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MARATHI CINEMA
Marathi Cinema is as old as Cinema in India. In fact thew 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. It was of course a silent film. However it can be called the first Marathi film as it was concieved by a Marathi speaking person.

As cinema grew in India, Big production houses came on the stage and one of them was again a company owned wholly by Maharashtrians. It was indeed the mighty PRABHAT FILM COMPANY. This company made many films in both Hindi and Marathi language simultaniously.

Marathi Cinema was in its full bloom by this time with the advent of greats like V. Shantaram, Master Vinayak, Bhalji Pendharkar, Acharya Atre, followed by Raja Paranjpe, G. D. madgulkar, Sudhir Phadke. 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. Then came directors like Datta Dharmadhikari and Raj Dutt who made traditional family dramas. The early 70s saw the advent of Dada Kondke who captured the audiances with his excellent sense of humour. He however went on to make films with double meaning dialogues and created an audiance of his own. 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 comdies of Dada Kondke.

Then came the 80s. Around the mid 80s two young actors donned the director's mantle. MAHESH KOTHARE and SACHIN PILGOANKAR. Sachin made a film - NAVRI MILE NAVRYALA and around the same time Mahesh Kothare made a film - DHUMDHADAKA. Sachin's film became a big box-office hit while Mahesh Kothare's film DHUMDHADAKA not only became a mega hit at the box-office but it also became a trend setter and brought the young audiances to Marathi Cinema. Mahesh Kothare then went on to make Marathi films which became big hits and soon he had created a place for himself in the pages of the history of Marathi Cinema. He made the first Marathi film shot on the anamorphic format (Cinemascope). The film was DHADAKEBAAZ. 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 with Digital Special Effects - PACHADLELA in 2004 and his latest film KHABARDAR (2005) is also a big box-office success.

Marathi Cinema also got the highest critical acclaim in the year 2004 with the film SHWAAS bagging the Golden Lotus National Award.

Marathi Cinema is vibrant and alive today and with makers like Mahesh Kothare, Sachin and the new breed of film makers, the furure of Marathi Cinema is bright indeed.