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Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 08:56

Movies have become a major part of Marathi culture. Maharashtra's capital, Mumbai, is India's movie capital. India's first ever feature film was made in Maharashtra and by a Marathi. BMM tries to also promote this creative art by making available films or DVDs of quality Marathi movies made either in India or outside.

Currently we are promoting following movies. Please contact Mukund Marathe via email (mukund_marathe@yahoo.com) to schedule screening in your city.,
 
1. Bal Gandharva: Bal Gandharva is a richly mounted, musical, period film on the amazing actor-singer-female impersonator Bal Gandharva's life (1888-1967), set in the early years of Indian theatre. He led a tumultuous life that saw India's struggle for independence from the British, his affair with a Muslim singer (he was Hindu) and fluctuating patronage from the maharajas. Inevitably, as cinema became popular, women who played women's roles edged him out of business. The film is directed by Ravindra Harishchandra Jadhav and produced by Nitin Chandrakant Desai.

Starring: Subodh Bhave, Atharva Karve, Anand Abhyankar, Abhijeet Kelkar, Sidharth Chandekar, Vidyadhar Joshi, Kishor Kadam, Sagar Talashikar, Avinash Narkar, Suhas Joshi, Vibhavari Deshpande, Mukesh Rishi, Amol Kolhe, Manoj Kolhatkar, Prassanna Ketkar, Vikrant Aajgaonkar, Kshitiji Zarapkar, Ajay Purkar
 
BMM proudly supports "Bal Gandharva" in North America. The film is promoted, in North America, by 'Zagmag' and Mumbai Beats'.
 
Member Mandal's can now screen this movie locally and bring high quality entertainment to their community. The standard rate for screening the movie is a flat fee of USD750 + one way shipping. The movie is available in DVD as well as 35mm format. Mandal's can get a, BMM negotiated, discount of USD200 by agreeing to advertise the promoters on the Mandal website and circulate the promoters' newsletter to Mandal members.
 
To reserve your screening or for additional information, kindly contact Lalit Mahadeshwar at 919-462-0140 or lalit@saterisystems.com
 
1. Harishchandrachi Factory: Harishchandrachi Factory is a feature film about making of India's first feature film. Dadasaheb Phalke made history when he produced the first feature film in India called "Raja Harishchandra" in 1913. It was just 4 reels long. Dadasaheb Phalke was so impressed with the moving pictures after watching a film at a tent theater that he embarked upon a journey to create the same magic. "Harishchandrachi Factory" is about this journey over two plus years when he went to England to get trained in film making, came back with the camera and other equipment, assembled the cast and crew, struggled with getting female actors for the female roles and finally completed the film which was very successful. He was offered a job in London to make films, which he refused because he wanted to grow the film Industry in India. India today has the biggest film industry in the world!!!

Harishchandrachi Factory was India's official entry to this year's Oscars. Harishchandrachi Factory is available from UTV in both 35mm reels and DVD with English subtitles. It is available for immediate use. "Harishchandrachi Factory" was awarded audience choice award for best feature film at Los Angeles film festival (iffla).

 

The cost per screening of "Harishchandrachi Factory" is:
Small Mandal (up to 100 members): Minimum $100 or $5 per person whichever is higher
Medium Mandal (101 to 250 members); Minimum $200 or $5 per person whichever is higher
Large Mandal (251 and more members): Minimum $300 or $5 per person whichever is higher

2. Jogwaa: Jogwaa is a story of Putala, an innocent happy and carefree girl tethering on the brink of womanhood when she is unexpectedly forced into a life of servitude to the local deity. A heart wrenching tale of that exposes the hypocrisies and exploitation of an oppressed society harrowed by archaic traditions and plagued by superstitions in the heart of rural India. Jogwaa is a poignant tale of one woman's inspiring journey to break free from the shackles of discrimination, sexual oppression and servitude and find true happiness.

Jogwaa received Best Film on Social Issue Award and Upendra Limaye received the Best Actor Award for his stunning act at the 56th National Film Awards. Also starring is Mukta Barve as Putala. Jogwaa is produced by iDream Productions.

The cost per screening of "Jogwaa" is:
Small Mandal (up to 100 members): Minimum $100 or $5 per person whichever is higher
Medium Mandal (101 to 250 members); Minimum $200 or $5 per person whichever is higher
Large Mandal (251 and more members): Minimum $300 or $5 per person whichever is higher

3. Vihir: A story of two adolescent boys Sameer and Nachiket (cousins who are best friends) standing on the cross roads of life .. to choose between the life that leads to petty worldly small existence or the life of free existence that would let them spread their wings and soar high in open skies... They play a game of hide and seek in a rather unusual way. Where one cousin hides in death. And the other is looking for him in the life around him. ... Samir's search leads him towards the experience of oneness where he can unite with Nachiket again!

Director Umesh Kulkarni received a Best Director in Non-feature category at the 56th National Film Awards and Best Director Award at Pune International Film Festival. Vihir was screened recently at Berlin International Film Festival and Rotterdam Film Festival and at Pusan International Film Festival in Korea. This movie was produced for Amitabh Bachchan Corp. Ltd.

The cost per screening of "Vihir" is:
Fixed Fee of $500 per screening. We will need at least 10 Mandals committing to this to get the movie.

4. Gabhricha Paus:

The cost per screening of "Gabhricha Paus" is:
Small Mandal (up to 100 members): Minimum $100 or $5 per person whichever is higher
Medium Mandal (101 to 250 members); Minimum $200 or $5 per person whichever is higher
Large Mandal (251 and more members): Minimum $300 or $5 per person whichever is higher

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 14:17

Movie Screening

How many screenings have we done on each movie?
Anand

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 14:53

Number of Screenings

We have done around 10 screenings of Harishchandrachi Factory, around 5 screenings of Gabhricha Paus, 2 screenings of Jogwaa and 1 screening of Vihir is happening on July 19th.

Mukund