‘Historic ‘satte pey satta’ ! Paritosh Painter and Rajesh K. Mohanty launch ‘07’ Marathi multi-starrer movies, on same day !

‘Ek saath saat-saat’ ! Yaa phir, ‘hum saat-saath hain’ ! Epic ‘timeless’ historic cinematic moments with streaks of ‘showmanship’ were created last night. That’s when Kaleidoscope Cinema Pictures-Productions , co-producer S R Enterprises , launched and announced not two or three, but ‘seven’ new movies of different genres back-to-back late last night - Chaitanya Padukone

The glittering event held at Hotel Sahara Star was marked by the physical presence of a galaxy of top Marathi film-super stars. The star-turn-out included Mahesh Manjrekar, Urmila Matondkar, Swapnil Joshi, Johnny Lever, Shreyas Talpade, Mrinal Kulkarni, Siddharth Jadhav, Subodh Bhave, Shweta Gulati, Ninad Kamat, Tejaswini Pandit, Upendra Limaye and many other talented eminent actors.

Movies were successively announced by the anchor-compere with the relevant back-drop of the poster-banner and the presence of the respective star-cast and the director.

These seven Pan-India and International-Level Marathi movies are titled ‘ Three Cheers’ ,’Tee Mee Navwheych’ , ‘Niravadhi’, Sutkaa, ‘Phakt Mahilaan Saatthi’ , ‘April Fool’, ‘ Ekdaa Yevun Tari Baghaa’ are mostly either varying stages of under-production or post-production a couple of them yet to start shooting..

The vivacious ‘Rangeela ’ girl Urmila Matondkar is cast in this colourful thriller movie “ Tee Mee Navwheych’ –director yet to be finalized--which has Shreyas Talpade and Ninad Kamat as her co-stars.

While appreciating the energetic josh of co-producer Paritosh Painter, Urmila expressed that “although I have acted in so many movies in the past in a variety of roles, yet an actor is never creatively satisfied and wants to experiment with many more different roles. So I grabbed this unconventional lead role with multiple-shades in this thriller ‘Tee Mee Navwheych’ ,” smiled Matondkar.

Veteran Marathi films veteran actor-director-writer Mahesh Manjrekar announced his upcoming film, titled Niravadhi means ‘timeless’ and an unconventional love-story.

The film will be written and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar while it will star Subodh Bhave, Gauri Ingawale and Upendra Limaye in the lead roles. Enthused Manjrekar, “ We need to revive and boost the overall confidence in our Marathi movies amongst all sections of audiences.. Like the way how Kannada cinema has done with the dubbed ‘KGF’ super-hit movie. As is evident, Marathi Cinema has always been appreciated for its brilliant, innovative creative content”.

Interestingly, charismatic actress-model Mrinal Kulkarni will be directing a cheerful engaging entertainer called ‘Phakt Mahilan Saatthi !?’ to be shot during April mostly in a metro-train compartment on locations in the U.K. which also features the popular actress Sai Tamhankar and three other actresses. While charming actress-director Mrinal will not be facing the camera, this time, there is every possibility that she may put in a brief passing ‘cameo-role’.

While multi-linguist Johnny Lever seemed delighted that he was working with close-buddy director-actor Paritosh Painter in a movie ‘Three Cheers’ which has three languages Marathi, Hindi and English, he shared jestfully, yet seriously that these seven movies launch will prove ‘hum kisi sey kum nahin !’ ’

Meanwhile Punjabi-speaking charming film and TV star actress Shweta Gulati seemed excited that she was making her debut in a situational comedy Marathi movie in ‘Three Cheers’ as a sweet NRI Maharashtrian girl ‘damsel-in-distress’ who has returned from abroad who is helped by three wannabe detectives “ Of course, I will dub my own dialogues in a Marathi because my fans recognize my voice, it will be a creative challenge, plus it’s a trilingual movie with ensemble comedy cast co-stars Siddharth Jadhav, Vijay Patkar, Bharat Dabholkar, Johnny Lever and writer-director Paritosh himself who has also acted in this Three Cheers movie,, “ shares Shweta Gulati who is “super-excited playing a ‘negative-grey-shades’ role for the first-time, in this new Zee TV daily soap show ‘Main Hoon Aparajita’”
On a parting note, multi-talented Paritosh Painter with his futuristic vision is delighted that his seven-movies-launch event has created regional cinema history and also hopes and prays that all his creative and commercial dreams including a studio-model are all fulfilled.