This comedy of errors, terrors and duping is an all-time classic. Directed by Jabbar Patel, Jait re Jait, which means win-win, is a multi-layered film, while also being a musical treat. In his quest for revenge, however, Nagya, the protagonist, loses his wife, played by the stunning Smita Patil. The story is a tale of revenge, though the revenge is being extracted by a Thakar – one of the tribes in Maharashtra, on a beehive, for damaging his eye. I am taking a leap in the years here, but Jait re Jait has been a personal favourite of mine for a long time. The film explores, rather poignantly, the role of a mother in the upbringing of a child Atre keeps it simple, which really forms the crux of the experience of watching this heartfelt tale. Directed by the very talented and colourful Acharya Atre and based on a book of the same name by Sane Guruji, Shyamchi Aai is a warm portrayal of a mother-son relationship. No list of classic Marathi movies would be complete without the mention of this film. The following is a list of 15 Marathi movies you should watch, watch again and then watch one more time and it will seek to prove just that:
It was a holy mess, and one would have really preferred an English action drama to some film horribly messing up rural humour.īut things weren’t always that bad- in fact, Marathi cinema produced some of the classics of world cinema when it got going. Not far behind was the politics of it all, with Raj Thackeray’s Marathi manoos dictum trying to fit awkwardly into the cinematic expression. Adding to its misery was the poor state of finances, and an advent of cheap, almost vulgar kind of rural comedy that made a head-way into mainstream Marathi film. Before the beautifully recreated historical sets of the Paresh Mokashi directed venture, the Marathi film was, arguably, dwindling.įrom the beginning of the 21st Century to the next ten or so years, Marathi cinema saw itself fractured by hastily written scripts and almost as hastily directed final prints. Phalke’s story was immortalized in the 2009 Marathi comedy-drama, Harishchandrachi Factory, and it in turn engineered a change in the perception of Marathi cinema in India, if not the world. Before making ‘Raja Harishchandra’, Dadasaheb Phalke, the Indian who pioneered the cinema movement in India, had made a short clip showing a plant blossoming from a bud – little did he know that this would, in fact, be the exact metaphor for cinema in India- a bud when Phalke started, a massive tree with many branches today. On May 3rd, 1913, more than a century ago, the first ever motion picture to have been made by an Indian was shown publicly at the Coronation cinema in Mumbai.
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