From Ajay Devgn to Priyanka Chopra and Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood stars who have featured prominently in Marathi cinema : Bollywood News
The information that celebrity Akshay Kumar might be portraying the pivotal position of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Mahesh Manjrekar’s Marathi extravaganza, Vedat Marathe Veer Daudale Saat (Seven Marathas charged with ardour) has created fairly a stir within the business. Akshay, who speaks Marathi with none accent, has mentioned that it is a dream-come-true position for him, and he’ll give the whole lot to it—in his phrases, “Jitna mera dam hai laga doonga.” The movie can also be being designed as the primary Marathi pan-Indian (the “in” time period these days!) film ever!
From Ajay Devgn to Priyanka Chopra and Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood stars who’ve featured prominently in Marathi cinema
Akshay has already acted in a vital particular look in Aadhaar 20 years again because the hero’s buddy who brings his bride to the wedding venue, and has later produced 72 Miles—Ek Pravaas and Chumbak, movies that had been additionally critically acclaimed.
However at the moment, performing in and even producing Marathi movies has change into a matter of satisfaction for our stars, apart from the truth that most producers and even some administrators and composers are actually experimenting—normally profitably!—with forays into Marathi motion pictures. And why is that?
Mumbai is the epicenter of the Hindi movie business and the karmabhoomi for each main star. Add friendships throughout the fraternity and we all know why many Hindi movie stars, a few of whom even have Marathi as their mother-tongues, forayed into occasional performing in Marathi movies, like Nutan (Paradh), Tanuja (Pitruroon), Nana Patekar (Natasamrat and extra) and Padmini Kolhapure (Mai, Pravaas). Nonetheless, the distinction is that, in latest occasions, with Marathi motion pictures at an all-time excessive, at the moment’s Marathi-speaking stars like Madhuri Dixit Nene, Riteish Deshmukh and Shreyas Talpade have a higher involvement and so are additionally producing motion pictures of their mother-tongue.
House productions
Riteish had produced (and acted in) the 2014 Lai Bhaari, a blockbuster. It had Salman Khan in a lovable cameo as Bhau. Inspired, Riteish is now turning director with Ved (Insanity) that has Salman, who has at all times professed his love for Marathi (actually his mother-tongue as she is a Maharashtrian) cinema in an prolonged cameo. The celebrity has already ‘remade’ Mulshi Sample as Antim—The Closing Reality (sadly with incorrect adjustments that undid the remake!) and had plans up to now to remake two extra blockbusters, Shikshanaachya Aaicha Gho and Mee Shivajiraje Bhosle Boltoy.
Shreyas Talpade even produced Sanai Choughade and the super-hit Poshter Boyz and starred in them. He even turned director with the Hindi remake of the latter movie with Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol, which in contrast to the Marathi movie, flopped.
Madhuri Dixit Nene’s manufacturing, the offbeat 15 August, premiered on Netflix, although she didn’t act within the movie. She is now additionally producing the hilarious tackle superstition, Panchak, which was delayed by the lockdown. As an actress, she has starred in Bucket Listing (2018), a feel-good drama that grossed six occasions its manufacturing funds.
Mee Marathi!
Celebrity Ajay Devgn’s liking for Marathi is not at all restricted to his half-Maharashtrian spouse Kajol, or to his mega-hit co-production, Tanhaji—The Unsung Warrior. He produced the applauded in addition to profitable Marathi movie, Vitti Dandu in 2014 after which Aapla Manus (by which he additionally made a cameo) in 2018. These movies not solely explored points like Indian independence and the care of the aged but additionally had been deeply rooted in household relationships. On report, Ajay has at all times expressed his love for the whole lot Marathi.
A person who owes the whole lot to Mumbai metropolis, Amitabh Bachchan has accomplished loads in return for the house cinema of this area. The Maharashtrians have revered him each as actor and singer, and one return gesture from the legend is his rendition of 4 devotional non-film numbers, ‘Pasaydaan’, ‘Sukhkarta Dukhharta’, ‘Shishu la nivedan’ and ‘Tuljapurla jau chala’.
Extra considerably, he produced the acclaimed 2009 Marathi movie, Vihir, an offbeat drama of two staunch buddies, which was despatched to a number of festivals together with Berlin and Busan. And in 2020, his full-fledged Marathi debut, AB Aani CD was launched, once more a message movie on household relationships. Amitabh additionally spoke Marathi within the movie.
Means again in 1994, when his make-up man, Deepak Sawant, had made his debut as a producer with Akka and wished him to introduce the movie, Amitabh insisted on showing in a tune, and so the theme devotional quantity, ‘Tu Jagati Adhipati’ was reshot with Jaya Bachchan and him. Famed Marathi singer Ravindra Sathe thus bagged the honour of giving the actor playback—by the way the fourth Maharashtrian singer to lend his voice for Amitabh after Laxmikant, Suresh Wadkar and Sudesh Bhosle!
Priyanka Chopra’s Marathi ‘Pebbles’
Among the many millennium stars, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who additionally speaks Marathi creditably properly, not solely made her debut as a producer with the 2016 Ventilator but additionally acted in a small however key position in it as herself. The movie was a smash-hit, remade later in a minimum of 4 extra languages and in addition right into a play, and marked a dynamic debut for her manufacturing firm, Purple Pebble Photos.
The movie made a report Rs. 25 crore from a Rs. 3.5 crore manufacturing funds and gained a number of awards for itself and its numerous workforce members. The awards record was top-lined by three Nationwide awards—for Finest Path, Modifying and Sound Mixing.
Priyanka has thus far produced over 10 movies in India, solely certainly one of which was in Hindi, and of those, three extra (Kaay Re Rascalaa, Firebrand and Paani) have been in Marathi. The final movie additionally gained one other Nationwide award—for Finest Movie on Surroundings Conservation/Preservation.
Particular appearances and extra
Hrithik Roshan made a really particular cameo within the household drama, Hrudayantar (2017). Made up as his well-known character, Krrish, he meets a sick little one who’s his nice fan. The position was splendidly conceived to pack an emotional wallop with no single line being uttered both by Hrithik or the tot.
Ranbir Kapoor too made a cameo as himself in Madhuri’s Bucket Listing itself. Maybe, it was a reciprocal gesture to Madhuri for her cameo in his 2013 Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. And John Abraham produced the 2018 thriller Savita Damodar Paranjpe based mostly on the well-known play of the identical title.
The 1981 Sundara Satarkar noticed Rajesh Khanna and Mehmood in visitor roles. In 1982, Fatakdi (Firecracker) had the chartbuster tune, ‘Kutha kutha jaayaacha honeymoon laa (The place all will we go on our honeymoon?)’ and this naughty dance was filmed on Rekha. Veteran actors Shammi Kapoor, Dharmendra and Suresh Oberoi made forays into Shirdi Sai Baba, whose yr of launch is unknown.
Ventilator had already seen Boman Irani as a health care provider. Anupam Kher too impeccably carried out in Kashala Udyachi Baat (2012), whereas Naseeruddin Shah was a dacoit in Deool a yr earlier—his Marathi diction too was notable.
And starting with veterans R.D. Burman and Laxmikant (a Maharashtrian)–Pyarelal and Bappi Lahiri, even Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal-Shekhar and Salim-Sulaiman have accomplished movies in Marathi. The filmmakers’ and technicians’ record is sort of lengthy, and all we are able to conclude is that Marathi cinema is now in higher demand as a viable possibility than ever earlier than. And so they all love Marathi cinema.
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