Arun nalawade biography of william shakespeare
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THE PLAY’S THE THING
MUMBAI: The preliminary round of Maharashtra State Amateur Marathi teaterpjäs Competition, organised by the state government’s Directorate of Cultural Affairs, is underway, keeping alive a year-old tradition. The one-of-its-kind festival in India encourages performances from across the state and outside. This year, over 54 theatre groups have entered the month-long contest, inaugurated by cultural affairs minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, on November The contest has received participants from Baroda, Indore and Gwalior as well.
The performances are being staged at the Ravindra Natya Mandir, in huvud Mumbai, and the Sahitya Sangh and Y B Chavan auditorium in south Mumbai.
Keeping an old tradition going is not bereft of challenges. At the inaugural function, Mungantiwar threw light on the difficulties of sustaining and promoting amateur artistes in the face of privately-owned theatres with steep rentals. “Only professional, mainstream or big theatre groups that h
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Kay Zala Kalana Movie Review
Story: A youngster moves to the big city to pursue further education. While he chases his dream of making it big in life, he also longs for the love of his life back home. But destiny has other plans.
Review: Kay Zala Kalana is essentially a love story between Sharad (Swapnil Kale) and Pallavi (Girija Prabhu). But when Pallavi's parents try to marry her off to someone else, she commits suicide. Sharad is unaware of this and knows about it only later. This realisation happens through Pallavi's letters, which she had written before her death, and arranged for to be delivered to Sharad over a period of time after her death.
Déjà vu? Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? Well, kind of. So, Pallavi's letters help Sharad achieve his dreams and overcome struggles.
The movie starts in the present and director Suchita Shabbir then takes the audience into flashback. A sweet and sour romance develops and gives the viewer hope of watching something different. However, the
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Now, now
don't get me wrong! I mean no disrespect to the Marathi film industry, and this film in particular, in relation to which I am making a pejorative statement.
My heart(also my lungs, I believe) was overwhelmed with pride, joy(and carbohydrates) when I learnt that a Marathi film had been felicitated with the National Award. A long wait of 50 years( the last Marathi film to win the prestigious(?) award was Acharya Atre's 'Shyamchi Aai') had finally born results. 'Shwaas' is a low budgeted and modest film made earnestly by a fairly inexperienced group of artistes. Both director Sandeep Sawant and principal actor Arun Nalawade are not big names in the talented pool of Marathi arts, be it theatre or cinema. In fact it has always baffled me as to how the same Marathi medium that keeps producing absolutely fine actors from time-to-time, also manages to make the most senseless films possible. In this dark age of Marathi films, 'Shwaas' literally came