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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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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• Movie : Jhangadgutta (2018) | झांगडगुत्ता
• Producer : Pawan Sheth and Moreshwar Sankhari
• Director : Sandeep Manohar Navre
• Studio :  Footprint Media Entertainment,
• Star Cast :
  • Bharat Ganeshpura
  • Sagar Karande
  • Jayant Savarkar
  • Sanjay Khapre
  • Jaywant Wadkar
  • Kishori Shahane
  • Nagesh Bhosale
  • Sanjay Kulkarni
  • Madhavi Juvekar
  • Vijay Kadam
  • Kishor Chaugule
  • Rajkumar Kanojia
• Writer : NA
• Story, Screenplay & Dialogues : Sandeep Manohar Navre
• Singer : NA
• Lyrics : Sachin Andhare
• Music : Babli Haque
• Casting : Paresh Patel
• Sound Design : NA
• Background Score : NA
• Cinematography (DOP) : Jitu Achrekar
• Editor : Sanjay Gavli – Pranav Patel
• Art Director : Pradeep Walkar – Sudhir Tarkar
• Poster designer : Surendra Rajbhar
• Costume : NA
• Make-up : Nitin Dandekar
• Post Production : Ganga Jamuna Studio PVT.LTD
• Co Producer : Vicky Hada
• Executive Producer : Nanalal Kavadia (Pintu)
• Presenter : Vision Corporation Ltd
• Choreography : Na
• Publicity Design : Na
• Visual Promotions : Prakash Yadav
• Digital Marketing : Na
• Marketing : Na
• Genre : Na
• Release Date : 21th September 2018

Synopsis : Na

Jhangadgutta Marathi Movie Teaser/Trailer :

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Though in today’s times of Whatsapp & Facebook the old ways of connecting with each other like writing letters might seem outdated people still have a special relationship with ‘postman’. One such postman has connected with Maharashtra’s audiences & has won their hearts. He is Sagar Karande from Zee Marathi Chala Hawa Yeu Dya Penned by Arvind Jagtap these letters have made people laugh & have also made them cry or think about everyday issues!

Recently a die-hard fan of Thukratwadi’s postman gifted the actor Sagar Karande a postman ‘doll’ as a token of appreciation & love towards the beloved character! Sagar posted about the same on his social media handle! This postman has in a way restored the sweet nostalgia we have about letters!

From this, we can understand how a popular ‘comedy’ show can touch people’s hearts if it is done with an honest intention of making the audiences happy! We are sure Zee Marathi’s Chala Hawa Yeu Dya & our Postman Kaka will keep on making us happy for the time to come.

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12th of June is remembered as a sad day in Maharashtra’s history. Today is the day when Maharashtra’s most celebrated cultural icon, the great writer-actor-humorist-musician-playwright-director & more importantly a great human being Pu La Deshpande left this world. Yesterday the announcement of a Pu La Deshpande biopic was made at an event in Worli, Mumbai!

While the names of the artists & actors associated with the film were kept under wraps before the event, the news was disclosed at the event slowly! The film is a joint venture between Great Maratha Entertainment, Mahesh Manjrekar Movies & Phalke’s Factory & is to be directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The film was officially announced by MNS Chief Raj Thackeray who was present at the event as the guest of honor.

Mahesh Manjrekar revealed the entire team of the film starting from the writers; senior writer Ratnakar Matkari as the dialogue writer, Ratnakar Matkari’s son film critic & writer Ganesh Matkari as the screenplay writer & music director Ajit Parab. While the lead cast of the film was also revealed at the event in the same get up of the characters they would portray in the film.

Actor Sagar Deshmukh (known for his lead performance in ‘YZ’) will be portraying Pu La Deshpande in the film! And he looked perfect for the part in that get up designed by the popular makeup artist Vikram Gaikwad. The role of Sunita Deshpande wife of Pu La, is being played by the ‘Aapla Manus’ fame actress Iravati Harshe! She too looked perfect in her part. The rest of the cast includes Sachin Khedekar, Sagar Karande, Deepti Lele, Pravin Tarde, Sarang Sathaye, Vidyadhar Joshi, Chittaranjan Giri, Ashwini Giri, Padmanabh Bind, Ajay Purkar & others.

Senior writer Ratnakar Matkari & Raj Thackeray both talked about their memories connected to Pu La & how they felt blessed to have known him & met him in person. For all the Pu La fans this film promises to give us a new perspective about Pu La the human being more than the writer he was or the characters he created as this film will be focusing on his actual life unknown to many!

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Shahrukh Khan & Anushka Sharma’s upcoming hindi film “When Harry Met Sejal” has been highly awaited by all audiences. And on this occasion both SRK & Anushka visited Zee Marathi’s Thukratwadi, we mean our favorite show Chala Hawa Yeu Dya! This week on Monday & Tuesday at 9.30 pm we can enjoy SRK & Anushka in an out & out Marathi avatar.

SRK has been on the show before & has confessed his love for Marathi culture & artists. This time he’ll be dancing along with Anushka on various old Marathi songs which represent the golden era of Marathi cinema. Moreover SRK will also present the legendary monologue from “Natsamrat” in Marathi. Anushka Sharma too is all set to surprise us with her performance of “Ti Phulrani”!

The members of Thukratwadi this time entertained the guests with their version of SRK’s superhit film “Baazigar”! So don’t miss out on all this fun!

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• Review : TTMM – Tujha Tu Majha Mi (2017)
• Producer : Dr. Santosh Uttam Sawane
• Director : Kuldip Jadhav
• Star Cast : Lalit Prabhakar, Neha Mahajan, Vidyadhar Joshi, Savita Prabhune, Satish Pulekar, Seema Deshmukh, Sagar Karande, Pushkar Lonarkar, Sharvari Lohakare, Pushkaraj Chirputkar, Bharat Ganeshpure, Sriram Pendse, Chetan Chawda, Jayesh Sanghvi, Kadambari Kadam.
• Writer : Tejpal Wagh
• Music : Pankaj Padghan
• Review By : Abhay Salvi

Rating : 2/5

TTMM Marathi Movie Review :

‘TTMM – Tujha Tu Majha Mi’ is a film that tells nothing new, & also the way in which it tells has nothing new about it. From ‘Chori Chori’ (Raj Kapoor – Nargis), ‘Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahi’ (Aamir Khan – Pooja Bhatt) to even ‘Jab We Met’ (Shahid – Kareena) this formula of ‘opposites attract’ has been used repeatedly. However, as most of the times the problem is not the formula but the elements it uses to surround it. Countless little scenes in this film become empty & plain boring because the emotional context that is supposed to drive the audiences towards the film fails miserably.

The boy (Lalit Prabhakar) is a passionate traveler & he feels that marriage will put a halt to his freedom & his dream to travel the world will remain unfulfilled. The girl (Neha Mahajan) at a different place, wishes to marry the boy of her dreams (how typically 90s) & is not ready to settle with a slightly bald guy. It’s ironic how the girl never even once thinks about her professional life! The film romantically keeps its hero in today’s times & the girl in the age-old era of 80s or 90s. So they both meet on a bus by co-incidence & start fighting from the word ‘go’. You must have predicted why & how these two strangers meet on a bus. And then start their meaningless journey of self-exploration.

Right now we can give away the logical errors till this point, but then the major conflict of the film too is a major logical flaw! I am not revealing anything but we are all familiar about Goa & how it’s one of the safest & the most popular tourist destinations of India & the tourists there enjoy enough freedom! But just how the film deals with its heroine, it deals quite similarly with Goa, & honestly that hurts!

Though most of the cast that includes Lalit, Neha, Savita Prabhune, Vidyadhar Joshi, Satish Pulekar, Bharat Ganeshpure, & the unfortunately type casted kid Pushkar Lonarkar; have done their bit, but none of them manage to interest us, except Sagar Karande (with some of his usual antics) & Seema Deshmukh as the mother of the heroine who gets a few effective scenes. The film has desperately tried to portray today’s father through Satish Pulekar (heroine’s father) & Vidyadhar Joshi (hero’s father) by giving them exclusive scenes where they try to put forth ‘father styled philosophy’ in front of their ‘confused’ kids. But unfortunately none of these scenes work, mainly because we aren’t connected with the confusion that’s happening in our hero-heroine’s lives.           

Technically the film is nothing extraordinary but definitely not a disaster. The basic idea (though not completely original) did have potential, & could have made the film a decent entertainer provided the writer-director had worked on the logic part of the film. ‘TTMM’ is a film that doesn’t really get on your nerves or bombards you with loud background score & theatrical acting (something that is being a bit common in Marathi right now), instead it bores you with factually normal but shots (& scenes) that appear unnecessarily long. Dialogues that for no particular reasons have pauses, and all of these aspects (& more) disinterest you throughout the runtime.

One thing that needs to be noticed, that a film (especially the first film) reflects its director’s passions & his/her take on life in general. The director of this film Kuldeep Jadhav might have failed in the craft of filmmaking in his debut but if he tries to learn it more (& of course through experience) he might give us interesting films about passionate travellers in the future.

Overall:

You have to be a die-hard fan of Lalit Prabhakar or Neha Mahajan to able to enjoy this film or else ‘TTMM’ is easily avoidable.

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Zee Marathi’s Chala Hawa Dya has redefined the comedy scene in Marathi television. Their various acts, skits are truly hilarious to all kinds of audiences. This ‘Thukratwadi’ has created parody versions of countless classic films from ‘DDLJ’ to ‘Maherchi Sadi’, from Sairat to Duniyadari none of these films & the artists connected to them have been sparred.

On 12th June one such huge film will be shown in a satirical parody form. It’s nothing but the current sensation ‘Bahubali 2’. And the Thukratwadi version of this film is called Bhaubali! Just as you guessed Bhau Kadam will be playing Bhaubali, Kushal Badrike will be Katappa, Shreya Bugde will be Devasena, Sagar Karande will be Shivrayani & so on.

Bahubali 2’s main attraction was it’s special effects. In Thukratwadi’s Bhaubali too interesting special effects have been designed to make the experience even better. So don’t forget to tune in this week’s Chala Hawa Yeu Dya only on Zee Marathi.

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Pushkaraj Chirputkar has ruled over millions of hearts through his popular and unforgettable character ‘Ashu’ from the very famous Marathi sitcom ‘Dil Dosti Duniyadari’. We all have seen him in a Hindi Movie Budhiya Singh – Born to Run, but now Pushkaraj is to make an appearance in a Marathi movie too.

His fans can see him in the Upcoming movie TTMM (Tujha Tu Majha Mi). We saw Pushkaraj in the song ‘Sajiri Gojiri’ from the film TTMM which has released recently. His fans will be too excited to watch him on the bigger screen. Directed by Kuldip Jadhav and Presented by Eros International & Vaishali Entertainment, ‘TTMM (Tujha Tu Majha Mi)’ is all set to release on June 16.

TTMM is one of the most popular phrases among youth. TTMM implies Tujha Tu Majha Mee while paying the bills. The music is composed by Pankaj Padghan and music will be available on Video Palace. The film is produced by Dr. Santosh Uttam Sawane. The film is presented by Eros International.

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TTMM is one of the most popular phrases among youth. TTMM implies Tujha Tu Majha Mee while paying the bills. Kuldip Jadhav directed TTMM brings a fresh twist to this concept.

Lalit Prabhakar has delivered a hit like Chi. Va Chi. Sau Ka this month. In Chi V a Chi Sau Kan he played a role of an eligible bachelor who wanted to test the compatibility with his partner before marriage. IN this film, he plays a young and free boy who runs away from his wedding. Neha Mahajan is the leading lady and she is also troubled by the concept of an arrange marriage. The duo clicks of as a very beautiful couple on the screen.

The music is composed by Pankaj Padghan and music will be available on Video Palace. The film is produced by Dr. Santosh Uttam Sawane. The film is presented by Eros International.

The film will be releasing on 16 June all over Maharashtra.

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