Marathi Masterpieces - That Every One Of You Would Love Watching
Marathi cinema is one of the most evolved regional cinemas in India. In fact, according to noted film scholars, this is where the best of Indian cinema comes from. Strong-willed, content-driven and intimate to the issues of its Maharashtrian milieu, it has come of age.
Here is a list considering both commercial success and impact on local, regional & national cinema industry and the society. I consider it my job, nay, my duty, to honor the best and the greatest Marathi movies.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. - Walt Disney
Here is a list considering both commercial success and impact on local, regional & national cinema industry and the society. I consider it my job, nay, my duty, to honor the best and the greatest Marathi movies.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. - Walt Disney
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- DirectorJabbar PatelStarsMohan AgasheSuresh BansaleRavindra BapatWhen Chief Minister of Maharashtra gets an anonymous call to warn him against possible rebellion in his party, all is not well. The current government is being questioned by opposition on a lot of issues such as health, education but the most important being the situation of drought. Finance Minister Vishwasrao wants to fall out of current government has an ambition to become CM but he is not the only one. There are others like Manikrao and Daulatrao who nurture the same aspirations. The CM has to foil this plan. At any cost. Intriguing tale of Machiavellian politics that's devoid of any values.
- DirectorJabbar PatelStarsNilu PhuleShreeram LagooSmita PatilA corrupt Hindurao believes drunken Master inquiring about Maruti Kamble could be a government official whose come to stop his wrong doings.He agrees to tell him about Maruti Kamble on a condition after hearing he will leave the village.
- DirectorNishikant KamatStarsSandeep KulkarniPournima AhireAudumber AphaleA common man fights against the corruption and injustice happening around him.
- DirectorUmesh Vinayak KulkarniStarsMohan AgasheMadan DeodharGirish KulkarniSameer and Nachiket are relatives and friends. Nachiket, who is the more mature of the two, wants to escape his stifling surroundings. Sameer does not understand this. Then one day, Nachiket drowns in a pool where they often swam together. His death takes over Sameer's life, as he becomes lost in the fear and meaning of death. No one comes to his help. He must search to learn the meaning of life, however vaguely, on his own.
- DirectorParesh MokashiStarsNandu MadhavVibhawari DeshpandeAtharva KarveIn 1913 India's cinema industry is born from Dadasaheb Phalke's efforts to make Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first feature-length B&W silent film.
- DirectorUmesh Vinayak KulkarniStarsAtul KulkarniBharti AchrekarMohan AgasheSwanand Gaddamwa comes to a small village Kusavde to get hold of a bull who was once considered holy by the villagers.
- DirectorSandeep SawantStarsArun NalawadeAshwin ChitaleSandeep KulkarniThis story is about how an old man tried to show his grandson the preciousness and beauty of life in a no win situation such as cancer. It is about keeping a positive attitude towards life.
- DirectorRajesh MapuskarStarsTanvi AbhyankarKirti AdarkarPournima AhireGaju Kaka who never makes an appearance is breathing his last in the hospital few days before the Ganpati festival. As the news of his illness spreads, the entire extended family gathers to show their support, at the hospital. But as the family gathers and meets after a long time, a lot more happens in the hospital's waiting room.
- DirectorSumitra BhaveSunil SukthankarStarsMohan AgasheDevika DaftardarOmkar GhadiA mother sea-turtle has to return to the waters leaving the eggs for nesting on the shore.... The nests are to be protected so that the newborn turtles can go into the deep waters on their own! Nonviolent, non-aggressive turtle is a metaphor and much more.....
- DirectorRajeev PatilStarsUpendra LimayeMukta BarveVinay ApteTwo strangers are forced into a life of servitude to the local deity. They fall in love and want to start a new life but will the wrath of a highly superstitious community let them live in peace?
- DirectorSumitra BhaveSunil SukthankarStarsSadashiv AmrapurkarUttara BaokarSiddharth DaftardarChronicles the life of famous doctor (fictional) through a series of flashbacks, as he is travelling to his native place after decades where it all began in extremely modest circumstances.
- DirectorGautam JoglekarStarsNana PatekarSaksham KulkarniNarayani ShastriA mischievous boy, living with his grandmother in a village that people believe is haunted, meets the ghost "Bhutya". How the "Bhutya" transforms the boy's character and the whole village in the process, forms the rest of the story.
- DirectorNagraj ManjuleStarsRinku RajguruAkash ThosarArbaz ShaikhIn interior Maharashtra, a fisherman's son and a local politician's daughter fall in love against the restrictions of caste hierarchy.
- DirectorUmesh Vinayak KulkarniStarsNana PatekarDilip PrabhawalkarJyoti SubhashKeshya, a simple villager believes that god has arrived in his village but everyone disbelieves him. Later when the politics plays its part things take a drastic change.
- DirectorMahesh ManjrekarStarsNana PatekarMedha ManjrekarMrunmayee DeshpandeAfter he retires, an aging theatre actor and his wife begin to feel unwanted by their children.
- DirectorGajendra Vitthal AhireStarsAnand AbhyankarSubodh BhaveVikram GokhaleMovie tells a story of a man who struggles to save his wife's life. Lack of money makes him ask for help to his children and relatives. He even tries to sell his house in Kokan, which is filled with his wife's beautiful memories. But his old age makes him helpless. Vikram Gokhale has given justice to this character. His acting is astonishing as always.
- DirectorNitin NandanStarsChinmay KambliAarti MorePratik DalviThe story of a small boy living in rural India and his topsy-turvy adventures as he tries to save his family & the family farm from moneylenders.
- DirectorSumitra BhaveSunil SukthankarStarsMohan AgasheIla BhateOm BhutkarA Sanskrit Professor, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, sees an elephant on the street. Fascinated with the creature, he follows it home, and is cared for by the family to whom the elephant belongs.
- DirectorMangesh HadawaleShantanu Ganesh RodeStarsSunil DeoSharad GeokarPradeep PatwardhanTingya, where he lives in a village in Maharashtra. Tingya's parents are poor farmer owns a pair of bulls, Chitangya and Patangya. 'Tingya' has a great relationship with Chitangya. Chitangya is part of Tingya's life. One day Chitangya is injured and is unable to stand and cant work in farm. Tingya's father, who is already burdened with debt, is left with no option but to sell the ailing bull to a butcher and buy a new one. The rest of the story consists of how'Tingya' tries to save Chitangya from being sold to the butcher.
- DirectorKiran YadnyopavitStarsVinay ApteAshwini GiriAshmita JoglekarShreedhar works as a clerk, lives a happy, content life with his family in a beautiful Konkan village. His troubles begin when he takes his wife, son and daughter with him on an official tour to Mumbai. Dazzled by the sights, Omkar, Sreedhar's son, insists on visiting a five star hotel that Shreedhar can't even dream of affording. Unable to placate the son, the father wagers a night's stay at the hotel if the son can stand first in his school exams. The father-son duo's attempts to win the bet and the extent to which they are pushed by harsh realities makes for the funny and emotional journey of this bittersweet tale.
- DirectorSumitra BhaveSunil SukthankarStarsAtul KulkarniSonali KulkarniTushar DalviShesh was a intelligent boy who grew in the village with his mother and sister Seena and cousin Kalyani.He loves spending his time in forest with the nature of trees called Devrai.Shesh starts to like Kalyani upon knowing this his mother asks Kalyani to go back to her father's house.Shesh creates a imaginary world of Devari a sacred mangrove and asks money for research from his mother.His mother refuses it as she has to get Sheen married.Shesh slowly becomes lonely after his mother's death and Sheen's wedding and believe's villagers will destroy Devrai.His loneliness his imaginary world more realistic and also thinks that Parvati wife of his servant Shambu is Devrai.
- DirectorSanjay JadhavStarsSwapnil JoshiAnkush ChaudhariUrmilla Kanetkar KothareShreyas discovers the magic of love and friendship in college days; only to be perplexed with the choices to be made.
- DirectorMakarand ManeStarsShashank ShendeSahil JoshiAbhay MahajanIt is the heart-warming journey of father and son; the endearing pursuit of a 7-year old boy to find his dead mother, innocently mistaking her to be at God's abode and the tireless plight of his father, a farmer stuck in the vicious circle of drought and debt. With no one else to turn to, they travel to Pandharpur, God's abode, where each thinks they will find what they seek. But this search tests their harmony, morality, integrity and faith. Will this physical and emotional quest help them find a way to mend their bond? And will the underdog father and son redeem themselves to find a way out of this cycle of misfortune and emerge victorious?
- DirectorAditya SarpotdarStarsAmbarish DeshpandeManoj JoshiBhau KadamA greedy landlord tries to take over a beautiful grove in Konkan from its rightful ancestral owner.
- DirectorSameer PatilStarsDilip PrabhawalkarHrishikesh JoshiAniket VishwasraoThe life of three men when their photos appear on an advertisement for sterilization.