| Prem Manjhe Prem Manjhe Prem Asta! (2013) Also Known As: Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asta! Country: India Language: Marathi Year: 2013 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Anushree Pradhan (Mrunal Kulkarni) lives with her two daughters & mother-in-law. Kedar (Sunil Barve), her husband having abandoned them, lives in the same city, with another woman since four years. Anu has not yet signed the divorce Papers, hoping Kedar might some day return.
Rohit Phadnis (Sachin Khedekar) is a renowned surgeon & father to Ashlesha and Shaunak, His ex-wife, Pradnya (Pallavi Joshi), lives in the U.S. Given the tough choice between house or her career, she chose the latter. Both Rohit & Pradnya refused to let their mutually consented divorce have any effect on the friendship & the bond they shared. However, Pradnya was unable to see the scar the divorce had left on Rohit's life.
Anu's kids and Rohit's kids attend the same school. It is when Rohit and Anushree meet and start developing an interest in each other that individual dilemmas, familial and social compulsions come into sharp focus. Curiosity, doubt, attraction, admiration, hesitation, sorrow, and a million other emotions and feelings sway and shape their relationship, giving them the happiness that they had almost given up upon.
They both come to a point where they decide to take the next step, but fate and a new game in store for them. Anu's husband suddenly returns & to complicate matters further, Rohit's wife, Pradnya, returns from America, with an obvious change in her priorities. How Rohit & Anushree figure their way out of these confusions and figure the real meaning of terms like love and commitment for themselves forms the crux of the film.
With 'Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asta' Director Mrunal Kulkarni, touches upon several important subjects here-the problematic gender inequalities in relationships, the muzzling of individual aspirations for larger good, the conflict between the desire for freedom and the need of security in relationships, the virtues and pitfalls of the youth's unsentimental approach to matters of the heart as well as older generation's commitment at any cost' rule. Despite such heavily debated topics on its radar, Mrunal with her contemporary sensibilities handles the subject very deftly without making it too moralistic and preachy.
Cast: Mrinal Kulkarni, Sunil Barve, Pallavi Joshi, Sachin Khedekar, Suhas Joshi, Mohan Agashe, Smita Talwalkar |
