Thursday 13 February 2014

Fandry: Love, Society, Ambitions

The most awaited film of the year will release on February 14

By Nachiket Joshi
                                                     Nagraj Manjule
Fandry, is the story of an age of adolescence when everything seems possible is how Nagraj Majule, the debutant director explains his ambitious film.  It is a story of two teenagers, ‘Jabya’ and ‘Shalu’ and their endeavours of love and societal situations. The film that has garnered awards across the Film Festival circuit including best film (Jury) at Mumbai Academy Moving Images (MAMI) festival and Sant Tukaram award for best film at Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) is set to release on February 14. 
Navlakha Arts and Holy Basil have produced the film and Essel vision and Zee talkies will be distributing the film throughout Maharashtra. Though Fandry has been appreciated in the film festival across the world but a considerable initiative is being taken to launch it commercially.
“We have always spread the content based cinema and made sure that it reaches all parts of Maharashtra and Fandry is the best example,” said Sugandha Lonikar, Assistant vice president, Zee Networks. She confirmed that the film will be released at 150 theatres across Maharashtra.
The story and screenplay of the film has been written by Majule whereas the dialogues have been co-written with Bhushan Manjule. The cast of the film includes Somnath Avghade (Jabya), Suraj Pawar(Piraji), Rajshree Kharat(Shalu), Kishor Kadam(kacharu Nana), Chaya Kadam (Nani), Pravin Tarde (Sarpanch). Editing has been handled by Chandan Arora and cinematography by Vikram Amladi. Aloknanda Dasgupta has given the background score.
Fandry has both appreciation from critics and a solid commercial support. It will be interesting to see the box office collection of this film.


Fandry, will hit the theatres on February 14.

Fandry Facts 

Fandry theme song by Ajay-Atul (video)
2,48,412 hits on YouTube
(still counting)
Official Trailer of Fandry (video)
12,460 hits on you tube
(still counting)
Fandry first look (video)
65,211 hits on YouTube
(still counting)
Fandry presented at International Film Festivals
10

Awards won at International Film Festivals
7 (5 of them at PIFF)

Check out the theme song created by Ajay-Atul




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