Marathi Cinema also got the highest critical acclaim in the year 2004 with the film Shwaas bagging the Golden Lotus National Award. In 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. It also lacked the powerful lobby at the national level unlike Bengal or South Indian cinema 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. While the theatre of Maharashtra earned recognition at the national level, the cinema of the state, struggled as an alsoran, unable to make a mark. He made the first Marathi film with Digital Special Effects - Pachadlela in 2004. 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 shot on the anamorphic format (Cinemascope) - Dhadakebaaz. Mahesh Kothare then went on to make comedy films which became big hits. 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. Sachin made a film - Navri Mile Navryala and around the same time Mahesh Kothare made a film - Dhumdhadaka. Around the mid 80s two young actors donned the director's mantle.
This decade saw two comedy heroes catapult to superstardom Ashok Saraf and Laxmikant Berde. 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. He however went on to make films with double meaning dialogues and created an audience of his own. The early 70s saw the advent of Dada Kondke who captured the audiences with his sense of humour. Then came directors like Datta Dharmadhikari and Raj Dutt who made traditional family dramas. 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. Shantaram, Master Vinayak, Bhalji Pendharkar, Acharya Atre, followed by Raja Paranjpe, G.
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Marathi Cinema was in its full bloom by this time with the advent of greats like V. 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. Prabhat's Sant Tukaram was the first Indian film to win the Best Film Award at the Venice film festival way back in 1937.
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. It was indeed the mighty Prabhat film company.
However it can be called the first Marathi film as it was conceived by a Marathi speaking person.Īs cinema grew in India, big production houses came on the stage and one of them was again a company owned wholly by Maharashtrians. 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.
Marathi Cinema is as old as Cinema in India. Marathi cinema has grown in recent years. The first Marathi talkie film, Ayodhyecha Raja (produced by Prabhat Films) was released in 1932, just one year after "Alam Ara" the first Indian (Hindi) talkie film. Marathi cinema is an Indian film industry in Marathi language, one of the oldest regional Indian film industries.