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Its back and its better! Its time for Marathi film lovers everywhere to rejoice as Goa Marathi Film Festival returns for the eight edition. Scheduled to delight movie goers from July 17 to 19, the festival will see the screening of some critically acclaimed movies like Dr Prakash Baba , Elizabeth Ekdashi, Happy Journey, Khwada, Court, Time Pass 2, Sugar Salt and Prem etc. The much awaited festival will be inagurated on July 17 at 6 pm at Kala Academy followed by the world premiere of of the Marathi movie Highway. The film marks the Marathi film debut of Bollywood actress' Huma Querishi and Tisca Chopra and is based on the theme of urbanisation and the effects it has on our lives. The other stars include Girish Kulkarni, Mukta Barve, Renuka Shahane, Nagraj Manjule, and Sunil Barve.
The festival will also witness the highly anticipated premiere of Partu, Hollywood's first Marathi feature film by award winning director Nitin Adsul. Set in the backdrop of 1968, the film follows the story of a young boy in search of his biological family. The other movie set to premiere is Gajendra Ahire 's Milkanth Master, a love story set in pre-independence Maharasthra.
The festival will also honour two senior veteran actors Ramesh and Seema Deo with the special
‘Kritadnyata Puraskar’ as a tribute for their exemplary contribution to the World of Cinema.
Apart from a workshop on 'Releasing Marathi Movies in Maharashtra' by Girish Wankhede, for the first time the festival will also have the 'Goa Film Festival Screenwriters Point', a contest for aspiring scriptwriters to send in their scripts out of which the best will be picked for production by a reputed production house in Mumbai.
BOX 1- July 18 Film Schedule
FILM SCHEDULE
MAQUINEZ 1
9.45am – 11.42am
DR. PRAKASH BABA AMTE
Dir: Adv. Samruddhi Porey
12.05pm – 2.00pm
COURT
Dir: Chaitanya Tamhane
2.30pm – 4.40pm
HAPPY JOURNEY
Dir: Sachin Kundalkar
5.00pm – 7.08pm
WELCOME ZINDAGI
Dir: Umesh Ghadge
MAQUINEZ 2
11.00am – 1.00pm
SIDDHANT
Dir: Vivek Wagh
2.00pm – 4.18pm
SANDOOK
Dir: Atul Kale
4.40pm – 6.30pm
DUSARI GOSHTA
Dir: Chandrakant Kulkarni
INOX
9.30am – 11.55am
TIMEPASS 2
Dir: Ravi Jadhav
12.25pm – 2.30pm
JAYJAYKAR
Dir: Shantanu Ganesh Rode
3.10pm – 4.30pm
ELIZABETH EKADASHI
Dir: Paresh Mokashi
5.00pm – 6.50pm
KHWADA
Dir: Bhaurao Karhade
7.40pm – 9.10pm
KILLA
Dir: Avinash Arun
KALA ACADEMY
10.00am – 12.10pm
SUGAR, SALT ANI PREM
Dir: Sonali Bangera
12.45pm – 2.48pm
NAGRIK
Dir: Jaypraad Desai
3.10pm – 4.20pm
A PAYING GHOST
Dir: Sushrut Bhagwat
6.00pm – 7.43pm
PANHALA (Premier)
Dir: Prakash Kunte
BOX 2- Must watch
Dr. Prakash Baba Amte
Director: Adv. Samruddhi Porey
Cast: Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Aagashye, Ashish Chougule, Vikram Gaikwad
Synopsis: Biopic on Dr. Prakash Amte, the selfless doctor and social worker who devoted his life towards the development and upliftment of the tribal people in the forests of western Maharashtra.
Maquinez 1, 9.45 am
Elizabeth Ekadashi
Director: Paresh Mokashi
Cast: Shrirang Mahajan, Sayali Bhandarkar kavthekar, Pushkar Lonarkar, Nandita Dhuri
Synopsis: 'Elizabeth' is a bicycle that is gifted to Dnyanesh by his father after whose death Dnyanesh takes to supporting his mother. Financial necessity forces Dyanesh's mother to sell Elizabeth to a pawn-shark. Dnyanesh and his group of friends must now find a way to recover Elizabeth which forms the rest of the movie
Inox, 3.10 pm
Khwada
Director: Bhaurao Karhade
Cast: Shashank Shende, Anil Nagarkar, Bhau Shinde, Surekha, Yogesh Dimbale
Synopsis: It is a story about shepherds who suffer from land acquisition by the forest department and how their dreams of a settlement get shattered by different obstacles, leading them to migrate permanently.
Inox, 5 pm
