Ashwin Chitale

Producer Mr. Kuldeep Pednekar's debut venture 'Sankasurs' shoot started with a song

PUNE: Hopes of a revival of the golden era of Marathi cinema soared high on Saturday, with the highly-acclaimed Marathi film Shwaas (Breath) being adjudged the best feature film at the 51st National film awards 2003 on Saturday.

Finally, we could see what Mimoh Chakraborthy actually looks like!

PUNE: The phone has not stopped ringing at the one-room residence of the Chitales in Shukrawar Peth. Eight-year-old Ashwin Chitale took every call with the same touching sincerity and transparency that has won him the best child actor's award for his role in Shwaas (Breath), the best film this year.

Actor Ashutosh Rana's next Marathi project 'Sankasur' written-directed by Dhyaneshwar Margaj will include an 11-minute devotional track

PUNE: Marathi film Shwaas's bid for an Oscar received some much-needed help from Puneites during a fund collection drive organised on Friday.

Cast: Mithun Chakraborty, Mahesh Manjrekar, Writer-Director: Girish Girija Joshi Producer: Basant Talreja And Kartikeya Talreja

MUMBAI: 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.

With the much publicized Kal Kissne Dekha���s non-performance, it simply seems like an extended spell of the producer-multiplex strike.

With Mukta Art's Paying Guests not paying back much, the helpless audience has to shift hopes to New York