• 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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