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Digpal Lanjekar: Writer / Director / Actor
The Marathi film industry is speedily moving towards making movies with good budgets. Digpal is one of the directors who has taken the initiative towards that. Digpal’s goal is not just making movies with high budget but making them using latest technologies so that the industry directly competes with the other film industries in India and the audience gets movies with great storylines and excellent visual effects. The idea of making a movie on the life of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj actually started when Digpal was in college. He started doing his research on the subject since then. It took almost a decade of study before his first movie came out. His passion towards history and especially revolutionary characters from our history is vibrantly displayed in his work. He is also very well learnt in the art of wielding weapons, the style which he utilizes in his movies.

His passion was strengthened by his meetings with great historians like Ninad- ji Bedekar, Shiv Shaheer Babasaheb Purandare.

His first movie was Farzand which was released in June 2018. The movie was based on one of the Sardar’s of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Farzand was an unsung hero. After the movie was released, the audience loved the movie. Digpal’s passion and efforts had succeeded. It was not only the box office numbers that made the news, but the fact that it ran for more than 50 days in theatres, too.

His second movie was Fatteshikast launched in November 2019. The movie was based on the legendary campaign by Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj on Pune when he performed the country’s first surgical strike against the Mughal commander Shaistakhan. This movie was also a big hit. After the first movie, there was only a time period of one year in which Digpal completed the writing of the second film, shooting, direction, VFX and post production. In this time period, Digpal was also able to meet with the descendants of the sardar’s of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj and able to convince them to be a part of his movies. This enabled him to get a bunch of original documentation of the historical events. Digpal Said, “I have decided to shoot in real location to get the feel and look right. It has been a cumbersome task, but my team has been wonderful”. In his movies, Digpal reprises multiple roles of writer, director, dialogue writer, lyricist and also makes a cameo appearance as a character.

Digpal said, Maratha Light Infantry’s Belgaum Regiment has decided to archive his film “Fatteshikast” which. The Movie will be a part of the their library and soldiers joining the Maratha Light Infantry Belgaum regiment will be shown the film which is a great honour. Another achievemt of “Fatteshikast” is the “Dehu Alandi Puraskar” which the film got after its release.

Digpal’s style of movie making is not only appreciated by the audience but also his producers as well. In one of the interviews, Mr. Ajay Arekar the producer of the movie Fatteshikast said that ‘Digpal not only has a deep sense of movie direction and story telling but also a detailed understanding of the producers concerns and risks. At all times, Digpal has a plan ready for the next steps, the budgets and fail safe scenarios.’ Owing to this attitude, the producers are very happy and agreed to support Digpal in his journey forward and are producing his next couple of movies as well.

Songs are a very important part of any movie in India. The songs in Digpal’s movies are very popular. Digpal also gets credit for the beautiful songs because he has penned most of the songs from his movies. The interesting part is that, he has studied the folk literature and music styles to write songs in folk dialects. This makes the songs very life like and perfect fit for the scenario which the theme or the scene in the movie demands.

Digpal also plans his movie promotions wisely so that an inquisitive thought is triggered in the mindsets of the audience well before the movie is launched. The title poster of his upcoming movie “Jungjauhar”, which displayed in a very attractive font has already created a buzz in Social media.

Digpal’s upcoming movie is the ‘JungJauhar’. The shooting of the entire movie was completed in just 26 days. This movie is all set to be released in June 2020 and is based on the event in Pavan Khind when Baji Prabhu Deshpande and three hundred members of the Bandal clan sacrificed their lives so that Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj could safely reach the destination.

After JungJauhar, Digpal plans to create a few movies based on the lives of legendary characters and unsung heroes not just from the time period of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj but also from the Indian independence movement. The idea and script for this is also finalised and script writing is also in progress for this movie. Digpal plans to make this movie accessible to a wider range of audience by having it made and released it in the Hindi film industry with the central character being played by a renowned Hindi actor. When asked about details, Digpal said ‘The movie is going to be about a brave freedom fighter who teaches the Britishers a lesson in their own home i.e. London in the year 1910’.