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Marathi Cinema in Australia

Australia's First ever Marathi feature film Produced in Sydney in 2022. The name of the movie was "The Filmmaker". The length of the movie was 1 hour 15 minutes. The film was written, Directed and Produced by a local resident of Sydney Ashish Aravind Sahasrabuddhe under the banner of Think Grand Films. The film was an outcome of passion added with volunteer work. Local actors, artists and musicians joined in as Volunteers and offered their talent irrespective of the size of the role.

Name of the Film: "The Filmmaker" - Written - Directed By Ashish Aravind Sahasrabuddhe

Filming Dates: June 2022 through October 2022 with a self written story and the script. Filming was done during the weekends due to actors volunteered after their working days.

Language

Primary language of the film "The Filmmaker" was Marathi. Although this film also follows multi cultural aspect and hence Hindi, English languages were used to support the theme.

Storyline Story of an aspiring film maker. Every small or big film maker or for that matter small business startup will relate to this story. A simple Marathi guy who is bored with his routine for years, wants to do something in life. He is self proclaimed good critic. He gets an idea of making films and decides to make one.

Artists All local talent volunteered to this film. There are 17 actors in the film. Marathi theatre artists, Gujarati and Hindi speaking, Asian, Caucasian played part in this film. Some actors also had an experience from previous feature films, ad-films, short films and small screen (TV Shows) in Hollywood and some actors were famous back then in Marathi TV series and some fresh talent.

Release The film was released on 1st November 2022 only on YouTube. The cinema "The Filmmaker" was all volunteer work and hence was made available for free to everyone.