Marathi cinema (i.e cinema in Indian Regional language and my mother tounge) is experiencing a revolution of sorts and so this post. It is steadily shifting from the cheap-comedies to the more sensible kind of cinema and I feel we are fortunate to witness this change. With movie "Harishchandrachi Factory" making it to Oscars and many other films being produced, I also feel unlucky I dont get to see them in theatre close by, except one "Me Shivaji Raje Bhosale Boltoy" that I got to see. It was very interesting to see, that it was Zee Talkies, a mainstream producer, backing a movie’ Natarang’.
Natarang is the story of Guna- the ‘nachya’ in the folk culture of ‘tamasha’. It is an impressive tale of what a ‘nachya’, a female imposter in the ‘tamasha’, has to undergo. It is based on a book by the same name written by Dr. Anand Yadav, Marathi litterateur on a real story of famous Ganpat Patil a female imposter in the ‘tamasha’.
The music by the hit duo Ajay-Atul is impressive as usual. I liked the starting song "Kagal Gavcha Guna" as the accent is very close my Kolhapuri accent. Atul Kulkarni acted really very well and the dance performances by Sonali Kulkarni were just awesome. Overall Natrang turned out to be a really nice movie to watch. The movie will appeal to all of you, so a big applause for Zee Talkies for backing such a venture.
