Pinjra, an unforgettable film will be re-released on 18th March all over Maharashtra. The film has become a milestone in Marathi industry and its music and dialogues have been popular since its original release. The film stars Dr. Shreeram Lagoo, Sandhya and Nilu Phule in leading roles. For the re-release the original print has been digitalized. The film was directed by V Shantaram and considered as one of the finest films of India.

Purushottam Laddha and Sauchandrasena Patil has got the rights of the film from V Shantaram Productions and completed 2K Scanning in Prasad Lab. Various technologies like Hand Cleaning, Ultra Sonic Cleaning, 2K scanning, Audio Grabbing, Color Grading, and audio restoration has been done to achieve modern look of the film.

The new background score of the film has been given by Avinash Vishwajeet. The original songs of the film have been etched into the minds of the audience. Music by Ram Kadam and penned by Jagadish Khebudkar the songs like Ali Thumakat, Chabidar Chabi, Tumhavar Keli Me Marji Bahaal, Disal Ga bai Disaka, De Re kanha CHoli Lugdi are still popular.

The original cast and crew of the film is:
Sandhya, Dr. Shreeram Lagoo, Nilu Phule, Vatsala Deshmukh, Manikraj, Govind Kulkarni, Krishnakant Dalvi, Sarla Yevalekar, Abu, Shobha, Anita, Usha, Maya, Bhalchandra Kulkarni, Gavde, Barchi Bahaddar, Kaka Chitnis, K Ghorpade, Borate, Tavre, P Anand, Aundhkar.

Story: Anant Mane
Dialogues: Shankar Patil
Music: Ram Kadam
Lyrics: Jagdish Khebudkar
DOP: Shivaji Sawant
Art: Baburao Jadhav
Choreography: Ranjan Salvi.
Makeup: Shashi Satam

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Gajendra Ahire is one of the most talented and prolific of Marathi film directors having given us classics like ‘Not Only Mrs.Raut’, ‘Neelkanth Master’, etc. and now his most ambitious film ‘Shasan’ is set for release and we caught up with the director to know more about his new film.

How did you conceptualize ‘Shasan’?

I wanted to make a film based on the background of politics and when I got this script based on the happenings in state politics for the last six months or so, I got my script ready to film and I shot this film within no time.

How did you cast for the film?

I had the characters in mind and when I started thinking about them, the names and faces came easily to my mind like Jitendra Joshi and Manva Naik in the lead roles along with Bharat Jadhav and Makarand Anaspure in leading character artiste roles and my casting was complete. And I must say that all my actors have done a fabulous job and the film is looking great.

Where has the film been shot?

Basically the film has been shot in various locales of Mumbai, Pune and other interior of Maharashtra locations.

Has the film been shown in festivals?

That is totally the producers call and I have no say in the matter.

You are such a prolific director having made more than 40 films? How do you manage it?

Nothing at all. I consider it as my job and set myself like doing it a daily job and not as something just as a lark.

What’s next?

I have a film called ‘Silence’ coming up.

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• Movie :  Shasan (2015) | शासन
• Producer : Shekhar Pathak
• Directer : Gajendra Ahire
• Studio : Shreya Films Pvt. Ltd
• Star Cast : Makarand Anaspure, Bharat Jadhav, Jitendra Joshi, Manava Naik, Siddharth Jadhav, Dr.Shriram Lagoo, Vrinda Gajendra, Vikram Gokhale, Mohan Joshi, Vinay Apte, Nagesh Bhosle
• Story : Gajendra Ahire
• Screenplay : Gajendra Ahire
• Music : Narendra Bhide
• Lyrics : Kavivarya Vinda Karandikar, Sant Tukaram (Abhang)
• Singers : Jaydeep Vaidya , Jasraj Joshi
• Dialogues : Gajendra Ahire
• Director of Photography : Surya Mishra
• Original score : Greg Sims
• Choreographer : Deepali Vichare
• Art Director : Datta Londhe
• Editor : Rahul Bhatanakar, Santosh Gothoskar
• Costumes : Vrinda Gajendra
• Production Manager : Dr. Rajiv Thakur
• D.I Colourist : Tushar Jadhav
• Line Producer : Dilesh Gupta
• Associate Producer : Rohini Pathak
• Genre : Political Drama
• Release Date : 15th January, 2016

Synopsis: A story of raw ambition, of personal turmoil, of getting to the roots of cause and paying the price for it, characters stuck in a dilemma of what is right and what is wrong, the nexus of politics and mafia, political ambitions, and the ever suffering common man. All of them, pawns in the bigger game called Life. Who is the actual ruler and who is getting ruled is the bigger question.

On the backdrop of a dying factory, the game of politics is being played and how everyone involves gets entangled in this game. How an upcoming young union leader use this situation to fulfill his ambition of becoming a political bigwig. A bureaucrat who is fighting his own battles helps him out but get disillusioned in the long run. A young news reporter decides to get under this and finds out a Mafia leader who is pulling the strings. The reporter and her editor pay’s a big price for this. Issues get escalated to the legislative assembly of the state and powers that matter gets involved.

Shasan Marathi Movie Poster / Still Photos :

Shasan Marathi Movie Trailer :

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Shasan is an upcoming Marathi movie which has picturized on political situation. In this political drama many well-known actors are coming together for the first time through Shasan movie. Shreya Films Pvt. Ltd. presents ‘Shasan’ produced by Shekhar Pathak and directed by Gajendra Ahire. This movie has multi star cast like Makarand Anaspure, Bharat Jadhav, Jitendra Joshi, Manava Naik, Siddharth Jadhav, Aditi Bhagwat, Dr.Shriram Lagoo, Vrinda Gajendra, Vikram Gokhale, Mohan Joshi, Nagesh Bhosle, Kiran Karmarkar, Milind Shinde, Anjali Walsangkar and Sudhir Dalvi.

Politics is the heavy word to express and understand. Every person has their own definition of politics by their point of view. Politics has captured many places in society. In society there is different type of people who wants to enter in politics and some people are fed up with politics. You will never know when politics will take a turn to change the side. ‘Shasan’ movie is based on Indian politics and this movie will show you the side of politics.

‘Shasan’ movie releasing on 15th January 2016, till that be an observer of ‘Shasan’ trailer.

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A Baby is a blessing and gift from God and nothing is more precious than relationship of Baby and Grandparents. ‘Mituni Lochane’ is the Marathi song which has expressed the magic of this grandchildren and grandparents relation. This song is from upcoming Marathi movie ‘Natsamrat’ directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. Actor Nana Patekar is playing the role of grandfather in this song. This one song has expressed thousands feelings. The word ‘AAJOBA’ and a little hug from grandchild is a piece of heaven. When Nana hold a newborn baby girl in this song, just take a look at Nana’s expression, how his smiling face express the happiness.

‘Mituni Lochane’ song sung by Vijayprakash, written by Guru Thakur and music composed by Ajit Parab.

Zee Studios Presents ‘Natsamrat’, A Mahesh Manjrekar Film produced by Fincraft Media, Gajanan Chitra & Great Maratha Entertainment Production. Natsamrat releasing on 1^st January 2016.

Keep listening to ‘Mituni Lochane’ and enjoy the little moment with your grandchild.

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‘To be or not to be that is the question, Jagava Ki Marava Ha Ekach Prashna, Kuni Ghar Deta Ka Ghar. . .’ these were the only words which shake the mind of every person and these dialogues incredibly presented by Dr. Shreeram Lagoo in play ‘Natsamrat and by Actor Nana Patekar in his upcoming Marathi movie ‘Natsamrat’.

We all have the great image of Dr. Shreeram Lagoo, that he has done outstanding performance in play Natsamrat. He was and still he is the inspiration of every actor. Now Nana Patekar played Natsamrat in Movie.  In trailer launch event Nana Patekar said, “It was my wish to play Natsamrat. We artist are living the life of an actor therefore it is a wish of every artist to play Natsamrat once in his lifetime. Doctor played role of Natsamrat very well I tried to give my best’’.

Think of the excited moment when these two Natsamrat met each other. Yes! You are reading the correct news, recently Mahesh Manjrekar, Nana Patekar, Medha Manjrekar met Dr. Shreeram Lagoo. They all had special meet with good talks, sharing moments of Natsamrat movie and play. Dr. Shreeram Lagoo wished Nana Patekar and Natsamrat team best luck for their movie.

Recently in the trailer launching event Actor Vikram Gokhale and Director Mahesh Manjrekar said same thing about Nana Patekar which was a compliment for Nana sir. Actor Vikram Gokhale said, “Nana is one of the greatest actors. He has played his role very well. Dr. Shreeram Lagoo has already set a mark for Natsamrat role, but Nana has done his best without touching the original play” and Director Mahesh Manjrekar was saying, “This movie had to tell the story of Appa Belwalkar but it should not be Natsamrat the play. I wanted to bring other side of Natsamrat and Nana gave his own touch to this role without touching the original Natsamrat.”

Both were saying the same thing that Nana Patekar has done very well and he didn’t touch Dr. Shreeram Lagoo’s mark role of play Natsamrat. Nana has done magic on screen and he played the role of Appa Belwalkar without touching Dr. Lagoo’s role.

This movie will be release in 1^st January 2016. Let’s celebrate the theatre on 1^st January. It will be a great start of the New Year.

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Two things make a man wise, one is the book and second one is the people, this useful thought from upcoming Marathi movie “Shasan” directed by Gajendra Ahire.  Shreya Films Pvt. Ltd. presents and Shekhar Pathak produced ‘Shasan’ movie is based on the politics.

Unknowingly common man gets involved in politics.  Police Force is always there to protect every individual i.e. from common man to celebrities, political leaders. A policeman is also a person, he also have the basic needs. But in today’s situation no one even think of him.  This film shows problems faced by police and their family.  Our country is having shortage of police force, on an average 500 police for 1 lakh citizens.  They are forced to do over times in Ganesh Festival, Navratri Festival, elections, and VIP duties.  This makes them over work even beyond physical capacity.   This leads to health problems, family problems etc.

Siddharth Jadhav is playing the role of police constable.  He has done excellent performance in this movie and shown that the Policeman is also a human being.  Film is having multi-star-cast Makarand Anaspure, Bharat Jadhav, Jitendra Joshi, Manava Naik, Siddharth Jadhav, Dr.Shriram Lagoo, Vrinda Gajendra, Vikram Gokhale, Mohan Joshi, Vinay Apte, Nagesh Bhosle and music composed by Narendra Bhide.

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Gajendra Ahire is back with his new multi-starrer Shasan. The film is a political saga starring Makrand Anaspure, Bharat Jadhav, Siddharth Jadhav, Jitendra Joshi, Manava Naik, Aditi Bhagwat, Vrunda Gajendra, Vikram Gokhale, Mohan Joshi, Nagesh Bhosle, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Amey Ghare and Kiran Karmarkar.

The film features famous poem “maajhya manaa ban dagad” by Vinda Karandikar. This poem is composed by Narendra Bhide and sung by Jasraj Joshi. The story screenplay and doaligues of this film are written by Ahire himself. The film is produced by Shekhar Pathak under the banners of Shreya Films Pvt. Ltd.

The film will be releasing on 22 October all over Maharashtra.

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Two things make a man wise, one is the book and second one is the people, this useful thought given by none other than the great director Gajendra Ahire from his next upcoming Marathi movie “Shasan“. Many great actors are working together in this movie for the first time.

Shreya Films Pvt. Ltd. presents ‘Shasan’ produced by Shekhar Pathak. It’s starring Makarand Anaspure, Bharat Jadhav, Jitendra Joshi, Manava Naik, Siddharth Jadhav, Dr.Shriram Lagoo, Vrinda Gajendra, Vikram Gokhale, Mohan Joshi, Vinay Apte, Nagesh Bhosle and many more.

Shasan movie’s story depends on politics. This is the story of raw ambition, of personal turmoil, of getting to the roots of cause and paying the price for it, characters stuck in a dilemma of what is right and what is wrong, the nexus of politics and mafia, political ambitions, and the ever suffering common man. Overall it is political drama and you will know the more story on 22nd of October. This story written screenplayed by Gajendra Ahire.

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• Review : Nagrik (2015)
• Director : Jaypraad Desai
• Producers : Sacchi Entertainment
• Writer : Mahesh Keluskar and Jaypraad Desai
• Cast : Sachin Khedekar, Milind Soman, Devika Daftardar, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Rajesh Sharma, Dr Shriram Lagoo
• Music : Tubby-Parik and Sambhaji Bhagat
• Genre : Political Drama
• Review By : Keyur Seta

Rating: 3.5/5

Review:

An honest and fearless protagonist stranded in a grossly corrupt system is not a novel subject. But a tried and tested subject ceases to be one if treated completely in an out-of-the-box or unconventional manner. It is this treatment that makes Nagrik an impressive, hard-hitting and intense socio-political saga.

The film revolves around the idealistic, fearless and honest-to-the-core newspaper journalist Shyam Jagdale (Sachin Khedekar). He is known for his column Nagrik, where he exposes corrupt practices. His recent column exposes the utterly corrupt and ruthless politician Vikas Patil’s (Milind Soman) idea of orchestrating communal riots. However, this doesn’t go well with his new editor with lose morals.

As the editor is more interested in generating revenue, Jagdale isn’t allowed to publish any more of such stories. Hence, Patil continues his shoddy practices for political gains as a helpless Jagdale looks on. He soon realizes that Patil is just a cog in the entire corrupt machinery.What’s worse is that Jagdale’s personal life is also far from perfect. Will things ever change within his house and outside?

Nagrik doesn’t follow a conventional storyline. It is more of an attempt of providing a glimpse into the filthy world of corrupt politics and the murky underbelly of Mumbai in a completely no-holds-barred manner. Due to some skillful efforts of the writer and director, the film succeeds in its attempt. The viewer is sucked into a truly intense world, which stays on with him/ her long after the completion of the film.

The practice of generating a hard-hitting effect through visuals, expressions and silences isn’t explored much in Indian films. Off late though, the trend if catching up where a particular scene says a lot without saying much. Nagrik continues the trend very successfully. This results in a number of sequences and incidents that hit you hard without the use of clichéd lines. There is a long non-verbal sequence in the second half portraying the irony of the life in Mumbai, which is the highlight of the film.

However, Nagrik, has its share of downfalls. After a point of time in the second half, the proceedings tend to lose grip when nothing much is happening in terms of story development. Few incidents, in this half, are questionable. Also, the climax isn’t as hard-hitting or something that provides a kick. Thankfully, these issues don’t do much in overriding the plusses.

Sambhaji Bhagat’s folk songs played in the background go well with the situation and add up to the effect. From the rest of the tracks, ‘Bola Vithal’ is impressive. The camerawork goes with the intense theme. The background score also adds to the intensity. But majority of the times, they have decided against using any background music and it works that way.

Some dedicated performances also play a major role. Sachin Khedekar brilliantly brings out the right frustration and vulnerability. Having said this, he scores well during witty confrontational scenes with Soman. But Milind Soman too makes a solid impact. He is outstanding as a ruthless, corrupt but at the same time, calm-headed politician. Dilip Prabhavalkar isn’t behind, as is expected from a quality veteran, as another corrupt politician.

Dr. Shriram Lagoo, another thespian, displays his talent in a difficult role of an ex-politician agonized by the sorry state of affairs. The film can also boast of some high quality performances from Devika Daftardar, Rajesh Sharma (Bollywood actor making his Marathi film debut), Neena Kulkarni, Sulabha Deshpande, Madhav Abhyankar and Rajkumar Tangade.

Overall:

Nagrik is a hard-hitting realistic socio-political saga that is recommended for the lovers of sensible cinema. It is expected to do fairly well at the box office provided it receives positive word-of-mouth.

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