Mahesh’s theatrical tribute

Mahesh Manjrekar, who casted Salman Khan to act in his movies like Ready, Dabangg and Bodyguard, has now decided to turn his concentration to plays. The talented filmmaker will be soon seen paying a theatrical mark of respect to strong personalities of Indian cinema, both Hindi as well as Marathi.Mahesh asserted that he’s looking forward to a series of stage biographies on the masters of Indian cinema.


Beginning with V Shantaram and Sudhir Phadke, Mahesh Manjrekar would be portraying the central character in all the fragments. The director-actor is even studying the lives of each one in vast direction before playing the characters so that he can do full justice to the real icons of Hindi film industry. Since a long period, Mahesh has felt a missing part in our audience in the indulgent of how the entire film fraternity developed and who all helped give it its perfect silhouette. Mahesh has also felt a vacancy inside him as a star because of the characters he has been doing. Now it’s his turn to take hold of things. While, Mahesh is appreciated with directing the critically acclaimed movies like Vaastav: The Reality, Astitvaand Viruddh... Family Comes First.

He has won a National Film Award and two Star Screen Awards. The ace filmmaker has also acted in many flicks being some of his own productions. He first gathered acclaim as an actor for his performance in the 2002 movie Kaante, and later played negative characters in the Telugu movie titled Okkadunnadu and he also played the role of a gangster in Slumdog Millionaire. He was also seen in the blockbuster hit Dabangg where he played the role of father to Sonakshi Sinha who made her debut with this film opposite Salman Khan.

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Bollywood Directors On TV

Well… there are not judging a Reality Show or making a special appearance on TV. This is novel and serious stuff that we are talking.For the first time on the Indian television, Bollywood’s four celebrated movie makers, Madhur Bhandarkar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Vikram Bhatt and Anurag Kashyap, are presenting short films especially made for the small screen viewers.

This format, known as ‘mini-series’ is popular in the West and has never been tried on the Indian television before. The treatment of these stories has been in the form of short films, which would be finished in 12 weeks . Sanjay Upadhyay, Creative Head (Fiction), Sony Entertainment Television (SET) informed that this 12-week series will be telecast on Sony TV from Monday to Thursday at 10 pm. The series had been named ‘Specials @ 10′ and is on air from March 2.

While three of the directors Bhandarkar, Kashyap and Bhatt - are involved in three separate 12-part stories , Manjrekar is involved with a series of twelve different stories. The concept of the series is not the regular TV stuff. In the heart of all the stories, lies the pain of women. But they are more close to the real Indian women and breaks all taboos.

The show will be in complete contrast from regular television content, and this will break the clutter and bring in new-age content for our
viewers.