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Marathi cinema (मराठी चित्रपट) is one of the oldest in regional Indian films industry. The first Marathi talkie film "Ayodhyecha Raja"[1] (produced by Prabhat Films) was released in 1932, just one year after "Alam Ara" the first Indian (Hindi) talkie film. Marathi cinema has grown in recent years -the industry is based in Mumbai, India.
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Marathi Cinema is as old as Cinema in India. In fact the pioneer of cinema in India was Dadasaheb Phalke - a Marathi man, who brought the revolution of moving images to India with his first indigenously made film Raja Harishchandra. It was of course a silent film. However it can be called the first Marathi film as it was conceived by a Marathi speaking person. As cinema grew in India, big production houses came on the stage and one of them was again a company owned wholly by Maharashtrians. It was indeed the mighty Prabhat film company. Some of India's landmark films were made by the Prabhat Film Company, which, apart from being good cinema, had social responsibility and human values. Prabhat's Sant Tukaram was the first Indian film to win the Best Film Award at the Venice film festival way back in 1937.[2] In 1954, at the very first edition of the National Awards, the winner of the President's Gold Medal was Shyamchi Aai, Acharya P K Atre's film version of the eponymous novel by Sane Guruji. [3] [edit] The Golden eraMarathi Cinema was in its full bloom by this time with the advent of greats like V. Shantaram, Master Vinayak, Bhalji Pendharkar, Acharya Atre, followed by Raja Paranjpe, G. D. madgulkar, Sudhir Phadke. Later years - that is the 60s - saw the emergence of directors like Anant Mane who made Marathi films based on the folk art form Tamasha. Then came directors like Datta Dharmadhikari and Raj Dutt who made traditional family dramas. The early 70s saw the advent of Dada Kondke who captured the audiences with his sense of humour. He however went on to make films with double meaning dialogues and created an audience of his own. By this time Marathi Cinema was caught in either the Tamasha genre or sob stories revolving around traditional family dramas on one side and the double meaning comedies of Dada Kondke. [edit] 80'sThen came the 80s. This decade saw two comedy heroes catapult to superstardom Ashok Saraf and Laxmikant Berde. Around the mid 80s two young actors donned the director's mantle. Mahesh Kothare and Sachin Pilgaonkar. Sachin made a film - Navri Mile Navryala and around the same time Mahesh Kothare made a film - Dhumdhadaka. Sachin's film became a big box-office hit while Mahesh Kothare's film not only became a mega hit at the box-office but it also became a trend setter and brought the young audiences to Marathi Cinema. Mahesh Kothare then went on to make comedy films which became big hits. He made the first Marathi film shot on the anamorphic format (Cinemascope) - Dhadakebaaz. He brought a great deal of innovations in the technical quality of Marathi films and was also the first to bring Dolby Digital sound to Marathi Cinema with the film Chimni Pakhara. He made the first Marathi film with Digital Special Effects - Pachadlela in 2004. [edit] Reasons for debacle of Marathi cinemaWhile the theatre of Maharashtra earned recognition at the national level, the cinema of the state, struggled as an alsoran, unable to make a mark. The proximity to the production centre of Hindi cinema (Bollywood) which encroached on the identity of Marathi cinema, the shortage of cinema halls for exhibition, a vibrant theatre, television, then infamous state government subsidy scheme whereby a producer gets some Rs 16 lakh to make a film, tries hard to save a couple of lakhs even from that meagre amount and ends up with a tacky final product, lack of marketing etc. It also lacked the powerful lobby at the national level unlike Bengal or South Indian cinema.[4] [edit] Revival of Marathi CinemaIn past few years,Marathi cinema industry has produced many movies that are not only critically acclaimed but commercially successful also.This has given Marathi viewers as well as producers confidence that was very much needed.Although budgets of Marathi movies is not high the quality of subjects and presentations have been in fact better than peer industries. [edit] ContempraryMarathi 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.[6] 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, Tingya,Valu, Kadachit have received commercial and/or critical success. This decade has seen the emergence of stars like Sunil Barve, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Sonali Kulkarni, Amruta Subhash, Ashwini Bhave, Sanjay Narvekar, Atul Kulkarni, Bharat Jadhav. Film-makers like Kedar Shinde, Gautam Joglekar, Gajendra Ahire, Bipin Nadkarni, Mahesh Manjrekar, Chandrakant Kulkarni, Umesh Kulkarni, Mangesh Hadawale are new entrants with veterans like Mahesh Kothare, Smita Talwalkar, Amol Palekar. [edit] Awards[edit] Filmfare Awards
[edit] Maharashtra State Awards
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