• Movie : Lalbatti (2019)| लालबत्ती
• Producer : Santosh Sonawdekar
• Director : Girish Mohite
• Studio : Sai Cinema Production
• Star Cast :
  • Mangesh Desai
  • Suresh Chaudhary
  • Bhargavi Chirmuley
  • Shailesh Dhanawde
  • Anil Gavas
  • Pradeep Ghule
  • Manoj Joshi
  • Meera Joshi
  • Prashant Mohite
  • Jayendra More
  • Sambhaji Sasane
  • Tejas
  • Ramesh Wani
• Story & Screenplay : Abhay Dakhane
• Dialogues : Arvind Jagpat
• Lyrics : NA
• Sound : NA
• Sound Design : NA
• Music : Avinash Vishwajit
• Background Music :
• Cinematography (DOP) : Krishna Soren
• Editor : Nilesh Navnath Gavand
• Art Director : Digambar Talekar
• Executive Producer : Atul Salve
• PR : Ganesh Gargote (Media One)
• Costume : NA
• Make-up : NA
• Presenter : NA
• Choreography : NA
• Co-Producer : NA
• Digital Compaign : Vizual Junkies
• Visual Promotions : NA
• Digital Promotions : NA
• DI Colorist : NA
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 26th July 2019

Synopsis : The Marathi feature film, ‘Lal Batti’ reveals the facets of the day-to-day lives of the policemen. Policemen holding a variety of different designations keep moving around all of us. In fact, they are the part and parcel of our routine life but we are never a witness to their pleasures or sorrows. On the contrary, we strive our best to maintain a safe distance from the policemen.

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Katti Batti Serial Zee Yuva latest offering has received immense love and support from the viewers. Based on a twisted love story, the show rotates around the need for a small town girl to maintain a balance between studies and her marriage. In the story, Pushkar Sarad plays the role of Parag who hails from a middle-class service-oriented family and Ashwini Kasar portrays the role of Purva who belongs to a family who runs their own business.

In the previous track, Purva and Parag finally called off their wedding but behind every action of Purva is someone nobody knows of, It is her PhD sir. The role of Pathare Sir is played by renowned actor Mangesh Desai. Often in life, we have someone who guides us through all our decisions and paths. For Purva, it is her PhD sir, Dhananjay Pathare. He not only guides her in decisions to be taken on her education but also on personal life decisions. He is shown to be a very calm and composed person in the show. Just like every other professor, he too is very disciplined when it comes to studies or his life.

Pathare sir believes in punctuality and also preaches the same. He is a portrayed as Purva’s guiding light in the show as she always consults with him before making a decision. He often believes in the principle of ‘You must learn from other’s mistakes’ and also guides Purva with his good and bad life experiences. At the end of it all, Pathare sir always tells her that she has to choose her own way to walk on and stay loyal to her decisions. To witness the role Pathare sir plays in Purva’s life, keep watching  “Katti Batti’ at 7.30 PM from Monday to Saturday only on Zee Yuva!

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Avadhoot Gupte has ruled on Marathi hearts for so many years now as a singer, composer and even film director! Now he is all set to add another dimension to his all-rounder abilities. He will soon be seen making his acting debut in Nishta Productions upcoming children film ‘Monkey Baat’!

Avadhoot Gupte says he had been offered acting roles long back when he starred in his own music videos, but he has always been reluctant about it as he thought it wasn’t his department! Even when Viju Mane (director of Monkey Baat) offered him a role he was reluctant but after listening to the story of the film he was excited to play the part!

The songs of the film and the dialogues of the film are written by Sandeep Khare and music is composed by Saleel Kulkarni. Presented by Akash Pendharkar, Vinod Satav, Abhay Thakur, Prasad Chavan, Shankar Konde and produced by Vivek D, Rasmi Karambelkar, Mandar Tillu and Viju Mane. ‘Monkey Baat’ is a treat for family audiences this summer holidays which releases on 18th May!

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Everything in your life is about to turn absolutely great. You’ll soon be married to your soul mate who’ll love you with all the heart! And all this will happen automatically without you trying hard for it! If someone tells you that this is your future you would end up believing in this dream-like world for a while!

‘Hichyasathi Kay Pan’ is an upcoming film produced by ‘Aaradhya Films’ & directed by Milind Dastane which is based on the same dream-like plot! Releasing on 13^th April this Marathi film stars Mangesh Desai, Bhargavi Chirmule, Nagesh Bhosale, Nirmiti Sawant, Kushal Badrike, Bharat Ganeshpure & Vijay Chavan.

This film deals with the serious subject of faith & blind faith & the difference between the two. However the film presents this serious subject in a comical & entertaining way believes the director of the film. It gives a important message to the audiences along with entertaining them throughout!

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• Movie : Monkey Baat (2018) | मंकी बात
• Producer : Vivek D., Rashmi Karambelkar, Mandar Tillu and Viju Mane
• Director : Viju Mane
• Studio : Nishtha Productions
• Star Cast :
  • Pushkar Shrotri
  • Bhargavi Chirmule
  • Nayan Jadhav
  • Mangesh Desai
  • Vijay Kadam
  • Avadhoot Gupte
• Story : Viju Mane
• Screenplay : Viju Mane and Mahendra Kadam
• Dialogues : Sandeep Khare and Viju Mane
• Lyrics : Sandeep Khare
• Singer : Shalmali Kholgade and Shubhankar Kulkarni
• Music : Dr. Saleel Kulkarni
• Background Music : Anurag Godbole
• Sound Design : Rohit Pradhan
• Cinematography (DOP) : Krishna Soren
• Editor : Satish Patil
• Art Director : Vasu Patil
• Choreography : Vitthal Patil
• Executive Producer : Atul Salve
• Creative Producer : Tejas Narkar
• Look Designer : Vidhyadar Bhatte
• Presenter : Aakash Pendharkar and Vinod Satav
• In Association With : Abhay Thakur, Prasad Chavan and Shankar Konde
• Team ProActive : Ahwini Teranikar and Kirti Mehendale
• Digital Co-Ordinator : Anup Gore (Digimagic Media)
• VFX Supervisor and DI : Yogesh Dixit
• Visual Promotion : Studio 108
• Genre : Children Drama
• Release Date : 18th May 2018

Synopsis : An enthusiastic kid Vayu, moves to Mumbai from his hometown Kolhapur but leaving his friends behind does not sit well with him. To overcome this, he resorts to monkey business so that his parents are forced to take him back, but God has other plans for him.

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• Movie : Hichyasathi Kay Pan (2018) | हिच्यासाठी काय पण
• Producer : Aaradhya Films
• Director : Milind Dastane
• Studio : Aaradhya Films
• Star Cast :
  • Vijay Chavan
  • Nirmiti Sawant
  • Nagesh Bhosale
  • Mangesh Desai
  • Bhargavi Chirmule
  • Bharat Ganeshpure
  • Kushal Badrike
• Story, Screenplay and Dialogues : Santosh Pawar
• Lyrics : Vaibhav Joshi and Jagdish Pingle
• Music : Harsshit Abhiraj
• Sound Design : Dinesh Uchil and Shantanu Akerkar
• Background Music : Chaitanya Aadkar
• Cinematography (DOP) : Shekhar Anna
• Editor : Vijay Khochikar
• Art Director : Datta Londhe
• Chereography : Deepali Vichare
• Makeup : Mahesh Barate
• Costume : Dhanashri Kamtekar
• Executive Producer : Ujjwala Pol
• Publicity Design :  Suresh Navadkar and Ramesh Navadkar
• Release Date : 13th April 2018

Synopsis : Hichyasathi Kay Pan is an upcoming Marathi movie scheduled to be released on 13 Apr, 2018. The movie is directed by Milind Dastane and will feature Mangesh Desai, Nirmiti Sawant, Bhargavi Chirmule and Kushal Badrike as lead characters. Other popular actors who have been roped in for Hichyasathi Kay Pan are Kushal Badrike, Bharat Ganeshpure, Vijay Chavan, Nagesh Bhosle and Shrinivas G. Kulkarni.

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• Review : Vitthala Shappath (2016) 
• Producer : Sairaj Kank, Prafull P Ajmera, Sukesh Sawardekar and Joahn Nadar
• Director : Chandrakant Pawar
• Star Cast : Mangesh Desai, Anuradha Rajadhyaksha, Krutika Gaikwad, Ketan Pawar, Anshuman Vichare, Uday Sabnis, Vidyadhar Joshi and Sanjay Khapre
• Story : Chandrakant Pawar
• Music : Chinar Mahesh
• Review By : Abhay Salvi

Rating : 1/5

Vitthala Shappath Marathi Movie Review :

Vitthala Shappath is a film that fails on so many levels that it is impossible to remember all of them. To start with the most basic flaw is the hero itself. It seems like Marathi audiences should now develop the habit of accepting incompetent actors as their heroes & heroines. However if you still have an appetite for watching good acting you could be rewarded by one or two known seasoned actors in the supporting cast.

In case of Vitthala Shappath Mangesh Desai is that reward. No matter how unapologetically pointless the plot of the film is Mangesh Desai manages to be in the skin of his character throughout. I was reminded of veteran actor-singer Vasantrao Deshpande’s little part in the cult classic Ashtavinayak. Mangesh Desai portrays a gold hearted father to our incompetent hero, though Desai’s purpose in the conflict is equally pointless as the film.  

The most unbearable parts in the film represent a very strong south Indian influence. No not just the songs, & our incompetent hero’s antics, but also the backdrop of land mafia & the political connections. In one of the songs at the background we can notice the poster of Ankush Chaudhari starrer Guru. Guru was unfortunately among the first Marathi films in the mainstream that started employing the south formula in our films. However the audiences have never shown any adulation towards the formula in Marathi especially because our audiences are already consuming the same through different multimedia mediums. Even Hindi cinema learned its lesson & put a halt on manufacturing south formula films at an alarming pace (yes they were at one point). 

Vitthala Shappath’s another primary failure is that it doesn’t try one bit to get anywhere near the real devotion of Vitthal devotees. A Vitthal devotee has enough Vitthal in himself, that he would never be in a state to fight a war just for building a Vitthal temple. Even if we forgive this error, this whole phenomenon isn’t even strong enough on an emotional level. Yes even Mangesh Desai’s honest performance isn’t good enough to establish the emotional connect. Maybe (just maybe) if this film was riding completely on Desai’s shoulders it had a better chance to make that connect.

Another good actor has been wasted in ‘Vitthala Shappath’. Sanjay Khapre as a good hearted drunk lawyer. Honestly I could see a lot of scope for Khapre’s character to be the driving force in the second half. His character of the lawyer who is supposed to save our (incompetent) hero gets a decent amount of screen time to be established. But the shocking part is that we never see how he actually saves the hero. Yes the film skips the whole court battle part, with ubrittled confidence.

The music & background of this film matches the chaotic atmosphere of the film with utter dedication. This film has been credited with a number of writers but for many montage sequences it avoids using dialogues suggesting us as if they didn’t really exist in the first place & hence the montage were improvised instead. 

The film ends on a laughable sad end that again is a poor attempt to reinforce the conflict of the film. I couldn’t really figure out why did the film hints the climax in the opening scene of the film. Not that we care, but let’s assume if an audience is really bothered about the hero & heroine’s future, they must have already predicted it, while making the exercise of going through the runtime pointless. 

Overall:

You have to be a die-hard fan of Mangesh Desai to sit through ‘Vitthala Shappath’ & be mildly satisfied by it.   

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• Movie : Vitthala Shappath (2016) | विठ्ठला शपथ
• Producer : Sairaj Kank, Prafull P Ajmera, Sukesh Sawardekar and Joahn Nadar
• Directer : Chandrakant Pawar
• Studio : Gurudarshan Films
• Star Cast : Mangesh Desai, Anuradha Rajadhyaksha, Krutika Gaikwad, Ketan Pawar, Anshuman Vichare, Uday Sabnis, Vidyadhar Joshi and Sanjay Khapre
• Story : Chandrakant Pawar
• Screenplay : Chandrakant Pawar
• Music : Chinar Mahesh
• Lyrics : Kshitij Patwardhan and Mangesh Kangane
• Dialogues : Kaustubh Savarkar and Bhanudas Panmand
• Director of Photography : Sandy
• Choreography : Umesh Jadhav
• Art Director : Vasu Patil
• Editor : Ashish Mhatre and Apurva Motiwale Sahai
• Publicity Design : Milind Matkar
• Genre  : Drama
• Release Date : 15th September 2017

Synopsis:

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‘Vitthala Shappath’ is an upcoming Marathi film that is soon set to release in theatres. The new song ‘Jhakkas Chokra’ from the film has been out recently & it is getting good response on social media. The song reflects the new colourful style of dance numbers in Marathi.

This dance number is sung by Pravin Kunwar & is composed by the young sensational composers Chinar-Mahesh. The lyrics of this song are written by popular lyricist in Marathi today Mangesh Kangane. The video of this song reminds of the south Indian flavour that is loved by all audiences in India today.

This ‘Jhakkas Chokra Song’ intrigues us about the film. The film stars Mangesh Desai, Anuradha Rajadhyaksha, Krutika Gaikwad, Ketan Pawar, Anshuman Vichare, Uday Sabnis, Vidyadhar Joshi and Sanjay Khapre & is directed by Chandrakant Pawar. Other songs of the film will also be out soon which are sung by popular singers like Swapnil Bandodkar, Anandi Joshi, Adarsh Shinde & Rahul Deshpande.

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Recently the music launch event of upcoming Marathi movie ‘Vitthala Shappath ’ was held in a grand way in the presence of many dignitaries. The vent was a success thanks to the experiences shared by the musical team of the film & skits performed by the artists of the film. Director Chandrakant Pawar believes the audiences will enjoy the songs of ‘Vithala Shapath’.

‘Vithala Shapath’ is produced by Gurudarshan Films & Pahel Production L.L.P & is set to release on 15th September. The film will project the relation between lord Vithal & his devotees. Songs of this film complement the story of the film. These songs are penned by popular lyricists Kshitij Patwardhan & Mangesh Kangne & the music is composed by Chinar-Mahesh.

The soundtrack of ‘Vithala Shapath’ includes various songs of different genres in the voices of popular singers like Rahul Deshpande, Adarsh Shinde, Anandi Joshi & Swapnil Bandodkar. The film too stars veterans like Mangesh Desai, Uday Sabnis, Vidyadhar Joshi, Sanjay Khapre, Anshuman Vichare, Vijay Nikam & other actors like Anuradha Rajadhyaksha Ketan Pawar, Pranav Raorane among others.

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