Harishchandrachi Factory- My opinion

                

Indian film industry- Produces 900 films a year in 20 different languages and employs 30 lakh people. The world’s largest producer of cinema. It all started as a dream of one man- Dhundiraj Govind Phalke also known as Dadasaheb Phalke- Father of Indian cinema, Director of the first Indian silent film- Raja Harishchandra.

Harishchandrachi Factory is 2010 Marathi film part fiction and part true story of Dadasaheb Phalke’s efforts in making the first ever Indian film. It was India’s official entry for 2009 oscars. First lets see the cast and crew of the film.

                         

Directed by
Paresh Mokashi

Produced by
Ronnie Screwvala
Smiti Kanodia
Paresh Mokashi

Written by
Paresh Mokashi

Starring
Nandu Madhav
Vibhavari Deshpande

Music by
Narendra Bhide

Cinematography
Amalendu Choudary

Editing by
Amit Pawar

Distributed by
UTV Motion Pictures

Release date(s)
29th January, 2010              Courtesy: Wikipedia

The movie tell the story of Mr. phalke( nandu yadav) and his struggle to make the first motion picture. Phalke is labelled a maverick by his neighbours as he can’t sustain in a job and keeps changing most often. He has a very supporting wife saraswati phalke ( Vibhavari Deshpande). After having differences with his partner in printing press Phalke leaves it and starts roaming in the street with performing some small magic tricks with his elder son- Madhav Phalke. By chance these two come across a picture hall playing films playing from England. Impressed by this Phalke decides to make film. How he begins his adventure and how he faces all the challenges of having a crew, shooting, releasing and becomes a successful film maker makes an interesting watch.

The performance by the actors is top notch especially by Nandu yadav amd Vibhavari deshpande. Nandu yadav expressions are worth a mention, the way he show cases the enthusiasm when he sees a film for the first time, the way he shows his happiness when learns about motion camera are all very natural and these make this film a worthy watch . The kids performance is also very good. The camera work is world class and back ground music is very much in sync with the film. Editing is good and run time of the movie is just 96 minutes.

           

Screenplay by Paresh Mokashi is excellent, he should be congratulated for selecting such a novel script and treating it such a wonderful way. There was never a boring point in the film, and he created ample comedy to keep the audience entertained. Utv motion pictures should also be congratulated for selecting this subject and producing it.

This by far the best movie In this year till date, Don’t miss it.