच्या राजकारणावर आधारित आहे असा अंदाज टीजर बघितल्यावर नक्कीच येतो. महाराष्ट्रातील सत्तास्थापनेची परिस्थिती आणि त्याच वातावरणात धुरळा सिनेमाचा टीजर रिलीज होणे हा योगयोग म्हणावा की पूर्वनियोजित सिनेमा???

ह्या सगळ्यात भर अशी कि सोशल मिडीयावर एका फोटोत डाव्या बाजूला सुप्रिया सुळे आणि उजव्या बाजूला सई ताम्हनकर, दुसऱ्या फोटोत आदित्य ठाकरे आणि अमेय वाघ एकत्रित, तिसर्यात धनंजय मुंडे आणि अंकुश चौधरी तर चौथ्यात प्रणिती ताई शिंदे यांच्या शेजारी सोनाली कुलकर्णीचा असा फोटो. हे सगळे कलाकार खरोखरच या राजकारणी मंडळींच्या भूमिका साकारताना दिसणार आहेत का? अशी चर्चा सगळीकडे चालू आहे!

सामना, सिंहासन, वजीर, सरकारनामा, ते अगदी आजचा दिवस माझा, मराठीत राजकीय पार्श्वभूमी असलेल्या सिनेमांची परंपरा कायम राहिली आहे. क्षितीज पटवर्धन लिखित, समीर विद्वांस दिग्दर्शित आणि ‘झी स्टुडिओज’ निर्मित ‘धुरळा’ हि त्या परंपरेत मानाचं स्थान पटकावेल का? हे पाहणे औत्सुक्याचे ठरेल!

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Alka Kubal, Prasad Oak, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Sulekha Talwalkar, Ankush Chaudhari, Umesh Kamat, Amey Wagh, Siddharth Jadhav, Sonalee Kulkarni & Sai Tamhankar! Who could have thought that all these above mentioned actors could be working together in a Marathi film and that too a film which isn’t a romantic drama or a comedy but a hardcore stylistic political film! Well the director-writer pair of Sameer Vidwans-Kshitij Patwardhan along with the backing of Zee Studios has made this possible with their new film ‘Dhurala‘!

Currently in a completely chaotic world of politics in Maharashtra a film like ‘Dhurala’ makes more sense than ever! However it will be interesting to see what the pair of Vidwans-Patwardhan contribute to this genre. So far filmmakers in Marathi have mostly sticked to their comfort zones, i.e artists from Mumbai-Pune have hardly focused on rural backdrops in their films, similarly filmmakers coming from rural parts haven’t tried stories set in the urban backdrop much.

But with ‘Dhurala’ Vidwans-Patwardhan have focused on rural politics! From the teaser of the film one can make out that this will be a stylistic commercial political drama about the competition and the games people play in politics! It will be interesting to see how the audiences react to it when they are already much entertained by the current political scenario of our state! ‘Dhurala’ releases in theatres on 3rd of Jan, 2020!

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• Review: Triple Seat
• Director : Sanket Pavse
• Star Cast: Ankush Chaudhari, Shivani Surve, Pallavi Patil & Vidyadhar Joshi
• Screenplay: Adv. Abhijit Dalvi
• Producer: Narendra Firodiya

Quick Viewpoint: Triple Seat succeeds on a fundamental criteria in small parts through the film. The criteria being the execution of a ‘scene’. There’s some kind of emotional relativity in quite a few emotional scenes of the film, even when the dialogues sound like random whatsapp statuses!

What Works?

• The above mentioned emotional relativity can be traced back to two things. One is the precise use of background music that is not loud but is emotionally complementing to the scenes and the other being Ankush Chaudhari’s performance and a bit of Shivani Surve’s performance too.
• Along with the background score the overall musical score of the film is pretty decent. Especially when good music is becoming more and more rare in Marathi cinema today. All the songs highlight the feeling of romance, sometimes pleasant and sometimes dramatic!
• The first half of the film works really well whenever it takes itself seriously. But a major turning point in the plot takes the impact of it away from us.
• Even with many logical plotholes, inconsistent screenplay of the film by the end we are bothered about the characters in the film and in a romantic drama that is a positive!

What Fails? 

• The poor dialogue writing harms the film in multiple ways. Especially when they try to be general about life and love, they sound like cardboard cut outs from a random social media viral message!
• The film fails as a family drama, which it attempted in the second half. The family in the picture never feels like an actual family.
• There’s a major plot point where the film randomly turns into a comedy of errors without inflicting any humor whatsoever. The bigger problem is that throughout the second half it has to forcefully back the plot twist and go accordingly in the illogical direction. We wonder if the twist hadn’t come, the film might have well gone on to a different path of becoming a lighter romantic film.
• There’s an objective narrator-like character of an advocate (played by a popular Hindi character actor Rakesh Bedi) in the film. It’s a trait that is used to make things appear more important than how much important they actually feel to you! It’s completely unessential to the film and again avoiding that could have made the film much simpler and easier to like!

Final Verdict: ‘Triple Seat’ is few inches away from being called a harmless one time watch for romantic movie fans, but those inches could be covered up if you are a dedicated Ankush Chaudhari fan and/or an admirer of Shivani Surve!

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Ankush Chaudhari’s highly awaited masala entertainer ‘Triple Seat‘ is all set to hit theatres this Friday and is the big Diwali release for Marathi cinema lovers. We are listing 5 top reasons to not miss this film in theatres even when you have to travel ‘Triple Seat’ to the theatres!

1. Ankush Chaudhari’ Choosy Nature

We are all aware that certain artists like say Aamir Khan or Irrfan Khan are known for being very choosy about their films. In his own way Ankush Chaudhari is no different than these gentlemen! He maintains his exclusiveness towards the cinema medium and chooses very few films but those films thoroughly entertain the audiences.

2. The Fresh Love Triangle

Along with Ankush the film stars two young and talented actresses who haven’t been paired opposite Ankush before. Shivani Surve and Pallavi Patil both seem to have a great chemistry with Ankush and the audiences would be treated with a refreshing new love triangle between these three actors.

3. The Blend of Many Genres Together

The trailer of ‘Triple Seat’ showcases so much diversity and variety in content that is very rare to see all these things in one film. There is romance, there is a comedy of errors and confusions, there is a thriller and there is good old dramatic quality to the film. It’s like the audiences will be treated with 3-4 different films at the cost of one film! What is more ‘Paisa Vasool’ than that?

4. A Clean Family Entertainer

Many recent Marathi hit films have had some under the belt and bold humour and stories. While there is nothing wrong with it and there’s a group of audiences who watch such films. But the Marathi family audience are truly missing a good clean family entertainer that can bring the whole family together! And ‘Triple Seat’ promises to be just that!

5. Must Watch for Shivani Surve Fans

Shivani Surve has been a tv star for long but it was the recent reality show ‘Bigg Boss’ that made her an audience favorite. People have simply adored her straightforward and ‘bindass’ attitude and they are surely excited to watch her on the big screen. Interestingly jer character in ‘Triple Seat’ seems very opposite of her image among the fans and hence it will be even be enjoyable for the audiences.

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‘Triple Seat‘ starring Ankush Chaudhari, Shivani Surve & Pallavi Patil releases in theatres this Friday on the occassion of Diwali! Marathi cinema has had a great tradition of superhit film releasing during Diwali! And ‘Triple Seat’ too promises to carry forward the tradition. The film has all the elements that would attract and please the Marathi audiences.

New song from the ‘Kay tu’ was recently revealed online. Sung by the master of romance Sonu Nigam, penned by Ashwini Shende & composed by Avinash Vishwajeet, ‘Kay Tu’ is a larger than life romantic number that goes straight to your heart instantly by listening to it for the first time. The song has a feel of both modern music style and the traditional style of romantic Ghazals!

‘Triple Seat’ is a perfect family entertainer that has a bit of everything from comedy, romance, thrill, drama and great music! And most importantly this film marks Ankush Chaudhari’s return after a little gap, he is definitely the most loved superstar of Marathi cinema currently! So do watch ‘Triple Seat’ in theatres from this Friday, 25th October!

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‘Ek Missed Call Ani Yevdha Sagla Hou Shakta.” This is the tagline of the upcoming Marathi romantic entertainer ‘Triple Seat‘ starring Ankush Chaudhari, Shivani Surve & Pallavi Patil in a unique love triangle! Very few times we see the unique idea of a film being used smartly in the promotion of the film.

Directed by Sanket Pavse & produced by Narendra Firodiya ‘Triple Seat’ has used the unique ‘missed call’ premise of the film to their advantage in the promotions of the film. They have invited the audience to give a missed call on the number 70 30 700 700 and then lucky winners will get a chance to watch the premiere of ‘Triple Seat’ alongside the cast and crew of the film!

Just like a missed call changes the lives of the characters in the film’s story a missed call can also change the life of many lucky winners from the audiences! So try your luck and get a life changing opportunity to meet stars like Ankush Chaudhari & Shivani Surve and watch their film with them! ‘Triple Seat’ releases in theatres on 25th of October!

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