Zee Marathi Awards is an award show that celebrates the serials & shows off Zee Marathi. Both the audiences & the artists look at it as their own function & eagerly await it every year. The excitement too is very high amongst the fans & the industry about who’ll win in different categories & who’ll perform what skits & dances! Similar to this actual event there’s a nomination part of these awards!

This year’s theme of Zee Marathi Awards 2018 Nomination Party was ‘Neon & Pop’! The number of Marathi stars attended this party & followed the theme through their costume & get up. Stars of Chala Hawa Yeu Dya, Sagar Karande & Shreya Bugde hosted this party! This time there will be a tough fight between Tuzhat Jeev Rangala, Majhya Navryachi Bayko, Jago Mohan Pyare, Lagira Jhala Ji, Baaji & Tula Pahate Re. These serials are nominated in different categories like Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Siblings, Best Jodi, Best Family, Best Serial, etc.

The list of guests for this party included Subodh Bhave, Abhijeet Khandkekar, Anita Date-Kelkar, Isha Keskar, Hardeek Joshi, Akshaya Deodhar, Bharat Ganeshpure, Bhau Kadam, Mahesh Kothare, Shruti Marathe & others. All the Marathi stars enjoyed themselves as most of them are usually busy working for entertaining us! It will be exciting to see which serial wins the most awards this year!

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We are used to watching Hollywood films that give tributes to their rich history of pop culture. We have always wondered why can’t we do something similar? But now we have! This new song from Ameya Vinod Khopkar Entertainment combines countless Marathi pop culture references together & stars countless Marathi celebrities from all walks of popular culture!

The Acappella format used for this song doesn’t use a single musical instrument. All sounds that we hear in the song are created by humans on their own! This video was released on AVK Entertainment’s official YouTube channel on 2nd May on the anniversary of very First Indian film ‘Raja Harishchandra’ as a tribute, released in 1913 this film was made by Marathi Manoos Dadasaheb Phalke. This song has compiled countless songs, dialogues & references from our rich history of Marathi pop culture especially films!

This unique experiment could be one of it’s kind in the whole of India! It truly makes the Marathi Manoos proud & also motivates us to do greater things in future!

FEATURING (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) ARTISTS: Abhijeet Panse, Abhinay Berde, Abhinay Deo, Adinath Kothare, , Aniket Vishwasrao, Ashok Saraf, Atul Parchure, Bharat Jadhav, Charu Desale, Chetan Shashital [Bal Thackeray VO], Deepali Vichare, Jitendra Joshi, Kaushal Inamdar, Kedar Shinde, Kishori Shahne, Kranti Redkar, Mahesh Kothare, Mahesh Manjrekar, Madhura Velankar, Makrand Anaspure, Manasi Naik, Mangesh Desai, Mrunal Kulkarni, Prajakta Mali, Prathamesh Parab, Pushkar Shotri, Phulwa Khamkar, Ramdas Padhye, Rinku Rajguru, Sachin Khedekar, Sachin Kumbhar, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Sanjay Jadhav, Sayali Sanjeev, Sneha Chavan, Sonali Khare, Swapnil Joshi, Vishal Inamdar, Vinod Kambli, Vikram Gokhale, Vikram Phadnis

SINGERS: Ajit Parab, Avdhoot Gupte, Hari Haran, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Shankar Mahadevan(Vocals), Sonu Nigam, Sudesh Bhosle, Swapnil Bhandhodkar, Vaishali Samant

CHILD ARTISTS: Ayaan Patel, Asma Khamkar, Ishaan Khopkar, Mrunal Jadhav, Trushnika Shinde

NEWS REPORTERS: Amol Parchure, Jayanti Waghdhare, Neelima Kulkarni, Pooja Borkar, Prerna Jangnam, Sahil Joshi, Saumitra Pote, Shreyas Sawant, Tushar Shete

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Every Monday to Saturday at 7 pm in the evening, it had almost been a habit of the whole Maharashtra to tune in to Zee Marathi to watch the epic mythological serial ‘Jai Malhar’. But soon this won’t be happening. Yes, ‘Jai Malhar’ serial is a few episodes away from going off-the-air.

‘Jai Malhar’ has proved to be a game changer in the world of daily soaps. It was a brave attempt on Zee Marathi’s part to create such a magnum opus, big-budget mythological serial. The serial became an inseparable part of the common man’s life. Whether it’s bringing ‘Ganpati Idols’ who appear like Lord Khanderay or whether it’s the unforgettable music, or the many important incidents in the story.

‘Jai Malhar’ has crossed over 900 episodes! And reportedly the 942nd episode will be the last. This serial was produced by veteran actor, filmmaker & producer Mahesh Kothare & it’s a gift from Kothare sir that the audiences of Maharashtra can never forget even after it goes off-the-air.

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Maharashtra’s favorite entertainment channel ‘Colors Marathi’ has created a special place in the hearts of Marathi viewers in very less time. Very recently the new edition of the superhit comedy show ‘Comedychi Bullet Train’ started in new energy & style. All the episodes of this edition has been greatly appreciated by the audience.

Recently the ‘Comedychi Bullet Train’ team toured Satara & entertained a huge number of audiences live through Colors Marathi’s special initiative ‘Comedychi Bullet Train Via Satara’. Now all the viewers of Colors Marathi can watch this spectacular event in their homes on 27th November 7 pm!

Just like the show this event too was hosted by spontaneous & beautiful Mrunmayee Deshpande. Most of the comedy stars from ‘Comedychi Bullet Train’ were present in this event which includes Anshuman Vichare, Vishakha Subhedar, Yogesh Shirsat, Namrata Aavte, Shyam Rajput, Pooja Nayak, Prabhakar More, Sameer Choughule, Bhakti Ratnaparkhi, Sandip Gaikwad, Prasad Khandekar, Arun Kadam & Anupama Takmoghe.

Stars from other Colors Marathi programs too performed in this event. Sayali Patil who plays Goddess Parvati in ‘Ganpati Bappa Moraya’ performed on ‘Dola Re Dola’ song along with Titiksha Tawade who essays the Saraswati in ‘Saraswati’! The audience of Satara enjoyed all such performances & the special reservation granted to them by ‘Comedychi Bullet Train’ team to have precious guit-free laughs that will stay forever in their memory.

So don’t forget to tune into Colors Marathi on 27th November 7 pm for ‘Comedychi Bullet Train Via Satara’!

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Maharashtra’s favourite comedy show “Comedychi Bullet Train” is back with a new makeover to grant reservation to all the audiences by giving them their daily dose of laughter! Many changes have been made in the format of the show. The show will also have two new judges, senior actor & filmmaker Mahesh Kothare & the queen of infinite hearts beautiful actress Sonalee Kulkarni. And most importantly the duration of the show has now been increased to one & a half hours. The show will be telecasted on Thursdays & Fridays from 9.00 to 10.30 pm only on Colors Marathi.

The comedy stars on Comedychi Bullet Train have been divided into two teams. Team SUSAAT & tem BUNGAAT. Susaat team stars three pairs; Anshuman Vichare – Vishakha Subhedar, Yogesh Shirsat – Namrata Avate – Shyam Rajpoot & Pooja Nayak – Prabhakar More. Whereas the Bungaat line up goes this way; Sameer Choughule – Bhakti Ratnaparkhi, Sandip Gaikwad – Prasad Khandekar – Arun Kadam & Anupama Takmoghe – Pandharinath Kamble. It’s good to see the same talented comedy stars being repeated in this edition of Comedychi Bullet Train as well because they have been making the audiences laugh so efficiently that the audience want more such performances & skits from them.

Sonali Kulkarni & Mahesh Kothare are extremely excited to be a part of this show. Sonali feels that she won’t be simply judging the performances but will also open up about what kind of changes she wants the performers to bring in them. And when truly give great performances she won’t hesitate to appreciate them whole heartedly. It’ll also interesting to see the stylish actor Mahesh Kothare giving his inputs on the performances.

So do not for get to tune into Colors Marathi every Thursday & Friday from 9.00 to 10.30 pm to watch your favorite comedy show Comedychi Bullet Train!

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On the occasion of Mahashivratri, Zee Marathi will be telecasting a special event based on Jai Malhar- a popular series depiction life of Khandoba, an avatar of Shiva. Yelkot Yelkot Jai Malhar will be telecast on 6th March at 7 pm on Zee Marathi.

The event was organized in Pune where all the actors from Jai Malhar performed. Devdutta Nage (Khandoba), Isha Keskar (Banu) and Surabhi Hande (Mhalsa) performed on various songs from the series. Devanand Mali’s powada, artistes from Jejuri performing on Jagar and Gondhal will be the highlight of this event.

Mahesh Kothare-producer of the series will interact with the audience and narrate some interesting trivia about the behind the scenes of this serial. Sankarshan Karhade will be the host for this event.

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“I will work in the film industry and other arts till my last breath and today I am proud to be awarded the Pune Sanman award for my popular TV show ‘Jai Malhar‘ after my film ‘Zapatlela’ won the same award and the paying public have always loved me and this is my biggest reward and I will always try to entertain them and not aim for Lifetime Achievement Award and I will always like to thank those who have awarded me with more good work and entertainment.

On behalf of Salaam Pune, as a part of the Maharashtra Day celebrations , Kothare was presented the award at the hands of eminent poet and litterateur F.M Shinde and also present were Salaam Pune chief Sharad Lonkar, executive officer Sharad Choradiya, when the ZEE MARATHI show ‘JAI MALHAR’ was adjudged the BEST MARATHI SERIAL for a lavish presentation and popularity and on this occasion the handsome and hunky actor Devdatt Nage and Surbhi Hande who plays Mhalsadevi and Isha Keskar who plays Banu in the show were adjudged the popular new faces and Devdatt said that he thinks about exercising all time, be it late in the night too and also want to urge the youth from keeping away from vices. And the best star pair on TV went to Suyash Tilak and Suruchi Adarkar for their popular ZEE MARATHI show ‘Ka Re Durava‘ who said that receiving this first award has made their families proud and will also help their future career and thanked the Puneites. Also the most popular comedy show went to a Hindi show for the first time namely ‘Taarak Mehta Kaa Ooltah Chasmaah’ on SAB TV and it was received by the producers Asit Modi and Neela Modi.

For a popular youth oriented show , the award went to Sanjay Jadhav’s show ‘Dil Dosti Duniyaadari‘ starring Swanandi Tikekar, Amey Wagh, Survart Joshi, Pooja Thombre, and Reshma Patil who received it at the hands of Prafulchandra Chate. A dance medley was performed and choreographed by Mallika Barve and Yogesh Tanpure, and Mayuresh Lonkar. The showstopper was a three and half year old Dhairyashil Dangmali who brought the house down with his rendition of the popular song ‘Mauli MAULI‘.And music director Adi Ramchandra sang a few Marathi ghazals of FM Shinde . Veteran journalist Arun Lonkar , actor Radha Kulkarni from ‘Ase He Kanyadaan’, Mithila Naik from ‘Aadesh’, actress Vrinda Bal, actor Nikhil Vairagar, music director Harshit Abhiraj, Narendra Bhide, Kedar Shinde of Agabai Arrecchya 2, directorand producer andunit of ‘A PAYING GHOST , Producer MK Dhumal, director Yogesh Vanve, Deep Kadam, Deepak Savakhande, were felicitated. Santosh Chordia emceed the show in his comic ways and Harshit Abhiraj made the musical farewell.

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We have all heard of the grand Khandoba-Banu marriage in fables, stories, and folk tales , keertans, and bharud and now we will get to see the splendour and pomp of this marriage on the show JAI MALHAR on ZEE MARATHI which tells the story of Malhari Martand and is very popular . Khandoba who came to protect the people of Jejuri from two demons Mani Mall who came down from Mani Chul mountains and this lavish story of Khandoba is being lapped up by the viewers on this show Jai Malhar. The killings of demons Mani Mall, the coronation ceremony of Khandoba, his marriage to Mhalsadevi, the game of stakes between them, Khandoba’s absolvement of Jejuri, and staying as a cowherd in Banai’s house have all been interestingly narrated in the show. Now the next step is the marriage of Khandoba and Banu as promised and will be witnessed by the universe and all the gods and goddesses and this will be shown on a 2 hours special episode on ZEE MARATHI on 3RD May at 7.30 pm and on the same day the daily events in their life will be beamed from 10 am to 7.30 pm.

After losing in the game ofdice to Mhalsadevi Khandoba has renounced Jejuri and he has become an ascetic and renounced Lord Shiva too but Mhalsadevi tries to bring him back to Jejuri but to no avail. But what fate has written can’t be changed and Khandoba sticks to his resolve but Mhalsadevi is in a state of shock when she comes to know that Khandoba had perpetrated all of this and now he is marching towards Chandanpuri to get Banu so she puts all obstacles in their marriage and curses Khandoba to get an old man’s appearance but Khandoba overcomes all obstacles to reach Chandanpuri but then Banu doesn’t recognize him and then Khandoba tries to test Banu and he stays in her house as Khandu Gawda as a servant. So to test her he kills all her sheep andthis enrages Banu and she orders him to make all her sheep alive but Khandoba puts a strange condition that she should marry him if he makes all her sheep alive and Banu who loves her sheep more than her life agrees and Khandoba puts turmeric anointment on the sheep andmakes the sheep alive making Banu and the entire Chandanpuri amazed with this miracle and the Lord gives them his real appearancemaking Banu very happy.

Now all preparations for the grand marriage of Khandoba and Banu are taking place in Chandanpuri in the Kingdom of Raja Nal, Naldurgaa; and the sky is the pandal and mother earth is taking a beautiful appearance with flora and fauna but Mhalsadevi is enraged and tries to stop this marriage with the help of Lord Indra.
This segment will see dazzling special effects composed in a Marathi show for the first time and a special song sung by Pravin Kunvar and composed by A V Prafulchandra is the highlight of this special episode which will be telecast on a special two hour episode on 3 May at 7.30 pm on JAI MALHAR on ZEE MARATHI.

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He had impeccable comic timing. He has amazing dilogue delivery. He knew camera loved him. Audience loved his antics on the screen. The huge talent once stormed entire Maharashtra with his films. Audience loved not only his comic roles, but also serious roles as well. He was Laxmikant Berde, more fondly remembered as Lakshya by his fans.

He started his career with megablock buster play “Toortoor”. This followed with many hit plays. Shanteche karte chaaloo aahe was one of the mile-stone in the Marathi theatre. His film career started with a moderate hit “Hasle tar fasli” However, Mahesh Kothare’s Dhoom Dhadaka defined him. He gave a complete turn to entire Marathi cinema. Roles were written for him.

Laxmikant Berde was a comman man’s hero. His typical famous dialogue delivery is still mimicked by many upcoming stars.

Ruhi Berde, his first wife supported him a lot in his struggling period. After her untimely demise, he married Priya Arun- his costar in many films. There on-screen chemistry was always sizzling.
However, his onscreen best partner was Ashok Saraf . Together they acted in more than 60 films. They rules box office single handed with the blockbusters like Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi, Dhoom Dhadaka, De Danadan, Balache Baap Brahmachari etc.

Lakshya also acted in Bollywood films. Maine Pyar Kiya, Sajan, Jaanam Samjha Karo, Hum Tumhare Hai Sanam were his hit Hindi films.

Lakshya’s most ambitious role was Ek Hota Vidooshak. He had put his soul into this film. However, audience rejected him in such role. The failure of this film was always a soft spot for him. On 16 December 2004, he bid adieu to this world. Marathi cinema has lost its Superstar.

Though, he is not amongst us today, his various films will always cherish in our minds and bring a smile on our lips. That’s what he wanted to be remembered as.

– (Pranali Salunke – Pednekar)

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• TV serial : Jai Malhar
• Producer : Kothare Vision Pvt. Ltd
• Director : Kartik Kendhe
• Star Cast : Devdatta Nage as Malhar, Surabhi Hande as Mhalsa and Isha Keskar as Banai, Nakul Ghanekar As Hegadi Pradhan
• Story & Screen Play :
• Tv Channel : Zee Marathi
• Starting Date : 18th May 2014
• Show Time : 7pm every day

Story Outline :

Jai Malhar which is the mythological epic that will enthrall the hearts of Maharashtra. It is the first time that Khandoba’s (reincarnation of Lord Shiva) tale is coming on-screen and that too with a spectacular scale and visual splendor. The show is based on the courage, magnanimity and prowess of Khandoba (fondly known as Malhar) the warrior deity of Maharashtra.

Jai Malhar, the Lord of many has been portrayed as a God of love, a Superpower and the symbol of excellence. He is portrayed as a super hero for the young generation. Each part of the show is aimed at spreading knowledge of his values and beliefs. It is the biggest offering in the history of Marathi Television, an ode to the faith of Maharashtra!!!

The show will launch from 18th May @ 7pm every day.

Jai Malhar Zee Marathi Serial Photos :

Jai Malhar Zee Marathi Serial Promo/Trailer :

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