• Movie : Choricha Mamla (2020) | चोरीचा मामला
• Producer : Swaroop Recreation & Media Private Limited
• Director : Priyadarshan Jadhav
• Studio : Everest Entertainment
• Star Cast :
  • Amruta Khanvilkar
  • Jitendra Joshi
  • Hemant Dhome
  • Kshitee Jog
  • Kirti Mehendale
  • Aniket Vishwasrao
• Story : Priyadarshan Jadhav
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• PR : Darshan Musale
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 31st January 2020

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• Movie : Hirkani (2019) | हिरकणी
• Producer : Falguni Patel
• Director : Prasad Oak
• Studio : Irada Entertainment and Rajesh Mapuskar (MAGIJ Picture)
• Star Cast :
  • Manjiri Oak
  • Siddharth Chandekar
  • Jitendra Joshi
  • Hemant Dhome
  • Kshitee Jog
  • Pushkar Sudhakar Shrotri
• Story : Chinmay. D. Mandlekar
• Screenplay and Dialogues : Chinmay Mandlekar
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• Music : Amitraj
• Background Music : Narendra Bhide
• Cinematography (DOP) : Sanjay Memane
• Editor : Apurva Motiwale Sahay, Ashish Mhatre
• Art Director : Santosh Futane
• Creative Producer : Ratnakant Dashrath Jagtap
• Costume : Pornima Oak
• Make-up : Santosh Gayake
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• Choreography : Subhash Nakashe
• Co-Producer : Lawrence D’Souza
• PR : Darshan Musale
• Visual Promotions : Just Right Studios N X
• Digital Promotions : Vizual Junkies
• VFX : Bhushan Humbe
• PR : Darshan Musale & Kartiki Yadav
• DI Colorist : Sandeep Sonawane
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 24 Oct 2019

Synopsis : Set during the reign of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the film depicts the story of Hira, a simple village woman. When the gates of Raigad fort shut before she can leave, Hira dares to climb down a cliff in the dead of the night to get back to her infant son.

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The ‘Natrang’ girl Sonalee Kulkarni has come a long way and has taken her talent to the next level in some of her films in the recent past! Recently she was seen supporting Team India in the ongoing Cricket world cup in England! While we thought she was in England just for the Cricket world cup, we were wrong!

Sonalee has just revealed through her social media handles that the shoot for her next film ‘Jhimma‘ has just begun in London! She even posted the poster of the film and it looks like a fun contemporary entertainer! Produced by Ameya Khopkar Entertainment and Chalchitra Company ‘Jhimma’ is being directed by actor turned director Hemant Dhome!

Hemant Dhome had recently made his directorial debut with ‘Baghtos Kay Mujra Kar‘ where the second half of the film was also set in London! And interestingly Sonalee Kulkarni made a cameo in the film as a English resident who helps the trio of Jitendra Joshi, Aniket Vishwasrao and Akshay Tanksale in the film! It would be interesting to see whether that cameo of her has any relation to this film!

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• Review: Welcome Home (2019)
• Director: Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukthankar
• Star Cast: Mrunal Kulkarni, Sumeet Raghavan, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Uttara Baokar, Spruha Joshi, Siddharth Menon, Deepa Shriram, Prasad Oak, Sarang Sathaye, Irawati Harshe, Jitendra Joshi, Subodh Bhave & child artist: Pranjali Shrikant
• Screenplay: Sumitra Bhave
• Producer: Abhishek Sunil Phadtare, Vinay Bele, Ashwini Sidhwani & Deepak Kumar Bhagat

Quick Viewpoint: Certain films avoid being ‘certain’ in many ways. Welcome Home’s uncertainty is it’s biggest strength. It’s like a breeze of fresh air but air that has a conscience of it’s own.

What Works? 

• The singular most important aspect one needs to address here is how essential good actors are in this film. As usual though in a Bhave-Sukthankar film! These filmmakers use their actors so organically that the whole set up of the film never feels like a set up, it just feels like an actually existing world. Mrunal Kulkarni under Bhave-Sukthankar feels completely at ease, it’s like we always knew there was this intense (at the same time subtle) actor waiting to explode out of her! It won’t be exaggeration to call this her career defining performance!
  
• Story telling in films usually manipulates the time factor. Sometimes certain films do not skip or jump time as normally most of the films do. They linger over it, they let you go through the suffocated routine of the time passing. Smallest of things are amplified to their actual size in life. It’s like being trapped with those characters in a very specific time frame of their life. All of this results into a very lively experience of human existence & ‘Welcome Home’ does exactly that!
• ‘Welcome Home’ gets deeper into our upper middle class society’s skin. It tries to experiment and find what if so & so happens & our people are made to instantaneously react to it! What if an independent middle aged woman suddenly decides to leave her husband’s house & come back to her previous home (or her parent’s home). The results of this experiment are not really demotivating! While going through this the film stumbles upon it’s main subject of research which is the idea of home! And how does a modern day independent woman explores it.
• Usually ‘coming of age’ is a genre trait that can be spotted in films mainly with teenage protagonists. But here Mrunal Kulkarni’s character comes off age in a very organic and gradual process! And again the time factor let’s us actually understand the process better & how & exactly what triggered the process! One of the main triggers is a charm of character played by Sumeet Raghavan!
• As said earlier uncertainty is Welcome Home’s biggest strength, by uncertainty I do not mean in terms of the narrative and what would happen next in their life, but in terms of what exactly do we interpret from the proceedings. And it’s something that viewers need to experience on their own in a theatre! 

What Fails?

• Spruha Joshi though has given a much smoother performance when compared to her recent filmography but the only flaw of the film rests on her little track in the film. Her presence within the ‘home’ is quite essential in the film, but the point film wished to make through the rest of her track doesn’t quite gel in the scheme of things and doesn’t feel essential to the film. Moreover the track had a really irritating song.

Final Verdict: In the rich & diverse filmography of filmmakers Sumitra Bhave & Sunil Sukthankar, ‘Welcome Home’ is a welcome entry! Like in most of their films they have again explored our societal patterns through the case study of family dynamics in a well educated, cultured upper middle class! 

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The Pu La Deshpande biopic ‘Bhaai – Vyakti Kee Valli’ released in theatres in the first week of the year & is got a great response from audiences as well as critics. In Diwali, we witnessed the amazing life of ‘Dr. Kashinath Ghanekar’ in the Subodh Bhave starrer biopic! And now biopic of Balasaheb Thackeray has released in both Hindi & Marathi! In this completely biopic dominant atmosphere, we would like to propose 5 more biopics that should be made in Marathi cinema in the near future!

1. Sant Gadge Baba 

Unlike countless pseudo Babas of today’s times, Sant Gadge Baba had nothing to do with religion or blind faith! Rather Gadge Baba inspired people to think rationally & question every belief that is been thrust upon them. Gadge Baba was also a firm believer in cleanliness so much so that he is forever considered as the icon of many cleanliness programmes that are undertaken even now! Interestingly a film was even made on Gadge Baba starring Mohan Joshi as ‘Gadge Baba’. But unfortunately, it never released in theatres & was stuck in the post-production!

Whom would we like to play Gadge Baba? 

Of course Mohan Joshi! We wish that film releases at least now or whenever a new film is made we would again want Mohan Joshi to play Gadge Baba!

2. Neelimkumar Khaire 

Not a hugely popular name, but an incredibly great man who has dedicated his life to the world of snakes & different animals & our environment! Neelimkumar Khaire is an Environmentalist and Herpetologist who has an unbelievable record of spending 72 hours with 72 highly poisonous snakes in an 8 feet by 8 feet glass chamber! Not even a single snake bite him & survived the challenge! After that, he spent all his life working for the welfare of snakes & other animals! He even lost one hand during his journey, but he says his hand was not lost because of snake’s poison but because of the carelessness of the doctors who treated him! Know more about him & his inspiring, thrilling journey in this interview.

Interview Credits: Maharashtra1 TV

Whom would we like to play Neelimkumar Khaire?

Since this great man’s journey starts from his young age, we would name three actors to play him at different stages of his life! The younger role should be played by Suvrat Joshi, the middle-aged by Girish Kulkarni & the older one by Dr. Mohan Agashe!

3. Nikhil Wagle 

If you’ve seen the above interview, well we wish to know more about the interviewer himself! Nikhil Wagle is a senior reporter who has worked on many different channels & newspapers, magazines. No matter where he worked he has always voiced his opinion clearly & openly! Many hate him, many idolize him but none can ignore him! He has been an eye witness of the changing Maharashtra & India in the time period of over 3 decades! His life story certainly deserves to be told on screen!

Whom would we like to play Nikhil Wagle? 

This is quite a simple choice! Our beloved Jitendra Joshi is tailor-made to play Nikhil Wagle!

4. Dr. Narendra Dabholkar 

Do we even need a justification here? A man who was killed just because he was helping people become aware of the blind faith happening around them. He was never against any religion yet he had to become a martyr. His life is inspiring in every way. His selfless act of eradicating blind faith from our country brought together many like-minded young & old individuals & even today after 5 years of his assassination, these inspired people are still doing their work of eradicating blind faith!

Whom would we like to play Dr. Dabholkar?

While this is a really difficult choice but we believe we have one great actor who can pull off any difficult role, & he is the extremely versatile Dilip Prabhawalkar!

5. Nilu Phule

The obvious choice isn’t this! There isn’t a bigger iconic Marathi actor in the history of Marathi cinema than our beloved Nilu Bhau! While he was more popular for negative roles in films, he did play all kinds of character in different films & even plays! But more importantly, Nilu Bhau was known as a gold-hearted human being! He lived his life with utter simplicity & always participated in social work. He gave back much more than what he got from society!

Whom would we like to play Nilu Phule?

The supremely talented Sagar Karande would be our choice!

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Review: Mauli (2018)
Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Jitendra Joshi, Siddharth Jadhav, Saiyami Kher, Girija Oak Godbole & Shrikant Yadav
Director: Aditya Sarpotdar
Writer: Kshitij Patwardhan

Quick Viewpoint: Mauli doesn’t match the expectations that we had from a very reputed team who had recently given us ‘Faster Fene’. Yet the film should be looked as an honest attempt (though a failed attempt) to push the envelope of a template style commercial cinema.

What Fails? 

• The principal conflict of the film lacks logic especially in the first half. The film stereotypes a liquor bar as the most evil thing that can happen to a small village. And never does it feel to explain itself. Is the liquor bar illegal? If yes then why doesn’t the film spend some screen time to investigate what can be done legally to shut it down? Usual civic sense seems to be completely given a toss!
• Then the owner of the liquor bar, Nana (Jitendra Joshi) the evil villain with a scar on a his face, has a personal history against the temple that is just opposite to the bar & he has pledged that the locked temple will never be freed again! (If Pravin Tarde is reading, here’s the plot for Deool Band 2!) If Nana is mainly a greedy, money minded man, why doesn’t he ever realize that there’s probably more money in the spiritual field than the liquor field?
• The reasons of the above flaws is that, the film is least bothered about the actual narrative, it only wishes to use it as a template. The main moto is to give you a larger than life hero & his journey to become the saviour of this village!
• Saiyami Kher making her debut in Marathi cinema, sadly never manages to appear like her character. Her character itself feels like a poor man’s ‘Basanti’ (from Sholay) but without any fun aspect to it. Her Marathi is definitely problematic but beyond that too her performance feels fake.
• The action scenes have an overdose of slow motion. That is actually something that is common in masala action films made all over India right now! What happens is that we never really feel the actual rush of an action sequence if the slow mo is overused.
• It might be lesser important but the first 10 minutes or so have almost nothing to do with the actual film. First there’s this huge title sequence with a song which shows some beautifully captured moments of the Pandharpur Waari, just after that we see an action scene set probably in Pandharpur to introduce the principal character of the film, then follows the ‘Holi’ song! No matter what reasons they must have, but this is just not done! 10 minutes or more in a film’s run time should either be a part of the film or just shouldn’t be there!

What Works? 

• By the end of the first half there’s a twist in the story that turns the table on its head. An exact opposite turn to the story when compared to the prequel or other films like Rowdy Rathore of this type. At that point we are intrigued about the second half! And comparatively the second half of the film starts pretty well! Mainly because of the twist!
• The internal conflict of Riteish Deshmukh’s Mauli (can’t reveal much) with himself is far more interesting than the rest of the film.
• Kshitij Patwardhan’s dialogues sometimes fall flat & feel too ambitious for a template driven film, but sometimes they work! And when they work they make us linger over them!
• Amalendu Choudhary’s camera work! No matter how hard you try to be disinterested in the action scenes of the film, it’s the cinematography that keeps you there!

Final Verdict: I see ‘Mauli’ as a missed opportunity towards redefining the age old masala action genre. Yet there’s hope for this genre to be some day redefined by maybe the same people who are a part of this team!

Rating: 2.5/5

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Ever since the announcement of the ‘Lai Bhari’ sequel the audiences have been eagerly awaiting for ‘Mauli‘. With even more excitement this time as the Riteish Deshmukh starrer is written & directed by the team which gave us the superhit film ‘Faster Fene‘! Writer Kshitij Patwardhan & director Aditya Sarpotdar have collaborated again & the trailer promises that ‘Mauli’ would break many box office records!

Along with Riteish the film stars Saiyami Kher who is making her Marathi film debut after her performance in the Hindi film ‘Mirzya’! ‘Mauli’ also stars Jitendra Joshi in a negative role! After his stints as a villain in ‘Duniyadari’ & ‘Baji’, our beloved Jitu is again exploring the villainous side to him! The film also stars Siddharth Jadhav & Girija Oak Godbole among others.

‘Mauli’ seems to have the right blend of action, drama, comedy & strong ‘Marathiness’ in it. It doesn’t seem inspired from south Indian action film or Bollywood action films it presents the Marathi culture imbibing it into the framework of an old school commercial film with a rural backdrop! ‘Mauli‘ hits theatres on 14th of December!

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• Movie : Mauli (2018) | माउली
• Producer : Genelia Deshmukh
• Directer : Aditya Sarpotdar
• Studio : Mumbai Film Company and Hindustan Talkies
• Star Cast :
  • Riteish Deshmukh as Mauli Sarjerao Deshmukh
  • Saiyami Kher as Renuka
  • Jitendra Joshi
  • Siddharth Jadhav
  • Girija Oak
  • Mayur Khandge
  • Shrikant Yadav
• Writer : Kshitij Patwardhan
• Screenplay : NA
• Dialogues : NA
• Singer : NA
• Lyrics : Guru Thakur and Ajay Gogawale
• Sound Design : Arun Nambiar
• Music : Ajay-Atul
• Background Score : Troy – Arif
• Cinematography (DOP) : Amalendu Choudhary
• Editor : Snajay Sankla
• Art Director : NA
• Costume : Karishma Gulati and Sachin Lovalekar
• Make-up : NA
• Executive Producer : Sanjay Mehta
• Supervising Producer : Rajkumar Tiwari
• Action Director : Ravi Varma
• Presenter : Jio Studios
• Choreography : Bosco-Caesar and Ranju Varghese
• Co-Producer : Pankaj Razdan, Ashish Chowdhary, Deepa Pardasany and Ravi Walia
• Line Producer : Vinay Chaukar
• Creative Producer : Sandeep Patil
• VFX : NA
• VFX Artist : NA
• Production Design : Santosh Phutane
• Visual Promotions : Just Right Studioz NX
• Publicity Design : Marching Ants
• Marketing Consultant : NA
• Digital Promotions : Digi Osmosis
• DI : Prime Focus Ltd
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 14th December 2018

Synopsis : Mauli is the sequel to the Marathi blockbuster Lai Bhaari, where Riteish Deshmukh’s character was called Mauli. The sequel is directed by Aditya Sarpotdar.

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Sony Entertainment is a trustworthy brand in the history of Indian T.V. industry. Almost after 2 decades of their entry into the industry, they are now entering the Marathi entertainment industry. And they had a grand launch party at the lavish JW Marriot hotel. From the meaning behind their logo to the objectives they have in mind were spoken about by Ajay Bhalwankar (Business Head of Sony Marathi).

Popular actor & lyricist Jitendra Joshi was hosting the event & was introducing the shows one by one. From a romantic serial like ‘Julta Julta Jultay Ki’, ‘Duniyadari Filmy Style’ a story of a struggling actor who leaves Mumbai & decides to make a film in his village with the help of his villagers, A story of a weird marriage between a boxer girl & a singer boy titled ‘Saare Tujhyachsathi’. A dance reality show featuring countless celebrities, ‘Maharashtracha Favorite Dancer’ hosted by Pushkaraj Chirputkar & the super judge being Supriya Pilgaonkar!

Jitendra Joshi apart from being the host of the evening also revealed that he himself will be a part of a unique show on the channel titled ‘Garja Maharashtra’. This show will showcase the folk culture & traditions of Maharashtra & the will be a tribute to the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj & their forts! The show’s telecast will commence from 19^th August at 7 pm with a grand award show, 55^th Maharashtra State Marathi Film Awards! The whole entertainment industry will in this way wish Sony Marathi a successful future.

So don’t forget to tune into Sony Marathi from 19^th of August!

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