Friday, April 30, 2010


Its MAHARASHTRA DIN today....
Its all over about Maharashtra and its pride, assets, and all the things that have brought maharashtra all together a "MAHA - Rashtra"..
Like being marathi,Marathi food, Marathi scientists, Marathi books, authors, And specially Marathi Movies...

Movies are my weak point..As being a daughter of intellectual couple,My parents always encouraged me to watch sensible movies, and share the view and what are the plus and minus points..
As being a part of a mixed Marathi Society, (coz my mother, my grand ma, my father , my aunt all are all together from different culture and roots) I have came across different people and their lifestyle.

In todays Most of Marathi movies I have not seen any professionalism that is there in Hollywood or Bollywood industry. But its a good sign that some Marathi movies are sensible and also enjoyable without having any headache.(Valu, Ek daav dhobipachaad etc)
Some Marathi movies are really good in technologies sound effects screenplay dialog etc
But I have to say it very sadly that they are not so appealing.
There are plenty of movies that are made for the audience which has lowered their choices.Its not their fault Its about the knowledge and way of thinking.
This audience have never came across the intellectuality they obviously like melodramatic scenes, Vamps , Hero heroins.
Some good actors are moving to this industry because these movies are all time hit in village
Just because an actors have a big hit once upon a time Producers are allowing them to act them same.They never try to change the image.
(For eg: Bharat Jadhav was really good in first two movies and now in each and every movie he acts the same.Which cause irritation nothing else)
The technical Background of most Marathi movie is very poor.Locations, Sound effects are below average.
Script is like some pieces of stories are cultivated together to for a good but turned into hazardous story.
It is mostly like old wine in new bottle
I have attended one seminar on directorial skills but it was actually promotion of a Marathi Movie named Jogwa.
The producer and director were complaining about how the movie is very good but there is no response, No funding, No advertisements..It was all about how everyone is acting very bad to his movie. They have some question answer session where they replied every question negatively and how they struggled to come to this place.
I seriously doubt about their intension.


In opposite sense,
there are few good movies to talk about.
Some movies are really good in screen plays.
I have seen Sanai Choughade(Produced bu Mukta arts)
It was actually in technical background.
Some movies like restaurant, Valu, SarkarNama, Vihir, Natrang are technically gr8
Nice scripts which actually make any one to think.
The cast was real good and appropriate and compatible to script to each other, Directorial skills are good,
Marketing for them was really effective.
and they made it on box office.
Movies like Mi Shivajiraje bhosale boltoy and shikshana chya aai cha gho are technically good.but
scripts were too mediocre. Casting was OK.



I think movies are made for entertainment
when a person is in state of mind to think and understand he can digest heavy subjects .
Most of people come to watch movie for relaxing their mind..
Some sensible movies make sense but idiotic movies irritates and provokes people think that it is waste of money
If the same thing happens obviously nobody will try to check new movies,
I personally feel Marketing funda is not yet adopted.



Some good actresses and actors are there in marathi like smita patil nana patekar amruta subhash, renuka shahane, Pallavi joshi etc
But most of people are average looking..When we dream about a superman he is always in superman costume not in general shorts
Its our mentality
The point is looks wise marathi actors are very average...One can not assume them as superman and is they try to be they do not gel well with the super man image.
They are good in middleclass image..
I might be wrong.
But I can not accept Bharat Jadhav or Makarand Anaspure or Siddharth Jadhav as Industrialist, Business tycoons.

Some actresses are good looking but they actually lack in acting skills.
Like Sai tamhankar, Kranti Redkar etc.

real good looking and sensible actress i have found just few.Like smita patil, Amruta subhash, urmila kanertkar etc.

Still I have got a feeling that movies like Harishchandrachi factory, Shwas, Zenda,Sawarkhed ek gaav are improving the face of marathi film industry.
Marathi film industry was established by Dadasaheb falke and few good directors are cultivating that culture and growing the marathi film industry is actually good sign..








6 comments:

  1. Nice going ....jai maharashtra:)

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  2. Without considering your age, its one of the best articles I came across on Marathi movie industry in recent times.

    I would like to add few things,
    Milind Soman is Marathi looks like superman…but he gets more money than the budget of entire Marathi film for posing in front of camera for a single assignment. Its budgetry issue and all regional movies face the same problem.

    A regional director or writer motivated by money can never deliver good…due to budget issues… only one motivated by quality output and art can do well. Now, it’s tough to find such people with recent exposure to Daily soaps etc.

    Natrang was a good movie as well… us missed it … I can not blame you for that because the list of good films in Marathi is long….they are doing really good job than other regions.

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  3. Good article ...

    Movies are getting judged by viewers.
    Its sometimes the fault of audience which we see in movie industry .
    Cause finally what producers need is cash .
    And once the audience likes it only they get the cash
    Unfortunately if an actor movie got hit for his particular style, the team decides to make cash out of it. they just forget his other acting talents .

    Its all good timing and also the guts of the actors and other technicians to reject poor scripts or poor team who is looking just to make money rather than a good movie (with a good moral and a clear idea).

    Movies are as always taken by different people in different ways
    I have seen people cheeering for a scene which i felt too boring and senseless , where are when i was watching movies like udaan in a film festival, i was shocked to no claps from audience (I was wondering - Does only serious thinking people comes for film festivals).

    Anyways i feel proud to be an Indian , as we are enjoying the rich culture . Every state having their own languages, festivals and films . Its beautiful to get a peep into Marathi Movies ... Keep posting ...

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