Jhing Chik Jhing – the Marathi film that my company Cogito Entertainment produced – is ready.
It was part of the panorama at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) on Wednesday – and ran houseful to an appreciative audience.
The last year has been a roller coaster. Producing a film, especially one that is made out of passion – is the best way to age rapidly 🙂 I have come to a conclusion that Independent producers making movies is the modern equivalent of the quest for treasure – full of adrenaline and adventure !
This the poster for the film
Jhing Chik Jhing
Cast : Bharat Jadhav, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Madhavi Juvekar, Chinmay Kambli, Aarti More, Sanjay Mone, Uday Sabnis
Director : Nitin Nandan
Cinematographer : Amalendu Chaudhary
Producers : Cogito Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
This from the official synopsis
Shyam is an everyday small boy, mischievous and very inquisitive. His world is made up of Mouli (father), Manda(mother), Dipti (sister) & Gautam (best friend).The family lives in a small house on their cotton farm, somewhere inCentral Maharashtra.
The family earns its meagre living by growing cotton, which is sold at the local Government Cotton Mill. But Shyam is least concerned with all this. Most of his time is spent in exploring,
discovering & playing with Gautam.The major concerns in his life are the state of his school uniform (a hole in his pants) and whether his mother will make bhajjis (fritters) for dinner. Shyam’s idyllic life is thrown asunder when he realises that his family is reeling under debt and his father has all but given up hope of ever getting his farmlands out of mortgage. All dreams of a new school uniform &
bhajjis come crashing down.After overcoming his initial dejection, Shyam takes it upon himself to save his
family. He is not so easily overcome by his parents’ sense of impending doom. The lessons he has learned at school give him reason to hope. One day in school, he hits upon a scheme that might just do the trick – a sack race that carries a winner’s prize of Rupees. 10,000/-.With the help of Dipti and Gautam, he begins practicing with the sack for the big day. Mouli is at first perplexed by Shyam’s antics but later joins in enthusiastically. After all he wants to see his family happy in its last few days. Meanwhile our little hero is dead set in his practice (sack racing is tougher than it looks), with a single-minded aim of saving his family.
Come D-day, Shyam runs the race of his life – literally! But can he save his family?
And,
In addition to the traditioanl method of distributitng to theatres, we are taking the movie to 350 + villages across the length and breadth of Maharashtra to show it to farmers and farming communitites.
for more information drop in a line to me – at harini at cogitotv dot com….
Congartulation on t.his movie focused on the children. When you are talking about to reach rural areas, then this must be of little help to you.
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Story seems to have undertones of Tingya + Lagaan… will check it out. Looking forward to Bharat Jadhav in a meaningful role too..
I love what you write. Delurking to say congratulations! 🙂 It’s heartening to see promising contributions to Marathi cinema. Is the film likely to be screened abroad? (I did catch Gabhricha Paus here at the Seattle Film Festival).
I pick up a bunch of good Marathi DVDs every time I visit. Will certainly look out for this one!
Good luck with the film! 🙂
gauri
Hey,
Congratulations! Plans to release in the US as well?
~M
Excellent!
All the very best to you and your associates, and I really hope this film gets its due place in the sun – at home as well as anywhere else in the world where it is shown.
Just to nit-pick a bit … why translate “bhajjis” into English? (in the official synopsis) Yes, international audience and all that, but let them ask what it means – could be a good conversation starter!!
Sounds novel and very interesting. All the best for a good release 🙂
Congratulations!
Regional cinema esp. Marathi is almost dead so it is heartening to see this initiative. The story is inspiring.
(not related) Just yesterday read that a school in Kerala took a survey of the poor students in their school and then narrowed the list to 16 students who live under tarpaulin sheets. They asked all the students and teachers to contribute. Students gave away their piggy bank money and with contributions from everyone, the school is building houses for those students.
There is hope when people put their mind to it.
There is website http://www.passionforcinema.com . The producers or director can contact there and spread world about this movie. It is very good platform where film lovers discuss and encourage national, regional and world cinema. Gargi madam, this movie needs bigger audience … or bigger audience needs this type of movie.
hi harini
congrats! and i hope to see this film someday. will it come with english subtitles? movies like this one and blue umbrella, needed to lift people out of doldrums. i miss the simplicity of life
this one of the best movie in marathi good story & excellent cinematogaphy.All marathi people who didn’t watch this movie at theatre watch it on cd