Monday, 5 May 2014

खरीच ‘दुसरी गोष्ट’

नचिकेत जोशी  “चित्रपटात दाखविलेल्या सर्व घटना व पात्र काल्पनिक आहेत, त्यांचा कुठल्याही जीवित अथवा मृत व्यक्तींशी संबंध नाही. तसे साधर्म्य आढळल्यास तो निव्वळ योगायोग समजावा.” दुसरी गोष्ट हा चित्रपट पाहताना तुम्हाला कितीही वाटले, की हा चित्रपट माननीय आणि अती सन्माननीय सुशीलकुमार...

Saturday, 19 April 2014

Hitting the Rustic Notes

Ek Hazarachi Note offers music that is rustic in feel yet contemporary in its treatment Team m4m Rustic music with contemporary treatment is how one can describe the music of the upcoming Marathi film Ek Hazarachi Note. The music of the film consisting of five songs composed by National Award...

Friday, 18 April 2014

The Marathi Imprint

m4m explores why Marathi films are enjoying repeated success in the National Awards Apoorva Tapas Amruta Subhash in Astu Marathi cinema continues to prove its mettle at the National Film Awards this year as well. At the 61st edition of the National Film Awards declared on April 16, regional...

Monday, 14 April 2014

I choose my own stories: Sujay

Neelambari Bhoge Following the tradition of enriching Marathi Cinema, National award winning filmmaker Sujay Dahake is back with a film - ‘Ajoba’ that is based on a true story of a leopard. ‘Ajoba’ – the leopard’s miraculous journey from Pune to Mumbai was mapped with the help of a radio transmitter...

The Art of Transition

Praveen Lulekar The laid back, eccentric journalist of the novel takes the form of Nilu Phule on screen and the image coincides with the raw shape your mind had formed reading the original. The haunting ‘ushaha kaal hota hota…’ compensates for all the descriptions and leaves you with a feeling...

Revisiting Khairlanji

The incident that shook the state of Maharashtra is being recreated through a Marathi play and an upcoming Marathi film Neelambari Bhoge The September 29, 2006 was marked as the black day in the history of progressive state of Maharashtra. It is that unfortunate day when four Dalits in Khairlanji village of...

Mahadevbhai: Diary of an Onlooker

Praveen Lulekar The man and the ideology called Gandhi have been analysed from various perspectives – in art and otherwise. But history is often lost in wrong perceptions that either glorify or mortify its characters. Aasakta Kalamanch has come up with a recreation of Gandhivaad on stage through...

A story teller in the making

Internationally acclaimed director NagrajManjule narrates his journey in the filmmaking exclusively to m4m Praveen Lulekar Director NagrajManjule's short film Pistulyawas received with a rave response and it went on to write its name on the National Awards. Manjule is now stepping into the...

A Unique Chemistry

Praveen Lulekar The box-office opens in 2014 with one of the most awaited films – Ravi Jadhav’s Timepass (TP). The lasting impressions of Vishu from Balak-Palak (BP) and Shirodkar from Shaala will probably be still in our minds when we watch Prathmesh Parab and Ketaki Mategaonkar, the lead pair...

‘The Glory is on my Craft…’

Oscar winner and the master of his own craft sound artist Resul Pookutty pours his heart out to m4m Praveen Lulekar Resul Pookutty is an amiable man with a smile always lingering beneath his beard. The sound artist made every Indian proud when he won the Academy Award...