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Last week I saw 2 Marathi movies. And both were really good movies. Harishchandrachi Factory and Zenda.

Let me first talk about “Harishchandrachi Factory”. A simple movie about Father of Indian film industry, Dadasaheb Phalke. Instead of trying to create “Hero” out of Phalke, the director simply wanted to show the way made his first film in a simple, humorous way. He has not tried to create emotional situations when an ordinary director could have added the usual “rona-dhona”. I remember on the scenes where Phalke is leaving for London, and he is walking down the stairs. He goes down few steps and then comes back to his wife and tells her in ears “हे सगळे तुझ्यामुळे घडतंय”(All this is happening because of you). Nice movie, watch it, and watch it in theater :)

 

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Zenda!! What can I say? I have hardly seen any movie which resembles reality so much and I guess that is what I don’t like about it. Either you tell complete truth or don’t tell. Partial reality and produce bias results.If someone who doesn’t know about Thackeray would just pass it on as a Political movie. I was surprised to see the usual sign of “Story is fictitious, any connection with reality is co-incidence”. Bull Shit!! Anyone would identify the politicians shown with their real counter parts.

The movie is about split in Sena that happened after the heir was declared. It is about 4 young Marathi guys whose life is changes after this. It shows how the cadres of the party have to suffer while the high command sits at the top giving orders and playing pity politics for their own desire for power.

I felt that Raj Thackeray and Narayan Rane’s character were shown negatively. I don’t know whether they are what they are shown in the movie but problem is when you show so many things matching with reality, then there is a possibility that viewer might consider others as real incidents as well. Of course, in terms of music, acting the movie is as good as any Bollywood flick.

I guess following 2 lines from the title song sum up the movie -

भक्ताच्या कपाळी अन् सारखीच माती तरी

झेंडे एगळे, वेगळ्या जाती

One common thing about the 2 movies is that my school mate, Ketan Karande, from Chikitsak has acted in both movies :)

 

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