‘Adaraneeya Kathawak’ (A Melody of Love) a musical movie directed by Priyantha Colambage has completed its shooting with final scenes filmed at a beautiful location in Belihuloya, Balangoda recently. Most of the shooting in this fourth directorial venture of award winning filmmaker Priyantha was done in Colombo and is undergoing its post-production at this stage. [...]
Marathi Mobi creators are fighting back through hyper-realism .
Let’s be honest: Mobi content is not always high art. The algorithm rewards volume, drama, and often, mimicry. xdesi mobi marathi masala
While Bollywood is obsessed with VFX and pan-India masala, the top Marathi Mobi channels (like Marathi Comedy Club or Think Marathi ) are succeeding because of authentic sound design —the sound of a Zunka Bhakhar being made, the creak of a Peshwai door, the specific slang of Pune vs. Kolhapur. While Bollywood is obsessed with VFX and pan-India
But a quiet revolution has occurred over the last decade. The "Third Screen"—the mobile phone—has dismantled the monopoly of the multiplex and the primetime television slot. What we are witnessing is not just the digitization of Marathi content, but the decolonization of the Marathi entertainment gaze from Bollywood. if not always cultural
For seven decades, the Maharashtrian household operated on a simple hierarchy. First came the Marathi Sanskruti (culture) via Natya Sangeet and the prestigious Dadar-Matunga plays. Second came the overwhelming wave of Bollywood—the Hindi film industry that treated Mumbai as its geographic, if not always cultural, capital.