Friday, January 22, 2010

Natarang

'NATARANG'
based on marathi novel 'Natarang' by Dr. Anand Yadav
Produced by Zee Taklkies
Director: Ravi jadhav
Music: Ajay-Atul
Singer: Bela Shende
Actors: Atul Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni

'Guna' a farmer cum wrestler from a village near Kolhapur in maharashtra, has a dream, to play role of king in traditional marathi theatre 'Tamasha'. After loosing their jobs in farms, his friends decide to form a tamasha group to keep earning money to support their families. But Guna has a much bigger dream than just earning money. He is an artist! After they have arranged almost everything including a dancer girl, they realise thay don't have someone to play role of 'Nachya' a typical feminine comedian character played by male actor in tamasha. This turns the whole story and Guna's future also!
Atul Kulkarni has taken immence efforts to play role of macho farmer in pre-interval part and the typical feminine 'Nachya' in the second half. The efforts aren't just restricted to gaining and losing 16kg in a time of 40-50 days, but also a great level of observation and acting, especially for the role of Nachya. (video link at the end)
On the music front, Ajay Atul and Bela Shende have done a very good job. All the songs are great. Sonali Kulkarni (no, not the Dil Chahta Hai wali) has used all the opportunity to showcase her dancing and acting skills to the fullest. The opening dance by Amruta Khanvilkar (a Zee music anchor) is also amazing. I will actually like to watch this movie again in movie hall for this song and dance experience! Excellent.
The movie keeps viewers stuck to their seats till the last line of end credits! The instrumental played for end credits has some magical effects!
An excellent Marathi movie after a long time.

A version with English subtitles will be released on 22nd Jan. Worth watching in movie hall. Till then you can enjoy these youtube links.
To watch efforts taken by Atul Kulkarni click here.
Amruta Khanvilkar lavani dance here.
Sonali Kulkarni performing on the amazing music here.

5 comments:

kiran said...

Hmm,
Bhavin i think i must watch this movie now.

Janaki Sincro Mulay said...

Hey,

All this while i didnt really get the time to visit your blog, but today i finally did! n i loved it! :-)

keep up gud writing!

n abt tht post of urs abt making mistakes....i've made some biiiig mistakes in my life too wit d same attitude tht m learning, tht m growing! yeah...mistakes taught me a lot! bt plz b careful nt to make too big mistakes.....coz it bcomes difficult to deal wit thm...ofcourse u learn n u bcum better as a person wit every experience.....bt esp wit matters relating to heart, better to b careful...personal experience se bata rahi hoon!! keep it safe!! :-)

bhavin said...

hehe... :)
Thank you J.
Sure I will :)

Siddhartha Joshi said...

even i want to see the movie now :)

Sharvani Pinge said...

Nice review. I've been dying to see this movie.