Tribute to Marathi Cinema

Marathi Cinema is one of the oldest in regional Indian films industry. The first Marathi talkie film “Ayodhyecha Raja” (produced by Prabhat Films) was released in 1932, just one year after “Alam Ara” the first Indian (Hindi) talkie film.

Marathi Cinema also got the highest critical acclaim in the year 2004 with the film Shwaas bagging the Golden Lotus National Award[5]. It was also India’s official entry to the 77th Academy Awards and it also won the President medal for the best film. Shwaas,after Shyaamchi aai (1950) is only Marathi film to won president’s medal and only regional film to enter Academy awards as India’s official entry.

The Maharashtra state government has started the grant given to Marathi film (from 15-30 lakh rupees) and since post-Shwaas, media players like Shringar Films and Zee Telefilms are now showing a keen interest in Marathi cinema. The growing popularity of Marathi television (notably Zee Marathi and ETV Marathi) has also helped Marathi cinema a lot. In fact, Zee Talkies, a 24 hour channel dedicated to Marathi movies has been introduced. Movies like Aga bai areccha, Khabardar, Dombivali fast, Sarivar sari,Yanda kartavya aahe, Uttarayan have received commercial and/or critical success. This decade has seen the emergence of stars like Sunil Barve, Sanjay Narvekar, Atul Kulkarni, Bharat Jadhav. Film-makers like Kedar Shinde, Gautam Joglekar, Gajendra Ahire are new entrants with veterans like Mahesh Kothare, Smita Talwalkar, Amol Palekar.

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