Lyrics penned by Mandar Cholkar, sung by Amruta Dahivalkar, Janhavi Arora, Kavita Raam & Madhuri Karmarkar & composed by senior music director Ashok Patki, ‘Cham Cham’ is a brand new Marathi item number from upcoming action entertainer ‘Bakaal‘! Ashok Patki Ji has for the first time composed a item song it seems like he is good at it as much good he was with his soulful melodies!

It is impossible to stop yourself from grooving to this dance number! It surely promises to be the a crowd favorite number that will be heard everywhere this festival season! Moreover the video of the song too is equally impressive and dance performers have done their work with great energy!

The choreography of the song and the way it is shot and edited all of it is also responsible in increasing the effect of the song. Overall it’s the team Bakaal’s chemistry together that makes this item number stand out among other songs in contemporary Marathi films!

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Ashok Patki is one of the most respected names in the Marathi music industry. Over the years he has garnered love from the audiences and the industry for his work on different mediums as a music composer from Television, films, to advertisements and theatre. Recently at the music launch event of Marathi film ‘Bakaal’ a fun incident happened.

Sameer Athalye, director of the ‘film ‘Bakaal‘ said in jest that Ashok Patki should shower himself with ‘goumutra’ to make him pure again after composing the item song for his film! With Bakaal Ashok Patki has reinvented his style of composing music as the film is a youth centric action entertainer! Patki has been an expert of melodious soft songs but in the album of ‘Bakaal’ you’ll find songs of all varieties that appeal to the contemporary young audience.

Ashok Patki even collaborated with new age music arrangers to get in the ‘dj’ effect in these songs! He took it as a challenge and enjoy the whole process of making music for ‘Bakaal’. Moreover cinematographer turned director Sameer Athalye has been a good friend of Patki for years and hence he couldn’t say no to him! Whatever the case be we as a audiences are lucky too see a senior composer reinventing himself at a stage in his life where he has nothing to prove to anyone and yet he is trying out new things! Isn’t that inspiring!

Rajkumar Menda produced & Shiv Om Visuals Pvt. Ltd presents ‘Bakaal’ releases on 8th of November all over Maharashtra. The film has 5 songs of different kind sung by various star singers like Siddharth Mahadevan, Jasraj Joshi, Hrishikesh Ranade, Adarsh Shinde, Mahalaxmi Iyer, and others.

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‘Bakaal‘ the upcoming action entertainer is all set to hit theatres on 8th of November. Directed by senior cinematographer turned director Sameer Athalye and produced by Rajkumar Menda. The film stars the young and talented newcomers Chaitanya Mestri and Jui Belkhande along with a strong supporting cast of Alka Kubal Athalye, Milind Gawli, Yatin Karyekar, Ashok Samarth, Ganesh Yadav, Pradeep Velankar, Jayant Savarkar, Ravindra Berde & Pooja Nayak.

Many of the cast members where present for the music launch that was recently held. The lead debut pair of the film performed on various tracks of the films and impressed one & all present! The music of the film is given by senior music composer Ashok Patki who also talked about the process of composing unique songs for the film. The songs are sung by various popular singers from Siddharth Mahadevan, Hrishikesh Ranade, Amey Date, and many others.

Among many tracks of the film the song about the 139 year old tradition of ‘Marbat‘ in the Vidarbha region got more media attention! The director of the film spoke about how this is the first time that the ‘Marbat’ festival of Vidarbha is being represented through a song! The eye catching visuals of the song captured from the actual celebrations of the festival from Vidarbha were larger than life! ‘Bakaal’ promises to be a one of a kind of action musical that could appeal to audiences of all age groups and tastes!

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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
• Story and Screenplay : 
• Creative Director :
• Dialogues : 
• Background Music :
• Title Song Lyrics : 
• Title Song Music : Ashok Patki
• Title Song Singer : Devaki Pandit
• Title Song Choreography :
• Sound Recording : 
• Cinematography (DOP) : 
• Art Director :
• Editor : 
• Production Manager : 
• Production Chief :
• Costumes : 
• Make-Up : 
• Title Mont’s Director :
• Special Lyrics :
• Title Credit :
• Special Thanks :
• Concept :
• Executive Producer
• Promo Editor :
• 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?

Grahan – Zee Marathi TV Serial Photos :

Grahan – Zee Marathi Serial Promo :

Grahan Title Song:

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• Review : Mumbai Time (2016)
• Producer : Somnath Chitra
• Directer : Sushrut Bhagwat
• Star Cast : Umesh Kamat, Rahul Mehendale, Ramesh Bhatkar, Kishor Choughule, Mahesh Manjrekar, Deepak Shirke, Sanjay Mone, Ashwini Ekbote, Mrunal Dusanis & Others
• Writer : Udaydada Lad
• Music : Ashok Patki and Yogita Chitale
• Genre : Action, Love Story, Revenge Drama
• Review By : Rasik Tirodkar

Rating : 1.5/5

Review:

Post Guru, Mumbai Time is another film that seems to have been strongly influenced by the loud cinema from the South.

Mumbai Time is a gangster film that shows how a young man from a lower middle class background gets caught in the world of crime and then traces his journey there. We have seen many such films in Hindi and also in Marathi like the recent Dagadi Chawl. This film is no different than the ones that have already released. These kinds of gangster films are dime a dozen.

Amar Surve (Umesh Kamat) has an issue with a villain in a South Indian gang who’s head honcho played by Deepak Shirke. Amar has to go through the entire hierarchy to exact his revenge. He cannot directly take revenge. There is also another Muslim Gang whose leader is played by Ramesh Bhatkar. Mahesh Manjrekar plays the role of an ACP who is only shown playing chess most of the time.

The film starts on a loud note and bizarrely that loudness is maintained right throughout. The film somehow has very few scenes which are at a low pitch and this works against the film. The drama unfolding on screen loses its impact. Umesh Kamat is an interesting casting as we have seldom seen him in such roles; his performance is one of the better parts of the film. Apart from him all other actors are theatrical or over the top. This results in the film becoming very loud. Marathi films of the recent past seem to have borrowed this over the top story telling from their southern counterparts. Guru clearly had an influence of Telugu and Tamil commercial potboilers. Mumbai Time too seems to be influenced by cinema from the South.

Another negative aspect of the film is that it is predictable. Nearly every point in the story can be guessed from a distance.

Overall:

A loud and predictable gangster film that has nothing new in it.

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• Movie : Mumbai Time (2016) | मुंबई टाईम
• Producer : Somnath Chitra
• Directer : Sushrut Bhagwat
• Star Cast : Umesh Kamat, Rahul Mehendale, Ramesh Bhatkar, Kishor Choughule, Mahesh Manjrekar, Deepak Shirke, Sanjay Mone, Ashwini Ekbote, Mrunal Dusanis, Upendra Date, Ashok Samel, Adwait Dadarkar, Anil Khopkar, Rekha Kambale, Anil Nagarkar, Rahul Gore, Vivek Gore, Nandesh Umap, Janardan Kadam, Pramod Pawar, Shivraj Walwekar, Anil Gavas, Sagar Satpute, Mayur Bhatkar, Harshal Shastri, Tushar Gaware, Bhushan Telang, Ajay Purkar, Sameer Chougule, Gayatri Deshmukh, Kaliprasad Shah, Vikas Sonawane.
• Story : Udaydada Lad
• Screenplay : Ashish Pathre
• Music : Ashok Patki and Yogita Chitale
• Lyrics : Guru Thakur
• Dialogues : Ashish Pathre
• Singers : Madhura Datar, Pooja Gaytonde and Shalmali Sukhtandar
• Director of Photography : Ajith V. Reddy
• Art Director : Shamim Khopkar
• Editor : Rajesh Rao
• Choreographer : Dipali Vichare
• Sound : Aditya v. Oke
• Costumes : Aparna Apte
• Executive Producer : Nitin Gosambe
• Genre  : Action, Love Story, Revenge Drama
• Release Date : 5th, February 2016

Synopsis:
It’s a film based on a journey of a well educated middle class Marathi boy who’s forced to be a part of Mumbai Underworld in the era of 1985 to 1990.

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`पोपट’ला अविनाश-विश्वजीत यांचे `रांगडया बाजा’तील संगीत

ज्येष्ठ संगीतकार अशोक पत्की यांच्या हस्ते झाले संगीत प्रकाशन

सतीश राजवाडे यांच्या `मुंबई-पुणे-मुंबई’ आणि `प्रेमाची गोष्ट’ या दोन रोमँटीक चित्रपटांना रोमँटीक बाजातील संगीत दिल्यानंतर
संगीत दिग्दर्शक अविनाश -विश्वजीत आता `पोपट’च्या चित्रपटाच्या माध्यमातून `रांगडा बाज’ मराठी प्रेक्षकांसमोर ठेवत आहेत.
आधीच्या दोन्ही चित्रपटांमधील रोमँटीक गाणी लोकप्रिय झाली आहेत आणि संगीत दिग्दर्शक जोडीचा हा `रांगडा बाज’ही रसिकांना
आवडेल असा विश्वास संगीत प्रकाशनाच्या वेळी व्यक्त केला गेला.

`पोपट’च्या रांगडया बाजातील संगीताचे प्रकाशन शनिवारी 10 ऑगस्ट 2013 रोजी ज्येष्ठ संगीतकार अशोक पत्की यांच्या
हस्ते झाले. शिवाजी पार्क येथील स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर राष्ट्रीय स्मारकाच्या ऑडिटोरियममध्ये हा समारंभ पार पडला. 23
ऑगस्ट 2013 रोजी प्रदर्शित होत असलेल्या या चित्रपटातील गाणी स्वप्निल बांदोडकर, बेला शेंडे आणि पहिल्यांदाच मराठी
चित्रपटासाठी गाणारा प्रसनजीत कोसंबी तसेच मैथिली पेन्स-जोशी यांच्या आवाजात आहेत. हे सर्वच गायक या संगीत प्रकाशन
समारंभाला उपस्थित होते. चित्रपटात एकूण तीन गाणी आहेत.

’सतीश राजवाडे यांच्याबरोबर आम्ही याआधी केलेले दोन्ही चित्रपट हे रोमँटीक होते आणि त्यांचे संगीतही त्याच बाजाचे होते.
आमच्या त्या चित्रपटांतील संगीताला प्रेक्षकांनी उत्स्फूर्त प्रतिसाद दिला. या चित्रपटाच्या माध्यमातून अस्सल `रांगडा बाज’
पे्रक्षकांसमोर साजरा करत आहोत. तो सुध्दा प्रेक्षकांना भावेल. या चित्रपटात एकूण तीन गाणी आहेत आणि ती सर्वच झक्कास
जुळून आली आहेत,“ असे उद्गार संगीत प्रकाशन सोहळ्यात अविनाश–विश्वजीत यांनी काढले.

`पोपट’या नव्या मराठी चित्रपटात अतुल कुलकर्णा, अमेय वाघ, सिध्दार्थ मेनन आणि केतन पवार यांच्या भूमिका आहेत. सहाय्यक
कलाकारांमध्ये अनिता दाते, नेहा शितोळे आणि मेघा घाडगे यांचा समावेश आहे. चित्रपटाची पटकथा आणि संवाद चिन्मय केळकर
यांचे आहेत तर कथा सतीश राजवाडे यांची आहे. मिराह एन्टरटेन्मेंटने या चित्रपटाची निर्मिती केली आहे. मिराह एन्टरटेन्मेंट आणि
सतीश राजवाडे यांनी `मुंबई-पुणे-मुंबई’, `प्रेमाची गोष्ट’ असे अनेक चित्रपट यशस्वीपणे दिले आहेत. आपल्या आगामी
`पोपट’बद्दलही दोघांना आत्मविश्वास आहे. कठोर मेहनत आणि संघभावना यांच्या माध्यमातून `प्रेमाची गोष्ट’नंतर केवळ पाचच
महिन्यांमध्ये मिराह एन्टरटेन्मेंट आणि राजवाडे यांनी नवा चित्रपट दाखल केला आहे.

दिग्दर्शक सतीश राजवाडे यांनी या चित्रपटाचे वर्णन अत्यंत समर्पक शब्दांत केले आहे. ’एक अतुलनीय, प्रेरणादायी, सर्जनशील
आणि अत्यंत मनोरंजक अशी ही निर्मिती आहे. `पोपट’ काही तरी अविश्वसनीय असे प्रेक्षकांसमोर ठेवतो आणि त्याचे वर्णन
करायला शब्द नाहीत. मी केवळ शहरी विषयांना हात घालणारा शहरी कथाकार आहे, अशी छाप आतापर्यंत माझ्यावर होती.
`पोपट’ हा ग्रामीण पार्श्वभूमीवर आकाराला येणारा आणि गावंढळ बोलीभाषा असलेला माझा पहिला चित्रपट आहे. `पोपट’ हा
विस्तारीत प्रेक्षकवर्गाला डोळ्यांसमोर ठेवून आकाराला आला आहे. शहरी आणि ग्रामीण अशा दोन्ही प्रकारच्या प्रेक्षकांना तो
आवडेल,“ असे ते म्हणतात. ’पोपट हा संपूर्णत: सर्जनशील निर्णय आहे आणि या विषयाला अनुसरून आवश्यक ती निरागसता
आणि भेद्यता या चित्रपटात अधोरेखित केली गेली आहे. या चित्रपटातील गावंढळ वळणाची जी
भाषा वापरली गेली आहे त्यात बराच गोडवा आहे आणि ती उभी करताना मला खूप मजा आली. ती प्रत्येकाशी अगदी सहजपणे
जोडली जाते आणि मनोरंजनाची एक वेगळी शक्ती त्यात आहे. `पोपट’ या चित्रपटात जी कथा सांगितली गेली आहे, तिला उत्तम
अशी पार्श्वभूमी आहे. एक कथाकार म्हणून मला एक वेगळा  कॅनव्हास साकारणे गरजेचे वाटते आणि ही बाब मी नेहमीच पाळत
आलो आहे. मिराह एन्टरटेन्मेंटने मला हे स्वातंत्र्य दिले त्याबद्दल कंपनीचा मी आभारी आहे, कारण शेवटी मनोरंजन करणे ही फार
मोठी जबाबदारी असते,“ असेही राजवाडे यांनी पुढे म्हटले.

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