Check out these new releases for discerning audience (with subtitles). While all Bollywood films released have flopped this week (Just Khichdi, Kissan etc) these films are being appreciated by audience.
**Marathi films have been doing exceptionally well, the content was always good but they are also growing business. **
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**Marathi cinema is heading the movement of parallel cinema–what used to earlier happen with Bangla and Malayalam films. The multiplexes have given Marathi cinema a fillip. Marathi films represent the true picture of India unlike Bollywood which is all fantasy.
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Samaantar - Film by Amol Palekar
Starring - Amol Palekar , Sharmila Tagore
Rita - Film by Renuka Shahane
Starring - Jackie Shroff, Pallavi Joshi, Renuka Shahane, Suhasini Mulay, Mohan Agashe.
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http://rita.marathitheatre.com/
A movie is based on marathi novel “Rita Welingkar” by Shanta Gokhale. Rita is kaleidoscopic portrait of a life thrown out of gear by circumstances and the ensuing journey towards a stable emotional future. The eponymous Rita is a woman who is forced to give up on her dreams at the tender age of 17, and make a drastic compromise for the future of her family. She is forced to quit her eductaion and give up on her personal dreams. Without pause she takes stock of her reality, and thrusts herself into the life of a more mature woman.
Unable to find any support from her parents, she relies on the kindness of her boss Vitthal Salvi, who mentors her and even supports her further education. Rita finds herself depending on Salvi more in time, falls in love with him.But this relationship proves turbulent and she undergoes a violent nervous breakdown and is admitted into a psychiatric ward to recuperate. While there, she decides to pour her heart out to her long lost best freind
Saraswati through a letter she had meant to write for years. Saraswati and Rita had shared beautiful friendship as children but lost touch due to their divergent paths in life. Saraswati, who herself has been buried in an unrewarding marriage, finds a new purpose in reconnecting with her old freind and helping her in deal with her crisis. They reunite after all these years, and in so doing, realise once again the positive outlook the once shared in their younger days.